Events in History
- Feb 1 Blizzard in upstate New York and Southern Ontario claims 23 lives
- Feb 2 Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)
- Feb 3 Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
- Feb 4 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)
- Feb 5 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
- Feb 5 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
- Feb 6 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris
- Feb 6 Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, Ontario to become NWA wrestling champ
- Feb 7 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
- Feb 8 Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
Larry Flynt sentenced
Feb 8 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges
- Feb 10 Bomb explosion in Moscow metro
- Feb 10 Jonathan Netanyahu Lane in the Bronx, New York, named in honor of the Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid in Uganda in 1976
- Feb 11 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
- Feb 12 Festac '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, finishes in Lagos, Nigeria
- Feb 15 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
- Feb 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan
- Feb 18 Space Shuttle Enterprise takes its maiden flight affixed atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Aircraft Carrier
- Feb 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Feb 19 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
- Feb 21 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
Event of Interest
Feb 24 US President Jimmy Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 Phil Ivey, American poker player (10 World Series of Poker bracelets, 1 World Poker Tour title, 9 World Poker Tour final tables), born in Riverside, California
- Feb 7 Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman competitor
- Feb 8 Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer considered one of the best forwards of the modern era, born in Victoria, Australia
- Feb 8 Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer (Poetic Clock; Quetzalcoatl 2.0.1.2.), born in Caracas, Venezuela
- Feb 14 Darren Bennett, English professional dancer, born in Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Feb 16 Ian Clarke, Irish computer programmer
- Feb 24 Jason Akermanis, Australian rules footballer
- Feb 25 Josh Wolff, American footballer
- Feb 28 Kehinde Wiley, American painter (portrait of Barack Obama), born in Los Angeles, California
Deaths in History
- Feb 1 Edmond Hamilton, American sci-fi author ("City at World's End"; "The Star Kings"), dies at 72
- Feb 4 Brett Halliday, American writer (Dividend on Death), dies at 72
- Feb 5 Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
- Feb 7 Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher and lawyer (suite of fifteen aspects), dies at 82
- Feb 9 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
- Feb 9 Gaus, an orangutan who lived to be 59
- Feb 9 Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (designed Il-2 Shturmovik - world's most produced military aircraft), dies at 82
- Feb 11 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian leader and 5th President of India (1974-77), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Feb 11 Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74
- Feb 17 Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922)
- Feb 18 Maria Realino [Frederikus Janssen], teacher (Botany of Curacao), dies at 87
- Feb 19 Anthony Crosland, British politician (b. 1918)
- Feb 27 John Dickson Carr, American mystery writer, dies of lung cancer at 70
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