07720201::Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
15390201::Emperor Karel & King Fran‡ois I sign anti-English treaty
15870201::English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
16620201::Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
16690201::French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
17090201::Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
17170201::Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France
17200201::Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
17320201::Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
17420201::Sardinia & Austria sign alliance
17830201::William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
17880201::1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
17890201::Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
17900201::Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
17930201::France declares war on England & Netherlands
17930201::Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
18090201::Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
18100201::1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
18100201::Seville, Spain surrenders to French
18100201::US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
18140201::Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
18140201::Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
18400201::Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
18460201::Th‚ophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
18600201::1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
18610201::Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
18610201::Texas becomes 7th state to secede
18620201::Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
18640201::-Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS
18640201::2nd German-Danish war begins
18640201::Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
18650201::13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
18650201::General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
18650201::JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
18670201::Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
18710201::Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
18810201::US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
18830201::French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
18840201::1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
18870201::Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern Calif & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
18920201::Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
18930201::Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin
18930201::Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
18960201::Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
18980201::1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
19020201::China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
19020201::Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin
19050201::Hague soccer team ADO froms
19050201::Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
19060201::1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
19060201::English min of Frgn affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
19090201::US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
19100201::1st British labour exchange opens
19100201::Dragoumis govt forms in Greece
19140201::NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
19140201::Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
19140201::Tanganyika Railway opens
19160201::H Thiele discovers asteroid #1847 Stobbe
19170201::Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
19180201::Franz Leh rs opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest
19180201::Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC
19180201::Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14)
19190201::Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert
19200201::1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
19200201::Soccer team Quick Boys forms
19200201::Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
19230201::Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
19230201::Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
19230201::No‰l Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London
19240201::Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
19240201::New British MacDonald govt recognizes USSR
19240201::Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
19240201::Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
19250201::1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontk„mpferbund in Berlin
19260201::Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
19260201::Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
19290201::1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402« lbs
19300201::Arnold Sch”nbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
19320201::Bradman makes 299* vs S Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
19330201::Colonial govt arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
19330201::Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
19330201::German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
19340201::Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his
19350201::1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
19350201::James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
19370201::Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
19400201::Russia begins new offensive against Finland
19410201::US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
19410201::US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
19420201::2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
19430201::German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
19430201::Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)
19440201::Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
19440201::US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
19450201::US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
19460201::Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
19460201::Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
19470201::Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian govt of christian-dems & communists
19470201::Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
19470201::NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
19480201::Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
19480201::Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
19490201::200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
19490201::RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
19500201::USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
19500201::Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
19510201::-50øF (-46øC), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
19510201::1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
19510201::1st telecast of atomic explosion
19510201::Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
19510201::UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
19510201::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19520201::General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
19520201::SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in NYC
19530201::"General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
19530201::"You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
19530201::Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state
19530201::Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
19530201::WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
19540201::1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
19540201::Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
19540201::Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem
19550201::HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
19560201::Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
19560201::WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19570201::1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
19570201::Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
19580201::1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
19580201::Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
19580201::WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
19590201::Lowell Observatory discovers asteroid #2847
19590201::Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
19590201::Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
19590201::US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
19590201::US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
19590201::WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
19590201::Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
19590201::Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
19600201::34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)
19600201::4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
19600201::48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86)
19600201::Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
19610201::1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
19610201::British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
19610201::Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies
19620201::"New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
19620201::NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
19630201::Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
19640201::"Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 perf
19640201::Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks
19640201::Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
19640201::Suriname River dammed
19650201::Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
19650201::Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
19650201::Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
19650201::NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
19670201::Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
19670201::WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19680201::Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
19680201::Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
19680201::World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
19680201::Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
19690201::Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
19690201::US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
19690201::US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
19690201::WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
19700201::Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
19700201::Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
19700201::WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
19700201::West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
19720201::1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
19720201::Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
19730201::Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
19740201::"Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
19750201::"Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
19750201::"Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
19750201::1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
19750201::Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
19750201::Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
19760201::"Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
19760201::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
19760201::Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
19760201::East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich State U after he is warned not to
19770201::Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
19770201::Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
19780201::Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
19780201::Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
19790201::Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
19790201::Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
19790201::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19800201::Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
19800201::Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
19810201::11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7
19810201::31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland
19810201::Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC
19810201::Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
19810201::French govt accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
19810201::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7
19810201::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
19810201::Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
19820201::"Late Night With David Letterman," debuts on NBC-TV
19820201::Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
19830201::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19840201::China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
19840201::Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
19840201::Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
19850201::-61øF (-52øC), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
19850201::-69øF (-56øC), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
19850201::Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 v Eng)
19850201::Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark
19850201::US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
19860201::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #4937
19860201::KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
19860201::Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switz
19870201::163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
19870201::38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
19870201::Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
19870201::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6
19890201::C S Shoemaker & E M Shoemaker discover asteroid #5284 Orsilocus
19890201::C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #5126 Achaemenides
19890201::Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
19890201::Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #4063 Euforbo
19890201::Princess Diane of England visits NYC
19890201::R Rajamohan discovers asteroid #5178
19910201::Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
19910201::Craig McDermott takes 8-97 v England at the WACA
19910201::President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
19910201::US Air & Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
19920201::"Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 7 perfs
19920201::Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
19920201::Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by NY Islanders
19920201::T Seki discovers asteroid #7017
19930201::NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
19930201::Soyuz TM-16 lands
19940201::Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec)
19940201::Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
19940201::Y Kushida & O Muramatsu discover asteroid #6464 Kaburaki
19950201::A Vagnozzi discovers asteroid #7963
19950201::Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
19950201::Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73)
19950201::Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record
19950201::Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
19960201::Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program discovers asteroid #7798
19980201::"Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf
19980201::86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62)
19980201::Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (62 61)
19980201::NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24
05060202::King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out
09620202::Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor
10320202::Koenraad II succeeds Rudolf III as king of Bourgundy
11190202::Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II
11410202::Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured
14610202::2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists
15360202::Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
15500202::English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed
16330202::M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome
16370202::Zorilla's "El m s Impropio Verdugo Para Las," premieres in Madrid
16530202::New Amsterdam becomes a city (later NYC)
17090202::British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"
17140202::Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore," premieres in London
17310202::Georg F H„ndels opera "Poro," premieres in London
17320202::King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia
17420202::British Walpole govt resigns
17620202::Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London
17950202::Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres
17980202::Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
18020202::1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25›)
18110202::Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF
18230202::Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice
18290202::Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does œ60,000 damage
18430202::US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose govt committee
18480202::1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF
18480202::Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million
18520202::1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)
18520202::Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Cam‚lias," premieres in Paris
18540202::Pope Pius IX encyclical "On persecution of Armenians"
18630202::Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
18640202::-Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida
18690202::James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
18700202::Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum
18700202::Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, NY
18760202::Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
18780202::Cottenot discovers asteroid #181 Eucharis
18780202::Greece declares war on Turkey
18800202::SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
18820202::Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn
18920202::Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)
18920202::Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England v Aust SCG
18920202::Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby
18930202::1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ
18940202::US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
19000202::Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris
19010202::Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
19040202::US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey
19060202::Pope encyclical against separation of church & state
19090202::Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
19100202::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #330 Adalberta
19120202::Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
19130202::NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe
19130202::NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens
19140202::James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu," premieres in NYC
19160202::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #815 Coppelia
19180202::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #888 Parysatis
19190202::Monarchist riot in Portugal
19200202::Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
19200202::France occupies (German) Memel territory
19200202::Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence
19220202::It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22
19220202::James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
19230202::Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
19230202::US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
19240202::International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
19250202::Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
19250202::Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
19250202::NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began
19260202::3 men dance Charleston for 22« hours
19270202::Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in NYC
19270202::Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC
19310202::1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students
19310202::1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria)
19320202::Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)
19320202::Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
19320202::Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83)
19320202::Reconstruction Finance Corp organized
19330202::2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament
19330202::G”ring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany
19330202::Ucicky's "Rotten Morning," premieres in Berlin
19340202::Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism
19350202::Lie detector 1st used in court (Portage Wisc)
19400202::Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orch)
19420202::LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
19420202::US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
19430202::Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army
19430202::Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest
19430202::German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II
19440202::4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands
19440202::Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
19440202::Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action
19440202::Edward Chodorov's "Decision," premieres in NYC
19450202::Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
19460202::"Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances
19480202::President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
19490202::1st 45 RPM record released
19490202::Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
19500202::"Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances
19500202::1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV
19510202::-35øF (-37øC), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
19510202::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19540202::Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
19540202::Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
19540202::Snow falls on Gibraltar
19550202::1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
19560202::Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
19570202::"Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
19570202::Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd)
19570202::UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
19580202::Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open
19580202::Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
19580202::WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
19590202::Buddy Holly's last performance
19590202::Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
19600202::Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
19610202::Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
19620202::1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16¬', Melrose Games)
19620202::8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
19620202::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19630202::Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
19640202::GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
19640202::Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
19640202::Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, & Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame
19650202::Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton
19670202::Bolivia adopts its constitution
19670202::Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
19680202::Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed
19690202::KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19690202::Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
19700202::Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
19710202::Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda
19720202::Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame
19720202::Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London
19730202::"Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV
19730202::James R Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA (until July)
19730202::Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA
19730202::Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, NZ v Pakistan, Wellington
19740202::Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
19740202::Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
19740202::Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
19750202::Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia
19750202::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
19750202::Harvard College discovers asteroid #1940 Whipple
19750202::US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
19750202::US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
19760202::"Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV
19760202::"Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV
19760202::Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame
19770202::Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)
19770202::Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer
19770202::Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
19780202::J Gibson discovers asteroid #5362
19800202::FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors
19820202::"Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC
19820202::Govt troops & Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria
19820202::San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead
19830202::Chicago Absp Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested
19830202::Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals
19840202::8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards
19840202::Lebanese army fight in Beirut
19850202::US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
19860202::"Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 perfs
19860202::Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
19860202::Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
19860202::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24
19860202::Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
19870202::E W Elst discovers asteroid #4999 MPC
19870202::KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
19870202::Philippines adopts constitution
19880202::David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* v England at Sydney
19890202::0øF (-18øC) or below in 15 US states
19890202::A Mrkos discovers asteroid #7699
19890202::C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #4543 Phoinix & #4836 Medon
19890202::F Borngen discovers asteroid #5063 Monteverdi
19890202::FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
19890202::M Arai & H Mori discover asteroid #6638 & #6709
19890202::NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president
19890202::T Seki discovers asteroid #6302
19900202::Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
19900202::South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs
19910202::Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington
19910202::NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56
19910202::US postage is raised from 25› to 29›
19920202::Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
19920202::Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec)
19920202::David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth
19920202::E F Helin discovers asteroid #6493 Cathybennett
19920202::E W Elst discovers asteroid #7587 Weckmann
19920202::IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M)
19920202::Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40)
19920202::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15
19930202::Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song
19930202::Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
19950202::"Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
19950202::Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
19950202::US space shuttle Discovery launched
19960202::Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA
19970202::"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin NYC
19970202::Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am
19970202::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT)
19970202::Royal Caribbean Senior Golf Classic
19980202::Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose
19980202::Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board
13770203::Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term
13770203::Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy
14880203::Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros)
15470203::Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
15760203::Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
15910203::German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
16530203::Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
16600203::General Moncks army reaches London
16900203::1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
17400203::Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
17430203::Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
17520203::Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
17810203::Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
17830203::Spain recognizes US independence
18090203::Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
18150203::World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
18250203::Dutch North Sea coast floods
18360203::Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
18440203::Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris
18550203::Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
18600203::Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
18640203::Sherman's march through Mississippi
18650203::Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
18670203::Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
18690203::Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
18700203::15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
18760203::Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
18820203::Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
18870203::To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
18920203::Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
18940203::1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
18950203::Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
19000203::Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt
19010203::Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ili‰ on Sumatra
19030203::Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
19080203::Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
19110203::J Helffrich discovers asteroids #708 Raphaela & #709 Fringilla
19130203::16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
19130203::Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in NYC
19150203::Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
19160203::Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
19160203::Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
19170203::US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
19180203::Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
19190203::Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in NYC
19190203::League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
19190203::Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
19210203::J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #945 Barcelona
19240203::Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
19270203::Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
19290203::E Delporte discovers asteroid #1145 Robelmonte
19290203::Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
19300203::Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
19300203::William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
19310203::Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia"
19330203::1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
19330203::German minister G”ring bans social-democratic newspaper Vorw„rts
19330203::Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
19350203::S Arend discovers asteroids #1352 Wawel, #1969 Alain & #2689 Bruxelles
19370203::Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket v England
19380203::Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC
19410203::Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs
19420203::1st Japanese air raid on Java
19420203::Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
19430203::4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
19450203::Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
19450203::Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
19470203::-81øF (-63øC), Snag Yukon (North American record)
19470203::1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
19470203::Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
19480203::Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
19500203::Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
19510203::"Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV
19510203::Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
19510203::Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
19510203::Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in NYC
19530203::J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show
19540203::Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
19560203::Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
19560203::Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
19570203::Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
19580203::Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3
19590203::American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
19610203::6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
19620203::John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
19620203::Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
19630203::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
19640203::"Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
19640203::Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
19650203::105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams
19650203::Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
19650203::Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
19650203::Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
19660203::1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US 
19660203::1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
19670203::"Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
19690203::"Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 perfs
19690203::The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
19710203::KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
19720203::11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
19720203::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19730203::Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6
19730203::President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
19740203::"Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
19740203::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
19750203::Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
19760203::26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
19770203::Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
19780203::Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
19780203::India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
19790203::"YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
19790203::Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
19790203::US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
19790203::US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
19800203::30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington
19800203::Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
19800203::Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy
19810203::Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup
19810203::Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
19820203::Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
19820203::Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
19820203::John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
19820203::Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
19830203::US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
19840203::10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
19850203::"Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
19850203::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
19860203::Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
19870203::Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
19870203::SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
