Historical Events
- Feb 1 Brooklyn Robins trade former NL MVP Jake Daubert to Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Tommy Griffith; result of a salary grievance
- Feb 2 Monarchist riot in Portugal
- Feb 3 Herbert and Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady" premieres in New York City
- Feb 3 Socialist conference convenes (Berne, Switzerland)
- Feb 3 The Bolshevik army is defeated in a series of clashes with the White Russians, who are fighting to reclaim the government after the 1917 revolution
- Feb 4 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
United Artists Founded
Feb 5 Hollywood film studio United Artists founded by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith
- Feb 5 NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers
- Feb 6 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
- Feb 6 The first day of the Weimar Republic which, because of its support of the Treaty of Versailles, does not receive proper allegiance from the German nation
- Feb 11 Friedrich Ebert (SPD) elected president of Germany
- Feb 14 The Polish-Soviet War begins.
- Feb 14 United Parcel Service forms
- Feb 15 American Legion organizes in Paris
NHL Record
Feb 18 Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goal
Pan-African Congress
Feb 19 Pan-African Congress, organized by American civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois is held at the Grand Hotel in Paris, France
- Feb 20 Foundation NHL club Toronto Arenas are permitted to cease operations due to financial difficulties; later become Toronto St. Patricks and then Maple Leafs
Clemenceau Wounded in Assassination Attempt
Feb 20 French Prime Minister Georges Clémenceau injured during assassination attempt
- Feb 21 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria
- Feb 21 Kurt Eisner, Premier of the Bavarian Republic, is assassinated by a far-right German nationalist in Munich
- Feb 21 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
Italian History
Feb 23 Fascist Party formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini
- Feb 25 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
- Feb 26 Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
- Feb 26 US Congress establishes Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
- Feb 27 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
- Feb 27 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 2 Lisa Della Casa, Swiss operatic soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1953-67), born in Burgdorf, Switzerland (d. 2012)
- Feb 3 (Eugene) "Snooky" Young, American jazz trumpeter who mastered the plunger mute, born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 2011)
- Feb 4 Frank van Klingeren, Dutch architect (De Meerpaal, Dronten) (d. 1999)
- Feb 4 Janet Waldo, American radio and actress (Judy Jetson, Shazzan, Penelope Pitstop), born in Yakima, Washington (d. 2016)
- Feb 5 Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician (Prime Minister of Greece, 1981-89, 1993-96), born in Chios, Greece (d. 1996)
- Feb 5 Red Buttons [Aaron Chwatt], American comedian (The Red Buttons Show), and Academy Award-winning actor (Sayonara; The Poseidon Adventure), born in New York City (d. 2006)
- Feb 5 Tim Holt [Charles John Holt III], American actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 1973)
- Feb 6 Lindsay Tuckett, South African cricketer (son of Len, 9 Tests for South Africa 1947-49), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 2016)
- Feb 6 Louis Heren, English foreign correspondent and writer (China's Three Thousand Years), born in London (d. 1995)
Desmond Doss (1919-2006)
Feb 7 American soldier and 1st conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor who was the subject of the film Hacksaw Ridge, born in Lynchburg, Virginia
- Feb 7 Ilse Pausin, Austrian figure skater (Olympic silver pairs 1936; World C'ship silver x 5 [with brother Erik Pausin]), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1999)
- Feb 7 Jock Mahoney [Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney], American actor and stuntman (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1989)
- Feb 8 Buddy Morrow [Muni Zudekoff], American big band jazz and session trombonist and orchestra leader ("Night Train"), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)
Allie Reynolds (1919-1994)
Feb 10 American baseball pitcher who won 6 World Series NY Yankees; 6 x MLB All-Star, born in Bethany, Oklahoma
- Feb 11 Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born American actress (Green Acres - "Lisa Douglas"; Gigi), comedian, singer, and socialite, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1995)
- Feb 11 Gretchen Fraser, American slalom skier (Olympic gold 1948, 1st American skiing gold), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 1994)
- Feb 11 Israel Baker, American concert and session violinist (NBC Symphony; Paramount Studios Orchestra), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2011)
