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| FEBRUARY is . . . Vegetation Month, Potato Lover's Month, National Children's Dental Health Month, American Heart Month, American History Month, American Music Month, International Friendship Month, International Twit Award Month, International Embroidery Month, National Cat Health Month, National Cherry Month, Black History Month, Canned Food Month, National Snack Food Month, National Weddings Month, National Wild Bird Feeding Month, Biorhythm Health Month, Responsible Pet Owner Month, Great American Pies Month, Human Relations Month, National FIber Focus Month, Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month, Return Shopping Carts To the Supermarket Month, Sleep Safety Month, Wisconsin Farm Woman of the Year Month, International "Boost" Your Ego Month, Creative Romance Month, AMD Awareness Month, Celebration of Chocolate Month, National Scottish Culture Month |
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| 1st Week | 2nd Week | ||
| Agricultural Week Shape Up With Pickes Time National Pay Your Bills Week |
National New Idea Week Boy Scouts Week National Crime Prevention Week Celebration of Love Week Big Brothers/Sisters Week National Cardiopulmonary Week Circle K International Week National Future Homemakers of America Week Hero Week Virgin Islands Week National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans Week Dietary Managers' Pride in Food Service Week National School Counseling Week International Forgiveness Week Great American Pizza Bake Love May Make the World Go 'Round, But Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week Camellia Festival (Fort Valley, Georgia) National Kraut & Frankfurter Week (begins 2nd Thurs) | ||
| 3rd Week | 4th Week | Brotherhood Week National Pedestrian Toll Week Health Education Week International Friendship Week National Engineers Week Pay Your Bills Week National Condom Week Home for Birds Week National Cardiovasular Technologists Recognition Week |
Truth Week Pancake Week International Friendship Week National Engineers Week |
| February Movable Daily Holidays | |
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| Day | Holiday or Observance |
| 1st Sunday | Homstrom (Burning Man Festival; Switzerland) |
| 1st Weekend | Sapporo Snow Festival (Japan) Everglades City Seafood Festival (Florida) Badger State Winter Games (Wisconsin) Mackinaw Mush Sled Dog Race (Mackinaw City, Michigan) Bullnanza (Guthrie, Oklahoma) |
| 1st Friday after Feb. 1st | Arbor Day; Arizona (some counties) |
| 2nd Sunday | Boy Scouts Sabbath |
| 2nd Monday | Clean Out Your Computer Day Meal Monday (aka Oatmeal Monday; UK Universities) |
| 2nd Tuesday | Academy Award nominations announced |
| Monday after 1st Thursday | Gasparilla Pirate Invasion Festival begins (Tampa, Florida) |
| Sunday nearest 12th | Race Relations Sunday |
| 3rd Sunday before Lent | Lost Sunday Septuagesima Sunday |
| 2nd Sunday before Lent | Sexagesima Sunday |
| 3rd Weekend | Midwinter Bluegrass festival (Missouri) |
| Saturday before President's Day | George Washington Birthnight Banquet and Ball (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| 3rd Monday | President's Day |
| Sunday nearest 22nd | Brotherhood Sunday |
| 2nd New Moon after Winter Solstice | Chinese New Year |
| Sunday before Lent | Fasching Sunday (Germany & Austria) Shrove Sunday Fastingong Sunday Quinquagesima Sunday |
| Day after Fasching Sunday | Fasching |
| Fridays during Lent | Fariseos (Mayan Indians; celebration making fun of Christian ceremonies) |
| 12 Days before Shrove Tuesday | Nice Carnival begins (France) |
| Week before Carnival | Kiddies' Carnival (Trinidad & Tobago) |
| Thursday before Shrove Tuesday | Mad Thursday Tincunaco Ceremony (Argentina) |
| Sunday before Ash Wednesday | Carnival Week begins (Italy) Shrovetide begins |
| Saturday before Ash Wednesday | Carnival begins (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Ovar Carnival Festival begins (Portugal) |
| Day before Shrove Tuesday | Rose Monday Fastelavn (Shrove Monday; Denmark) Bun Day (Iceland) Collp Monday Street Urchins' Carnival (Denmark) |
| Day before Ash Wednesday (also 46 Days Before Easter) | Shrove Tuesday Carnival Mardi Gras Pancake Day (aka Pancake Tuesday) Carriacou Carnival (Grenada) Bursting Day (Iceland) Fastens-een (Scotland) Brose and Bannock Day (Scotland) Fasten Day (Old England) Shuttlecock Day (Leicester, Yorkshire) Nickanan Night (Cornwall) Paczki Day (Hamtramck, Michigan) Sharp Tuesday Football Day (England) Shrovetide Pancake Race (Olney, UK & Liberal, Kansas) |
| 40 Days Before Easter (not including Sundays) | Ash Wednesday Lent begins Cussing Day Pulver Wednesday |
| 2nd Day of Lent | Cat Festival (Belgium) |
| Thursday after Shrove Tuesday | Fritter Thursday |
| Friday after Shrove Tuesday | Kissing Day Nippy Lug Day (Westmoreland, UK) |
| 1st Sunday in Lent | Quadragesima Sunday |
| 1st Monday after Lent | Blue Monday Green Monday (Cyprus) |
| February Indeterminate Holidays The holidays in this table are either based on calendars other than the Gregorian Calendar or are keyed to natural events such as seasons or cosmological phenomena |
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| Time Period | Holiday |
| 13th Day of dark 1/2 of Phalguna, 2nd Hindu month (@ Feb/Mar) | Shivaratri |
| 14th Day of bright 1/2 of Phalguna, 2nd Hindu month (@ Feb/Mar) | Holi |
| 14th Day of Adar, 2nd Jewish month @ Feb/Mar) | Purim |
| Full Moon Day of 3rd Buddhist month (@ Feb/Mar) | Magha Puja |
| 1st Day of 1st Moon (@ Feb/Mar) | Chinese New Year Losar (Tibetan New Year) Solnal (Korean New Year) Tet (Vietnamese New Year) |
| 14 days after Chinese New Year | Chinese Lantern Festival and Tourism Day |
| Weeks before Carnival | Carnival Lamayote (Haiti) |
| Sometime in February | Argungu Fishing Festival (Nigeria) |
| When Zambezi River starts to rise (@ Feb/Mar) | Kuomboka (Zambia) |
| Determined by Tibetan Astrologers (@ Feb) | Losar (Tibet) |
| 15 days after Losar | Chogna Choeba (Tibet) |
| Sometime in February | Minnesota Cherry Pit Spitting Contest |
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| 1 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Edward Hopper Terry Jones Clark Gable John Ford Langston Hughes Victor Herbert Edward Coke Lisa Marie Scott (Pb 2/95) Hildegarde Charles Nordhoff Donna Edmonson (Pb 11/86) Thomas Cole Stuart Whitman Don Everly Elle Rio S.J. Perlman Granville Stanley Hall Emilio Segre Garett Morris Tuppence (Fairy) Sherman Helmsley Rick James T.R. Dunn Princess Stephanie Lisa Marie Presley Hattie Wyatt Caraway Elsa the Lion |
Freedom Day Brigmid (Druid Festival) Cross-Quarter Day St. Brigid's Day (aka St. Bridget; patron of dairy workers, dairy maids, poultry raisers, Ireland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand) Serpent Day (Celtic) Candlemas Eve Spring Mother Celebration (Norse) Be An Encourager Day St. Severus' Day (patron of hatters, milliners) Women's Heart Health Day St. Ives' Hurling of the Silver Ball (Cornell, UK) National Enrolled Agent's Day Robinson Crusoe Day St. Bride's Day National Baked Alaska Day St. Pionius' Day BEE-Day (Philippines) Perchville USA begins (Tawas Bay, Michigan) |
