- Feb 1 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
- Feb 2 Government troops and Muslim fundamentalists battle in Hamah, Syria
- Feb 3 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
- Feb 3 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
- Feb 3 John Sharples of England finishes 371 hours of disco dancing
- Feb 3 Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
- Feb 4 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash
- Feb 4 Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees
- Feb 5 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
- Feb 5 British airline Laker Airways collapses owing 270M pounds ($351M)
- Feb 5 President of Suriname Hendrick Chin A Sen resigns and flees to the Netherlands
- Feb 7 Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica
- Feb 10 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec
- Feb 11 Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
- Feb 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 15 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
- Feb 16 Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
- Feb 16 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
- Feb 19 Hanneke Jagersma installed as Neth's 1st Communist mayor
- Feb 19 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853
- Feb 19 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Feb 22 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
- Feb 23 Michael Frayn's "Noises Off" premieres in London
- Feb 25 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
- Feb 25 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
- Feb 27 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
- Feb 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Feb 27 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
- Feb 28 AT&T looses a record $7 BILLION for the fiscal year ending on this day
- Feb 28 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street