Events in History
- Feb 1 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Ramsay MacDonald's incoming Labour government formally recognizes the Soviet Union

Ramsay MacDonald
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Feb 7 Benito Mussolini's Italian government exchanges diplomats with USSR

Benito Mussolini
Event of Interest
Feb 14 Thomas J. Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM)

Thomas J. Watson
Event of Interest
Feb 18 US Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to Teapot Dome scandal

Thomas J. Walsh
- Feb 24 Greek parliament proclaims republic
Event of Interest
Feb 24 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail

Mahatma Gandhi

Adolf Hitler

Erich Ludendorff
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (d. 1997)
- Feb 1 Ben Weider, Quebec businessman and author
- Feb 5 Robert Lynn, anarchist
- Feb 6 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist & author (Road to Rome), born in Urbino, Italy (d. 1994)
- Feb 6 Jin Yong [Louis Cha Leung-yung], Chinese Wuxia novelist, born in Haining, China (d. 2018)
- Feb 7 Cathy Long, (Rep-D-LA, 1985-86)
- Feb 11 Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
- Feb 12 Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam)
- Feb 13 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician
- Feb 14 Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, born in Westminster, London, England (d. 2017)
- Feb 16 James Swaffield, director-general (Swaffield & Clerk to the GLC)
- Feb 16 Peter Webster, British High Court Judge
- Feb 17 Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence agent (Operation Long Jump), born in Rostov-on-Don (d. 2012)
- Feb 18 Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999)
- Feb 18 Louis Laberge, Quebec labour union leader (d. 2002)
- Feb 18 Evald Ilyenkov, Soviet philosopher (Dialectical Logic), born in Smolensk, Soviet Union (d. 1979)
- Feb 20 Gloria Vanderbilt, American fashion designer, artist, heiress and socialite, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2019)
Robert Mugabe
Feb 21 Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-87) and 1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017), born in Harare, Zimbabwe (d. 2019)

Robert Mugabe
- Feb 24 William Pillar, British admiral
- Feb 25 Peg Ridge, peace campaigner
- Feb 26 Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89), born in Unnan, Japan (d. 2000)
- Feb 27 Magnus MacDonald Shearer, former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
- Feb 28 Robert A Roe, American politician (Rep-D-NJ, 1969-93), born in Wayne, New Jersey (d. 2014)
- Feb 29 David Beattie, New Zealand judge, Governor-General of NZ (1980-85), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2001)
- Feb 29 Otto Hutter, British physiologist, born in Vienna, Austria
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Feb 26 Astronomer Edwin Hubble (34) weds Grace Burke in Pasadena, California

Edwin Hubble
Deaths in History
Woodrow Wilson
Feb 3 Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67

Woodrow Wilson
Henry Bacon
Feb 17 Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial), dies at 57

Henry Bacon
- Feb 24 Edmond Picard, French-Belgian lawyer and writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87