Events in History
Event of Interest
Feb 8 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
Marcus Garvey
Treaty of Interest
Feb 9 German Minister Gustav Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
Gustav Stresemann
- Feb 9 Haifa Technion (Israel) opens
- Feb 10 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Indiana
- Feb 12 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
- Feb 12 E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
- Feb 12 Estonia passes Law on Cultural Self-Government for National Minorities, allowing a unique degree of autonomy to ethnic and religious groups of 3,000 or more
- Feb 13 US Congress makes Supreme Court appeals more difficult
- Feb 14 State of emergency crisis in Bavaria ends, NSDAP re-allowed
- Feb 21 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
- Feb 21 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
- Feb 24 Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
- Feb 25 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
- Feb 25 US Women's Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
- Feb 25 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
- Feb 25 Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union established
- Feb 26 Jihad against Turkish government
Adolf Hitler
Birthdays in History
- Feb 2 David Abell Wood, priest
- Feb 3 Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder (World Press Photo)
- Feb 3 Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Feb 4 Russell Hoban, US children's book author (Riddley Walker/Pilgermann)
- Feb 7 Arthur Berry, English artist and playwright, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent (d. 1994)
- Feb 7 Herbert Eisenreich, Austrian writer, born in Linz (d. 1986)
- Feb 9 Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
- Feb 11 Peter Berger, British vice-admiral
- Feb 11 Virginia E Johnson, doctor and sexologist (Masters & Johnson)
- Feb 12 Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (d. 1984)
- Feb 12 Joan Mitchell, Chicago USA, American painter and printmaker
- Feb 13 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author
- Feb 16 David Emms, director (London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates)
- Feb 16 PER Bailey, director (Gatwick & Stansted Airports)
- Feb 18 Marcel Barbeau, Quebec artist
- Feb 20 Alex La Guma, novelist (A Walk in the Night), born in Cape Town, South Africa
- Feb 20 Pramudya Ananta Tur, Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa)
- Feb 20 Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader
- Feb 22 Edward Gorey, American author & artist (Curious Sofa), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
- Feb 22 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect (d. 1995)
- Feb 23 Louis Stokes, politician (Rep-D-OH, 1969-99), born in Cleveland Ohio (d. 2015)
- Feb 25 Shehu Shagari, Nigerian politician, President of Nigeria (1979-83), born in Sokoto, Nigeria (d. 2018)
- Feb 27 Hugh Leggatt, art dealer
- Feb 27 Michael Kaye, director (City of London Festival)
- Feb 27 Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer
- Feb 27 Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
Deaths in History
- Feb 2 Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist, dies at 57
- Feb 18 James Lane Allen, American writer (Choir Invisible), dies at 75
- Feb 22 Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72
- Feb 22 Nina David [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies
- Feb 22 Thomas Allbutt, English physiologist (Diseases of the Heart), dies at 88
- Feb 24 Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
- Feb 28 Friedrich Ebert, German politician, President of Germany 1919-25), dies at 54