- Feb 1 Outfielder Monte Irvin is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Special Committee on the Negro Leagues; fourth inductee through the committee
Hadlee's Test Debut
Feb 2 Test debut of champion New Zealand cricket all-rounder Sir Richard Hadlee; drawn 1st Test v Pakistan, Wellington
- Feb 4 Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game
- Feb 6 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edmonton, Alberta
- Feb 7 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
- Feb 10 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
- Feb 10 Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad scores 201 runs in a match against New Zealand
Sports History
Feb 11 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
- Feb 11 Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
Ali vs. Bugner
Feb 14 Muhammad Ali beats British heavyweight boxing champion Joe Bugner by unanimous points decision in 12 rounds at Las Vegas Convention Centre
- Feb 15 Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
Sports History
Feb 16 West Indies v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Garfield Sobers
- Feb 17 Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
Daytona 500
Feb 18 15th Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins his 4th Great American Race by more than 2 laps from Bobby Isaac
- Feb 20 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
- Feb 21 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
- Feb 25 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at Strömsund, Sweden her second consecutive title and third in 4 years
- Feb 27 White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3 year $750,000 contract
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