Historical Events
- Feb 2 American industrialist James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
- Feb 3 Booth Theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
- Feb 5 World's largest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, found by John Deason and Richard Oates (weighting 97.14kg) in Moliagul, Australia
- Feb 6 Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
US History
Feb 15 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
- Feb 19 US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
- Feb 20 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
- Feb 23 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
- Feb 26 US 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states to ratify
- Feb 27 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Johannes "Frits" Bakker Sr., Dutch actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap), (d. 1943)
- Feb 7 Jindřich Šimon Baar, Czech pastor and writer (Jan Cimbura), born in Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Austria-HUngary (d. 1925)
- Feb 10 Vasily Kalafati, Russian composer (Cygany), born in Yevpatoria, Crimea (d. 1942)
- Feb 11 Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945)
- Feb 11 Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder (d. 1939)
- Feb 12 Hendrik Marchant, Dutch politician (VVD), his private member's bill led to women's suffrage), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1956)
- Feb 14 Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel), born in Glencorse, Scotland (d. 1959)
- Feb 17 Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Portuguese cartographer and aviator (1st flight across the south Atlantic), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1959)
- Feb 23 Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Central Committee member, Soviet Minister for Education, wife of Vladimir Lenin), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1939)
- Feb 26 Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary and wife of Vladimir Lenin, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1939)
- Feb 27 Alice Hamilton, American physician, scientist and social advocate (workmen's compensation laws, occupational illnesses), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1970) [1]
Famous Deaths
- Feb 1 Frederick Willem Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer and railway pioneer (Katwyk), dies at 68
- Feb 4 Johan Michiel Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future), dies at 60
- Feb 15 Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
- Feb 27 Justus Hiddes Halbertsma, Dutch Frisian writer, poet (Rhymes & Tales), lexicographer and linguist, and minister, dies at 79
- Feb 28 Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (Poetical Mediations) and politician (briefly led the Second Republic 1848), dies at 78
