Events in History
- Feb 1 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
Event of Interest
Feb 3 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
- Feb 3 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
- Feb 4 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
- Feb 4 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
- Feb 4 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
- Feb 5 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
Murder of Interest
Feb 5 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron de la Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson, Mississippi, 30 years after the crime
- Feb 6 Jose Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica
- Feb 6 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
Israeli History
Feb 9 Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs accord with PLO's Yasser Arafat
- Feb 11 Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
The Scream
Feb 12 "The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version) is stolen in Oslo
- Feb 12 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
- Feb 13 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
- Feb 13 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
- Feb 15 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
- Feb 16 6.5 earthquake strikes South East Sumatra, kills 200
- Feb 16 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru
- Feb 20 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
Event of Interest
Feb 20 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
Deaths in History
Ben Enwonwu (1917-1994)
Feb 5 Nigerian painter (Portrait of Tutu), dies at 76
- Feb 5 Hermann Abs, German banker to Adolf Hitler & Konrad Adenauer and director of Deutsche Bank (1938-45), dies at 92
Jack Kirby (1917-1994)
Feb 6 American cartoonist (X-Men; Spider-Man; Hulk; Captain America), dies at 76
- Feb 7 Luc Peire, Belgian painter and graphic artist, dies at 77
- Feb 7 Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
- Feb 8 Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
- Feb 9 Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
- Feb 9 Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (Nobel 1975), dies at 59
- Feb 11 Vincent Wigglesworth, British entomologist (Metamorphosis hormones), dies at 94
- Feb 12 Donald Judd, American minimalist sculptor and artist, dies of cancer at 65
- Feb 12 Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate, dies at 43
- Feb 13 Michael Lindsay, British-Australian scholar (aided communists against Japanese occupation in China), dies at 84
- Feb 13 Theo Bitter, Dutch painter and set designer, dies at 79
- Feb 14 Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet-Russian serial killer who murdered at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990, executed by a single gunshot at 57
- Feb 14 Christopher Lasch, American historian and author (The Culture of Narcissism), dies of metastatic cancer at 61
- Feb 15 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
- Feb 17 Randy Shilts, American journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41
- Feb 18 Peter Caddy, British caterer (co-founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76
- Feb 19 Georges Watin, Algerian-French officer (OAS), dies at 71
- Feb 20 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
- Feb 20 Willi Schmidt, German director (Eli), dies at 84
- Feb 23 Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
- Feb 24 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 58
- Feb 24 Lores Bonney, Australian aviator, 1st female solo flight Australia to UK, dies at 96
- Feb 25 Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
- Feb 25 Yann Piat, French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44
- Feb 26 Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
- Feb 26 Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
- Feb 27 "Hans" Leopold Kohr, Austrian social philosopher and economist, dies at 84
- Feb 27 Harold Acton, English-Italian historian and art collector, dies at 84
- Feb 27 Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
- Feb 27 Laurence Craigie, American aviator (1st US jet pilot), dies at 92
- Feb 28 Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
- Feb 28 Buster Holmes, American chef and New Orleans restaurateur, dies at 88
- Feb 28 G. O. Sayles, English historian, dies at 92
- Feb 28 Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90
- Feb 28 Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
Authors
Civil Rights Activists
Inventors
Kings
Revolutionaries
Scientists