| February 1 Events | Late Night with David Letterman debuted (1982) Juke Boxes outlawed Alexander Selkirk rescued from desert isle (inspired Robinson Crusoe) 1st Sit-in held (Greensboro, North Carolina; 1960) US Supreme Court 1st met (1790) 1st Automobile Insurance policy written (Travelers Insurance; 1898) You Are There debuted Last Tango in Paris premiered (1973) 1st 45 rpm record issued (RCA; 1949) Oxford English Dictionary 1st published (1884) Mrs. William Astor invited 400 guests to society ball setting standard for elite groups of 400 (1892) 1st Film Studio began filming (1893) Renault incorporated 13 Amendment signed, abolishing slavery (1865) Hagar the Horrible comic strip began (1973) Pompidou Center opened in Paris (1977) Beatles' I Want To Hold Your Hand reached No. 1 (1964) Royal Navy College opened (1873) Ayatollah Khomeini returned to power after being exiled 15 years (1979) 1st Dental College opened Putnam County, Tennessee founded (1842) Magical Python Snake, named Omiuri, died (Kenya; 1989) De Klerk scrapped Apartheid in South Africa (1990) Philippines radio station 89.3 Killer Bee went on the air (1994) Lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic published (1862) Ross & Rachel 1st kiss after watching high school prom video (on Friends; 1996) Curly Lambeau, Green Bay Packers founder & head coach since 1921, resigned under fire (1950) Senator Exon introduced his overreaching Nazi-like internet censorship bill (1995) Beau Ce Broue brewery founded (Quebec; 1995) Catamount Brewing Co. founded (Vermont; 1987) Faultline Brewing Co. founded (California; 1995) Hale's Ales founded (Washington; 1992) New England Brewing Co. founded (Connecticut; 1990) Old Columbia Brewery founded (California; 1989) Old World Brewing Co. founded (Arizona; 1987) Portland Brewery's Flanders Street Pub founded (Oregon; 1986) Randy's Fun Hunter Restaurant & Brewery founded (Wisconsin; 1994) Rockies Brewing Co./Boulder Beers founded (Colorado; 1979) Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. founded (California; 1981) Syracuse Suds Factory (New York; 1993) Trailhead Brewing Co. founded (Missouri; 1995) Triumph Brewing Co. founded (New Jersey; 1995) Tumbleweed Grille Brewery founded (North Carolina; 1992) Woodstock Brewing Co. founded (New York; 1992) |
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| 2 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| James Joyce Christopher Marlowe Brent Spiner Christie Brinkley Max Beckmann Solomon Guggenheim William Rose Benet Nell Gwynne Stan Getz Data (2338) Jascha Heifetz Farah Fawcett Robert Mandan George Walton Sandra Joyce Cagle (Pb 2/80) Havelock Ellis James Dickey Ayn Rand Fritz Kreisler James Dickey Arturs Irbe Robert DeLeo Talleyrand Graham Nash Tom Smothers George Halas Ed "Too Tall" Jones Ben Mize Gale Gordon Liz Smith Vlade Divac Dexter Manley Charlayne Hunter-Gault Albert "Red" Schoendienst Howard Bellamy Elaine Stritch Lord Salisbury |
Groundhog Day Purification Day Brew Hog Day Imolc (aka Oimelc) Lupercalia Feast of Pan Bonza Bottler Day Wives' Feast Day Candlemas Wand Dedication Day (Fairy) St. Joan de Lestonnac's Day Brigit's Day Dia de la Candelaria (Mexico) Yuma Crossing Day Feast of Torches National Heavenly Hash Day Shaving of the Candlemas Bear Masque (Pyrenees) Presentation of Our Lord (fka the Purification of the Virgin Mary) |
| February 2 Events | Original David Lettermen Show debuted (late
50's) Baseball's National League established (1876) New Amsterdam renamed New York (1665) Bottle Cap patented 1st Cub Scout Pack formed (1914) Court Jester premiered 1st Public Lavatory (Men's) opened in London (1852) Cardiff Giant revelead as a hoax (1870) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed (1848) 1st Close-up in a movie shown (a sneeze; 1893) Frozen Food invented Sid Vicious died of heroin overdose (1979) Last Russian troops left Afghanistan (1989) 1st Lie Detector Test given (1935) Women given the vote in Lichtenstein (1986) Abie the Agent comic strip began (1914) Elizabeth Taylor married Mike Todd (1957) Coffey's girlfriend was raped (on Hill Street Blues; 1984) Blue Cat Brew Pub founded (Illinois; 1994) Alexander Selkirk rescued from desert island after 4 years (1709; he was the inspiration for DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe) |
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| 3 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Felix Mendelssohn Gertrude Stein Charles Lindbergh John Smith Sr. Norman Rockwell James Michener Shelly Berman Henry Heimlich George Tilyou H. Alvar Aalto Elizabeth Blackwell Fran Tarkenton Simone Weil Horace Greely Sidney Lanier Blythe Danner Neil Bogart Wilhelm Johannsen Maline Nathalie (Pb (France) 11/85) Shelley Berman Bibi Osterwald Johnny "Guitar" Watson Clarence Mulford Bob Griese Arnold "Bake" McBride Joey Bishop Morgan Fairchild Paul S. Sarbanes Lum |
St. Blaise's Day (patron of sick cattle, wool combers;
against throat diseases; Western) Winterlude Setsubun (Bean-Throwing Festival; Japan) Wedding Ring Day St. Anskar's Day (patron of Denmark, Iceland, Norway) Blessing of Throats Day Martyr's Day (Sao Tome) Four Chaplains Memorial Day Magnolia and Fish Jubilee (Fairy) St. Werburga's Day National Carrot Cake Day Cordova Ice Worm Festival (@) St. Simeon's Day (Eastern) Day the Music Died (according to Don McLean) |
| February 3 Events | Europeans 1st set foot on Africa (1488) 16th Amendment ratified (imposing income tax; 1913) The Eight, a group of 8 US Artists (aka Ashcan Group), held their only exhibition (1908) 1st Winter Olympic Games began League of Nations 1st met (1919) Civil War Peace Talks began (1865) Elton John's Crocodile Rock reached No. 1 (1973) Croatian-language Playboy 1st published (1997) 1st US Paper Money issued Yasser Arafat became leader of PLO (1969) Christian Science concept established (1866) Holland announced Regulation on Trade of Tulips (1637) 1st American Soldier killed in Bosnia (Donald Dugan; 1996) Disney's The Three Caballeros premiered (1945) 15th Amendment ratified (no denial of voting for race, color, etc.; 1870) Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, & the Big Bopper killed in plane crash (the day the music died; 1959) Coast Range Brewing Co. founded (California; 1995) Great Northern Brewing Co. founded (Montana; 1995) |
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| 4 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Emperor Norton I of the United States Charles Lindbergh Nigel Bruce Lisa Eichorn Erich Leinsdorf Nicole Wood (Pb 4/93) Rosa Parks Aika Miura Louis Michel Eilshemius Russel Hoban Ferdinand Leger Mark Hopkins Tadeusz Kosciuszko Clyde Tombaugh Denis Savard Alice Cooper Isa Lupino "Big" Bill Haywood Robert Coover Betty Friedan Donald W. Riegle Conrad Bain Lawrence Taylor David Brenner Gumby Dan Quayle |
Obscurity Day King Frost Day Torture Abolition Day Sri Lanka Independence Day Create-A-Vacuum Day St. Andrew Corsini's Day (patron against quarrels, sudden death) Yuma Crossing Day St. Phileas' Day Thank A Mailman Day St. John de Brito's Day (patron of Portugal) National Stuffed Mushroom Day St. Isidore of Pelusium's Day American Bowling Congress National Tournament begins (@) St. Gilbert of Sempringham's Day |
| February 4 Events | Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
released Washington/Adams ticket elected US President/Vice Pres. USO established (1941) 1st Winter Olympics began (Lake Placid, New York; 1932) US Bronze Star established Interstate Commerce Act passed (1887) Apache Wars began (1861) 1st Electric Typewriter for sale Snickers candy bar 1st for sale (1930) National Institute of Arts and Letters founded Demountable Auto Tire patented 1st Color Newspaper supplement published Modern Republican Party named (1854) Fleetwood Mac's Rumours released (1977) Thornton Wilder's Our Town premiered on Broadway Slavery abolished in French Colonies (1793) Rolls-Royce commissioned its figurehead, Spirit of Ecstasy (1911) Coca-Cola's "Coke Is It" ad campaign launched (1982) Dade County, Florida founded (home of Miami; 1836) Charleston dancing record set (22 hrs, 30 mins; 1929) American Social Hygiene Association established Miss Peach comic strip began (1957) Karen Carpenter died of anorexia nervosa (1983) Laker Airways declared bankruptcy (1982) Superman Magnet 1st appeared on Jerry's refrigerator (Seinfeld; 1993) Confederate States of America formed (1861) Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive reached No. 1 (1978) Cafe On the Square & Brewpub founded (Texas; 1995) |
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| 5 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| William Burroughs Jennifer Jason Leigh Hank Aaron Robert Peel John Jeffries Roger Williams Debra Jo Fondren (Pb 9/77) Yuko Aoki Rev. John Witherspoon Bob Marley Hiram S. Maxim Dwight Moody Roger Staubach Al Kooper Belle Starr Roseanne Katan (Pb 9/78) Charlotte Rampling Robert Hofstadter Adlai Stevenson Johan Most William Miller Christopher Guest Barbara Hershey Andrew Greeley John Carradine Red Buttons Craig Morton Mark Chipman |
