Events in History
- Feb 1 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
Historic Publication
Feb 1 Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Fine Things” is published
- Feb 2 Philippines adopts constitution
Event of Interest
Feb 4 US President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
- Feb 5 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
- Feb 5 Soyuz TM-2 launches
- Feb 6 No-smoking rules take effect in US federal buildings
- Feb 6 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
- Feb 7 Police in South Korea make hundreds of arrests during protest demonstrations, the country's biggest for 6 years, after a student died in custody
- Feb 9 Former US national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide by overdosing on Valium hours before scheduled testimony before panel investigating illegal arms-for-hostages "Iran-Contra" affair
- Feb 9 NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
- Feb 10 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre
- Feb 11 British Airways begins trading stocks
- Feb 11 Philippines constitution goes into effect
- Feb 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 12 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
- Feb 15 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
- Feb 19 Minnesota sheriff's office arrest FBI's most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson
- Feb 19 US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
- Feb 20 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by a computer store in Salt Lake City
- Feb 21 Syrian army marches into Beirut
- Feb 22 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
- Feb 23 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
- Feb 23 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
- Feb 25 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
- Feb 26 NASA launches GEOS-H
- Feb 26 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
- Feb 26 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Feb 27 "Washington Week In Review" 20th anniversary on PBS
- Feb 27 Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff
Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
- Feb 1 Sala Burton, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1983-87), dies of cancer at 61
- Feb 2 Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78
- Feb 2 Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (The Guns of Navarone), dies at 64
- Feb 2 Edna Manley, Jamaican sculptor 'Mother of Jamaican art', dies at 86
- Feb 4 Carl Rogers, American psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy), dies at 85
- Feb 8 Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], Polish-Romani writer, dies at 78
- Feb 10 Sadequain, Pakistani artist, painter, calligrapher and artist, dies at 56
- Feb 14 Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
- Feb 22 Glenway Wescott, American writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
- Feb 24 Jim Connors, American Legendary Radio personality, dies in a car crash at 46
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