Events in History
- Feb 1 -61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
- Feb 1 -69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
- Feb 4 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
- Feb 4 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ if nuclear weapons aboard USS Buchanan
- Feb 7 Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5"
Event of Interest
Feb 8 Opposition leader Kim Dae-jung returns to South-Korea
- Feb 10 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
- Feb 10 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-E mission
- Feb 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Feb 11 King Hussein of Jordan & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
- Feb 13 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
- Feb 13 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
- Feb 15 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
- Feb 16 The founding of Hezbollah.
- Feb 17 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
- Feb 17 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England
- Feb 17 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
- Feb 19 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashes approaching Bilbao, Spain
- Feb 19 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
- Feb 19 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
- Feb 19 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
- Feb 19 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spends 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
- Feb 21 Evert van Benthem wins his 13th Elfstedentocht, a long distance 11 city skating race
Event of Interest
Feb 23 US Senate confirms Edwin Meese as the 75th Attorney General
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher, born in Bend, Oregon
- Feb 14 Natsume Sano, Japanese gravure idol, born in Tokyo, Japan
- Feb 18 Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer, born in Kingston, Jamaica
- Feb 21 Bob Burton, American speedcuber, born in Newark, New Jersey
- Feb 22 Sean Garballey, American politician, born in Arlington, Massachusetts
- Feb 28 Michael Fennelly [Micheál Ó Fionnalaigh], Irish hurler, born in Ballyhale, County Kilkenny
Deaths in History
William Lyons (1901-1985)
Feb 8 British industrialist and automobile manufacturer (Jaguar cars), dies at 84
- Feb 11 Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930)
- Feb 19 Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick & Jane), dies
- Feb 20 Clarence Nash, American voice actor (Donald Duck), dies of leukemia at 80
- Feb 22 Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
- Feb 27 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (Sen-R) and ambassador (West Germany, Vietnam & UN), dies at 82
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