Events in History
- Feb 2 Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
- Feb 7 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
- Feb 8 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida
- Feb 8 British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
Feb 12 China adopts the Gregorian calendar
- Feb 12 The last Qing Emperor of China, Puyi (age 6) abdicates after losing the support of the Chinese people and thus the "mandate of heaven"
- Feb 14 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
- Feb 14 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
- Feb 15 Schooner 'Fram' reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
- Feb 22 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
- Feb 25 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- Feb 26 Coal miners strike in Britain (settle on 1st March)
Railroad History
Feb 27 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
Birthdays in History
- Feb 2 Millvina Dean, British civil servant who was the last living survivor of the RMS Titanic and also the youngest aboard, born in Branscombe, Devon, England (d. 2009)
- Feb 3 Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and Minister of Information (Free French forces), born in Montpellier, France (d. 1990)
- Feb 4 Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
- Feb 4 Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
- Feb 6 Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1945)
- Feb 7 Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (painted Australian outback), born in Bognor Regis, England (d. 1981}
- Feb 11 Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (Lost Season), born in Failsworth, England (d. 1991)
- Feb 12 R. F. Delderfield, English author (d. 1972)
- Feb 14 Edmund G. Love, American historian and author (A Small Bequest, Subways Are for Sleeping), born in Flushing, Michigan (d. 1990)
- Feb 14 Juan Pujol Garcia, Spanish double agent (spied for Britain, codename Garbo, pretended to spy for Nazi Germany codename Arabel), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1988)
- Feb 14 Ollie Harrington, American cartoonist (Bootsie), born in Valhalla, New York (d. 1995)
- Feb 14 Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)
- Feb 16 Arthur Crook, British editor (Times Literary Supplement) (d. 2005)
- Feb 16 Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch author (d. 1987)
- Feb 17 Alice "Andre" Norton, American sci-fi author (The Time Traders, The Zero Stone), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2005)
- Feb 19 Adolf Rudnicki [Aron Hirschhorn], Polish writer (Niekochana), born in Żabno, Galicia (now Poland) (d. 1990)
- Feb 19 Peter Francis du Sautoy, British publisher (Faber & Faber) (d. 1995)
- Feb 20 Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
- Feb 27 Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
- Feb 27 Lawrence Durrell, Indian-British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet), born in Jalandhar, Punjab, British India (d. 1990)
- Feb 28 Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1945)
Deaths in History
- Feb 10 Joseph Lister, British surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery), dies at 84
- Feb 12 Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (1st to identify leprosy as bacteria), dies at 70 [1]
- Feb 16 St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
- Feb 17 Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Austrian diplomat (Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary 1906-12), dies at 57
- Feb 17 Edgar Evans, Welsh explorer (part of Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica), dies attempting to return from the Pole at 35
- Feb 22 Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76
- Feb 25 Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1905-12), dies at 59
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