19890203::Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
19890203::Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
19890203::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #4500 Pascal
19890203::Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out
19900203::Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
19900203::Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
19900203::NY Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center
19910203::K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #5294 Onnetoh
19910203::Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
19910203::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21
19910203::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #5355 Akihiro
19920203::Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in war on drugs"
19920203::Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
19920203::Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
19930203::Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
19930203::General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
19930203::Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif
19940203::"Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
19940203::Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
19940203::Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
19940203::STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
19950203::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #6348
19950203::STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
19950203::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #8302
19960203::Beijing Schmidt CCD Program discovers asteroid #7072 Beijingdaxue
19970203::Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY
19970203::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
19980203::Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
19980203::Fla Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
19980203::NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
19980203::Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
19980203::US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
19980203::Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
11940204::Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000
15080204::Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
15860204::Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Neth
16000204::Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague
16200204::Prince Bethlen G bor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II
16570204::Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal
16970204::3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
16990204::350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
17820204::British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet
17830204::Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
17870204::1st Anglican bishops of NY & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
17870204::Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
17890204::1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as Pres & VP
17940204::French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
17970204::Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
18030204::William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature"
18220204::Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
18240204::J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
18460204::Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
18470204::1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
18490204::University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
18540204::Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
18550204::Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
18580204::H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #52 Europa
18610204::Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Ala, Ga, Fla, La, Miss & SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy
18640204::24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
18640204::Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
18650204::Hawaiian Board of Education formed
18650204::Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
18660204::Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
18750204::Princess Louise marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belg
18800204::Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in NYC
18870204::Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
18880204::A Charlois discovers asteroid #272 Antonia
18950204::1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
18990204::Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
19030204::Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 & 1 tie
19040204::John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin
19080204::J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #1345 Potomac
19130204::Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
19130204::National Institute of Arts & Letters founded
19140204::US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
19150204::Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
19170204::Belgium Council of Flanders established
19190204::City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
19200204::1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1« months)
19220204::WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
19240204::1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
19240204::B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1017 Jacqueline
19240204::George Kelly's "Show-Off," premieres in NYC
19260204::Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
19270204::KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
19290204::Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
19290204::E Delporte discovers asteroid #1664 Felix
19300204::1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
19310204::National League adopts a deader baseball
19320204::3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
19320204::E Delporte discovers asteroid #1239 Queteleta
19320204::Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
19320204::L Volta discovers asteroid #1238 Predappia
19330204::-Feb 10] Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
19330204::German Pres Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
19340204::Reinmuth disc asteroids 2824 Franke, 3219 Komaki, 3370 Kohsai & 3404
19360204::1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
19370204::Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
19380204::"Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
19380204::Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
19390204::Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
19410204::British tanks occupy Maus Libya
19410204::Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
19410204::United Service Organization (USO) founded
19420204::Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
19430204::Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zrich
19440204::Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris
19440204::US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
19450204::FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta
19460204::Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in NYC
19480204::Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK
19490204::Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
19510204::US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
19510204::US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
19520204::1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)
19560204::AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
19570204::1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
19580204::"Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
19580204::Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
19590204::Israel begins exporting copper ore
19600204::BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
19600204::Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park
19600204::Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres
19610204::Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
19620204::"Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
19620204::Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
19620204::US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
19620204::US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
19640204::Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax
19640204::FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Okla City
19650204::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19660204::All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
19670204::"Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
19670204::US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
19680204::"Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances
19680204::Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
19690204::41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
19690204::Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman, as general cousel to Apple
19690204::John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders
19690204::Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in NYC
19690204::Yassar Arafats takes over as chairman of PLO
19700204::"Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances
19700204::"Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance
19700204::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19710204::Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
19710204::Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
19710204::British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
19710204::Govt exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
19710204::National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
19720204::6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
19720204::Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
19730204::"No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances
19730204::Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game
19730204::Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec)
19730204::Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
19740204::Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands
19740204::Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2« months
19740204::Gas rationing ends in Netherlands
19740204::Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
19760204::12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
19760204::7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
19760204::Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
19760204::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19770204::30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver
19770204::Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)
19770204::Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released
19770204::Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed"
19790204::"Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut & cancelled that outing on CBS
19790204::End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 yrs (WSC, SCG)
19790204::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
19800204::Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran
19800204::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
19820204::"Pump Boys & Dinettes" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 573 perfs
19820204::Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash
19820204::Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes," premieres in NYC
19820204::Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees
19830204::A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3324
19830204::Jos‚ Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium
19830204::US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
19840204::"9" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 739 performances
19840204::"Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
19840204::Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas
19850204::20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
19850204::Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
19860204::38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
19860204::Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
19870204::Pres Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
19870204::Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
19870204::Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
19880204::Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
19890204::Dean Jones scores 216 v WI at the Adelaide Oval
19890204::Elst discovers asteroid #4501 Eurypylos, #5127 Bruhns& #7083 Kant
19890204::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #5400 & #6125
19890204::T Seki discovers asteroids #5124 Muraoka & #6237 Chikushi
19900204::10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
19900204::Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
19900204::Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
19900204::Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
19900204::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21
19900204::Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
19900204::Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
19900204::St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
19910204::Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose
19910204::Martin Crowe & Andrew Jones make 467 stand v SL, world record
19910204::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #6724
19910204::T Fujii & K Watanabe discover asteroid #5192 Yabuki
19910204::US postage raises from 25› to 29›
19920204::T Hioki & S Hayakawa discover asteroid #5339
19930204::Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
19930204::Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
19930204::Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
19940204::10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
19940204::20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
19940204::Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
19940204::Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
19940204::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #6503, #7352 & #7598
19950204::Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
19950204::Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
19950204::Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
19960204::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13
19970204::73 Israelis die when army copters collide
19970204::Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals
19970204::OJ Simpson found libel in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson
19970204::Sec of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
19980204::Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
08160205::Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
14280205::King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
14880205::Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
15120205::French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
15560205::Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
15720205::Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out
15760205::Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
16310205::Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
16440205::1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
16490205::Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
16630205::Earthquake in Canada
16790205::German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
17360205::Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
17770205::Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
17780205::Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
17820205::Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
17830205::Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
17830205::Sweden recognizes US independence
17950205::Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud
18160205::Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome
18170205::1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
18250205::Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar
18310205::Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
18460205::"Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
18500205::Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
18550205::British govt of Palmerston forms
18610205::1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
18610205::Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila
18610205::Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
18640205::Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
18650205::Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
18700205::1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
18730205::C H F Peters discovers asteroid #129 Antigone
18770205::A Borrelly discovers asteroid #172 Baucis
18790205::Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
18810205::Phoenix, Az incorporates
18850205::News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
18870205::Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
18870205::Snow falls on SF
18930205::Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
18940205::Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
18970205::Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
19000205::British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
19010205::Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
19010205::Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
19040205::American occupation of Cuba ends
19070205::Arnold Sch”nberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
19110205::Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
19160205::Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co
19170205::Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
19170205::Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982)
19170205::Present Mexican constitution adopted
19180205::1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
19180205::Separation of church & state begins in USSR
19190205::NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers
19210205::Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
19220205::Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
19230205::General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
19230205::Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
19270205::Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed
19290205::Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF
19290205::K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1106 Cydonia, #1109 Tata & #1346 Gotha
19300205::5th Aliyah to Israel begins
19310205::Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
19320205::R Schorr discovers asteroid #1240 Centenaria
19320205::Reinmuth find asteroids 2897 Ole Romer, 3263, 3426 Seki & 6808 Plantin
19330205::Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary
19340205::Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2346 Lilio, #2444 Lederle, #2957 & #3707
19360205::National Wildlife Federation forms
19370205::1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released
19370205::FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
19380205::Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)
19400205::Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
19400205::Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
19410205::Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
19420205::"Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City
19420205::Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore
19430205::Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt
19430205::Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
19440205::358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin
19450205::Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
19450205::British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
19450205::US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
19470205::Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland
19480205::"Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time
19480205::Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion
19480205::Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
19490205::Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
19530205::"Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC
19530205::5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes wins
19540205::WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
19560205::7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
19560205::Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
19560205::NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
19570205::Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
19580205::Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
19580205::Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
19580205::Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI v Pakistan, Port-of-Spain
19580205::Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
19590205::"Redhead" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 455 performances
19590205::Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide
19620205::French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
19620205::Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed
19620205::Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16ø
19630205::Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
19630205::Soviet lunar probe failure
19650205::Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
19660205::BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
19670205::"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
19670205::Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua
19670205::Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
19680205::KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
19680205::Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m
19690205::"Turn-On," debuts & cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
19690205::US population reaches 200 million
19690205::Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins
19700205::1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six
19700205::Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban
19700205::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19700205::WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting
19710205::Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
19720205::"Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65
19720205::Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
19720205::US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
19730205::Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted
19730205::Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
19730205::Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
19740205::British mine strike
19740205::Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
19740205::Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
19740205::Patty Hearst kidnapped
19740205::US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
19760205::Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies
19760205::Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs & Ian Redpath
19770205::"CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67
19770205::"Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56
19770205::"In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40
19770205::"Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98
19770205::"Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91
19770205::General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio
19770205::Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight
19770205::US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
19770205::US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
19780205::Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
19790205::Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
19790205::Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS
19800205::32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit
19800205::Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
19810205::"Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances
19810205::Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane
19810205::Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
19820205::Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname
19820205::DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
19820205::Laker Airways collapse owing œ270M ($351M)
19820205::Suriname pres Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Neth
19830205::Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
19840205::NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
19840205::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
19840205::E Bowell discovers asteroid #3486 Fulchignoni, #3526 Jeffbell, #3590 Holst & #7636
19860205::Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
19860205::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #4938
19870205::Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
19870205::Soyuz TM-2 launches
19880205::1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan
19880205::Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham
19880205::Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs
19890205::Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
19890205::M Arai & H Mori discover asteroid #4262 & #7570
19900205::Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
19910205::A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
19910205::All American Bowl ends after 14 years
19910205::Big East Football conference forms
19910205::Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame
19910205::LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points
19910205::M Arai & H Mori discover asteroid #5746
19910205::T Hioki & S Hayakawa discover asteroid #5783 Kumagaya
19910205::Y Mizuno & T Furuta discover asteroid #5295 Masayo
19910205::Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl
19920205::Jury selection begins in the LA cops beating Rodney King case
19920205::K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #5603 Rausudake
19920205::Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar
19920205::Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India
19930205::Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160
19930205::R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
19940205::"Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
19940205::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #5925
19940205::Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime
19950205::Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
19950205::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13
19950205::P Sicoli & V Giuliani discover asteroid #6882 Sormano
19950205::Sandra V”lker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77
19970205::3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund
19970205::Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)
19980205::Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
19980205::Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minn Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
19980205::Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd)
03370206::St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
11890206::Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England
15080206::Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
15770206::King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots
16260206::Huguenot rebels & French sign Peace of La Rochelle
16510206::-7] Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris
16930206::Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
17160206::England & Netherlands renew alliance
17780206::England declares war on France
17780206::France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
17880206::Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
18150206::NJ issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens)
18190206::Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore
18200206::1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
18200206::US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
18320206::1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
18320206::US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
18360206::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
18400206::Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of NZ
18510206::Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dsseldorf
18540206::Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
18610206::1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
18610206::English Adm Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
18620206::Gen Ulysses S Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
18620206::Naval Engagement at Tenn River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
18620206::Ulysses S Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
18640206::-7] Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia
18650206::2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)
18650206::Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
18670206::Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
18690206::Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
18800206::J Palisa discovers asteroid #212 Medea
18850206::N R Pogson discovers asteroid #245 Vera
18910206::1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
18990206::Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
19000206::Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
19020206::Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
19040206::Russian-Japanese war began
19110206::1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz
19110206::Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
19160206::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #817 Annika
19180206::Britain grants women (30 & over) vote
19190206::1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
19200206::Saarland administrated by League of Nations
19210206::"The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
19220206::Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
19220206::US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
19260206::NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
19260206::St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees
19290206::Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night"
19320206::1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
19320206::Fascist coup in the Memel territory
19320206::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #1219 Britta
19330206::-90øF (-68øC), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
19330206::112' ocean wave observed near Manila
19330206::20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
19330206::20th amendment (terms of office) passed
19330206::Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
19330206::Pres von Hindenburg & von Papen end Prussian parliament
19340206::Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
19350206::"Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time
19350206::1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
19360206::4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
19360206::Pravda criticizes Shostakovitch' ballet "Clear Brook"
19370206::K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
19380206::A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #2350 von Lude
19380206::Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1462 Zamenhof, #1463 Nordenmarkia, #1477 Bonsdorffia & #1478 Vihuri
19390206::Spanish govt flees to France
19410206::Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
19410206::Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
19410206::British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
19420206::Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2479 Sodankyla
19430206::1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
19430206::Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"
19450206::8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz
19450206::Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
19460206::"Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances
19470206::Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket
19480206::1st radio-controlled airplane flown
19480206::Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia
19480206::KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
19510206::"Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
19510206::Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into
19510206::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
19520206::England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
19530206::Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 yrs 239 days, youngest Aussie
19530206::US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted
19560206::Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
19560206::French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
19560206::U of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
19580206::7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
19580206::Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
19590206::1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM
19590206::Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
19610206::"Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
19610206::KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
19620206::Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
19640206::"Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances
19640206::France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
19640206::WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
19650206::"Kelly" opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC
19650206::Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1
19670206::Cultural Revolution in Albania
19670206::Heavyweight Cassius Clay beats Ernie Terrell in Houston
19670206::Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
19670206::P Wild discovers asteroid #1803 Zwicky & #3021
19680206::10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France
19680206::Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam
19680206::Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
19680206::KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
19680206::L Chernykh discovers asteroids #1772 Gagarin & #1890 Konoshenkova
19690206::"Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances
19690206::Jerry Herman's "Dear World," premieres in NYC
19700206::Graeme Pollock completes 274 v Australia at Durban
19700206::NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston & Portland
19710206::1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard)
19730206::"Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 31 performances
19730206::40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution
19730206::6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah
19730206::Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm
19730206::P Wild discovers asteroid #2033 Basilea
19740206::3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
19740206::Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
19740206::US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
19750206::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19760206::George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"
19770206::4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
19770206::Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris
19770206::Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ
19780206::Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
19780206::Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3301
19780206::Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54" (137cm))
19790206::Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto
19810206::"Brady Brides," debuts on NBC TV
19810206::Beatles McCartney, Starr & Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon
19810206::E Bowell discovers asteroid #6363 Doggett
19810206::N Thomas discovers asteroids #2779 Mary, #2999 Dante & #3352 McAuliffe
19810206::Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4)
19820206::"Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart
19830206::13th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-19
19830206::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
19840206::E Bowell discovers asteroids #3316 Herzberg, 3506 French & 5553 Chodas
19840206::Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
19860206::NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
19870206::No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
19870206::US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
19880206::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19890206::E F Helin discovers asteroid #5062 & #5208 Royer
19890206::Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish govt
19890206::M Koishikawa discovers asteroid #8084
19900206::Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
19900206::Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
19900206::Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards!
