Events in History
- Feb 1 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
- Feb 1 Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the rotary Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
- Feb 1 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
- Feb 1 MLB club owners accept new 5-year pension plan proposed by the players, but reject request to increase minimum salary from $6,000 to $7,500
- Feb 2 UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
- Feb 4 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
- Feb 12 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
Conference of Interest
Feb 13 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans with Martin Luther King Jr. as President
- Feb 15 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
- Feb 17 A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
- Feb 18 Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan freedom fighter is executed by the British colonial government.
- Feb 20 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 v England, 13 wkts for match
- Feb 23 The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar
- Feb 27 Mao's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 Donna Adamek, American tenpin bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81), born in Duarte, California
- Feb 2 Laurie Mann, current DPS curator/geek
- Feb 4 Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist
- Feb 9 Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF)
- Feb 13 Denise Austin, US fitness instructor & author, born in San Pedro, California
- Feb 15 Bienvenida Buck, Spanish lover of Peter Harding, born in Velencia Spain
- Feb 18 Bruce Rauner, American politician (Governor of Illinois, 2015–19), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Feb 25 Jane Ackroyd, British sculptor
- Feb 26 David Muldrow Beasley, American politician, born in Darlington, South Carolina
- Feb 28 Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef
Deaths in History
Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957)
Feb 1 German field marshal who commanded the 6th Army at Stalingrad and was the highest-ranking German officer to surrender, dies at 66
- Feb 2 Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
- Feb 2 Julia Morgan, American architect (Hearst Castle, and other Hearst properties), first female degreed by Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and first licensed in California, dies at 85 [1]
- Feb 4 Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
- Feb 5 Joseph Ben Hardaway, American storyboard artist, director, and creator of Bugs Bunny, dies of a heart attack at 66
- Feb 5 Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
- Feb 8 John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and astronomer (Bocher Award 1938), dies at 53
- Feb 8 Walter Bothe, German subatomic particle physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1954), dies at 66
- Feb 9 Miklós Horthy, Hungarian navy admiral, military leader, and statesman (Regent of Kingdom of Hungary, 1920-44), dies at 88
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
Feb 10 American author (Little House on the Prairie), dies at 90
- Feb 12 Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (b. 1872)
- Feb 12 Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82
- Feb 16 Leslie Hore-Belisha, British politician (Minister of Transport, 1934-37; War Secretary, 1937–40), dies at 63
- Feb 18 Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan freedom fighter, dies by execution at 36
- Feb 18 Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), dies at 79
Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (1907-1957)
Feb 18 American Physician who was a pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment and diagnosis, dies of radiation induced leukemia at 49
- Feb 23 John Friend Mahoney, American physician who pioneered the treatment of syphilis with penicillin, dies at 67
Bugs Moran (1891-1957)
Feb 25 American gangster of the Prohibition-era, dies of lung cancer in prison at 65
- Feb 25 Mark Aldanov, Russian-French writer and critic (Novy Zhurnal), dies at 70
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