Events in History
- Feb 3 The Indochinese Communist Party of Vietnam is established
Event of Interest
Feb 3 William Howard Taft resigns as US chief justice for health reasons
- Feb 4 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
- Feb 5 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
- Feb 10 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
- Feb 17 French government of André Tardieu falls for the first time
- Feb 18 Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
- Feb 18 Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi" premieres in Milan
- Feb 18 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
Green Pastures
Feb 21 Marc Connelly's play "Green Pastures" premieres in NYC
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 Mario Beaulieu, Canadian politician (Senator for Quebec, 1990-94), born in Plantagenet, Ontario (d. 1998)
- Feb 1 Peter Tapsell, British Conservative Party politician (Member of Parliament, 1959-64 and 1966-2015), born in Hove, England (d. 2018)
- Feb 1 Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh, 1996-2001), born in Pemal, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bangladesh)
- Feb 3 Gillian Ayres, British abstract painter and printmaker, born in Barnes, London (d. 2018)
- Feb 8 Arlan Stangeland, American politician (Rep-R-MN, 1977-1991), (d. 2013)
- Feb 8 James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
- Feb 9 Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
- Feb 11 Roy De Forest, American Painter (d. 2007)
- Feb 12 Arlen Specter, American Senator (Republican-PA, 1981- 2011), born in Wichita, Kansas (d. 2012)
- Feb 13 Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist
- Feb 14 Duncan Montgomery Stewart, principal (Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford)
- Feb 15 C F Payne, British chief constable, born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Feb 16 Frederick "Fred" Cuming, British painter, born in London
- Feb 17 Ruth Rendell, English thriller writer (Inspector Wexford novels), born in South Woodford, Essex
- Feb 18 Gahan Wilson, American author and cartoonist known as the "Michelangelo of the Macabre", born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2019) [1]
- Feb 18 Theodore C Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut
- Feb 19 John Frankenheimer, American director (Birdman of Alcatraz), born in NYC, New York
- Feb 20 Bill Walker, British MP
- Feb 21 Elizabeth Adams, American Beverly Hills madame and mentor to Heidi Fleiss, born in Manila, Philippines (d. 1995) [1]
- Feb 22 James McGarrell, American painter, born in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Feb 22 Jules van Neerven, Dutch economist & editor (Limbourg Daily), born in Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Feb 23 Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus)
- Feb 25 Erica Pedretti, writer
- Feb 25 Wendy Beckett, South African British nun and TV art critic, born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2018)
- Feb 27 Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
- Feb 27 Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
- Feb 28 Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
- Feb 28 Leon Cooper, American physicist who co-developed the BCS theory of superconductivity (Nobel 1972), born in the Bronx, New York
Deaths in History
- Feb 2 Sara Louisa Oberholtz, American economist and social reformer (children's school saving banks), dies at 88
- Feb 6 Eva Strittmatter, German writer (Tinko), dies at 17
- Feb 22 Godfried Coenraad van Daalen, Dutch general (controversial Governor of Aceh accused of brutality), dies at 66
- Feb 24 Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer and painter (Death of My Cat), dies at 74
- Feb 26 Rafael Merry del Val, British-born Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, dies at 64
- Feb 28 C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator, dies at 40
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