19910206::Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-NJ Knights
19920206::"Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall" on NBC
19930206::44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal
19930206::Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
19940206::"Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 perfs
19940206::Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
19940206::Jos‚ Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica
19940206::Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m
19940206::Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland
19940206::NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3
19950206::Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter
19950206::Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days
19950206::Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket
19960206::Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
19970206::Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm
19980206::Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to NY Yankees for $3M & 4 minor leaguers
19980206::Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7« years
13010207::Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales
15220207::Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches
15500207::Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
15690207::King Philip II forms inquistion in South America
16130207::Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia
16390207::Acad‚mie Fran‡aise begins Dictionary of French Language
16530207::Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France
16680207::Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"
17920207::Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
17920207::D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna
17950207::11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
17950207::Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
18120207::8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
18120207::Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
18180207::1st successful US educational magazine "Academician," begins (NYC)
18270207::Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
18310207::Belgium adopts it's Constitution
18360207::"Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
18390207::Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
18620207::Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC
18640207::Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
18720207::Alcorn A & M College opens
18760207::Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
18770207::1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC)
18780207::J Palisa discovers asteroid #182 Elsa
18810207::Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces
18820207::Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
18830207::Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
18840207::Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
18890207::Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
18910207::Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
18960207::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #415 Palatia
19000207::British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal
19000207::Labour Party forms in England
19010207::Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
19030207::VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo
19040207::Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
19050207::Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
19050207::Oklahoma admitted to statehood
19080207::Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
19100207::Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler," premieres in Paris
19120207::2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
19130207::J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #739 Mandeville
19140207::Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
19140207::Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF
19150207::1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
19150207::2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
19190207::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #909 Ulla
19220207::John Willard's "Cat & the Canary," premieres in NYC
19240207::Mussolini govt exchanges diplomats with USSR
19270207::O Oikawa discovers asteroid #1584 Fuji
19280207::1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
19310207::US opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera NYC
19330207::Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
19330207::Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead
19340207::1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
19350207::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1720 Niels
19350207::Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
19350207::S Arend discovers asteroid #2084 Okayama
19360207::A flag is authorized for Vice President
19360207::Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer
19380207::K Reinmuth finds asteroid #1481 Tubingia, #1674 Neveld & #2022 West
19400207::British railroads nationalized
19400207::Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres (NYC)
19410207::Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey Orch record "Everything Happens to Me"
19420207::1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
19430207::Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
19440207::Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records
19440207::Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
19450207::General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
19450207::Pres Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
19450207::US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
19460207::Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
19470207::Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
19480207::"Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 perfs
19480207::Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
19490207::Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees)
19500207::Georges Bidault forms French govt
19500207::Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
19500207::US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime
19560207::Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
19580207::1st showing of DAF 600 auto
19580207::Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
19580207::Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
19590207::"Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
19590207::Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
19590207::Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
19590207::Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
19600207::Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
19610207::Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
19620207::Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
19620207::President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
19620207::Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational
19640207::Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
19640207::Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
19640207::Cassius Clay becomes a black Moslem
19640207::Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres
19650207::Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
19650207::George Harrison has his tonsils removed
19650207::Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
19650207::US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
19650207::WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
19660207::KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
19680207::Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in NYC
19680207::Belgium govt of Vanden Boeynants falls
19680207::WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
19690207::"This Is Tom Jones," debuts on ABC TV
19690207::Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
19690207::Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
19700207::"Hollywood Palace," last airs on ABC TV
19700207::"Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies
19700207::LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause
19700207::US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
19700207::US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
19710207::Swiss men accept female suffrage
19730207::1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
19730207::Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
19740207::Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
19740207::Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
19750207::NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
19760207::Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game
19760207::FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Bkln NY)
19760207::Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9
19760207::World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
19770207::Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
19780207::Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
19790207::"Supertrain," TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
19790207::Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds pres Boum‚dienne in Algeria
19790207::Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur
19790207::Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles
19790207::Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals)
19820207::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
19820207::Luis A Monge elected pres of Costa Rica
19830207::1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
19840207::Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US)
19840207::David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time
19840207::Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
19850207::"New York, New York" became the official anthem of NYC
19850207::Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5¬"
19850207::NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
19860207::US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
19860207::Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti
19860207::Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
19870207::"Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
19870207::Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US
19870207::Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1
19870207::US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
19880207::38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago
19880207::Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
19880207::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6
19880207::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
19880207::R Rajamohan discovers asteroid #7564
19890207::40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton
19890207::A Takahashi & K Watanabe discover asteroid #4795 Kihara
19890207::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #8085
19890207::K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #5557 Chimikeppuko
19890207::Tennis superstar Bj”rn B”rg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan
19900207::Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
19900207::USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
19900207::Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood Calif scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
19910207::Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president
19910207::T Seki discovers asteroid #6449 & #7125
19910207::Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame
19920207::Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial
19920207::Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA
19930207::NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20
19930207::Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed
19930207::Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
19940207::21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins
19940207::A Vagnozzi discovers asteroid #7782
19940207::E W Elst discovers asteroid #8203
19940207::Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
19940207::Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant
19940207::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #5924 Teruo & #6422
19950207::Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch & Mike Gatting
19970207::US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21
19980207::18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan
19980207::NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7
04210208::Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman emp
15260208::Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
15750208::University of Leiden Neth opens
16000208::Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
16010208::Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London
16220208::King James I disbands the English parliament
16720208::Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
16900208::French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire
16900208::Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
16930208::William & Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US
17350208::1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC
17430208::Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
17440208::French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
17500208::Minor earthquake in London
17750208::Leidse U 400th anniversary dinner
17760208::Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg
18020208::Simon Willard patents banjo clock
18070208::Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
18090208::Franz I of Austria declares war on France
18370208::1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
18560208::J Chacornac discovers asteroid #39 Laetitia
18610208::Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
18620208::Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
18620208::Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London
18650208::1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
18780208::J Palisa discovers asteroid #183 Istria
18830208::Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen
18870208::Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club
18870208::Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
18890208::A Charlois discovers asteroid #283 Emma
18890208::Flood ravages Dutch coast
18940208::Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
18950208::Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg
18960208::Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris
18960208::Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf
18980208::John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
19040208::Russo-Japanese War begins
19050208::Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
19070208::J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #636 Erika
19080208::Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth
19090208::France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
19100208::Boy Scouts of America incorporated & chartered (William D Boyce-Chic)
19110208::US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras
19110208::Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in NYC
19120208::1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
19140208::General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
19150208::"Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
19160208::French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
19160208::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #816 Juliana
19160208::NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25› seats
19180208::"Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
19200208::Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
19210208::A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #947 Monterosa
19220208::Radio arrives at the White House
19230208::Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
19230208::German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
19240208::1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic
19250208::Kaufman & Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in NYC
19250208::Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
19260208::German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
19260208::Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
19260208::Walt Disney Studios forms
19270208::Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
19270208::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1154 Astronomia
19280208::1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY
19280208::Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
19290208::KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
19300208::"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
19310208::Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
19330208::-23øF (-31øC), Seminole, Texas (state record)
19330208::1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
19340208::Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
19340208::Gaston Doumergue forms new French govt
19350208::S Arend discovers asteroid #3228 Pire
19350208::1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL
19360208::1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger
19360208::1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn
19360208::1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
19360208::Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
19370208::Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in NYC
19400208::Lewis & Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in NYC
19400208::Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
19410208::Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
19410208::NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
19420208::Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles
19420208::Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
19430208::Red Army recaptures Kursk
19440208::1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
19440208::U-762 sunk off Ireland
19450208::Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
19460208::B‚la Bart•ks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Phila
19460208::Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
19470208::Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
19470208::KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
19480208::5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
19490208::Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
19520208::"RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV
19530208::Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
19530208::WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
19550208::Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
19560208::Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
19570208::SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
19580208::Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
19580208::French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
19580208::KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19600208::Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
19600208::Congress opens hearings looking into payola
19620208::KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
19620208::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19630208::1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
19630208::AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
19630208::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19640208::Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London
19640208::Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
19650208::Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
19650208::Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
19670208::Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
19670208::Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
19670208::Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
19670208::T M Smirnova discovers asteroid #3962 Valyaev
19670208::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19680208::Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
19690208::Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
19690208::Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, M‚xico
19710208::Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
19710208::South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
19720208::Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
19730208::Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in NYC
19730208::Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket v NZ
19730208::Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
19740208::"Good Times," debuts on CBS TV
19740208::Ringo releases "You're 16"
19740208::Skylab 4's astronauts land
19740208::Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
19750208::1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
19750208::Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
19760208::Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR
19760208::Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic
19760208::Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
19770208::Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
19770208::Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced due to
19780208::Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
19790208::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19810208::"5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 perfs
19810208::"Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
19810208::N G Thomas discovers asteroids #2556 Louise & #2764 Moeller
19810208::Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
19810208::US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
19810208::US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
19820208::Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)
19830208::35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at NY Islander
19830208::Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino
19830208::Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
19830208::T Seki discovers asteroid #2880 Nihondaira
19830208::Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in NYC
19830208::Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
19830208::Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
19840208::14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
19840208::1st time 8 people in space
19840208::A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
19840208::Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
19840208::E Bowell discovers asteroid #3031 Houston, #3032 Evans, #3065 Sarahill, #3315 Chant, #3354 McNair, #3355 Onizuka & #3857 Cellino
19850208::1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
19850208::Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5¬" basketball shot
19850208::Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
19850208::Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
19860208::5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
19860208::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #5842
19860208::S Inoda & T Urata discover asteroid #3950 & #6233
19860208::US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
19870208::37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
19870208::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
19880208::NASA launches DOD-2
19880208::T Seki discovers asteroid #4101 Ruikou
19890208::5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
19890208::J M Baur discovers asteroid #4637 Odorico
19890208::Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
19890208::US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
19900208::David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London
19900208::"60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
19910208::K Suzuki & T Urata discover asteroid #6448
19910208::M Akiyama & T Furuta discover asteroid #5334 Mishima
19910208::Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
19920208::"I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
19920208::16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France
19920208::K Birkle & K Hoppe discover asteroid #5879
19920208::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #6732
19920208::T Seki discovers asteroid #6971
19920208::Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
19930208::Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
19930208::GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
19940208::Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
19940208::K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #7305, #7435 & #7436
19940208::Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
19940208::M”tley Cre drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
19950208::6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
19950208::M Koishikawa discovers asteroid #6349
19960208::NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the Browns' name behind
19980208::1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
19980208::48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC
19980208::NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics
12670209::Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
14990209::France & Venice sign treaty against Milan
15370209::Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England
15400209::The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)
15540209::Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated
15740209::Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht
16210209::Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
16670209::Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty
16740209::English reconquer NY from Netherlands
16820209::Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London
17420209::British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford
17440209::Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
17750209::English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion
17880209::Austria declares war on Russia
17990209::USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
18010209::France & Austrian sign Peace of Lun‚ville
18070209::French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
18220209::American Indian Society organizes
18250209::House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
18490209::Roman Republic declared
18610209::Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA
18610209::Tennessee votes against secession
18610209::Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
18630209::Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
18670209::Nebraska becomes 37th US state
18700209::US Army establishes US National Weather Service
18710209::Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
18820209::J Palisa discovers asteroid #222 Lucia
18850209::1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
18860209::Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
18910209::1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
18930209::Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
18930209::Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
18950209::1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
18950209::Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
19000209::Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
19040209::Japan declares war on Russia
19050209::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #558 Carmen
19060209::Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
19090209::1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
19090209::1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
19120209::J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #729 Watsonia
19120209::S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #849 Ara
19120209::US Tennis Assn amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
19130209::-18] 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
19160209::Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
19160209::NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20)
19170209::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #863 Benkoela
19180209::Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va
19180209::Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris
19200209::International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
19200209::Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs
19220209::Italian govt of Bonomi falls
19220209::Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
19230209::Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
19240209::Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
19250209::German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
19250209::Haifa Technion (Israel), opens
19260209::Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
19290209::USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
19320209::America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
19320209::US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
19330209::-63øF (-53øC), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
19340209::-14.3øF (-25.7øC), coldest day in New York City
19340209::-51øF (-46øC), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
19340209::Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