Bartender's Cup Weatherman's Day Primrose Day Wyrd's Day (Celtic Goddess of Fortune Telling) Lailatul Quadr (Night of Power) St. Agatha's Day (patron of Malta, nurses, jewelers, bell makers, bell ringers, wet nurses; against fire, breast cancer) Chama Cha Mapinduzi Day (aka CCM; Tanzania) Japanese Martyr Day Bob Marley Day (Jamaica) Disaster Day National Weatherperson's Day St. Avitus' Day Mexico Constitution Day CCM Day (Tanzania) National Chocolate Fondue Day |
| February 5 Events | Disney's Peter Pan premiered (1953) Peep Show Machine patented Reader's Digest 1st published (1922) 1st Adding Machine for sale Patty Hearst kidnapped (1974) Fish debuted (1977) Interstate Commerce Act passed 1st Gas Company opened Parking Meter 1st installed in London (1958) Spain captured Minorca from British (1782) Ethyl "antiknock" gasoline 1st available (1923) Slow Motion photography patented Unknown Mozart Symphny discovered in Denmark (1983) Toto's Africa reached No. 1 (1983) Satellite TV debuted in UK (1989) Redshift of Quasars discovered (1963) Third Punic War, longest war in history ended (after 2,131 years; 1985) State of Emergency declared at Berkely due to Vietnam War protests (1969) Luggage Inspection by US airlines became mandatory (1972) 1st Newspaper west of the Mississippi published (Oregon 1846) Bend Brewing Co. founded (Oregon; 1995) |
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| 6 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| George Herman "Babe" Ruth Vince Guaraldi Aaron Burr Francois Truffaut Bob Marley Karoly Kisfaludy Patrick McNee Claudio Arrau Rip Torn Tom Brokaw Gillian Bonner (Pb 4/96) Lancelot Brown Ben Lyon Mike Farrell Fabian Jade East Mamie Van Doren Henri Fuseli Natalie Cole Queen Anne Christopher Marlowe Jeb Stuart Gayle Hunnicutt Michael Tucker Rick Astley Walter Edward Fauntroy Zsa Zsa Gabor Eva Braun Ronald Reagan |
Mid-Winter's Day Aldus Day (inventor of Italics) St. Dorothy's Day (patron of brides, gardeners, florists, newlyweds; against lightning, fire, thieves) Police Brutality Day Waitangi (Maori, New Zealand) St. Vedast's Day Lame Duck Day St. Amand's Day (patron of brewers, hotel workers, wine & beer merchants) Carrot Festival National Frozen Yogurt Day St. Paul Miki and Companion's Day Rubik-Cube Muddling Championships (Fairy) St. Peter Baptist (patron of Japan) Move Hollywood and Broadway to Lebanon, Pennsylvania Day |
| February 6 Events | English monarchy abolished by Parliament Rolls Royce Mascot established Highest Wave seen (112 ft.) Massachusetts became the 6th state (1788) Woman of the Year premiered 1st Perforated postage stamp made Anything Goes premiered 1st Storm Warning given Elizabeth II coronated Queen of England (1952) Three golf balls driven on the moon Western Electric contracted to make Bell Phone Disney's Saludos Amigo premiered (1943) Norman Rockwell's 1st Post cover in color (1926) 1st Minstrel Show performed (1843) Maxmilian I of Germany declares himself "Holy Roman Emperor" (1493) Klaus Barbie charged with Nazi war crimes (1983) Britain annexed New Zealand (1840) Felinfoel became 1st beer in a can in UK (1935) Manchester United football team killed in plane crash (1958) British Women over 30 got the vote (1917) Violinist Yehudi Menuhin played his debut (1926) Crayola made its one billionth crayon (1996) 1st Train collision (near Wappinger's Creek, NY; 1871) 20th Amendment adopted (changing date of Presidential inauguration; 1933) Mary went blind (on Little House on the Prairie; 1978) Soldiers killed 5 Students crossing the border from Zimbabwe (1989) Vince Lombardi became part-owner, executive V-P, & head coach of Washington Redskins (1969) Anastasia, Tsar Romonov's daughter, thought to be murdered, resurfaced in New York (1928) Largest crowd assembled (15 million; Hindu Feast of Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India; 1989) |
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| 7 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Charles Dickens Aleister Crowley Thomas More Sinclair Lewis Henry Fuseli Eubie Blake James Spader Alfred Adler Frederick Douglass John Deere Michele Drake (Pb 5/79) Gay Talese Ashley Allen (Pb 8/92) Michael Jordan Alfred Adler Dona J. Spier (Pb 3/84) James Augustus Henry Murray Buster Crabbe George Putnam Oscar Brand Dan Quisenberry Jason Gedrick Herb Kohl Zsa Zsa Gabor |
National Run-For-Your-Life Day St. Moses' Day (patron of Saracens) National Hangover Awareness Day Daniel Boone Escape Day No Talk Day Grenada Independence Day Ice Worm Squirm (@) National Fettuccine Alfredo Day |
| February 7 Events | Dead Sea Scrolls discovered (1947) Beatles arrived in US (1964) When Worlds Collide premiered Badfinger's Come and Get It released Witness For the Prosecution premiered Disney's Pinocchio premiered (1940) 1st Educational Magazine published Ballet 1st performed in US (1827) Saratoga County, New York founded (1791) Fellowship left Lorien (Hobbit) "Baby Doc" Duvalier fled Haiti (1986) Shocking Blue's Venus reached No. 1 (1970) Women won the right to vote in Switzerland (1991) IRA bombed No. 10 Downing Street (1991) Vietnam split into two countries (1950) Rain of Sardines (Ipswich, Australia; 1989) Lockhorns comic strip began (1926) Tuscaloosa County, Alabama founded (1818) 1st Astronaut walked in space untethered (1984) Henry Clay makes his "I'd rather be right than President" remark (1839) Paul Simon's 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover reached No. 1 (1976) Son of Edward I became the 1st English Prince of Wales (1301) USSR Central Committee voted to ends its monopoly of power (1990) Drunken visitor at the British Museum smashed the Portland Vase into 200 pieces (1845) |
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| 8 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Jules Verne Neal Cassady Samuel Butler Martin Buber Kate Chopin Lana Turner James Dean Nick Nolte Pamela Jean Bryant (Pb 4/78) Audrey Meadows William Tecumseh Sherman Jack Lemmon Ted Koppel Dmitri Mendeleev Robert Klein Creed Bratten John Rushkin King Vidor Brooke Adams Gregor Mendel St. Proclus John Williams Gary Coleman Vince Neil |
Ha-Ri-Ku-Yo (aka Mass for Broken Needles, day of rest
for needles; Japan) Kite Flying Day (Korea) Boy Scout Day Narvik Sun Pageant Day (Norway) Eidul Fitr (Breakfast Festival) St. Jerome Emilani's Day (patron of orphans) Iraq's February Revolution Day Snow Festival begins (Sapparo, Japan) National Molasses Bar Day St. Meingold's Day (patron of bakers, bankers, millers, miners) Hold Onto Your Head Day St. Theodore's Day (Greek) Crufts Dog Show begins (London @) |
| February 8 Events | Boy Scouts of America founded (1910) Mary Queen of Scots beheaded (1587) 1st Police Dog used Beatles' I Saw Her Standing There released Poisons 1st prohibited in public lands Tristan Tzara found "DaDa" in dictionary (1916) Birth of A Nation premiered (1915) Tahiti Typhoon killed 10,000 people (1906) Gas Chamber 1st used for execution (1924) 1st Opera performed in US (1735) Cigarette Ads banned from UK TV (1965) Death of Kelp-Koli (Fairy) Last Saturday Evening Post published (1969) Stars and Stripe military newspaper 1st published (1918) Bruce Dern quit UPenn track team rather than shave off his sideburns (957) Mark Dinning's Teen Angel reached No. 1 (1960) Source of Australia's Murray River discovered (1830) Nazi shot every 10th person in 2 villages near Warsaw in retaliation of the death of 2 German soldiers New York Zoological Society changed its name to the more politically correct NYZS/The Wildlife Conservation Society (1993) Black Friday; mourning the loss of freedom on the internet after Congress stupidly restricted freedom of speech on the internet (1996) |
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| 9 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Alberto Vargas William Henry Harrison Amy Lowell Ronald Coleman Alban Berg Brendan Behan Mia Farrow Carole King Samuel J. Tilden Alice Walker George Ade Carmen Miranda Franz Marc Gypsy Rose Lee Kathryn Grayson John Martin Kruk Charles Shaughnessy Roger Mudd Howard Ricketts Joe Pesci Ernest Tubb James Webb Dean Rusk |
