Events in History
- Feb 4 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
- Feb 5 National Wildlife Federation forms
- Feb 7 A flag is authorized for US Vice President
- Feb 8 Pandit Jawaharlal succeeds Mahatma Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
- Feb 11 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
- Feb 14 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
- Feb 14 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
- Feb 15 -60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
Volkswagen Beetle
Feb 15 Adolf Hitler announces construction of the Volkswagen Beetle (the People's Car, aka the Käfer/Beetle)
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Election of Interest
Feb 19 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain for the second time
Manuel Azaña
Event of Interest
Feb 26 Adolf Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
Adolf Hitler
- Feb 26 Military coup in Japan
Event of Interest
Feb 29 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs 2nd Neutrality Act
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 G H Blake, Principal (Collingwood College, Durham U)
- Feb 1 Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
- Feb 4 Daan van Golden, Dutch sculptor
- Feb 6 J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman, born in San Francisco, California
- Feb 10 Olwyn Bowey, British artist, born in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham
- Feb 10 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator
- Feb 12 Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident (Tiananmen Square, 1989), born in Beijing, China (d. 2012)
- Feb 14 Fanne Foxe [Annabella Battistella], Argentine-American exotic dancer famous for her involvement in a sex scandal with Wilbur Mills, born in Nueve de Julio, Argentina
- Feb 14 Takuo Aoyagi, Japanese engineer who invented the pulse oximeter, born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan (d. 2020)
- Feb 16 Jill Kinmont, American skier
Carl Icahn
Feb 16 Carl Icahn, American businessman (Icahn Enterprises), born in NYC, New York
Carl Icahn
- Feb 18 Jean M. Auel, Finnish-American writer (Earth's Children series), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Feb 19 Marin Sorescu, Romanian poet, playwright and artist (Iona, House under surveillance), born in Bulzești, Dolj County (d. 1996)
- Feb 19 Ione Mylonas Shear, archeologist
- Feb 21 Barbara Jordan, (Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78), born in Houston, Texas
- Feb 22 J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist & microbiologist (Nobel Prize 1989), born in York, Pennsylvania
- Feb 27 Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer, born in Castlemaine, Australia
- Feb 29 Jack R Lousma, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-3), born in Grand Rapids Michigan
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Feb 2 Physicist Emilio G. Segrè (31) weds jewish woman Elfriede Spiro at the Great Synagogue of Rome in Italy
Emilio G. Segrè
Deaths in History
- Feb 1 Georgios Kondylis, Prime Minister of Greece & general of the Greek army, dies at 56
- Feb 2 Owen Seaman, British poet and editor (Punch), dies at 74
- Feb 3 Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
- Feb 4 Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
- Feb 9 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
- Feb 16 James Harvey Robinson, American historian (Ordeal of Civilization), dies at 72
- Feb 17 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74
- Feb 19 Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
- Feb 20 John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
- Feb 22 Johan Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
Ivan Pavlov
Feb 27 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 86
Ivan Pavlov