19350209::US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
19350209::US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
19390209::Belgian Spaak govt falls
19400209::Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
19410209::British troops conquer El Agheila
19410209::Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish caf‚ Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
19420209::Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
19420209::Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
19420209::Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
19430209::FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
19430209::German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp
19430209::Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
19430209::NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears
19430209::Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
19440209::U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland
19450209::-Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
19450209::WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
19460209::Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
19470209::Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Phila
19480209::WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
19500209::Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
19510209::St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45
19530209::"Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
19530209::WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
19530209::General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA
19540209::Mario Scelba forms new govt in Italy
19550209::Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
19550209::US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
19560209::-5øF (15øC) in Sicily
19560209::KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
19560209::R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
19590209::Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2
19600209::AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
19610209::Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo
19620209::Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
19620209::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19630209::1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
19630209::7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
19640209::1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
19640209::9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
19640209::GI Joe character created
19640209::Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
19640209::NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
19660209::Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
19680209::Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix
19690209::Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight
19690209::KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
19690209::World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
19710209::Apollo 14 returns to Earth
19710209::Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family
19710209::Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 & causes over $«B damage
19710209::Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
19720209::Brit Govt declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
19740209::"Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
19740209::"The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
19740209::US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
19740209::US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
19750209::L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #1963 Bezovec
19750209::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
19750209::Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
19760209::Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame
19790209::21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey
19790209::ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
19790209::Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
19790209::Nigeria amends constitution
19800209::Harvard Observatory discovers asteroid #5090 Wyeth
19800209::Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game
19810209::L Brozek discovers asteroid #2622 Bolzano & #3423
19810209::T Seki discovers asteroid #2396 Kochi & #2621 Goto
19820209::34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington
19830209::Belgium buys 44 F-16s
19840209::"Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 204 performances
19850209::Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
19860209::36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas
19860209::Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
19860209::Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
19860209::Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
19860209::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
19860209::Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
19860209::West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
19870209::Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
19870209::NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
19880209::39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St Louis
19880209::NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991)
19890209::Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
19890209::Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
19900209::"Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
19900209::Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
19900209::Galileo flies by Venus
19900209::Namibia's constitution ratified
19910209::"This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46
19910209::A Natori & T Urata discover asteroid #5784
19910209::C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #5967 Edithlevy
19910209::Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)
19910209::Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice & beats him
19910209::US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
19910209::Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration
19920209::"2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 perfs
19920209::42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando
19920209::Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ
19920209::Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
19920209::Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
19920209::K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #6052 Junichi
19920209::NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113
19920209::Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary
19930209::Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
19940209::Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
19950209::"Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
19950209::Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
19950209::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #8303
19960209::Stroncone discovers asteroid #7714
19960209::WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM
19970209::11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds
19970209::47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland
19970209::Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
19970209::LG Senior Golf Championship
19970209::Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational
19970209::Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am
19970209::Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games
19970209::Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
19980209::6th annual ESPY Awards
19980209::Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze
20020209::XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City Utah/Quebec City
00600210::St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
10980210::Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
15350210::12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
15490210::Tom‚ de Sousa appointed gov-gen of Brazil
16350210::Acad‚mie Fran‡aise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
16760210::Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
17130210::Neth & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
17160210::Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
17200210::Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
17460210::English Pelham govt resigns
17490210::10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
17630210::Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England
17740210::Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
17940210::Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
18070210::US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
18240210::Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
18400210::British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
18460210::Beginning of Mormon march to west US
18460210::British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
18550210::US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
18590210::Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
18600210::John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
18610210::A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #63 Ausonia (son of Odysseus)
18620210::Dutch 2nd govt of Thorbecke forms
18630210::1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
18630210::PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (NYC)
18660210::Dutch govt Frans van der Putte forms
18680210::Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
18700210::City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
18700210::YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
18780210::Peace of Zanj¢n
18780210::Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
18790210::1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
18790210::Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
18800210::Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
18810210::Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris
18820210::Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St Petersburg
18830210::Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisc, kills 71
18900210::Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
18970210::NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
18990210::-39øF (-39øC), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
18990210::US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam
19000210::Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec)
19040210::Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
19060210::Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
19060210::State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
19070210::A Kopff discovers asteroid #624 Hektor
19080210::Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
19120210::Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
19130210::Edward Sheldons "Romance," premieres in NYC
19130210::J H Metcalf discovers asteroids #740 Cantabia & #741 Botolphia
19160210::Conscription begins in Britain
19170210::Johanna Westerdijk installed as Neth 1st female professor
19200210::Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
19230210::Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
19230210::Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in NYC
19230210::SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
19240210::Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Wash Senators)
19250210::1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind
19250210::AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
19260210::Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
19270210::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #933 Susi
19270210::Pres Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
19300210::Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
19310210::G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #3211
19310210::New Delhi becomes capital of India
19310210::Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in NYC
19330210::-54øF (-48øC), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
19330210::Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
19330210::Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
19330210::Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
19330210::Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
19340210::1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
19340210::Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
19340210::E Delporte discovers asteroid #1698 Christophe
19340210::G Reiss discovers asteroid #1300 Marcelle
19340210::Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in NYC
19340210::Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
19340210::Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC
19350210::1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
19350210::Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive
19370210::Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2)
19380210::King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
19400210::"In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
19400210::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1528 Conrada
19400210::Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
19400210::US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
19400210::US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
19410210::1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
19410210::Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
19420210::Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
19430210::"Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
19430210::8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
19430210::Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
19440210::Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
19440210::U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland
19450210::"Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
19460210::1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
19470210::Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
19470210::Netherlands Radio Union forms
19470210::Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
19470210::WW II peace treaties signed
19480210::Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
19490210::Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
19510210::"John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
19510210::Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
19530210::Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood & Demmy GRB
19530210::Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of GRB
19530210::Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
19530210::Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA
19540210::Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
19540210::Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy GRB
19540210::Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN
19540210::Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER
19540210::Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US
19560210::"My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
19560210::Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA
19570210::Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
19570210::Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
19590210::Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
19590210::Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
19600210::"Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 perfs
19600210::Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres
19610210::AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego
19610210::Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
19610210::Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres
19620210::Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
19620210::USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
19630210::Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
19630210::US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
19630210::US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz
19640210::Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
19640210::WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
19640210::Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
19660210::Harmel govt in Belgium resigns
19670210::25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
19680210::"Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
19680210::Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
19690210::LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94
19700210::26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
19700210::Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
19710210::American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY
19710210::Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
19710210::John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in NYC
19710210::Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
19720210::BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
19720210::Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates
19720210::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19730210::2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
19730210::83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
19730210::Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 v NZ Dunedin
19740210::"Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
19740210::Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
19740210::Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
19740210::Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
19740210::Silver futures hit record $4.81« an ounce in London
19750210::William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
19770210::"Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 perfs
19770210::Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro
19770210::Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born
19770210::Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976)
19780210::Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
19790210::"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
19790210::Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
19800210::Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly," premieres in NYC
19800210::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
19810210::33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA
19810210::8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
19810210::Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249
19820210::28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Qu‚bec
19830210::Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
19850210::... Sch"ne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
19850210::35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana
19850210::Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
19850210::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #4479 & #5764
19850210::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
19850210::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19860210::"John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released
19870210::Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
19880210::Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
19880210::T Kojima discovers asteroid #4576
19880210::3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
19890210::Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame
19890210::M Iwamoto & T Furuta discover asteroid #5581 Mitsuko
19890210::Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
19890210::Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
19890210::Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
19890210::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #5125 Okushiri
19890210::Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
19890210::Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
19890210::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19890210::To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
19900210::6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
19900210::Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
19900210::Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
19900210::S Afr Pres de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
19900210::US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
19910210::"La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 24 performances
19910210::41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte
19910210::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
19910210::C S & E M Shoemaker & D H Levy discover asteroid #6398 Timhunter
19910210::Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54)
19910210::Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
19910210::NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC
19910210::R H McNaught discovers asteroid #5747 & #6322
19920210::"Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
19920210::Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
19920210::Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
19920210::N Kawasato discovers asteroid #5752
19930210::Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
19930210::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #7302
19930210::US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
19930210::"Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
19950210::Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
19950210::Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
19950210::US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
19960210::IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Gary Kasparov
19970210::13th Soap Opera Digest Awards
19970210::5th annual ESPY Awards presented
19970210::Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
19970210::O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages
19970210::Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
19970210::Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991
19980210::AOL raises monthly flat rate internet access from $19.95 to $21.95
19980210::Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
03850211::Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
08240211::St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
15310211::Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
15430211::Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
15430211::Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
15730211::1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
15750211::King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
16380211::Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode
17200211::Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
17520211::Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened
17660211::Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
17680211::Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
17900211::Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
17930211::Prussian troops occupy Venlo Neth
17940211::1st session of US Senate open to the public
18080211::Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
18090211::Robert Fulton patents steamboat
18100211::Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
18110211::Pres Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
18120211::Mass Gov Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander"
18140211::Norway's independence proclaimed
18260211::London University founded
18370211::American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
18400211::Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
18430211::Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
18510211::1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston
18520211::1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
18540211::Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
18580211::1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
18610211::President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Wash DC
18610211::US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
18730211::Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
18780211::1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
18780211::1st weekly Weather report published in UK
18890211::Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
18930211::A Charlois discovers asteroid #357 Ninina
18940211::F Courty discovers asteroid #384 Burdigala
18950211::-17øF (-27.2øC) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
18950211::Georgetown became part of Wash DC
18960211::Oscar Wildes "Salom‚," premieres in Paris
18970211::White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
18980211::Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
18990211::-15øF (-26øC), Washington, DC (district record)
18990211::-61øF, Montana (record low temperature)
19020211::Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
19030211::Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
19050211::James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299«-last pin breaks but stands
19050211::Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
19070211::A Kopff discovers asteroids #625 Xenia & #626 Notburga
19070211::De Master's Dutch govt resigns
19070211::Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
19080211::Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
19080211::Heemskerk's govt begins in Holland
19120211::A Massinger discovers asteroid #727 Nipponia
19160211::Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
19160211::Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
19190211::Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
19210211::Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC
19210211::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #946 Poesia
19220211::"April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1
19220211::US intervention army leaves Honduras
19260211::Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ
19270211::B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1181 Lilith
19270211::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1111 Reinmuthia
19270211::US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
19270211::US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
19280211::2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
19290211::Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in NYC
19290211::Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
19310211::L Volta discovers asteroid #1191 Alfaterna
19320211::73øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
19320211::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1220 Crocus
19350211::-11øF (-24øC), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
19350211::1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY
19360211::Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay
19370211::44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends
19380211::Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ
19410211::1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)
19410211::Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
19410211::Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
19420211::"Archie" comic book debuts
19420211::L Oterma discovers asteroid #2827 Vellamo & #6886 Grote
19430211::General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
19430211::Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19440211::German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy
19440211::U-424 sunk off Ireland
19450211::1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
19450211::Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin
19480211::Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140
19480211::John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
19480211::Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, v England Port-of-Spain
19490211::Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
19500211::"Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1
19500211::L Boyer discovers asteroid #1598 Paloque
19510211::Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
19530211::"Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances
19530211::J Styne/B Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in NYC
19530211::Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
19530211::Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
19540211::6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden wins
19570211::KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
19570211::NHL Players Assn forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
19580211::1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY
19580211::Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs
19580211::Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st Afr-American woman hired as flight attendant
19580211::WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
19590211::Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
19600211::Jack Paar walks off his TV show
19610211::Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
19610211::Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
19620211::Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
19630211::Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
19630211::CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!)
