Events in History
- Feb 1 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
Historic Event
Feb 1 Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama
- Feb 1 NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
- Feb 2 Joe Orton's "Loot" premieres in Brighton
- Feb 3 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating in exams
- Feb 3 Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
- Feb 3 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
- Feb 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 5 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
- Feb 6 "Kelly" opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC
- Feb 7 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
- Feb 7 US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
- Feb 8 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
- Feb 8 President Johnson deploys 1st US combat troops to South Vietnam, with 3500 marines sent to protect key US airbase near Da Nang
- Feb 12 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
- Feb 13 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
- Feb 15 Red Maple Leaf Flag becomes the official flag of Canada
- Feb 16 Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors
- Feb 17 US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
- Feb 18 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia
Historic Event
Feb 18 Church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson is beaten and shot during a peaceful march in Marion, Alabama. His death 8 days later inspires the Selma to Montgomery marches.
- Feb 18 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
- Feb 18 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
- Feb 20 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
- Feb 20 Turkish government of Uerguplu forms
- Feb 22 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
- Feb 23 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
- Feb 24 East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt
- Feb 26 Dutch government of Marijnen falls
- Feb 26 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
- Feb 27 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
- Feb 27 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
Birthdays in History
Michael Dell (57 years old)
Feb 23 American computer manufacturer (Dell Technologies), born in Houston, Texas
- Feb 23 Robert "Bob" Ferguson, American politician (Democratic Party) and Attorney General of Washington, born in Seattle, Washington
- Feb 24 Jane Swift, former acting Governor of Massachusetts
Deaths in History
- Feb 2 Richard P. Blackmur, American critic, poet and publisher (Good European), dies at 61
- Feb 4 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
- Feb 13 William Heard Kilpatrick, American mathematician and philosopher, dies at 93
- Feb 19 Gheorge Gheorghiu-Dej, Romanian communist politician (President of the State Council 1961-65), dies at 63
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Feb 21 African American human rights activist and Muslim minister, assassinated in New York City at 39
- Feb 22 Felix Frankfurter, American jurist and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939-62), dies of congestive heart failure at 82
Jimmie Lee Jackson (1938-1965)
Feb 26 American civil rights protester and church deacon, shot and killed at 26 by an Alabama State Trooper
- Feb 28 Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74
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