Feast of Apollo Toothache Day St. Apollonia's Day (patron of dentists; against toothaches) Hobert Regatta Day (Tasmania) National Inventor's Day St. Maron's Day (patron of Maronites) National Bagels and Lox Day St. Teilo's Day National Hooky Day Tales of Kelp-Koli begin (Fairy) Feast of La'Ala'A (Upolu God of Wrestling; Polynesia) |
| February 9 Events | Hershey's Chocolate founded (1894) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art founded (1935) Confederate States of America founded (1861) Beatles 1st appeared on Ed Sullivan (1964) AFL and CIO labor unions merged (1968) Planet of the Apes premiered US Weather Bureau established 1st Macadam road built Search for Dr. Livingstone began Lang Martin vertically balanced 7 golf balls (1980) Son of Flubber premiered 1st Boeing 747 flew Boxer Rebellion began (China; 1899) Coffee County, Georgia founded (1854) Toonerville Trolley comic strip ended (1955) Source of the Murray, Australia's longest river, discovered (1830) 1st British soldier killed at Ulster (1971) Chickasaw County, Mississippi founded (1836) UK Parliament declared US Colonies in rebellion (1775) Arthur Ashe became 1st black on US Davis Cup tennis team (1964) Lloyd Price's Stagger Lee reached No. 1 (1959) Brasserie McAuslan brewery founded (Quebec; 1989) |
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| 10 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Boris Pasternak Frances Moore Lappe Charles Lamb William Allen White Bertolt Brecht Samuel Plimsoll Jimmy Durante Donovan Bill Tilden Walter Brattain Mark Spitz Larry Adler Charles Lamb Leontyne Price William Congreve Greg Norman Robert Wagner Daryl Johnston Lenny Dykstra Judith Anderson Roberta Flack Lenny Dykstra Kirk Fordice Dennis Louis Gentry Peter Allen |
World Marriage Day Umbrella Day School Day Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta) Plimsoll Day National Cream Cheese Brownie Day St. Scholastica's Day (patron of children in convulsions, bringing rain, nuns) |
| February 10 Events | 8 Ft. Alligator came of a New York City sewer Gary Powers exchanged for a Russian spy (1962) 1st Singing Telegram delivered (1933) Diving Suit patented Spanish-American War ended 1st Gold Record issued Treaty of Paris signed (1763) Arthur Miler's Death of A Salesman premiered on broadway (1949) Prince Albert married Queen Victoria (1840) Revised Bible authorized by Church of England (1899) Paul Mauriat's Love Is Blue reached No. 1 (1968) Upper and Lower Canada reunited (1840) 1st Medal of Honor awarded in World War 2 (1942) Glenn Miller's Chatanooga Choo Choo released Styrofoam Cooler invented Charles Laughton & Elsa Lanchester married (1929) Detroit auto makers stopped producing cars during World War 2 (1942) Oprah Winfrey asked Michael Jackson about his plastic surgery in a live interview (1993) 25th US Amendment ratified (providing continuity of power if President is disabled or ill; 1967) New York Times' 1st used the phrase "All the News That's Fit To Print" (1897) 60,000 Blacks forceably evicted in Sophiatown (South Africa; 1955) Bitter End Brewery founded (Texas; 1994) |
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| 11 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Daniel Boone Thomas Edison Jennifer Anniston Leslie Nielsen Tina Louise Shannon Long (Pb 10/88) Paul Bocuse Gene Vincent Henry Fox Talbot Melville W. Fuller Josiah Gibbs Lloyd Bentsen Joseph Mankiewicz Mary Quant Burt Reynolds Sidney Sheldon Virginia Johnson Max Baer Sergio Mendes Mike Leavitt Eva Gabor Mel Carnahan Manuel Noriega |
National Inventor's Day Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day White Shirt Day (Flint, Michigan) Anthesteria (Feast of Flowers; Ancient Greece) Foundation Day (Japan; 660 BCE) Ghost Day St. Blaise's Day (Eastern) Grandmother Achievement Day Runic half-month of Elhaz ends Youth Day (Cameroon) St. Benedict of Aniane's Day Vatican City Independence Day St. Caedmon's Day (patron of poets) Armed Forces Day (Liberia) National Day (Iran) Lateranensi Pact Day (Vatican City) St. Gregory II's Day National Peppermint Patty Day Make A New Friend Day Feast of Our Lady's Miraculous Apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes begins |
| February 11 Events | Bald Eagle declared endangered 1st Public Lavatory opened (Women's) Glenn Miller Story premiered Madison Square Garden opended The French Chef, starring Julia Child, debuted (1963) Nelson Mandella finally freed from prison after 27 years (1990) Yap Treaty signed 1st US Hospital began admitting patients (1752) Henry Ford announced the V-8 Engine (1932) US opened 11 million acres of Sioux land to white settlers (1890) Beatles recorded their 1st single, Please Please Me (1963) Quakers petitioned Congress to free slaves (1790) Paula Abdul's Straight Up reached No. 1 (1989) Napoleon married Marie-Louise (1810) Vatican City became an independent principality (1929) Benito Juarez declared President of Mexico (1858) Lateran Treaty signed (1929) Gerrymandering 1st occurred (1812) Jack Paar walked off the Tonight Show over censorship of a "water closet" joke (1960) Flint, Michigan sit-down strike ended; resulted in United Auto Workers (1937) China ends its ban on Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens & Twain (1978) Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year old French girl saw the Virgin Mary at Lourdes (1858) |
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| 12 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Abraham Lincoln Charles Darwin Franco Zeffirelli George Meredith Steve Hackett Christina Ricci Joe Garagiola Cotton Mather Judy Blume Maud Adams Ray Manzarek Omar Bradley Max Backmann Edward Forbes Ruth Guerri (Pb 7/83) Julian Schwinger Marie Lloyd Thaddeus Kosciusko Lorne Greene Peter Cooper Joe Don Baker Forrest Tucker Bill Russell John Llewellyn Lewis Louisa Johnson Adams Cliff DeYoung Brent Jones Joanna Kerns Hank Brown Joan Finney Eddie Robinson Gromit Safetypup Arlen Spector |
Festival of Pitooyage (God of gaming & chance;
Oaxaca, Mexico) Choes Day (Day of the Cups; Ancient Greece) Burgsonndeg (Luxembourg) Feast of Diana/Artemis (Goddess of the Hunt) World Marriage Day Georgia Day Runic half-month of Sigel (sun) begins Burma Union Day Great American Chocolate Festival begins (@) Oglethorpe Day (Georgia) Borrowed Days begin (Scottish Highlands) St. Julian the Hospitaler (patron of travelers, innkeepers, boatmen, circus performers) National Plum Pudding Day St. Meletius' Day |
| February 12 Events | Robinson Crusoe rescued Action Comics No. 1 published (1st appearnce of Superman) NAACP founded (1909) 1st Croquet League formed Galoshes invented (1831) Oglethorpe landed at Savannah, Georgia (1733) Lady Jane Grey executed (1554) 1st Around the World Auto Race began Barbie Dolls 1st for sale Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premiered (1924) 1st Tobboggan Race held Dracula premiered 1st Car accident fatality (1898) Chinese Emperor Pu Yi abdicated (1912) Magic Loogie from Game 6 of the 1987 World Series 1st explained on Seinfeld (1992) 1st Inter-Club Soccer Match played (1861) Ground broken on the Lincoln Memorial (1914) William of Orange and Mary became King & Queen of England (1688) 1st US Draft Card burned in protest (1947) Al Green's Let's Stay Together reached No. 1 (1972) 1st New York to Paris Auto Race began (1908) John Donne preached his last sermon (1631) Australian Gold Rush began (1851) Jerry utters the 1st "Hello, Newman" on Seinfeld (1992) Manchu Dynasty overthrown by Chinese Nationalists (1912) O.J. Simpson's tell-nothing book, I Want to Tell You, published (1995) Car & Truck Rental Song became the National Anthem (Letterman) |
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| 13 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Grant Wood Peter Gabriel Henry Rollins Jim Noecker Kim Novak Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Chuck Yeager Grant DeVolson Stockard Channing Peter Tork Kent McCord Roberta Vasquez (Pb 11/84) Wingy Manone Catherine Howard Georges Simenon Ernst Fuchs Bess Truman Oliver Reed Carol Lynley George Segal "Tennessee" Ernie Ford Robert J. Eaton |
