Events in History
- Feb 1 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr.
- 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 female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
- 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
- Feb 18 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
Event of Interest
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.
Jimmie Lee Jackson
- 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
- Feb 1 Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, born in the Prince's Palace of Monaco, Monaco
- Feb 3 Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
- Feb 9 Igor Babailov, Russian-born American portrait and figurative painter, born in Udmurtia, Russia
- Feb 12 Brett Kavanaugh, American judge, born in Washington, D.C.
- Feb 16 Dave Lombardo, Cuban drummer (Slayer)
- Feb 16 Adama Barrow, Gambian politician, President of Gambia (2017-), born in Mankamang Kunda, Gambia
- Feb 20 Federica Moro, Carate Brianza Italy, Miss Italy (1982)
- Feb 22 Dean Karr, American director & photographer, born in Seattle, Washington
Michael Dell
Feb 23 Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer (Dell Technologies), born in Houston, Texas
Michael Dell
Deaths in History
- Feb 2 Richard P Blackmur, American critic/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
Feb 21 Malcolm X [Little], African American human rights activist and Muslim minister, assassinated in New York City at 39
Malcolm X
- Feb 22 Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Feb 26 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies from gunshot wounds at 26
Jimmie Lee Jackson
- Feb 28 Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74