Historical Events
- Feb 1 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
Fascists Voluntary Militia
Feb 1 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini
"The Young Idea"
Feb 1 Noël Coward's stage comedy "The Young Idea" premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London; runs for 60 performances
- Feb 2 Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
- Feb 2 US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
- Feb 3 Soviet Commisision of Commasars (Sovnarkom) approves plans for expanding the Red Air Fleet mail service to include passenger service, seen as the country's start of civil aviation
- Feb 3 Soviet Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) approves plans for expanding the Red Air Fleet mail service to include passenger service, seen as the country's start of civil aviation
- Feb 3 The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
- Feb 5 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
- Feb 5 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
- Feb 8 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
- Feb 8 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
- Feb 9 Soviet Union Council of Labour and Defence passes resolution creating the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, the forerunner of Aeroflot Airline
- Feb 10 Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
- Feb 10 Owen Davis' "Icebound" premieres in NYC
- Feb 10 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of the Ruhr
- Feb 13 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance", organizes
- Feb 16 Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory
Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber Found
Feb 16 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus
- Feb 16 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
Sports History
Feb 16 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
NHL Record
Feb 17 Ottawa left wing Cy Denneny passes Joe Malone as all-time NHL goal scoring leader; scores his 143rd career goal in Senators' 2-0 win over Montreal Canadiens
- Feb 18 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
Music Premiere
Feb 19 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony premieres
- Feb 19 Philip Barry's play "You & I" premieres in NYC
- Feb 20 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson becomes President and owner of Boston Braves; buys the team for $300,000 with NY attorney Judge Emil Fuchs and Bostonian James McDonough
- Feb 21 Andre Charlot's musical "Rats" premieres in London
- Feb 22 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California)
- Feb 22 Transcontinental airmail service begins
- Feb 23 German Republic day with laws against worker
- Feb 23 Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
- Feb 24 "Flying Scotsman" locomotive of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), built at Doncaster Railway Works, goes into service [1]
- Feb 24 Mass arrests in US of mafia
- Feb 25 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 marks
- Feb 26 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
- Feb 28 Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Ursula Mamlok (nee Meyer), German-American avant-garde composer, and teacher, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2016)
- Feb 2 Bonita Granville, American actress and producer (These Three, Hitler's Children, Lone Ranger), born in New York City (d. 1988)
- Feb 2 James Dickey, American poet, novelist and lecturer (Deliverance, Buckdancer's Choice), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1997)
- Feb 2 Liz Smith [Mary Elizabeth], American journalist and gossip columnist known as "The Grand Dame of Dish" (WNBC, NY Daily News), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2017)
- Feb 2 Red Schoendienst, American Baseball HOF second baseman, manager, coach (10 x MLB All Star; 5 x World Series St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Braves), born in Germantown, Illinois (d. 2018)
- Feb 3 Alys Robi [Alice Robitaille], French Canadian cabaret and radio singer of French translations of Latin songs, born in Quebec City, Quebec (d. 2011)
- Feb 4 Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, President of Colombia (1982-86), born in Amagá, Colombia (d. 2018)
- Feb 4 Conrad Bain, Canadian actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes), born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (d. 2013)
- Feb 5 Claude King, American country music singer (Wolverton Mountain), born in Keithville, Louisiana (d. 2013)
- Feb 5 Doris Bohrer [Sharrar], American WWII spy, born in Basin, Wyoming (d. 2016)
- Feb 6 Maurice Le Roux, French composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1992)
- Feb 7 George Lascelles, English Earl of Harewood, Director of the Royal Opera House, born in London, England (d. 2011)
- Feb 7 Keefe Brasselle [John Brasselli], American actor (The Eddie Cantor Story, Be Our Guest), born in Elyria, Ohio (d. 1981)
- Feb 7 Martha Holmes, American photographer (d. 2006)