Dream of Your Sweetheart Day Confession Day St. Augustine's Day Exorbitant Price Day Get A Different Name Day Parentalia begins (Old Roman family observance to soul of your father) Fiesta de Menendez (St. Augustine, Florida) St. Mathias' Day Artstorm (Seattle; @) Clean Out Your Computer Day St. Agabus' Day (patron of fortune-tellers; Western) Dump Your Significant Jerk Day Borrowed Days (Scottish Highlands) National Tortini Day St. Priscilla's Day (Eastern) Blessing of the Salmon Nets (Northumberland, UK) St. Catherine dei Ricci's Day |
| February 13 Events | Blondie & Dagwood married 1st US Magazine published (American Magazine; 1741) Captains of the Clouds premiered Flour Riot (NYC; 1837) 1st State University (North Carolina) ASCAP established (1914) Human Egg 1st fertilized in test tube (1969) Glass introduced to Britain (664) Prince Valiant comic strip began (1937) 1st US Public School opened (Boston Latin School; 1635) James Gang robbed their 1st bank (1866) Matra Hari arrested for spying (1917) Penicillin 1st used on human (1941) France 1st tests an atomic bomb (1960) Galileo detained by the Inquisition in Rome (1633) Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube premiered (1867) Catherine Howard, a wife of Henry VIII, beheaded for infidelity (1542) House of Commons defeated a bill to prohibit sale of alcohol (UK; 1933) New York City's Guardian Angels established (1979) Pointcast 1st released (1996) Bruno Hauptmann found guily of murder of Lindbergh baby (1935) The Osmonds' One Bad Apple reached No. 1 (1971) |
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| 14 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Nicolaus Copernicus Edmund Love Anna Howard Shaw Porsche Lynn Molly Ringwald Kevin Keegan Frederick Douglass Skeezix Wallet Noriko Sakai Joseph Thomson Richard Allen Alan Parker Murray "the K" George McFarland Thomas Malthus Carl Bernstein Florence Henderson Hugh Downs Tarina Young Edmund George Love Jim Kelly Marty Feldman Jack Benny George Ferris (invented the "wheel") Kazmir Malevich Christopher Scholes Gregory Hines Jimmy Hoffa Mel Allen Ben Blaz Donna Shalala Judd Gregg Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) |
St. Valentine's Day (patron of lovers) Juno Februa's Day (Goddess of Love) Read To Your Child Day Fjortende Februar (Denmark) Trifon Zarezan (Viticulturists' Day; Bulgarian Dionysus Festival) Ferris Wheel Day National Have-a-Heart Day Sts. Cyril & Methodius' Day (patrons of Czechoslovakia, Europe, the Slavs) Vali (Norse Archer God) National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day Birds Mating Season begins National Random Acts of Kindness Day Race Relations Day Cat Festival Borrowed Days end (Scottish Highlands) National Cardiovasular Technologists Recognition Day |
| February 14 Events | Oregon became the 33rd state (1859) 1st US President photographed in office (Polk; 1849) Selma March to Montgomery, Alabama led by Martin Luther King Jr. (1965) 1st Speaking Clock built Arizona became the 48th state (1912) 1st Porpoise born in captivity Dresden fire-bombed (1944) League of Women Voters founded (1920) 1st Cancer Clinic opened US Telephone patented 1st Childern's Hospital opened Valentine's Day Massacre took place (1929) 1st State Bird Sanctuary established Apple Parer invented British Navy under Captain Nelson defeated Spanish Armada off Cape St. Vincent (1797) Malcolm X's home fire-bombed (1965) Captain Cook killed by Hawaiians (1779) Torvill & Dean won a gold medal for ice dancing (1984) California Oranges 1st shipped east (1886) Sly & The Family Stone's Thank You reached No. 1 (1970) Richard II mysteriously died at Pontefract Castle (1400) 1st Trainload of California Oranges sent east (1886) Prince married dancer Mayte Garcia (1996) Rosanne Barr married ex-bodyguard Ben Thomas (1995) Skeezix found on the doorstep of Walt & Phyliss Wallet (Gasoline Alley; 1921) Ayatollah Khomeini placed a death sentence of Salmon Rusdie for writing a book (1989) Mission Bridge Brewing Co. founded (Alberta; 1995) |
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| 15 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Galileo Galilei Susan B. Anthony Ayn Rand Matt Groening Angelica Bella Harold Arlen Cyrus McCormick Alfred North Whitehead Jeremy Bentham Susan Brownmiller Caesar Romero Jane Seymour Charles-Francois Daubigny Henry E. Steinway Abraham Clark Claire Bloom Brian Holland Sax Rohmer Charles Tiffany John Barrymore Harvey Korman John Sutter Babur Elihu Root Marisa Berenson Claire Bloom Adolfo Pedro Menendez de Aviles Melissa Manchester Louis XV |
Remember the Maine Day Lupercalia (Old Roman Festival to Paganism) Faunus (Celebrates Animals Helping Humans) Kamakura (Snow Cave Festival; Japan) Senior Day Flag Day (Canada) St. Sigfrid's Day (patron of Sweden) Battleship Day Decimal Day (UK) St. Euseus' Day (patron of shoemakers) National Gumdrop Day |
| February 15 Events | To Kill A Mockingbird premiered Mustard invented USS Maine blown up in Havana Harbor (1898) Disney's Cinderella premiered (1950) St. Louis founded (1764) Take the "A" Train released US Flag Code of Etiquette adopted Penobscot County, Maine founded (1816) Sports Car Club of America founded (1944) Decimal Coinage in the UK 1st used (1971) Londa Ronstadt's You're No Good reached No. 1 (1975) Marc Anthony streaked the Roman Forum Relief of Kimberley (1900) Felix C. Gotschalk's Growing Up In Tier 3000 published New Canadian "Maple Leaf" flag unfurled (1965) Unsuccessful assassination attempt made on FDR (1933) Female lawyers 1st admitted to practice before US Supreme Court (1879) Victoria, Australia farmer saw a UFO (1963) Permanent Court of International Justice held its 1st session (1922) Broad Ripple Brewing Co. founded (Indiana; 1991) Joey's brewery founded (Texas; 1995) Old Broadway brewery founded (North Dakota; 1995) Portland Brewing Co. founded (Oregon; 1986) |
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| 16 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| John McEnroe Le Var Burton Henry Adams Edgar Bergen Sashia Linssen (Pb 6/91) Alicia Rio George Martin Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin Machito Geordi La Forge (2335) Roberty Flaherty John Schlesinger Ivor Richards Mark Price Henry Wilson George Frost Kennan Van Wyck Brooks Jamie Angell Kelly Tripucka Billy Hamilton Leonora O'Reilly William Katt Sonny Bono James Ingram Wayne King Andy Taylor Leonard F. Woodcock |
Feast of Sticky Buns Auld Deer (Cattle Fair; Scotland) St. Valentine's Day (Greek) Bumper Car Day Mule Day Annual Sit and Spit Contest St. Flavian's Day (Eastern) National Almond Day Imperial Valley Lettuce Ball (El Centro, California @) Lithuania Independence Day St. Pamphilius' Day (Eastern) Do A Grouch A Favor Day St. Juliana's Day Respectable Tales of Kelp-Koli (5 minutes only; Fairy) World Championship Crab Races (Crescent City, California) |
| February 16 Events | 1st Check written (1659) Nylon patented (1937) 1st Music Festival held Elks (BPOE) established 1st Commercial Helicopter flew Celebration of the Gold Standard 1st TV News aired Nylon Stockings 1st for sale (1939) Largest Mackeral caught (90 lbs.) Fidel Castro sworn in as dictator of Cuba (1959) Entertainment Weekly magazine 1st published (1990) Coca-Cola's "Refresh Yourself" ad campaign launched (1924) Emma Goldman arrested for teaching birth control (1916) Golden Poppy voted the State Flower of California (1908) France's longest traffic jam (109 miles; 1980) Conference on Aerial Phenomena held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico (1949) NFL changed its draft policy, allowing Juniors to be eligible (1990) USS Triton submarine began 1st underwater circumnavigation of the Earth (1960) Captain & Tennille's Do That To Me One More Time reached No. 1 (1980) |
