Events in History
- Feb 4 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
Event of Interest
Feb 4 Hua Guofeng becomes Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Feb 4 US Federal Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
- Feb 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 5 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies
- Feb 7 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York)
- Feb 7 World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
- Feb 8 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
- Feb 11 Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st African American US Secretary of Army
- Feb 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 13 Major-General Olusegun Obasanjo becomes military ruler of Nigeria
- Feb 13 Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 hours
- Feb 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 17 Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
- Feb 19 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
- Feb 20 The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
- Feb 21 Cardinal Willebrands installed as Archbishop of Utrecht
- Feb 23 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
- Feb 24 Cuba adopts its constitution
- Feb 24 Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Feb 24 Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
Meeting of Interest
Feb 27 Final meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon
- Feb 28 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara, leaving Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) as the last European possessions in Africa
Birthdays in History
- Feb 13 Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist, born in Montevideo, Uruguay
Deaths in History
- Feb 1 Edgar Pangborn, American sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
- Feb 1 George Whipple, American scientist & Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 97
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
Feb 1 German physicist who discovered the uncertainty principle (Nobel 1932), dies of kidney cancer at 74
- Feb 1 William Lawther, English union leader (National Union of Mine Workers 1939-54), dies at 86
- Feb 11 Alexander Lippisch, German scientist and pioneer of aerodynamics, dies at 81
- Feb 11 Frank Arnau [Heinrich Schmitt], German crime fiction writer, dies at 81
- Feb 13 Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military ruler, is assassinated at 37
- Feb 18 Anton Betzner, writer, dies at 81
- Feb 20 Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies
- Feb 20 René Cassin, French jurist and judge (Nobel Peace Prize 1968), dies at 88
- Feb 22 Michael Polanyi, Hungarian-English chemist, economist and philosopher (claimed all knowledge relied on personal judgments), dies at 84
- Feb 23 L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes, dies at 88
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