Events in History
Event of Interest
Feb 2 Václav Havel becomes the first president of an independent Czech Republic, after the split with Slovakia
Václav Havel
- Feb 3 General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
Rodney King Riots
Feb 3 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California
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- Feb 4 Admiral William Studeman ends term as acting director of CIA
- Feb 4 Russian space agency tests a 82-foot wide space mirror
- Feb 5 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160
- Feb 5 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
- Feb 8 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
- Feb 9 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
- Feb 10 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
- Feb 11 Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
Appointment of Interest
Feb 11 President Clinton selects Janet Reno to be first female US Attorney General
Bill Clinton
- Feb 13 Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
- Feb 13 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
- Feb 14 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
- Feb 15 Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota, Colombia
- Feb 15 Howard Stern Radio Show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York on WRQI 95.1 FM
- Feb 16 Western Australia's and Australia's first woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, is voted out of office.
- Feb 17 Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
- Feb 19 "Happy Nation" debut studio album by Ace of Base is released
- Feb 22 Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
- Feb 23 Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
- Feb 23 India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
- Feb 25 Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
- Feb 26 "World Trade Center bombing of 1993": truck bomb explodes in parking garage of NYC World Trade Center at 12:18pm, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000 in what was the deadliest act of terrorism perpetrated on US soil at the time
- Feb 27 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
- Feb 28 Gun battle erupts near Waco, Texas at Branch Davidian compound after FBI attempts a raid
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Feb 6 US Senator Mitch McConnell (51) weds economist Elaine Chao
Mitch McConnell
Deaths in History
- Feb 5 Joseph L Mankiewicz, American writer/director (All about Eve), dies at 83
- Feb 5 Tip Tipping [Tim], stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at 34
- Feb 5 Marcel Léger, Canadian politician, dies at 62
- Feb 7 W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
- Feb 8 Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
- Feb 8 Eliot Janeway, financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday), dies at 80
- Feb 8 Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
- Feb 8 Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies
- Feb 8 N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
- Feb 9 Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
- Feb 10 John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
- Feb 10 Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France (1957), dies
- Feb 10 Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
- Feb 11 George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71
- Feb 12 James Bulger, English child abducted, tortured and beaten to death at 2, by 10 year old boys
- Feb 13 Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91
- Feb 17 Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed
- Feb 18 Edward S "Ted" Haworth, US set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76
- Feb 18 Jacqueline Hill, dies of cancer at 63
- Feb 19 Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82
- Feb 20 Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Lamborghini), dies at 76
- Feb 21 Inge Lehmann, Danish geophysicist and seismologist, dies at 104
- Feb 22 Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
- Feb 22 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63
- Feb 25 Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch PM (social dem, 1965-69), dies
- Feb 26 Fletcher Knebel, American author (Seven Days in May), commits suicide following long bout with cancer at 81
- Feb 26 Mark Kolthoff, Dutch painter and photographer, dies at 92
- Feb 28 Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies
- Feb 28 Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70