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| 17 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Archangelo Corelli Thomas J. Watson Billy Joe Armstrong Dorothy Canfield Fisher Michael Jordan Rene Theophile Laennec Montgomery Ward Traci Adell (Pb 7/94) Raphael Peale Samuel McClure Buddy De Franco Margaret Truman Jim Brown Georg Gaffky Marion Anderson Guillermo Vilas Huey Newton Arthur Kennedy Hal Holbrook Gene Pitney Alan Bates Barry Humphries Mary Ann Mobley Lee Hoiby "Red" Barber Levon Kirkland Dodie Stevens Andrew "Banjo" Paterson |
Random Acts of Kindness Day Fornacalia (Old Roman Bread Festival) National Cafe Au Lait Day Championship Crab Races Bonten Festival (Japan) National PTA Founder's Day St. Fintan's Day Festival Du Voyageur begins (Manitoba, Canada @) Sourdough Rendezvous begins (Yukon, Canada) Feast of Shesmu (Eqyptian God of Wine Press) Celtic tree month of Luis ends |
| February 17 Events | Modern Art 1st shown in US (1913) Geronimo died (1909) Minimum Wage Law enacted National Congress of Parents & Teachers (PTA) founded (1897) Picnic premiered Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament founded (1958) 1st Canned Sardines packaged National College of Mothers established Popey debuted in comic strip Thimble Theater (1929) Columbia, South Carolina surrendered to General Sherman (1865) Gene Chandler's Duke of Earl reached No. 1 (1962) Vacant/Engaged Toilet Sign patented (1883) Friends of the Urban Forest planted its 20,000th tree (San Francisco; 1996) Sarah & Vinny debuted on ALICE radio (San Francisco, California; 1997) Great Flood began, Noah and the animals escaped in the Ark |
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| 18 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Niccolo Paganini Gahan Wilson Molly Ringwald "Bloody" Mary Tudor John Travolta Alessandro Volta Jessica Lee (Pb 8/96) Bobbi Mimmack George Peabody Milos Forman Jack Palance Vanna White John Warner Bill Cullen Louis Tiffany Heidi Mark (Pb 7/95) Johnny Hart George "The Gipper" Gipp Rob Bachman Matt Dillon Helen Gurley Brown Toni Morrison Pee Wee King Audre Lorde Edward Arnold George Kennedy Wendell Wilkie Richard Stockton Cybil Shepherd Andre Breton Leonard Ford John William Warner Bob St. Clair Juice Newton Dr. Dre Yoko Ono Sholom Aleichem (Yiddish "Mark Twain") |
Drink Too Much Wine Day Festival of Women (Persia) Tacita (Roman Silent Goddess) Chaosflux (Discordian) Bun Day (Iceland) Gambia Independence Day Tribhuvan Jayanti (Nepal) St. Bernadette's Day Celtic tree month of Nuin (Ash) begins Kiki Bird Days St. Colman's Day Fly-By for Fairies and Elves (Fairy) St. Fra Angelico's Day (patron of artists) National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day St. Leo I's Day (Eastern) Aquarius zodiac sign ends St. Flavian's Day (Western) |
| February 18 Events | Pluto discovered (1930) 1st 3-D Movie premiered (Bwana Devil) Shuttle "Enterprise" 1st flew Pilgrim's Progess published Cows 1st flew in an airplane (1930) Santa Clara County, California created Phrase "one world" 1st used (1892) Michaelangelo died (1564) South Africa banned foreign TV news crews (1986) John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress published (1678) 2nd 3-D Movie premiered (Creature from the Black Lagoon) Golden Gate Exposition opened (1939) Snow fell on the Sahara Desert (1979) Jefferson Davis inaugurated as 1st, and only, President of Confederate States of America (1862) Platters' Great Pretender reached No. 1 (1956) Japanese-American Internment Camps opened (WW 2; 1943) Angelic Brewing Co. founded (Wisconsin; 1995) Brewmaster's Pub founded (Wisconsin; 1987) Orange County Brewing Co. founded (California; 1995) |
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| 19 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Nicolas Copernicus Stan Kenton Lee Marvin William "Smokey" Robinson David Garrick Sven Anders Hedin Holly Johnson Dave Stewart Vicki Lynn Lasseter (Pb 2/81) Merle Oberon Andres Segovia Carson McCullers Margaux Hemingway Cedric Hardwicke William White Hana Mandlikova Justine Bateman Karen Silkwood Jeff Daniels Robert "Gottlieb" Schnick Eddie Arcaro Falco Prince Andrew |
Feast of Pusiuraura (God of the Dart Game;
Melanesia) Pisces zodiac sign begins Consumer Credit Festival Butter Festival begins (China) St. Conrad's Day (patron against hernia, famine) Daytona 500 (@) National Chocolate Mint Day Goddess Month of Bridhe ends Fly-By for Goblins and others (Fairy) |
| February 19 Events | Phonograph invented Conflakes 1st for sale (1906) 1st Orange Juice tanker arrived in NYC Tin-Type Camera patented Knights of Pythias founded (1864) Mr. Roger's Neighborhood debuted (1968) 1st Sweet Corn canned Cherry Coke introduced (1985) Massachusetts Historical Society established Fawlty Towers 2nd season debuted 1st Pan African Congress held (1919) US Troops landed on Iwo Jima Island (WW2; 1945) 1st Helicopter flew (1921) Liverpool Bread Riots begin (1855) Tsingtao, 1st brewery in China, opened (1897) Sammy Davis Jr. kissed Archie Bunker (on All in the Family; 1972) Japanese-Americans placed in concentration camps in remote US areas (WW2; 1942) 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound (1949) Wearing a white bikini, Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee married (1995) International Council for Exceptional Children established |
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| 20 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Confucius (551 BCE) Voltaire Robert Altman Sidney Poitier Frederick Douglass Pierre Boulle Rebekka Lynn Armstrong (Pb 9/86) Ansel Adams Cindy Crawford Kurt Cobain Ivan Albright Jimmy Yancey Phil Espisito Serena Charles Barkley Jimmy Greaves Andrew Shue Bobby Unser Gloria Vanderbilt John Daly Enzo Ferrari Jennifer O'Neal Russell Crouse Amanda Blake Lew Soloff J. ("Jerome") Geils Corinna Harney (Pb 8/91) Walter Becker Peter Strauss Lorraine Olivia (Pb 11/90) Marie Rambert Edward Albert Buffy Sainte-Marie William Prescott Carol Ficatier (Pb 12/85) Nancy Wilson Patty Hearst Sam Rice Angelina Grimke Sandy Duncan French Stewart Larry Hovis Ian Brown Amanda Blake Muriel Humphrey Kenneth Olsen Mitch McConnell |
National Cherry Pie Day St. Wulfric's Day Native Agents Day Goddess Month of Moura begins Princess Alice Day Student Volunteer Day Adopt a Goblin Orphan Day (Fairy) St. Eleutheris of Tournai's Day Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day (at high noon everyone yells "Hoodie-Hoo" to chase away winter & make way for spring) |
| February 20 Events | Metropolitan Museum of Art opened 1st Film shown to a paying audience Elevator patented 1st American, John Glenn, orbited the earth (1962) Rossini's Barber of Seville premiered Hoppity Goes To Town premiered 1st On Ait Color Test Pattern (NBC) US Mail established (1792) King James I of Scotland assassinated (1437) Pat Benatar married Neil Geraldo Contraceptives 1st on sale in Ireland (1985) 1st Known Scalping (by Whites) Full Employment Act passed (1946) Meriadoc and Pippen met Treebeard (Hobbit) 1st Combination Car-Plane built Toothpick patented (1872) Austria declared bankruptcy (1811) Kennebec County, Maine founded (1799) Cher sued Sonny Bono for divorce (1974) Oil Shortage produced $2,500,000,000 profit for Exxon (1974) Arrowmobile, 1st "flying car," tested (1937) Last Mogul Emperor of India died (1707) Yuengling Brewery, oldest US brewery still open, began brewing (Pennsylvania; 1829) Utopian Society started chain-letter campaign informing Americans that "profit is the root of all evil" (1934) Ross Perot announced he would run for US President if supporters put hi name on all 50 states' ballots (1992) |
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| 21 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Anais Nin W.H. Auden Leo Delibes Ernest Meissonier Charles Scribner Frank Brunner David Geffen Andres Segovia Sam Peckinpah Alice Freeman Palmer Otto Kahn Nikki Charm Herbert De Gvenchy Alana Soares (Pb 3/83) Robert Young Nina Simone Alan Trammel Constantin Brancusi John Henry Newman Tyne Daly Jerry Harrison Erma Bombeck Anthony Blaylock Jill Eikenberry Ann Sheridan Christopher Atkins Gaston Caperton Barbara Jordan Jean-Baptiste Tenon King Harold of Norway Rue McClanahan |