- Feb 12 Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian soccer midfielder and manager (Bologna; Atalanta, Italy 1974 World Cup), born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (d. 2005)
- Feb 12 Forrest Tucker, American actor (F Troop, Dusty Trail, The Crawling Eye), born in Plainfield, Indiana (d. 1986)
- Feb 13 "Tennessee" Ernie Ford, American country music singer ("Sixteen Tons"), and actor, born in Bristol, Tennessee (d. 1991)
- Feb 13 Eddie Robinson, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Grambling 408 wins), born in Jackson, Louisiana (d. 2007)
- Feb 13 Joan Edwards, American pop singer on radio (Your Hit Parade) and television (Joan Edwards Show), born in New York City (d. 1981)
- Feb 17 Joe Hunt, American tennis player (US National C'ship 1943), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1945)
- Feb 17 Kathleen Freeman, American actress (Beverly Hillbillies, 3 Ring Circus), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2001)
- Feb 22 Jiří Pauer, Czech composer, born in Libušín, Czechoslovakia (d. 2007)
- Feb 22 Tahia Carioca, Egyptian actress and belly dancer (Watch out for Zouzou), born in Egypt (d. 1999)
- Feb 23 Derek Ezra [Baron Ezra], British politician, Liberal Democrat Life Peer and coal executive (Chairman of National Coal Board) (d. 2015)
- Feb 23 Johnny Carey, Irish professional footballer, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1995)
- Feb 24 Henry Kitchener, British peer, 3rd and last Earl of Khartoum (d. 2011)
- Feb 25 Fitz de Jong Edz, Dutch historian (director of IISG), born in Meppel, Netherlands (d. 1989)
- Feb 25 Fred Katz, American classical and jazz cellist (Chico Hamilton Quintet), and composer (Roger Corman films), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2013)
- Feb 25 Karl H. Pribram “Magellan of the Mind”, Austrian-American neuroscientist, psychologist and philosopher (research into brain’s limbic system), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2015)
- Feb 25 Monty Irvin, American Baseball HOF outfielder (4 x NgL All-Star, NgL World Series 1946 Newark Eagles; MLB All-Star 1952, World Series 1954 NY Giants), born in Haleburg, Alabama (d. 2016)
- Feb 26 Beppie Nooij, Dutch actress and director (Red Sien, Zeemansvrouwen), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1979)
- Feb 26 Luc-Andre Marcel, French composer, born in Entrecasteaux, France (d. 1992)
- Feb 26 Mason Adams, American actor (Lou Grant, Deadliest Season), born in New York City (d. 2005)
- Feb 26 Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (3 x Olympic gold 100m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle relay, 400m freestyle 1936; silver 100m backstroke 1936), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2003)
- Feb 27 Johnny Pesky [Paveskovich], American MLB baseball infielder, 1942 & 1946-54 (Boston Red Sox, and 2 other teams), coach, manager, and broadcaster, born in Portland, Oregon (d. 2012)
- Feb 27 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Polish-Israeli composer and music editor, born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1994)
Famous Weddings
Maurice Maeterlinck
Feb 15 Author Maurice Maeterlinck (56) weds actress Renée Dahon (27) in Nice, France
Famous Divorces
Albert Einstein
Feb 14 German theoretical physicist Physicist Albert Einstein (39) divorces Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić (43) after 16 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Feb 2 Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, French composer, dies at 55
- Feb 3 Edward Charles Pickering, American astronomer and pioneered American spectroscopist, dies at 72
- Feb 3 Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria, dies at 69
- Feb 5 Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher and writer, dies at 62
- Feb 6 Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg, German-Dutch sculptor and architect of church interiors, dies at 81
- Feb 7 William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient who survived 31 days at sea in a small boat to seek help for the shipwrecked USS Saginaw, dies at 77
- Feb 13 Matteo Albertone, Italian general who fought in the Italo-Ethiopian War, dies at 78
- Feb 15 Pieter Klazes Pel, Dutch physician (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66
- Feb 16 Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893)
- Feb 21 Giovanni Bolzoni, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 77
- Feb 21 Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1901-19), murdered at 46
- Feb 21 Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies at 51
- Feb 21 Kurt Eisner, German socialist politician, revolutionary and journalist (President of the People's State of Bavaria 1918-19), murdered by a far-right German nationalist at 51
- Feb 21 Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and feminist, only woman awarded Medal of Honor (US Civil War), dies at 86
- Feb 24 Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
- Feb 25 Josef Christiaens, Belgian auto racer (first foreigner to enter Indianapolis Motor Speedway "Harvest Classic"), dies in a testing accident at 37