- Feb 8 Andrew MacElhone, British bar owner (Harry's New York Bar in Paris) (d. 1996)
Brendan Behan (1923-1964)
Feb 9 Irish author and poet (Borstal Boy, The Hostage), born in Dublin, Ireland
- Feb 9 Norman E. Shumway, American pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon (1st US adult human to human heart transplantation), born in Kalamazoo, Michigan (d. 2006)
- Feb 10 Allie Sherman, American NFL coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1953-56 CFL; New York Giants 1961–68), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
- Feb 10 Cesare Siepi, Italian operatic basso (NY Metropolitan Opera, 1950-74), born in Milan, Italy (d. 2010)
- Feb 11 Sy Kattelson, American photographer, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 2018)
- Feb 12 Chaskel Besser, Polish-American Orthodox rabbi, born in Katowice, Poland (d. 2010)
- Feb 12 Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director (Romeo & Juliet), born in Florence, Italy (d. 2019)
- Feb 12 James Abdnor, American politician (Senator-R-South Dakota, 1981-87), born in Kennebec, South Dakota (d. 2012)
James Chichester-Clark (1923-2002)
Feb 12 Irish politician, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (1969-71), born in Moyola Park, Londonderry
- Feb 12 Mel Powell, American composer (Pulitzer Prize Music 1990), born in New York City (d. 1998)
Chuck Yeager (1923-2020)
Feb 13 American test pilot who was the 1st man to break the sound barrier, born in Myra, West Virginia [1]
- Feb 13 Yfrah Neaman, Israeli-British concert violinist, and pedagogue, born in Sidon, Lebanon (d. 2003)
- Feb 14 Jay Hebert, American golfer (PGA Championship 1960), born in St. Martinville, Louisiana (d. 1997)
- Feb 15 Keene Curtis, American character actor (The Rothschilds, Cheers, Amanda's), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2002)
Yelena Bonner (1923-2011)
Feb 15 Soviet dissident and wife of Andre Sakharov, born in Merv, Turkmenistan, Soviet Union [1]
- Feb 17 (Boniface) "Buddy" DeFranco, Italian-American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 2014)
- Feb 17 Alden Winship Clausen, American banker (President of World Bank), born in Hamilton, Illinois (d. 2013)
- Feb 18 Allan Melvin, American character actor (Brady Bunch, All in Family), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 2008)
- Feb 19 Donald Lybbert, American composer (Zap; Lines for the Fallen), and educator (Hunter College, 1954-80), born in Cresco, Iowa (d. 1981)
- Feb 20 Forbes Burnham, Premier Guyana (1964-85), born in Georgetown, British Guiana (d. 1985)
- Feb 21 Zvi Zeitlin, Russian-American classical violinist and music professor (Eastman School, 1967-2012), born in Dubroŭna, Russia (now Belarus) (d. 2012)
- Feb 22 Gigliola Frazzoni, Italian operatic soprano, born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2016)
- Feb 22 Norman "Hurricane" Smith, British sound engineer (The Beatles, 1962-65), producer (Pink Floyd; The Pretty Things), and musician ("Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?"; "Don't Let It Die"), born in Edmonton, London (d. 2008)
- Feb 23 Dante Lavelli, American Pro Football HOF end (NFL C'ship 1950, 54, 55 Cleveland Browns; First-team All-Pro 1953; 3 × Pro Bowl), born in Hudson, Ohio (d. 2009)
- Feb 23 Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet (d. 1986)
- Feb 23 Michael Bilandic, American lawyer, politician (Mayor of Chicago, 1976-79), and jurist (Illinois Supreme Court, 1990-2000), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1978)
- Feb 23 Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist (briefly interim President of Uruguay), born in Salto, Uruguay (d. 2014)
- Feb 24 David Soyer, American classical cellist (Guarneri Quartet, 1964-2002), and educator (Curtis Institute), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
- Feb 27 Alejandro Zaffaroni, Uruguayan-born biochemist, helped create birth control pill and nicotine patch, born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 2014) [1]
- Feb 27 Chuck Wayne [Jagelka], America session and bebop jazz guitarist (Woody Herman's First Herd; George Shearing Quintet; Gil Evans; Tony Bennett), born in New York City (d. 1997)
- Feb 27 Dexter Gordon, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Go!; The Other Side of 'Round Midnight), and actor ('Round Midnight), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1990)
- Feb 27 Peter Fowler, British physicist who studied cosmic rays and radiation, born in England (d. 1996)
- Feb 27 Viktor Kalabis, Czech composer (Two Worlds), born in Červený Kostelec, Czechoslovakia (d. 2006)
- Feb 28 Charles Durning, American actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie), born in Highland Falls, New York (d. 2012)
Famous Weddings
- Feb 10 American silent screen actor and film maker Harold Lloyd (29) weds his leading lady, American actress Mildred Davis (21), until her death in 1969
Famous Deaths
- Feb 6 Edward Emerson Barnard, American astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923)
Feb 10 German physicist who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901), dies of cancer at 77