Card Reading Day Feast of Peace and Love (Old Roman) Shaheel Day (Bangladesh) Feralia (Old Roman Spirits Festival) Martyrs Day (Bangladesh) St. Peter Damian's Day (patron against headaches) National Sticky Bun Day Kiwanis Music Festival (@) |
| February 21 Events | Telephone Director 1st published Malcolm X assassinated (1965) 1st Burglar Alarm installed (1858) Washington Monument dedicated (1885) Carolina Parakeet declared extinct Battle of Verdun (1916) 1st Brain Operation performed (1902) Follow the Fleet premiered Phantom comic strip began (1936) 1st Newspaper in an Indian language published (The Cherokee Phoenix; 1828) New Yorker magazine published (1925) Liz Taylor married Conrad Hilton (1952) France granted freedom of worship Punjab annexed by UK (1849) 1st Woman graduated from dental school (1866) US President Richard Nixon visited China (1972) World's Oldest Man, Shigechiyo Izumi, died at 120 years old (1986) |
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| 22 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Arthur Schopenhauer Drew Barrymore Edna St. Vincent Millay Robert Baden-Powell George Washington Kyle MacLachlan James Russell Lowell Pebbles (Flintstones) Charles VII Julius "Dr. J" Irving Horace Pippin Luis Brunel Hugo Ball Eric Gill Bill Hollman Rembrandt Peale Edward Gorey Sheldon Leonard Pebbles Flintstone Edward "Ted" Kennedy Amy Strum Alcott Sparky Anderson Heinrich Hertz Robert Young Nelson Bunker Hunt Ishmael Reed Niki Lauda Robert Wadlow (world's tallest person) |
Thinking Day Branch Day Concordia (Old Roman Festival of Goodwill) Be Humble Day Girl Guides Day (UK) Feast of the Chair of St. Peter St. Lucia Independence Day Mother's Day (India) St. Joseph of Arimathea's Day Unity Day (Egypt) National Margarita Day St. Margaret of Cortona's Day (patron of fallen women) Handing Back of Goblin Orphans Day (Fairy) Feast of Hastseltsi, the Red God, God of Racing (Navaho) Virgin Island Donkey Races Day |
| February 22 Events | Popcorn introduced to westerners (1630) 1st Thanksgiving (Massachusetts Bay Colony; 1631) Benny Goodman Story premiered 1st Night FA game played Strawberry Blonde premiered 1st Illustrated magazine published Blue Hawaii premiered 1st 5 & 10 cent store opened (Woolworth; 1879) US bought Florida from Spain (1819) Red Sonja 1st appeared Ants fired Adam 1st Personal Ad published (1886) Pebbles Flintstone is born (1963) New Yorker Magazine 1st published (1925) Sword in the Stone premiered 1st Reverse Image TV Show aired Streptomycin antibiotic discovered (1946) Average White Band's Pick Up the Pieces reached No. 1 (1975) Montgomery, Alabama black civil rights leaders arrested for continuing boycott (1956) Rio de Janeiro sank off San Francisco (1901) 1st US joint stock company offered its shares for sale (American Manufactory of Woolens, Linenes, and Cottons; 1775) Oak Creek Brewing Co. founded (Arizona; 1995) |
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| 23 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| George Frederic Handel Johannes Gutenberg Dana Scully Samuel Pepys Christi Schmahl Stirrat Majel Barrett Casmir Funk Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne Meyer Rothschild W.E.B. Dubois Melinda Mays (Pb 2/83) Christopher Marlowe Doug Moench Johnny Winter Dinna J. Stone George Watts Victor Fleming Erich Kastner Peter Fonda Bobby Bonilla Ed "Too Tall" Jones George Taylor Betram O. Frasier-Reid Fred Biletnikoff Howard Jones Sylvia Chase Dante Lavelli Jackie Smith Jade Emperor (of China) |
Ember Day Guyana Republic Day Terminalia (End of Old Roman Year) St. Polycarp's Day Victoria Daffodil Bonspiel Pancake Day (Venice) National Banana Bread Day Vaudville Day St. Mildburga's Day (patron of birds) Feast of the Incappucciati (Italy) National Day (Brunei Darussalam) St. Willigis' Day (patron of carters) International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day |
| February 23 Events | Printing Press with movable type invented 1st Radio Contest held Boston incorporated Aluminum invented Siege of the Alamo began (1836) John Lee survived 3 hangings 1st Cotton Mill founded (1813) Incredible Shrinking Man premiered US Flag raised on Iwo Jima (WW 2; 1945) 1st NASCAR sanctioned race held (1948) Rotary Club established Source of the Nile discovered (1863) Handel's Oratorio premiered (1732) 1st Mass Inoculation (1954) Ground war against Iraq began (1991) Theater censorship ended in UK (1968) Mississippi readmitted to the Union (1870) Queen's Crazy Little Thing Called Love reached No. 1 (1980) Japanese Submarine shelled Santa Barbara (WW 2) Billy Joel married Christie Brinkley (1985) Arizona separated from Mexico and was made a US Territory (1863) UK lifted economic ban on South Africa (1990) Emile Zola imprisoned for his letter J'Accuse (1898) A gust of wind lifted a schoolgirl 20 feet & then dropped her to her death (Bradford, UK; 1911) Sioux Falls Brewing founded (South Dakota; 1995) |
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| 24 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Winslow Homer Honus Wagner Wilhelm Karl Grimm Teri Weigel (Pb 4/86) Don Majkowski Michel Legrand Admiral Chester Nimitz Steve Jobs Mary Ellen Chase Enrico Caruso Alain Prost Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Rupert Holmes Chester Nimitz Mark Lane Edward James Olmos Renatta Scotto James Farrantino Marjorie Main Barry Bostwick Lorrie Menconi (Pb 2/69) Abe Vigoda Barbara Lawrence Joseph I. Lieberman Zell Miller Eddie Murray Charles V |
Swamp Cabbage Festival Estonia Independence Day Feast of Regifugium (Flight of Kings; Old Roman) Giving of Shoes (Fairy) Mexican Independence Proclamation Day St. Matthias' Day Flag Day (Mexico) Gregorian Calendar Day Vincennes Day (Indiana) St. Prix's Day National Tortilla Chip Day |
| February 24 Events | Peer Gynt premiered 1st Law overturned by US Supreme Court Bluebeard executed 1st Multi-Stage Rocket flew "Missing Link" Skull found (1961) 1st Parade with Floats Rockpile disbanded Steam Shovel patented French Monarchy overthrown (1848) Mexico declared independence from Spain (1821) Ents destroyed Isengard (Hobbit) Hadassah founded (1912) American Motors' AMX debuted (1968) Silhouettes' Get a Job reached No. 1 (1958) 2nd French Republic began (1848) Juan Peron elected President of Argentina (1946) Dupont began producing nylon bristles for toothbrushes 1st Cities linked by telephone (Paris & Brussels; 1887) Eagles Greatest Hits became 1st album to go "platinum" (1976) "Flying Scotsman" train engine made its 1st run from London to Edinburgh (1923) Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with His Song reached No. 1 (1973) 1st Sheep successfully cloned (named "Dolly"; Scotland; 1997) US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson (1867) Pope Gregory XIII issued the order to correct the Julian calendar to the Gregorian Calendar (1582) Free State Brewing Co. founded (Kansas; 1989) Signature Beer Co. founded (Missouri; 1992) |
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| 25 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Pierre-Auguste Renoir George Harrison Anthony Burgess Enrico Caruso Kim Hee Sun Jim Backus Benedetto Croce Carlo Goldini Jennifer J. Lavoie (Pb 8/93) Mary Coyle Chase Carlo Goldoni Millicent Fenwick Bobby Riggs "Texas Rose" Bascom Adelle Davis Jose de San Martin Larry Gelbart Ida Lewis Charles Lang Freer Kurt Rambis Ludvig Nordstrom Adelle Davis Frank Slaughter Zeppo Marx Tom Courtenay Sally Jessy Raphael John Foster Dulles Karen Grassle David Putnam Jonnie Nicely (Pb 8/56) Monte Irvin Philip Habib Faron Young Bert Bell |
Time of the Old Woman begins (until 4 March) Quiet Day Coronado Day (US Southwest) Kuwait National Day St. Walburga's Day (patron of crops; against coughs, frenzy, plague) National Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day St. Ethelbert's Day Dance of the Secret Places (Fairy) National Don't Utter a Word Day International Clam Chowder Festival St. Tarasius' Day Feast of the Stinky Butts Suriname Revolution Day |