19640211::Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum
19640211::Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
19640211::Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
19650211::Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
19650211::Braves propose to pay 5› from each ticket to bring a new team to Milw
19660211::SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
19680211::Israeli-Jordan border fight
19680211::Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY
19680211::Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (NYC)
19690211::Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
19690211::Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
19700211::26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec)
19700211::Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
19700211::John Lennon pays œ1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland
19710211::Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
19710211::US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
19730211::1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ
19730211::1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
19730211::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic
19730211::Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
19740211::Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule
19740211::Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
19740211::1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000
19750211::Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
19760211::Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
19770211::20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
19770211::E Bowell & C T Kowal discover asteroid #3924 Birch
19770211::Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3578
19780211::16 Unification church couples wed in NYC
19780211::25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
19780211::China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
19780211::EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
19790211::"They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial NYC for 1082 perfs
19790211::43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
19790211::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
19790211::Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
19790211::Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in NYC
19800211::E Bowell discovers asteroid #2542 Calpurnia
19810211::Australia all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win
19810211::Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
19820211::Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
19830211::"Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP
19830211::4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
19830211::C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #5317 Verolacqua
19830211::H Debehogne & G DeSanctis discover asteroid #4931 Tomsk
19830211::N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3117 Niepce, 4198 Panthera & #4967 Glia
19830211::T Seki discovers asteroid #3150 Tosa
19830211::E Bowell discovers asteroid 2875 Lagerkvist, 3116 Goodricke, 3594 Scotti, #4764 Joneberhart & #5200 Pamal
19840211::10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
19840211::Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
19850211::Copenhagen Observatory discovers asteroid #5165
19850211::Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
19850211::Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minn Twins
19850211::Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins
19860211::Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
19860211::Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
19860211::Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
19870211::British Airways begins trading stocks
19870211::England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
19870211::Philippines constitution goes into effect
19870211::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19880211::Anthony M Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
19880211::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #5205
19880211::E F Helin discovers asteroid #4344 Buxtehude, #4345 Rachmaninoff, #4825 Ventura, #5204 Herakleitos, #6001 Thales, #6186 Zenon, #6294 Czerny, #6295 Schmoll, #7012 Hobbes
19890211::Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
19890211::E Elst discovers asteroid 5870 Baltimore, 5871 Bobbell & #5905 Johnson
19890211::US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
19900211::40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
19900211::James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
19900211::Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
19900211::US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
19910211::Otomo & Muramatsu discover asteroid #5829 Ishidagoro & #6860 Sims
19910211::UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth
19920211::F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Neth (No deaths)
19920211::Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
19930211::Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY (WRQI)
19930211::Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
19930211::Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General
19940211::K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #8202
19940211::Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
19940211::Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
19950211::Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
19950211::Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
19950211::Sandra V”lker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
19950211::Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
19950211::US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
19950211::West Indies score 5-660 against NZ
19960211::46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio
19970211::Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets
19970211::STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches
19980211::KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
19980211::Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500
10490212::Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
11110212::German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
11300212::Pope Innocent II elected
15020212::Granada] Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
15280212::Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
15410212::Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24)
15770212::Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
16240212::English parliament comes together
17090212::Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe")
17330212::Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
17360212::Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor Fran‡ois I)
17620212::English fleet occupies Martinique
17630212::John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
17720212::Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
17930212::1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
17970212::Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna
18180212::Chile gains independence from Spain
18210212::Mercantile Library of City of NY opens
18250212::Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
18320212::Ecuador annexes Gal pagos Islands
18390212::Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick
18400212::Housatonic Railroad opens
18480212::Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan
18500212::Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
18610212::State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK
18650212::Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps
18700212::Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
18730212::Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
18740212::King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit US
18760212::Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop
18770212::1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass
18770212::US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
18780212::Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
18790212::1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC)
18790212::News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
18800212::National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
18820212::Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
18850212::Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society
18860212::2nd British govt of Salisbury forms
18890212::C‚sar Francks Symphony in D, premieres
18890212::Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo
18910212::E Millosevich discovers asteroid #303 Josephina
18990212::-47øF (-44øC), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record)
18990212::1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, MSG, NYC
19010212::Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
19020212::L Carnera discovers asteroid #481 Emita
19060212::George Cohans musical "George Washington," premieres in NYC
19080212::Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
19080212::NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
19090212::National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
19090212::Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
19090212::Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
19120212::China adopts Gregorian calendar
19120212::Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates
19150212::Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC
19160212::1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps"
19200212::-Apr 26] 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike
19200212::NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
19210212::Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
19210212::Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
19240212::George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (NYC)
19240212::George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback," premieres in NYC
19240212::President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
19250212::1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
19250212::E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
19250212::Estonia forbids communist Party
19260212::Barendrecht soccer team forms
19260212::S Belyavskij discovers asteroids #1084 Tamariwa & #1094 Siberia
19270212::British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
19290212::Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30)
19290212::P Bourgeois discovers asteroid #1547 Nele
19320212::Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
19330212::German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
19340212::Export-Import Bank incorporates
19340212::France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
19350212::Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
19360212::E Delporte discovers asteroid #2101 Adonis
19370212::Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
19370212::L Boyer discovers asteroids #1413 Roucarie & #1414 Jerome
19380212::Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
19380212::German troops entered Austria
19390212::Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1541 Estonia
19410212::Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
19410212::Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
19420212::3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
19420212::L Oterma discovers asteroids #1680 Per Brahe & #2846 Ylppo
19430212::General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
19440212::Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
19450212::SF selected for site of UN Conference
19470212::Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
19470212::Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
19480212::1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
19490212::"Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs
19490212::Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
19490212::Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
19490212::Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
19500212::Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
19500212::Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist govt employees
19530212::USSR breaks relations with Israel
19550212::McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
19550212::Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
19550212::Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
19550212::WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
19560212::Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open
19570212::Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
19580212::Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101
19580212::Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala
19600212::Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
19610212::Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125
19610212::Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
19610212::Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 yrs 82 days
19610212::USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
19620212::Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
19630212::Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron
19640212::Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
19640212::End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career
19640212::US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
19640212::US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
19650212::KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
19650212::Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
19670212::Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater
19670212::Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
19670212::Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
19700212::Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth," premieres in NYC
19710212::Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England
19730212::1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine
19760212::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19770212::Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
19780212::"Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs
19780212::Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
19780212::US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
19780212::US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
19790212::Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
19800212::"Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances
19800212::NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets
19800212::Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117
19810212::Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
19810212::Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent
19810212::Cape Verde amends its constitution
19810212::Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m
19820212::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19820212::Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record
19830212::H Debehogne & G DeSanctis discover asteroid #6509 & #7922
19840212::Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
19840212::Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH
19840212::Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics
19840212::West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality & gold medal
19850212::37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary
19850212::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #4202, #5669, #6117 & #6290
19850212::West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup
19850212::C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3985 Raybatson, #4031 Mueller, #4083 Jody & #6084
19860212::1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana
19860212::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #6177, #6693 & #6853
19870212::Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
19890212::39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston
19890212::5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
19890212::50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry
19890212::Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
19890212::Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
19890212::Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
19890212::US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
19910212::E W Elst discovers asteroid #6519 Giono
19910212::Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
19910212::North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
19920212::S Otomo discovers asteroid #6866
19930212::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #6663
19940212::17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
19940212::20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
19940212::Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo)
19940212::Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
19940212::Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
19950212::45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix
19950212::Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly
19950212::Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
19950212::Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51)
19950212::Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
19950212::Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15)
19950212::PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
19950212::Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
19950212::Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
19960212::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #7612
19970212::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #7682
19970212::Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
19980212::"Freak," opens at Cort Theater NYC
19980212::250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
19980212::Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach
19980212::Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740
19980212::US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
11300213::Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
13490213::Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
15100213::Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal
15450213::Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
15660213::St Augustine, Florida founded
16010213::John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
16330213::Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
16350213::Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
16510213::Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo
16680213::Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognizes Portugal
16780213::Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
16890213::British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
16920213::MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III
16930213::College of William & Mary opens
17060213::Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen
17410213::Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine)
17550213::Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java
17770213::de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
17820213::French fleet occupies St Christopher
17860213::Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
17950213::1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
17990213::1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
18090213::French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
18160213::-14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
18260213::American Temperance Society, forms in Boston
18320213::1st appearance of cholera at London
18370213::Riot in NY over high price of flour
18580213::Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
18600213::King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
18610213::1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ
18610213::Abraham Lincoln declared president
18610213::Col Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians
18620213::-Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN
18640213::Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi
18660213::Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
18670213::Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
18860213::Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
18950213::Moving picture projector patented
18990213::-16øF (-27øC), Minden Louisiana (state record)
18990213::-1øF (-18øC) New Orleans, La
18990213::-2øF (-19øC) Tallahassee, Florida (state record)
19010213::Max Wolf discovers asteroids #473 Nolli & #474 Prudentia
19050213::-29øF (-34øC) Pond, Arkansas (state record)
19050213::-40øF (-40øC) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)
19050213::-40øF (-40øC) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
19070213::English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
19120213::England regains cricket's Ashes
19140213::American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
19200213::National Negro Baseball League organizes
19200213::League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
19200213::Switzerland rejoin League of Nations
19230213::1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes
19240213::King Tut's tomb opened
19250213::US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult
19270213::Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated
19290213::Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier
19290213::Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow
19320213::"Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang"
19340213::Austrian Dollfuss govt bans socialistic party
19350213::1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
19350213::Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant
19350213::H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1342 Brabantia, #1353 Maartje & #2378
19370213::"Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
19370213::Bradman scores 123 SA v Queensland, 165 mins, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket
19370213::Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
19370213::NFL Boston Redskins move to Wash DC
19370213::US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
19370213::US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
19390213::A Wachmann discovers asteroid #1586 Thiele
19400213::Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Aust at the WACA
19410213::Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
19420213::Hitler's Operation Seel”we (invasion of England) cancelled
19430213::German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, Gen Eisenhower visits front
19430213::Women's Marine Corps created
19450213::Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die
19450213::Gerbrandy British govt refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
19450213::USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die
19460213::"Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 5 performances
19480213::Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in only Test Cricket innings
19480213::Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy & Baugniet of BEL
19480213::Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA
19480213::Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
19520213::Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win
19530213::A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium
19540213::Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95
19550213::Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
19550213::KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
19550213::Patty Berg wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
19560213::KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
19570213::Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
19590213::Barbie doll goes on sale
19590213::Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
19600213::"Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 perfs
19600213::"Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
19600213::France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
19610213::Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records
19610213::Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
19650213::Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title
19650213::US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
19650213::US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
19660213::Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #5217 & #5267
19660213::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19680213::US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
19690213::Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
19690213::Suriname govt of Pengel resigns
19700213::Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
19700213::NL offices begins move from Cin to SF (completed Feb 23)
19710213::12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos
19710213::Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2
19720213::"1776" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,217 performances
19720213::"Grease" opens on Broadway
19720213::11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan
19730213::Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in NYC
19730213::US dollar devalues 10%
19740213::"Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC
19740213::Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
19740213::James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame
19750213::Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation
19760213::Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
19760213::Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes
19770213::"Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances
19770213::"Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances
19770213::"Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 perfs
19770213::E Bowell discovers asteroid #4110 Keats
19770213::Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
19770213::Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #4232 Aparicio
19770213::Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
19770213::S J Bus discovers asteroid #2791 Paradise
19780213::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19790213::2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation
19790213::Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
19800213::Apollo Computer Inc incorporated
19800213::Harvard College discovers asteroids #2482 Perkin & #2658 Gingerich
19800213::NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin
19810213::Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words
19820213::Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week
19820213::Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers
19830213::"Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
19830213::33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA
19830213::Australia beats NZ 2-0 to win World Series Cup
19830213::Donna White wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
19830213::E Bernstein, Levinson & Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in NYC
19830213::World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
19840213::6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
19840213::Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
19850213::Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier
19850213::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3365, #5503 & #7997
19850213::Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
19860213::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #7814
19860213::Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #3951 Zichichi
19870213::Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
19880213::15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada
19880213::Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)
19880213::European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992
19880213::F Borngen discovers asteroid #6439 Tirol
19880213::Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
19880213::Oss San Vittore discovers asteroid #4705 Secchi & #6598 Modugno
19880213::Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41)
19880213::E W Elst discovers asteroid #3870 Mayre, #4609 Pizarro, #4636 Chile, #5115 Frimout, #5956 d'Alembert, #6036 Weinberg, #6956 Holbach
19890213::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #5582
19890213::Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
19890213::Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
19890213::T Seki discovers asteroid #5209
19890213::Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
19900213::50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
19900213::Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
19900213::US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
19910213::M Koishikawa discovers asteroid #6859
19910213::R H McNaught discovers asteroid #7822
19910213::Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
19910213::US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334
19920213::"Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 229 performances
19920213::Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW
19920213::M Akiyama & T Furuta discover asteroid #7472
19920213::West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
19930213::F Uto discovers asteroid #7253 Nara
19930213::Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
19930213::Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
19930213::Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
19940213::44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis
19940213::Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
19940213::Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
19940213::Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
19940213::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #6423
19950213::Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
19950213::West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
19960213::Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"
19960213::Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway
19970213::"Three Sisters," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
19970213::Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope
20000213::US female Figure Skating championship
20000213::US male Figure Skating championship
08420214::Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty
10140214::Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
10760214::Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
11300214::Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
15400214::Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
15560214::Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
16100214::Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
16130214::King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
16300214::Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
16700214::Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
16890214::English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
17110214::H„ndels opera Rinaldo, premieres
17460214::Henry Pelham appointed English premier
17660214::Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
17780214::"Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
17940214::1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
18030214::Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
18480214::James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
18590214::Oregon admitted as 33rd state
18620214::Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Conn
18670214::Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
18670214::Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
18720214::1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
18760214::A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
18790214::Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
18830214::1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
18870214::Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
18890214::1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
18900214::1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game
18910214::J Palisa discovers asteroid #304 Olga
18940214::Venus is both a morning star & evening star
18950214::Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
18960214::George Lohmann takes a hat-trick v S Africa, 8-7 for inning
18960214::South Africa all out for 30 v England - their lowest ever
18960214::Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
18960214::Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
18990214::US Congress begins using voting machines
19000214::Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
19030214::US Dept of Commerce & Labor forms
19070214::1st US fox hound association forms in NYC
19100214::J Helffrich discovers asteroid #697 Galilea
19120214::1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct
19120214::Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
19140214::High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
19180214::H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in NYC
19180214::USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
19190214::United Parcel Service forms
19200214::League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
19210214::Canadian 5› nickel coin is authorized
19210214::Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
19240214::IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
19250214::State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
19290214::St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
19310214::Bradman scores 152 Aust v WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
19310214::Spanish Govt of General Damasco Berenguer falls
19320214::Reinmuth discovers asteroids 2290, 2560, 2879 Shimizu & #5532 Ichinohe
19320214::S Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6)
19340214::NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
19360214::L Boyer discovers asteroid #1377 Roberbauxa
19360214::National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
19360214::US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
19360214::US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
19390214::Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
19400214::British merchant vessel fleet is armed
19410214::1,000,000th vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
19410214::Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
19410214::Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
19410214::German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
19420214::Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
19420214::Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
19430214::German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
19430214::Soviets recapture Rostov
19440214::Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
19440214::Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
19450214::8th Air Force bombs Dresden
19450214::Per£, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN
19460214::Bank of England nationalized
19490214::1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
19490214::Dutch Drees govt presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
19500214::Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
19500214::USSR & China sign peace treaty
19510214::Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
19520214::6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
19520214::Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
19540214::Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
19540214::Sen John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
19540214::WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19550214::WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (NBC) begins
19560214::20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
19560214::Indonesia withdraws from Neth Indonesian Union
19560214::Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
19570214::Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
19580214::Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
19590214::$3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
19600214::Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
19600214::Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
19610214::Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
19610214::Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
19620214::1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
19630214::US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
19660214::Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
19660214::Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
19660214::Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Dani‰l found guilty
19670214::Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
19670214::Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
19680214::Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Penn Central
19680214::WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
19700214::"Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
19710214::Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
19710214::Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
19720214::John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
19720214::Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
19740214::Harvard College discovers asteroid #2039 Payne-Gaposchkin
19750214::Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
19760214::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19780214::1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
19780214::In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
19790214::"Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
19800214::"West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
19800214::13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
19800214::L Brozek discovers asteroid #6076 Plavec
19800214::US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
19820214::"Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall
19820214::Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
19820214::L Brozek discovers asteroids #3424 & #7739
19840214::Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
19850214::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #5098 & #6852
19850214::Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
19870214::53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
19880214::49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
19880214::Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
19880214::Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
19880214::F Borngen discovers asteroid #7117 Claudius
19880214::General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
19880214::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
19890214::African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
19890214::Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
19890214::Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
19890214::Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
19890214::Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
19890214::World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
19900214::Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
19900214::Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
19900214::Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
19910214::"Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
19910214::Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300 [or February 13?]