| February 25 Events | Electric Motor invented 1st Bank opened US Steel incorporated 1st Billion Dollar Corporation Hockey Game 1st televised Six-Shooter Revolver patented by Samuel Colt (1836) National Banking Act passed Edward II crowned King of England (1308) US Artist Mark Rothko committed suicide (1970) Hen layed the largest egg (16 oz.) Ford Thunderbird debuted (1964) Queen Elizabeth I excommunicated by Pope Pius V (1570) 1st Black became member of Congress (Hiram Revels of Mississippi; 1870) US Income Tax Law established (1913) Van Halen's Jump reached No. 1 (1984) 1st Automobile Gas tax imposed (Oregon; 1919) Jimmy Swaggart banned from preaching for frequenting a prostitute (1988) 60,000 marched in protest of end of cease-fire by IRA (Ireland; 1996) Numerous zigzagging lights appeared in sky above Los Angeles (1942) Haing Ngor, Cambodian activist featured in The Killing Fields, killed (1996) Lincoln issued "Greenback" US Dolllars (1862) Nicaragua votes to replace Sandinistas (1990) Cassius Clay "floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee" defeating Sonny Liston for the World Heavyweight Boxing Title (1964) Teri Hatcher answers the question about her breasts by saying "they're real and they're magnificent" (Seinfeld; 1993) |
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| 26 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Tex Avery Johnny Cash Frank Bridge Jackie Gleason Brittany York (Pb 10/90) Johnny Cash Levi Strauss William "Buffalo Bill" Cody Honore Daumier Edward Bellamy Victor Hugo Christopher Marlowe Elihu Vedder Will K. Kellogg Grover Cleveland Alexander Antoine "Fats" Domino Vitas Geralitus Jose Luis Cuevas Geofrey Cambridge Jean Vercors Richard Gatling Betty Hutton Robert Alda Tony Randall Laura Anderson Mason Adams Rolando Blackman Michel Bolton |
Tournament of Hearts (Scotland) Festival of Mihr (God of Fire; Armenia) Bun Day St. Alexander's Day National Pistachio Day Sourdough Rendezvous Dance of the Known Places (Fairy) Runic half-month of Sigel ends St. Porphyrius' Day Swamp Buggy Races (@) |
| February 26 Events | Grand Canyon declared National Park (1919) Radar 1st demonstrated (1935) Beatles' Hey Jude released Subway 1st opened in NYC Volkswagen debuted (1936) 1st Catholic Mass celebrated in a church in US (1732) Napoleon escaped from Elba (1815) Dictator Ferdinand Marcos exiled from Philippines (1986) England developed its 1st Atomic Bomb (1952) 1st Pound Notes issued by Bank of England (1791) Northern Songs established Eagles' New Kid in Town reached No. 1 (1977) Napoleon escaped from exile in Elba (1815) 2nd French Republic declared (1848) First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton won a Grammy Award (1997) 1st Jail with solitary confinement cells authorized (Philadelphia; 1773) 22nd Amendment passed (limiting President to 2 terms; 1951) Brown & Moran Brewing Co. founded (New York; 1993) |
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| 27 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| John Steinbeck Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elizabeth Taylor Constantine the Great Lawrence Durrell Ralph Nadar Peter De Vries Alan Guth Howard Hesseman Gene Sarazen James Farrell Sveinn Bjornsson Rudolf Steiner Jeanne Woodward David Sarnoff William Demarest Barbara Dare Irwin Shaw Chili (of TLC) Antoinette Sibley Ray Berry Jay Silvester Adam Baldwin Chelsea Clinton Neal Schon Ellen Terry Charlayne Hunter-Gault Mary Frann Grant Show Roderick Clark Barbara Babcock Mike Cross James Ager Worthy Bobby Wilson Malcolm Wallop |
International Day Polar Bear Day Runic half-month of Tyr (cosmic pillar) begins Dominican Republic Independence Day Equirria (Old Roman Cavalry Horse Festival) St. Galmier's Day (patron of locksmiths) Majuba Day (Boers; South Africa) St. Kitts-Nevis Statehood Day National Kahlua Day The Hop (Fairy) St. Leander's Day Feast of St. Gabriel Possenti (patron of college students) Insipid Day (according to Jonathan Swift) |
| February 27 Events | Tower of Pisa 1st leaned Beethoven's 8th Symphony premiered 1st American died in World War I Battle of Wounded Knee (1973) 15th US Amendment passed ("right to vote"; 1869) Lincoln gave his "might makes right" speech (1860) Anabaptist "New Jerusalem" began (Germany; 1534) Gulf War ended (1991) Saccharine discovered (1879) Cigar-rolling Machine patented by Oscar Hammerstein (1883) Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), 1st US passenger railroad, chartered (1827) Kuwait City liberated as 100-Hour War ended (1991) Shanghai Communique held between Richard Nixon and Chou En-Lai (1972) Emergency Powers introduced in Yugoslavia as Serbs attempted to assert rule over ethnic Albanians (1989) God received an American Family Publishers' Sweepstakes entry mailed to the Bushnell Assembly of God, which began "God, you may already be a sweepstakes winner" (Florida; 1997) 22nd Amendment ratified limiting President to 2 terms (passed by Republican Congress after FDR; later Republicans tried to get rid of it to allow Reagan to run again but were unable to undo their own knot; 1950) |
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| 28 February | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Linus Pauling Colette Dorothy Stratton (Pb 8/79) Milton Caniff Ben Hecht John Tenniel Charles Blondin William Coldstream Vincente Minnelli Frank Gehry Michel De Montaigne Gavin McLeod Brian Jones Mario Andretti Charles Durning John Turturro Mary Lyon Robert Sean Leonard William Zorach Cindy Wilson John Tenniel Stephen Spender Tommy Tune Vaslav Nijinsky Adrian Dantley Mercedes Ruehl Robert Sean Leonard Bernadette Peters Zero Mostel Charles "Bubba" Smith Rae Dawn Chong Frank Bonner Joe South Svetlana Allilueva |
Public Sleeping Day Action Line Day Magha Puja (Buddhist All Saints Day) Floral Design Day Kalevala Day (Finland) Burgsonnieg (Luxembourg) St. Oswald of York's Day National Chocolate Souffle Day Ponce Carnival (Puerto Rico) St. Romanus' Day (patron against drowning, insanity) |
| February 28 Events | Red Spots of Jupiter discovered Tarters sacked Baghdad Yellowstone became 1st US National Park (1871) Pretty in Pink premiered Amazon River discovered Basketball game 1st televised Transportation Act passed Liverpool's Cavern Club closed 1st Vaudeville Theatre opened (1883) Final episode of M*A*S*H aired (1983) Pontiac Firebird debuted (1967) USS Princeton's gun exploded (1844) Wesleyan faith founded (1784) 1st Parachute Jump (1912) Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water reached No. 1 (1970) U.S.S. Supply crew observed a formation of meteors flying horizontal to the sea & then veer upward at a 45 degree angle disappearing into the clouds (1904) Cody's Books in Berkeley, California bombed for stocking Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses (1989) 1st New World victims of Spanish Inquisition burned at the stake (1574) Carmel Brewing Co. founded (California; 1995) |
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| 29 February (LEAP YEARS) | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays & Observances |
| Gioacchino Rossini Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri "Balthus" de Rola Howard Nemerov Bob Denver Monica Keena George Raft Jimmy Dorsey Anne Lee John Holland Carl Banks William Wellman Jack Lousma Alex Rocco Bryce Paup John Philip Holland Edward Cave Karl Ernst Von Baler James Mitchell Louis Montcalm Michelle Morgan John "Pepper" Martin Ranchhodji Morarji Desai Joss Ackland Paul III |
Leap Year Day St. Tib's Day (every 4 years; Discordian) Dark Day Maha Siurratri (Hindu) Bachelor's Day St. Oswald of Worcester's Day Holmenkollen (Ski Tournament; Norway) National Surf and Turf Day |
| February 29 Events | Playboy Club opened (Chicago; 1960) Translated Classic (into English) 1st published John Lennon's Visa expired Deefield Massacre Helium 1st liquefied (1908) St. Gotthard Tunnel completed (1880) Bishop Dsmond Tutu arrested for demonstrating in South Africa (1988) |
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