19910214::E W Elst discovers asteroid #5651 Traversa
19910214::Helin discovers asteroid #5878 Charlene, #6646 & #6723 Chrisclark
19910214::K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #6323 Karoji & #8167
19910214::NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
19910214::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #4774 Hobetsu
19920214::Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
19920214::Cease fire in Somalia begins
19920214::Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
19920214::Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
19930214::Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
19930214::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #6664
19930214::T Urata discovers asteroid #6665
19940214::Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
19940214::Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
19940214::T Niijima & T Urata discover asteroid #7139
19950214::Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
19950214::Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
19960214::Munari & Tombelli discover asteroid #7715 Leonidarosino, #7847 & #7900
03990215::Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
07320215::Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line
11450215::Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
13130215::Peace of Angleur
13860215::Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
15390215::Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
15520215::Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
15630215::Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
16370215::Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
16770215::King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
16860215::Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris
16890215::German Parliament declares war on France
17450215::Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London
17630215::Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
17640215::St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
17680215::1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
17750215::Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
17970215::Battle of Cape St Vincent
17990215::1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
18040215::New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
18420215::1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
18450215::William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
18480215::Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
18510215::Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
18520215::Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
18610215::Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
18620215::Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
18640215::Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans
18690215::Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
18700215::Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
18760215::Historic Elm at Boston blown down
18790215::Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct
18820215::1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
18820215::SS Dunedin leaves NZ with 1st frozen meat to England
18950215::23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
18980215::USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
18990215::Max Wolf & A Schwassmann discover asteroid #442 Eichsfeldia
19000215::General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes
19020215::Underground railway (U-Bahn)
19030215::1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
19050215::1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
19060215::British Labour Party organizes
19120215::Fram reaches latitude 78ø 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
19130215::1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
19160215::NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500
19170215::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #865 Zubaida
19170215::SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
19180215::1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
19180215::Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar
19190215::American Legion organizes in Paris
19200215::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #926 Imhilde
19210215::Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
19220215::Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
19260215::Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
19260215::Contract air mail service begins in US
19290215::St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)
19300215::Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
19310215::1st Dracula movie released
19310215::Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
19320215::3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
19320215::Aust beat S Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
19320215::George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
19320215::John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC
19320215::US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
19330215::Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
19330215::Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
19330215::Social-democratic newspaper "Vorw„rts" banned again in Berlin
19360215::-60øF (-51øC), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
19360215::Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
19360215::Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
19390215::German battleship Bismarck was launched
19390215::Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in NYC
19410215::Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
19410215::K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1561 Fricke & #1785 Wurm
19420215::German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
19420215::Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
19420215::Singapore surrenders to Japanese
19430215::Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
19440215::891 British bombers attack Berlin
19440215::Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
19460215::Bank of England nationalized
19470215::"Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 perfs
19480215::Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
19490215::Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad
19500215::KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
19500215::WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in NYC
19500215::WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
19500215::Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
19540215::1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
19540215::WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19550215::1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
19560215::Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
19560215::Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
19570215::Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
19580215::Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
19580215::Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
19580215::Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA
19580215::Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
19580215::Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-govt of Middle Sumatra
19590215::Antonio Segni forms Italian govt
19590215::Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
19610215::Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
19610215::Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
19610215::F Borngen discovers asteroid #3917 Franz Schubert & #4134 Schutz
19620215::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19630215::1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
19630215::Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
19640215::Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
19640215::Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
19640215::Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2417 McVittie & #3717
19650215::Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf
19650215::John Lennon passes his driving test
19650215::Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
19660215::Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
19670215::1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
19670215::D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
19670215::Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
19680215::Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
19680215::WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
19700215::Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
19700215::Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
19700215::Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
19700215::KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
19700215::Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
19710215::After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
19720215::Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
19720215::Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
19720215::Pres Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
19730215::Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
19730215::USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
19760215::12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
19760215::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
19770215::Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
19770215::W Sebok discovers asteroid #2491
19780215::England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt)
19780215::Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla
19780215::Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
19780215::Zaire revises constitution
19790215::21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins
19790215::Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
19790215::Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
19790215::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19800215::Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec
19800215::Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
19800215::Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3592
19810215::Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
19810215::Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY
19820215::Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
19820215::Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
19830215::E Bowell discovers asteroid #4079 Britten, #7512 & #7994
19830215::Thomas finds asteroid 3367 Alex, 3413 Andriana, 3525 Paul, 3580 & 7275
19840215::500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
19850215::A Mrkos discovers asteroid #6542 & #6769
19850215::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #8148
19850215::STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
19850215::World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
19860215::44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
19860215::Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
19860215::Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
19870215::ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
19870215::Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
19870215::Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
19870215::Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
19880215::E W Elst discovers asteroid #8154
19880215::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #5114 Yezo
19880215::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19890215::Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
19890215::Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends
19900215::Baseball owners lock out players
19900215::K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #5481 Kiuchi
19910215::Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
19910215::Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
19920215::100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox
19920215::Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
19930215::Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot , Colombia; kills 14
19930215::Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogot  Colombia
19930215::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM
19930215::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #6872, #7659 & #7777
19940215::US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
19950215::Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
19950215::Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
19950215::Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
19960215::A Nakamura discovers asteroid #7678 Onoda
19960215::U Munari & M Tombelli discover asteroid #7679 Asiago
19970215::US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
19970215::US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge
19980215::Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
19980215::Daytona 500 race
03740216::9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
06000216::Pope Gregory the Great decreea saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
14860216::Diet of Frankfort
15120216::Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen
15590216::Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy
16410216::English king Charles I accept Triennial Act
16550216::Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker
16590216::1st known check (œ400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
16660216::Netherlands & Brandenburg sign treaty
16770216::Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower
17410216::Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Mag) begins publishing
17420216::Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier
17510216::1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
17600216::Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC
17710216::Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy
17770216::Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)
18040216::Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it
18240216::Athenaeum founded
18320216::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1øN, 29øW)
18380216::Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions
18400216::American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
18460216::Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
18540216::Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus," premieres
18570216::Gallaudet College (Natl Deaf Mute college) forms (Wash DC)
18600216::Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse govt resigns
18620216::Ft Donelson captured by Gen Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)
18640216::Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army
18680216::Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms (NY)
18780216::Silver dollar became US legal tender
18800216::American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (NYC)
18800216::C H F Peters discovers asteroid #213 Lilaea
18830216::"Ladies Home Journal" begins publishing
18870216::1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY)
18870216::Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5)
18910216::A Charlois discovers asteroid #305 Gordonia
18920216::Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna
18940216::British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
18990216::Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (Eng v SA Johannesburg)
19000216::1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF)
19000216::Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 3 games to 1
19030216::-59øF (-51øC), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record)
19050216::1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston
19060216::A Kopff discovers asteroid #585 Bilkis
19060216::Metcalf discover asteroid #602 Marianna, #603 Timandra & #604 Tekmessa
19090216::1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
19090216::Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
19120216::J Palisa discovers asteroid #728 Leonisis
19120216::VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
19130216::President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico
19140216::1st airplane flight (LA to SF)
19150216::Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack. He sits out 1915 season
19160216::Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia
19170216::1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid
19180216::Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)
19200216::M Wolf discovers asteroid #927 Ratisbona
19230216::Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory
19230216::Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen
19230216::US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
19230216::US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
19260216::Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France
19270216::No‰l Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London
19270216::US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
19290216::KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
19310216::Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland
19320216::1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
19330216::Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists
19330216::England regains the Ashes, thanks to bodyline tactics
19360216::4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
19360216::Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections
19360216::Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1391 Carelia, #1454 Kalevala #1448 Lindbladia & #1479 Inkeri
19370216::DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
19370216::Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage," premieres in Paris
19380216::US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
19400216::British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
19420216::German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
19430216::-32øF (-36øC), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)
19430216::British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia
19430216::Red army conquers Kharkov
19430216::Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa
19430216::Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22
19450216::US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
19450216::Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany
19460216::"Duchess Misbehaves" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 5 perfs
19460216::1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct
19470216::Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres
19480216::1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC
19480216::Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time
19500216::Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS
19500216::Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame
19510216::NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
19510216::SF City Hall dome fire
19520216::Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33
19520216::Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record)
19540216::WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
19560216::Britain abolishes death penalty
19580216::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
19590216::Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
19590216::Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One," premieres in NYC
19600216::US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip
19610216::1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va
19610216::China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
19610216::US satellite Explorer 9 is launched
19620216::Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres
19620216::US Open Tennis: Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win
19630216::1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
19630216::Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
19630216::C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down
19640216::"Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
19640216::Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
19650216::"Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances
19650216::Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors
19660216::Bob Cowper makes 307 v England at the MCG, 727 mins, 20 fours
19660216::End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Aust WK
19660216::France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
19670216::Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame
19670216::T M Smirnova discovers asteroid #4424 Arkhipova & #5410 Spivakov
19680216::Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala
19680216::Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
19680216::Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
19700216::Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
19720216::1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)
19720216::German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed
19720216::Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe WI v NZ Kingston, 214 & 100
19720216::Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns
19730216::WI v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Sobers
19750216::Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2548 Leloir & #5079
19750216::Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0
19770216::USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
19780216::1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
19790216::George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
19790216::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19800216::Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France
19800216::Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7:02.29 (Olympic Record)
19820216::A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3847 Sindel
19820216::Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
19820216::Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
19820216::L Brozek discovers asteroid #4146 Rudolfinum
19820216::Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
19820216::Xinglong discovers asteroid #5273
19830216::Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #5423
19840216::Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
19840216::NJ Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5
19850216::C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #5426 Sharp
19850216::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #5099 & #6951
19850216::Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Phila at Detroit
19850216::Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ
19850216::M Mahrova discovers asteroid #3492
19850216::NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
19860216::"Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 perfs
19860216::French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
19860216::Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
19860216::Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)
19860216::M Kizawa discovers asteroid #6178
19860216::Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
19860216::S Inoda & T Urata discovers asteroid #3394
19870216::John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
19880216::1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador
19880216::R Rajamohan discovers asteroid #4706
19880216::T Fujii & K Watanabe discover asteroid #4743 Kikuchi
19890216::Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
19890216::Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
19890216::Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract
19890216::Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs $7.5M-3 year contract
19890216::William Hayden becomes governor-general of Australia
19900216::A Sugie discovers asteroid #5332
19900216::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #5376 & #5826
19910216::Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
19910216::US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
19920216::Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue
19920216::LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
19930216::Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
19940216::6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
19940216::Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
19940216::Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends govt in Peru
19960216::Gary Kirsten scores 188* for S Africa v UAE at Rawalpindi
19960216::JPL/GEODSS NEAT discovers asteroid #7361 Endres & #7613
19970216::At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
19970216::GTE Suncoast Senior Golf Classic
19970216::Paul Stankowski wins Hawaiian Golf Open
19970216::Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Los Angeles Women's Championship
19980216::Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million
13700217::Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania
15680217::Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace
15980217::Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia
16210217::Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
16340217::William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
16700217::France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
16760217::Kings Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
16910217::Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
17140217::Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
17720217::1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
17760217::1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published
17910217::Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
17950217::Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
18010217::House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
18170217::1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
18180217::Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
18360217::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania
18410217::Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont de W‚gimont
18480217::Toscane gets liberal Constitution
18540217::British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
18590217::Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli
18640217::Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"
18650217::-18] Battle of Charleston SC
18650217::Columbia SC burns down during Civil War
18670217::1st ship passes through Suez Canal
18670217::Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary
18680217::E W Tempel discovers asteroid #97 Klotho
18680217::J Coggia discovers asteroid #96 Aegle
18700217::Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge
18700217::Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War
18730217::C H F Peters discovers asteroid #130 Elektra
18760217::Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)
18780217::1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
18790217::J Palisa discovers asteroid #192 Nausikaa
18800217::Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
18820217::1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
18830217::A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
18850217::Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
18960217::London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
18970217::National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
18990217::Max Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #443 Photographica
19030217::R S Dugan discovers asteroid #506 Marion
19040217::Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
19050217::Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
19060217::Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
19110217::1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
19130217::1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
19130217::NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
19150217::Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded
19160217::Romberg/Hanley/Atteridge/Smith' musical premieres in NYC
19210217::Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'‚t‚," premieres
19230217::Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
19240217::Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds)
19250217::V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1330 Spiridonia
19260217::Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die
19260217::Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
19300217::French govt of Tardieu, falls
19310217::1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
19310217::Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game
19320217::Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in NYC
19330217::1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine published
19330217::Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead in the comic Blondie
19330217::Marinus van der Lubbe arrives in Glindow, at Potsdam
19330217::US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition
19340217::1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
19360217::"Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
19360217::-58øF (-50øC), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record)
19360217::SN Behrmann's "End of Summer," premieres in NYC
19380217::1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
19390217::Katwijk soccer team forms
19390217::Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2535 Hameenlinna
19400217::Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for SA v West Australia
19400217::British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
19410217::Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
19420217::L Oterma discovers asteroid #2857, #4227 Kaali & #4133 Heureka
19430217::-19] Hitler visits fieldmarshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje
19430217::Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews
19430217::Gen-major Bradley flies to Wash DC
19430217::NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army
19440217::Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on Feb 22
19440217::US begins night bombing of Truk
19460217::Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam
19470217::Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
19470217::Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
19490217::Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel
19490217::Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea Kekesy/Ede Kiraly of HUN
19490217::Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Paris won by Alena Vrzanova of CZE
19490217::Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA
19490217::Richard Button retains world figure skating championship in Paris
19500217::31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY
19500217::S Arend discovers asteroid #2265 Verbaandert  K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1611 Beyer, #1719 Jens, #2572, #3295 Murakami & #3440, #5658 Clausbaader & #5704 Schumacher
19530217::Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
19530217::DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven
19550217::Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB
19550217::Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe & Bowden of CAN
19550217::KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
19550217::Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright US
19550217::Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257
19560217::Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB
19560217::Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz & Oppelt of AUT
19560217::Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA
19560217::Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA
19570217::Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72
19570217::Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
19570217::Suez Canal reopens
19580217::Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
19580217::WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19590217::1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
19620217::Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"
19620217::Storm in Hamburg, kills 265
19620217::Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
19630217::Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8
19640217::101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
19640217::US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
19640217::US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry v Sanders)
19640217::WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
19650217::US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
19650217::US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute
19660217::French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
19670217::Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
19670217::Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit
19680217::Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Mass, opens
19690217::Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
19690217::Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister
19700217::Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
19700217::Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
19700217::Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in NYC
19710217::England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win
19720217::British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
19720217::President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
19730217::Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
19740217::49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
19740217::Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
19760217::"Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances
19760217::Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
19760217::NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India
19760217::Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell
19780217::H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2608 Seneca
19790217::China invades Vietnam
19790217::Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99)
19800217::Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph)
19800217::Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
19810217::Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
19820217::Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
19830217::Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot
19830217::Netherlands adopts constitution
19830217::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19850217::1st class postage rises from 20› to 22›
19850217::1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England
19850217::3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
19850217::Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
19850217::Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita
19860217::1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
19860217::Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
19860217::Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs
19860217::Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
19870217::Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
19870217::Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
19880217::E W Elst discovers asteroid #7172 Multatuli
19880217::Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins
19880217::Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #8081
19880217::R Rajamohan discovers asteroid #4130 Ramanujan
19880217::US Lt Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed
19890217::6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
19890217::Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
19890217::Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
19890217::Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
19890217::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19890217::Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
19910217::T Urata discovers asteroid #8023
19910217::US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
19930217::Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
19930217::Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec)
19930217::S Otomo discovers asteroid #5605
19950217::11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
19950217::Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY
19950217::Tiger mgr Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
19950217::Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
19960217::1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47
19970217::Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena Calif
19970217::Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter
19980217::Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
19980217::Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
11290218::Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
15030218::Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
15360218::France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel
15630218::Huguenot Jean Poltrot de M‚r‚ shoots gen Fran‡ois De Guise
15740218::Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
16340218::Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution
16780218::John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published
16880218::Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa
17130218::French invade under Jacques Cassard on Cura‡ao
17350218::1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
17450218::Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
17870218::Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
18040218::1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
18280218::More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
18340218::1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC
18390218::Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists)
18410218::1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
18490218::1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28)
18500218::Calif Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
18560218::American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
18570218::Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
18610218::Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Ala
18610218::King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy
18650218::Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
18650218::Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn city
18650218::Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
18740218::C H F Peters discovers asteroid #135 Hertha
18760218::Direct telegraph link established between Britain & NZ
18790218::Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
18840218::General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
18840218::Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
18850218::Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published
18910218::Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
18960218::Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs
18990218::80øF in SF
18990218::SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
18990218::Stanley Cup: Mont Shamrocks sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
19000218::Ajax soccer team forms in Amsterdam
19000218::Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
19000218::British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal
19010218::H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
19020218::Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo
19030218::Kuyper govt launches anti strike laws
19050218::Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben," premieres in Munich
19060218::Vincent d'Indy's "Jour D'‚t‚ … La Montagne," premieres in Paris
19080218::1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
19090218::Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
19130218::French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in NYC
19150218::Germany begins a blockade of England
19190218::Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals
19210218::British troops occupy Dublin
19220218::Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
19220218::WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
19230218::Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
19240218::US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
19240218::US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
19240218::US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal
19270218::1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
19270218::US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
19300218::Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
19300218::Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan
19300218::Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in NYC
19300218::US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
19320218::Japan declares Manchuria Independent
19320218::Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
19360218::NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
19380218::Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1480 Aunus
19390218::Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
19420218::Japanese troop land on Bali
19420218::L Oterma discovers asteroids #1758 Naantali, #2828 Iku-Turso & #2912
19430218::1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
19430218::Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
19430218::Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
19430218::William D Cox buys Phila Phillies
19440218::Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
19440218::Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
19470218::24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa
19470218::Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC
19500218::"Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances
19500218::S Arend discovers asteroid #2277 Moreau
19510218::3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
19510218::Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy
19510218::Netherlands Radio School forms
19520218::4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca wins
19530218::"Bwana Devil," the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York
19530218::"Maggie" opens at National Theater NYC for 5 performances
19530218::KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
19530218::Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC)
19550218::Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
19600218::8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colo
19600218::Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
19610218::Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
19620218::France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
19620218::Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
19640218::Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday," premieres in NYC
19640218::Papandreou Govt takes power in Greece
19650218::"Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 perfs
19650218::27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC
19650218::Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
19650218::Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
19660218::Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2753 Duncan
19670218::Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3"
19670218::Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
19680218::10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin
19680218::10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
19680218::British adopts year-round daylight savings time
19680218::David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
19690218::Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st
19690218::PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
19700218::Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot
19700218::US president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
19720218::Calif Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
19720218::Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
19720218::John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
19730218::54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash
19730218::Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 7:39.2
19730218::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Pompano Beach Golf Classic
19740218::NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
19740218::US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check
19750218::2nd American Music Award:
19750218::Italy broadens abortion law
19770218::George Harrison releases "True Love"
19770218::Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight
19770218::Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft & Joel Garner v Pakistan Bridgetown
19770218::H Kosai & K Hurukawa discover asteroids #2330 Ontake, #2960 Ohtaki, #2924 Mitake-mura, #3249 Musashino, #3391 Sinon, #3607 Naniwa #4186 Tamashima, #4812 Hakuhou, #4963 Kanroku, #5017 Tenchi, #5082 Nihonsyoki, #7104, #7105, #7627 & #8133
19780218::1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
19790218::-52øF (-47øC), Old Forge, New York (state record)
19790218::Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
19790218::Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV
19790218::NASA launches space vehicle S-202
19790218::Pres Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
19790218::Snow falls in Sahara Desert
19800218::Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
19800218::Harvard College discovers asteroid #3085
19800218::Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections
19820218::C Shoemaker & S J Bus discover asteroid #3270 Dudley
19820218::L G Taff discovers asteroid #4028
19820218::R M West discovers asteroid #3871 Reiz
19830218::NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
19840218::Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed
19860218::San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
19880218::Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
19890218::Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
19890218::Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women
19900218::Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
19910218::R H McNaught discovers asteroid #5335 Damocles
19910218::Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0
19930218::Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
19940218::Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
19940218::Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
19940218::Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th US team
19950218::Angela Kennedy swims world record 100m butterfly
19950218::Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
19950218::Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Cre) wed
19950218::Warnecke swims world record 50m freestyle
19960218::1st full ODI for Kenya, Cricket World Cup v India
19960218::Daytona 500 race
19960218::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #7966
19960218::Tendulkar scores 127* in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya
19980218::NY Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell
01970219::Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
03560219::Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples
06070219::Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08420219::Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches
15120219::French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
15370219::Weavers of Leiden Neth strike
15390219::Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
15740219::Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp Neth
15820219::Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant
16190219::Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague
16340219::Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians [NS=Mar 1]
16740219::Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)
17000219::Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark
17360219::Georg F H„ndel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres
17710219::Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo)
17970219::1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
18030219::Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
18070219::British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
18070219::VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
18250219::Franz Grillparzer's "K”nig Ottokars Glck," premieres in Vienna
18310219::1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
18460219::Texas state govt formally installed in Austin
18560219::Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
18590219::Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used
18610219::Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3]
18640219::Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members)
18690219::US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
18780219::Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
18810219::Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
18840219::Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people
19000219::British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal
19030219::R S Dugan discovers asteroid #507 Laodica
19060219::WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin find Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co
19100219::English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra"
19130219::1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
19130219::Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support
19140219::Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin
19150219::British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
19190219::Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)
19200219::Netherlands joins League of Nations
19220219::Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
19230219::Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres
19230219::Philip Barry's "You & I," premieres in NYC
19270219::General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
19280219::2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
19280219::Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
19290219::Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
19320219::William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
19330219::F L Whipple discovers asteroid #1252 Celestia
19330219::Prussian minister G”ring bans all Catholic newspapers
19340219::Bob & Dolores Hope marry
19340219::US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 mos
19350219::Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing," premieres in NYC
19360219::Manuel Aza€a becomes Spanish premier
19380219::A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1733 Silke
19380219::E Delporte discovers asteroid #2713 Luxembourg
19380219::Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
19380219::Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #3212
19410219::Nazi police attacks & driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews)
19410219::Nazi raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
19420219::About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
19420219::Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ
19420219::Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
19420219::FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
19420219::Japanese troop land on Timor
19420219::Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
19420219::NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
19430219::German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
19440219::823 British bombers attack Berlin
19440219::U-264 sinks off Ireland
19450219::30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
19450219::900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
19450219::Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
19450219::US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese
19460219::Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League
19470219::CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
19490219::"Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
19490219::1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
19490219::Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3282
19490219::Mass arrests of communists in India
19520219::French offensive at Hanoi
19530219::Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
19530219::Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet
19530219::William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in NYC
19540219::WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
19550219::South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect
19560219::Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
19580219::Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
19590219::Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
19590219::Gabon adopts its constitution
19590219::USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM
19600219::Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
19600219::Protest strike in Poznan Poland
19610219::Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
19610219::Henk van der Grift (Neth) becomes world champ all-round skater
19620219::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19630219::Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
19630219::USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
19640219::UK flies « ton of Beatle wigs to US
19650219::NFL adds 6th official
19670219::Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
19680219::1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
19690219::1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
19700219::AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
19700219::USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
19710219::Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
19710219::Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game
19720219::Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston
19740219::1st American Music Award:
19740219::L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #2055 Dvorak, #2073 Janacek & #3109
19760219::Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
19770219::19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band
19770219::A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
19770219::Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour
19770219::Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released
19770219::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19770219::H Kosai & K Hurukawa discover asteroids #3111 Misuzu & #5018 Tenmu
19770219::Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
19780219::"On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 perfs
19780219::Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8)
19780219::Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in NYC
19800219::A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2747, #3313, #3715 & #6060
19800219::Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay
19800219::Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18
19800219::Harvard College discovers asteroid #3243  Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2315 Czechoslovakia, #2321 Luznice, #4317 Garibaldi & #7374
19810219::George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"
19820219::Hanneke Jelgersma (Jagersma?) installed as Neth's 1st Communist mayor
19820219::Sharie Langford, Calif, sets women's bowling series record of 853
19820219::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19820219::Xinglong Station discovers asteroid #3481
19830219::E Bowell discover asteroids #3414 Champollion & #4476 Bernstein
19830219::Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million
19830219::Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record
19840219::"Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances
19840219::14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
19840219::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19840219::1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
19850219::150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
19850219::ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
19850219::Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
19850219::Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
19850219::William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky
19860219::Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO
19860219::US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
19860219::USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
19870219::"Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
19870219::Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
19870219::Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
19870219::Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
19870219::P Jensen discovers asteroid #5106
19870219::Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
19880219::M Inoue & O Muramatsu discover asteroid #4219 Nakamura
19880219::T Kojima discovers asteroid #4041 Miyamotoyohko
19880219::Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55)
19890219::"Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 perfs
19890219::Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
19900219::Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
19900219::Soyuz TM-9 lands
19910219::E F Helin discovers asteroid #5748 Davebrin
19910219::S Inoda & T Urata discover asteroid #6211
19910219::Y Kushida & R Kushida discover asteroid #4875 Ingalls
19920219::"Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances
19920219::Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You," premieres in NYC
19920219::Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992
19920219::Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
19930219::Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA
19940219::Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
19950219::1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV
19950219::Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec)
19950219::Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize
19950219::Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec)
19950219::Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
19950219::Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake," premieres
19950219::T Niijima & T Urata discover asteroid #7202
19960219::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
19960219::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #7901
19970219::Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program discovers asteroid #7683
19970219::FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
19980219::Soyuz TM-26 lands
19980219::US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
15250220::Swiss & German mercenaries desert Fran‡ois I's army
15470220::King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
16130220::Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch gov-gen of East-Indies
16530220::Defeat of Dutch fleet under Adm Van Tromp by Adm Blake off Portsmouth
16730220::1st recorded wine auction held (London)
17100220::Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Neth
17250220::10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for œ100/scalp bounty
17320220::Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
17370220::French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
17450220::Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Fort August, Scotland
17460220::Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
17680220::1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
17920220::US postal service created; postage 6›-12«›, depending on distance
18090220::Supreme Court rules federal govt power greater than any state
18110220::Austria declares bankruptcy
18160220::Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
18230220::English Capt James Weddell reaches 74ø 15' S, 1520 km from S pole
18310220::Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
18320220::Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
18350220::Concepci¢n, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
18390220::Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
18460220::British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
18560220::John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg; many die
18610220::Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
18610220::Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
18640220::Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
18650220::M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
18690220::Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
18720220::Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
18720220::Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
18720220::Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (NYC)
18720220::Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
18730220::U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
18760220::C H F Peters discovers asteroid #160 Una
18770220::1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
18770220::International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
18870220::1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
18870220::Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
18900220::Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
18900220::R Luther discovers asteroid #288 Glauke
18950220::Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
18990220::Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
19010220::1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
19010220::L Carnera discovers asteroid #469 Argentina
19020220::Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF
19030220::Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
19120220::Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
19150220::Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
19170220::Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
19170220::Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premieres in NYC
19190220::French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
19210220::Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
19220220::Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies," premieres in NYC
19220220::Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
19220220::WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
19230220::Christy Mathewson becomes pres of Boston Braves
19270220::Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
19280220::O Oikawa discovers asteroid #1090 Sumida
19290220::American Samoa organizes as territory of US
19290220::Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
19300220::Capelle soccer team forms
19310220::Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
19320220::Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
19330220::Curom, Cura‡aose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech
19330220::House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
19330220::Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn," premieres in NYC
19340220::O Bancilhon discovers asteroid #1333 Cevenola
19340220::Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
19350220::Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
19370220::1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
19380220::K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1482 Sebastiana, #3569 & #6809 Sakuma
19380220::UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
19380220::Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1449 Virtanen, #1450 Raimonda & #2898
19400220::Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
19410220::1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
19410220::Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
19410220::Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
19420220::Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
19430220::Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
19430220::New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (M‚xico)
19430220::Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
19440220::Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
19440220::US takes Eniwetok Island
19470220::Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42ý blocks in LA
19470220::Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
19480220::Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
19490220::1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)
19500220::Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
19500220::WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
19520220::"African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in NYC
19520220::1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
19530220::August A Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million
19530220::US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
19540220::Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
19540220::General Zahedi wins election in Persia
19550220::Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
19560220::WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
19570220::Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 v England, 13 wkts for match
19580220::Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
19580220::LA Coliseum Comm approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility
19620220::John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
19630220::End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson
19630220::Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
19650220::Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
19650220::Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
19650220::Turkish government of Uergpl forms
19660220::Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
19680220::John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth
19680220::State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
19710220::Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season
19710220::General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda
19710220::Maj General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda
19710220::Natl Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
19720220::1st time Cleve Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109)
19720220::Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater
19720220::Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
19730220::10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
19740220::Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
19740220::Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA
19750220::Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore
19750220::Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conserv Party
19750220::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19760220::Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
19770220::"My Fair Lady" closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances
19770220::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
19780220::4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
19780220::Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
19780220::Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
19780220::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
19790220::"Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
19800220::Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski
19810220::Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
19810220::James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec)
19820220::NY Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game
19820220::E Bowell discovers asteroids #2636 Lassell & #3193 Elliot & #5995 Saint-Aignan
19830220::Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
19830220::Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling
19840220::Asteroid #3731 discovered
19850220::A C Gilmore & P M Kilmartin discover asteroid #3810 Aoraki
19850220::A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3701
19850220::After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
19860220::LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration
19860220::Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY
19870220::Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
19870220::David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years
19880220::500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
19880220::Andr‚ Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06)
19880220::Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
19880220::Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)
19880220::Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
19880220::Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
19880220::Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2)
19880220::Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)
19890220::Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
19900220::C S Shoemaker & E M Shoemaker discover asteroid #5436 Eumelos
19900220::T Seki discovers asteroid #4505 Okamura
19900220::Y Kushida & M Inoue discover asteroid #5403 Takachiho
19900220::Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #6779
19910220::"Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 78 performances
19910220::33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
19910220::A Sugie discovers asteroid #5008 Miyazawakenji
19920220::"Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances
19920220::Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
19920220::Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
19930220::E W Elst discovers asteroid #7346
19930220::Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
19930220::Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
19930220::NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
19930220::T Hioki & S Hayakawa discover asteroid #5629 Kuwana
19940220::3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
19940220::Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
19940220::Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
19970220::"Stanley" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
19970220::SF Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract
19980220::Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal
19980220::UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
19980220::US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
11730221::Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury
14310221::England begins trial against Joan of Arc
15640221::Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comt‚
15740221::Spanish garrison of Middelburg Neth surrenders
15830221::Groningen Neth begins using Gregorian calendar
15980221::Boris Godunov crowned tsar
16130221::Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
16730221::Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet
16750221::Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
17640221::John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
17770221::English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag
17820221::US congress resolves establishment of a US mint
17920221::Congress passes Pres Succession Act
17950221::Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
17970221::Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British
18040221::1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
18280221::1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published
18420221::1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
18460221::1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
18530221::US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
18570221::Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
18570221::US issues flying eagle cents
18580221::Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Mass)
18610221::Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief
18620221::Confederate Constitution & presidency are declared permanent
18620221::Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM
18640221::-22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
18640221::1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
18660221::Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
18740221::Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
18740221::Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
18780221::1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)
18820221::NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
18830221::2nd French government of Ferry begins
18850221::Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC)
18870221::1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
18870221::Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
18950221::NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
19020221::Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
19030221::Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
19040221::National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich
19060221::A Kopff discovers asteroid #596 Scheila
19060221::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #586 Thekla
19070221::SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Neth (142 dead)
19090221::John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London
19100221::John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London
19110221::Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse ‚l‚gique)
19140221::White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
19150221::20th Russian Army corps surrenders
19150221::World's Fair in SF opens
19160221::Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties)
19160221::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #818 Kapteynia
19170221::British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
19170221::Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
19180221::Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
19190221::German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria
19190221::Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
19200221::Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, premieres in Paris
19220221::Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
19220221::Great Britain grants Egypt independence
19220221::WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
19230221::Andr‚ Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London
19250221::1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
19250221::Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
19270221::Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres
19300221::Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC
19310221::Alka Seltzer introduced
19310221::Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
19320221::Andr‚ Tardieu becomes premier of France
19320221::Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
19340221::Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard
19360221::F Rigaux discovers asteroid #1378 Leonce
19390221::Belgian govt of Pierlot forms
19410221::US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to brig-general
19420221::US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
19420221::US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
19430221::Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews
19430221::German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
19440221::"War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
19450221::Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
19450221::British Army captures Goch
19450221::US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
19460221::Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
19470221::1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
19470221::1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
19470221::Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ
19500221::WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
19510221::SC House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
19520221::Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
19520221::Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
19520221::Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
19530221::"Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances
19530221::F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
19530221::Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
19570221::Dodgers (Ft Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
19580221::"Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
19580221::Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
19600221::Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
19610221::Friedrich Drrenmatt's "Die Physiker," premieres in Zrich
19610221::Gabon adopts constitution
19610221::Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km
19620221::Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Neth
19630221::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19640221::UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
19660221::Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution
19680221::150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
19680221::Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
19690221::1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
19690221::B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #3406
19690221::Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Wash Senators
19700221::Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
19700221::Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
19710221::Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
19710221::Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
19720221::Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in NYC
19720221::Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
19730221::Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
19730221::Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
19740221::Israeli forces leave western Suez
19740221::Silver hits record $5.96« an ounce in London
19740221::Yugoslavia adopts constitution
19750221::John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album
19750221::John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2«-8 yrs
19760221::"Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 perfs
19760221::Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
19770221::74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
19790221::Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
19790221::2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period
19800221::Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1500m in 1:55.44
19800221::Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom)
19800221::L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3508 Pasternak & #4017 Disneya
19800221::Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #4318 Bata & #7272
19810221::"Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
19810221::Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live
19810221::Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
19810221::NASA launches Comstar D-4
19820221::"Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 perfs
19820221::"Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances
19820221::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
19820221::F Borngen discovers asteroid #5224 Abbe  E Bowell discovers asteroid #2634 James Bradley, #2635 Huggins, #2939 Coconino & #4027 Mitton
19830221::Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
19830221::NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
19840221::A Mrkos discovers asteroid #6583 Destinn
19850221::Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
19850221::Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
19850221::Oak Ridge Observatory discovers asteroid #7639
19850221::Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
19860221::AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
19860221::Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
19870221::Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
19870221::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #4036, #4210 & #4668
19870221::Syrian army marches into Beirut
19880221::Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
19880221::Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20)
19880221::T Fujii & K Watanabe discover asteroid #6381
19880221::T Seki discovers asteroid #3822 Segovia
19880221::Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation
19890221::Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
19890221::US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value)
19890221::US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)[dup]
19900221::32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins
19910221::"Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 780 perfs
19910221::Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres in NYC
19910221::S Inoda & T Urata discover asteroid #6725 & #6786
19910221::USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable
19920221::Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympic gold medal in women's fig skating
19930221::43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City
19930221::S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #6568
19930221::Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
19950221::CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
19950221::RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
19950221::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #7263
19960221::Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
19970221::"Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres
19970221::STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
19980221::Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
08960222::Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
10710222::Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
12810222::Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
12880222::Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
13000222::Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
13490222::Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
14950222::French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
15610222::William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
16300222::Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
16560222::New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
17440222::Battle at Toulon: English-French & Spanish fleet
17460222::French troops conquer Brussels
17460222::Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
17740222::English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
17750222::1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at œ10
17750222::Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
17840222::1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
18190222::Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-On¡s Treaty)
18210222::Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
18250222::Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
18280222::Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
18350222::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
18360222::Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
18470222::Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army
18540222::1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
18560222::1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
18580222::Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC
18600222::Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
18600222::Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
18610222::On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
18640222::-27] Battle at Dalton Georgia
18640222::2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS
18640222::Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
18650222::Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
18650222::Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
18720222::1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
18760222::Johns Hopkins University opens
18780222::Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)
18790222::1st 5› & 10› store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY)
18820222::With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
18870222::Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
18880222::John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
18890222::Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to union
18890222::Pres Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state
18920222::"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London)
18920222::Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
18980222::Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
19000222::A Charlois discovers asteroid #453 Tea
19000222::Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
19000222::Hawaii became a US territory
19030222::Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
19060222::Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
19060222::Max Wolf discovers asteroids #587 Hypsipyle & #588 Achilles
19070222::1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
19070222::Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg
19080222::J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #661 Cloelia
19090222::Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
19120222::J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
19130222::Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
19150222::Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
19170222::German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
19180222::Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
19200222::1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville Calif)
19220222::Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
19230222::1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA Calif)
19230222::Transcontinental airmail service begins
19240222::1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)
19270222::ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
19270222::Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
19280222::1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
19280222::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1156 Kira
19300222::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1183 Jutta
19320222::Purple Heart award reinstituted
19330222::G”ring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
19340222::"It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
19350222::Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
19360222::Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins
19380222::Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1451 Grano, #2397 Lappajarvi, #2733 Hamina & #2737 Kotka
19390222::A Patry discovers asteroid #1510 Charlois
19390222::Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
19400222::Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
19400222::German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
19410222::Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
19410222::German assault on El Agheila Libya
19410222::IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
19410222::Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
19410222::Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
19410222::Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
19440222::US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
19450222::Arab League froms (Cairo)
19450222::British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
19450222::Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
19480222::Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
19500222::Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
19550222::British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
19560222::1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
19560222::Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
19570222::Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
19570222::Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in Calif in 1958
19580222::"Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
19580222::Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
19580222::Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
19580222::Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
19590222::1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
19620222::Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
19630222::Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
19640222::Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
19650222::USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
19660222::Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
19670222::Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
19670222::Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
19670222::25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
19680222::Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
19690222::Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
19700222::"Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs
19710222::Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
19720222::Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
19720222::President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
19730222::US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
19740222::Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
19760222::Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #4617
19760222::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
19770222::Harvard College discovers asteroid #2923 Schuyler
19780222::2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
19790222::Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
19790222::Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
19790222::St Lucia gains independence from Britain
19800222::Afghanistan declares martial law
19800222::USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
19810222::Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
19820222::NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
19830222::Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
19830222::Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
19830222::Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
19840222::Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Qu‚bec
19870222::Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
19870222::H Debehogne discovers asteroid #4536, #5057 & #7745
19880222::Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
19880222::R H McNaught discovers asteroid #3904 Honda, #4129 Richelen, #4220 Flood, #5061 & #5277
19890222::Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
19890222::NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
19890222::UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
19890222::US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
19890222::31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
19890222::1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
19900222::1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
19910222::Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
19910222::Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal
19910222::Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
19910222::Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
19920222::"Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
19920222::Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
19920222::Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
19920222::Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
19920222::Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
19930222::Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
19940222::"Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
19950222::Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
19950222::F Uto discovers asteroid #7895
19950222::J Ticha discovers asteroid #8048
19950222::N Sato & T Urata discover asteroid #7038
19950222::Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
19950222::T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #8304 & #8305
19960222::"Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
19960222::A Nakamura discovers asteroid #7716 Ube
19960222::Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
19960222::M Cavagna & A Testa discover asteroid #7848 Bernasconi
19960222::STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
19970222::Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
19980222::"King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
19980222::18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan
03030223::Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
14550223::Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date)
15740223::France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots
16600223::Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
16680223::Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
16720223::Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
16890223::Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England
17780223::Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
17920223::Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
17920223::Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
18040223::Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
18130223::1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
18200223::Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
18210223::College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
18220223::Boston is incorporated as a city
18360223::Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
18460223::Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
18470223::Battle of Buena Vista M‚xico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
18540223::Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
18610223::By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
18610223::Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
18610223::Pres-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Wash DC to take office
18690223::Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
18700223::Mississippi is readmitted to US
18740223::Mjr Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
18750223::J Palisa discovers asteroid #143 Adria
18830223::Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
18830223::American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)
18860223::Aluminum manufacturing process developed
18860223::London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
18860223::Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres
18870223::Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF
18870223::French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
18920223::1st college student govt forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
18940223::Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play
18950223::Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56)
18950223::Max Wolf discovers asteroid #399 Persephone
18950223::William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
18960223::Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
18980223::In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
19000223::Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
19000223::Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in SF Bay
19030223::Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
19040223::US acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
19050223::Rotary Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago
19060223::Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
19090223::Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
19100223::1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
19100223::George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London
19130223::F Kaiser discovers asteroid #742 Edisona
19150223::Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
19150223::Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
19160223::Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
19160223::French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
19170223::February revolution begins in Russia
19190223::Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
19200223::K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #928 Hildrun
19210223::1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF
19230223::German Republic day with laws against worker
19230223::Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
19270223::Pres Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)
19340223::Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
19340223::Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
19360223::1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
19360223::Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2067 Aksnes
19380223::E Delporte discovers asteroids #1491 Balduinus & #1722 Goffin
19380223::Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
19390223::Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
19400223::Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
19400223::Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released
19420223::Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
19430223::Gen-Maj Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
19430223::German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
19430223::L Oterma discovers asteroid #7267
19450223::2nd Dutch govt of Gerbrandy forms in London
19450223::Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
19450223::Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army crosses Ruhr
19450223::US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
19470223::Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
19540223::1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
19540223::Syrian ar