Historical Events
How Portugal Lost Its Monarchy
Feb 1 King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican sympathizers in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon
Phillies Sell Waddell
Feb 7 Philadelphia Athletics' manager and owner Connie Mack sells future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
- Feb 8 Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert, Netherlands
Burns vs. Palmer
Feb 10 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Englishman Jack Palmer in round 4 in London in his 8th title defense
- Feb 11 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
- Feb 11 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
- Feb 12 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
- Feb 12 NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
- Feb 18 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
- Feb 18 The American ambassador to Japan is given a note by the Japanese in which they agree to restrict Japanese emigration to the US; this becomes known as the 'Gentlemen's Agreement'
- Feb 24 In 'Muller v Oregon', the US Supreme Court favors an Oregon law limiting maximum hours a woman may work and denies that it curtails 'liberty of contract'
- Feb 25 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
- Feb 27 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
- Feb 28 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Tehran
- Feb 29 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Albie Booth, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Yale University), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1959)
- Feb 1 Edward Staempfli, Swiss pianist, conductor, and composer, born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 2002)
- Feb 1 George Pal, Hungarian-American film director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons), born in Cegléd, Hungary (d. 1980)
- Feb 2 Cal Tinney, American comedian and actor (The Missouri Traveler, Stop Me If You Heard This One), born in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma (d. 1993)
- Feb 2 Pavel Sivic, Slovenian composer, born in Radovljica, Slovenia (d. 1995)
- Feb 2 Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1982)
Wes Ferrell (1908-1976)
Feb 2 American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1933, 37; no-hitter 1931; record 37 career HRs hit by a pitcher), born in Greensboro, North Carolina
- Feb 3 Oddbjørn Hagen, Norwegian nordic skier (Olympic gold cross country individual 1936; World C'ship gold 1934, 35), born in Ytre Rendal, Norway (d. 1983)
- Feb 4 (Emmanuel) "Mannie" Klein, American swing jazz and session trumpeter (Frank Trumbauer; NBC Orchestra), born in New York City (d. 1994)
- Feb 5 (Millicent) "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress, born in Port Talbot, Wales (d. 1932) [1]
- Feb 5 Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins, born in Brighton, England (d. 1969)
- Feb 6 Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (Prime Minister), born in Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy (d. 1999)
- Feb 6 Edward Lansdale, United States Air Force Officer, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1987)
- Feb 7 Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, American swimmer (Olympic gold 1932) and actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon), born in Oakland, California (d. 1983)
- Feb 8 Grigor Eghiazaryan, Armenian composer, born in Blur, Russian Empire (d. 1988)
- Feb 8 Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, Lord O'Brien of Lothbury, English governor of the Bank of England (d. 1995)
- Feb 8 Myron McCormick, American actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again), born in Albany, Indiana (d. 1962)
- Feb 9 Jackie Fields, American featherweight boxer (2x World Welterweight Champion, Olympic gold 1924), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987)
- Feb 10 Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer, and music educator, born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2000)
- Feb 11 Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer (Poedjangga Baroe), born in Natal, Dutch East Indies (d. 1994)
- Feb 11 Vivian Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (led Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1st to cross Antarctica via South Pole), born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight (d. 1999)
- Feb 12 August Neo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1982)
- Feb 12 Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931)
- Feb 12 Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982)
- Feb 13 Gerald Strang, American classical and electronic music composer, born in Claresholm, Alberta, Canada (d. 1983)
- Feb 13 Lennie Hayton, American pianist, composer, conductor and arranger (Paul Whiteman; Bing Crosby; MGM), born in New York City (d. 1971)
- Feb 13 Pauline Frederick, American journalist and correspondent (UN, NBC TV), born in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
- Feb 13 Sulo Nurmela, Finish skier (Olympic gold 1936), born in Onkamaa, Finland (d. 1999)
- Feb 15 Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980)
- Feb 15 Sidney Gilliat, English screenwriter (Night Train to Munich) and director, born in Stockport, Cheshire, England (d. 1994)
- Feb 15 Ypk van der Fear, Dutch writer (Reade Runen), born in Sondel, Netherlands (d. 1983)
- Feb 17 Red Barber, American baseball broadcaster (Cincinnati Reds 1934–38, Brooklyn Dodgers 1939–53, NY Yankees 1954–66), born in Columbus, Mississippi (d. 1992)
- Feb 17 Staats Cotsworth, American actor (Hamlet, Peyton Place), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1979)
- Feb 18 Angelo Rossitto, American dwarf actor (known as "Little Moe", Carousel), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1991)
- Feb 20 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, Russian test pilot (world speed record in BI-1 rocket plane, but killed in its crash), born in Brinkovskya, Russia (d. 1943)
- Feb 20 Leon Lontoc, Filipino-American character actor (The Ugly American; Burke's Law - "Henry"), born in Manilla, Philippines (d. 1974)
- Feb 20 Rosalind Laura Burke, British aviator (d. 1994)
- Feb 20 Seymour Österwall, Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1981)
- Feb 21 Neville Quinn, South African cricket fast bowler (12 Tests, 35 wickets), born in Tweefontein, South Africa (d. 1934)
- Feb 22 Claude "Fiddler" Williams, American jazz violinist and guitarist (Twelve Clouds of Joy; Count Basie), born in Muskogee, Oklahoma (d. 2004)
- Feb 22 Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (Acción Democrática: 1945-48, 1959-64) known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", born in Guatire, Venezuela (d. 1981)
- Feb 22 Sir John Mills, British actor (Ryan's Daughter, Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace), born in North Elmham, Norfolk, England (d. 2005)
- Feb 23 Ray Brown, American Baseball HOF pitcher (NgL World Series 1943, 44; Triple Crown 1938; Homestead Grays), born in Alger, Ohio (d. 1965)
- Feb 23 William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (Liberal: 1971-72), born in Redfern, New South Wales (d. 1988)
- Feb 25 Frank G. Slaughter [C.V. Terry], American novelist and physician (Sangaree), born in Washington D.C. (d. 2001)
- Feb 26 Jean-Pierre Wimille, French auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1937, 39 Bugatti T57), born in Paris, France (d. 1949)
- Feb 26 Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007)
- Feb 26 Néstor Mesta Cháyres, Mexican lyric tenor, born in Mexico City, Mexico (d. 1971)
- Feb 26 Tex Avery, American cartoonist at Warner Bros, MGM (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig), born in Taylor, Texas (d. 1980)
- Feb 28 Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005)
- Feb 28 Billie Bird, American actress (Jury Duty), born in Pocatello, Idaho (d. 2002)
- Feb 29 Alf Gover, English cricket fast bowler (4 Tests; Surrey CCC) and coach (Frank Tyson, Viv Richards, Andy Roberts, Ian Bishop; Surrey), born in Epsom, Surrey, England (d. 2001)
- Feb 29 Balthus [Balthazar Klossowski], French Polish painter (Valerie), born in Paris, France (d. 2001)
- Feb 29 Bob Pearce, American wrestler (Olympic gold bantamweight freestyle 1932), born in Wyaconda, Missouri (d. 1996)
Famous Deaths
- Feb 1 Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by Republican sympathisers at 44
- Feb 10 Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Egyptian lawyer, journalist, Nationalist and a founder of Egyptian National Party, dies at 33
- Feb 14 Georges Jean Pfeiffer, French composer, dies at 72
- Feb 21 Harriet Hosmer, American neoclassical sculptor, dies at 77
- Feb 23 Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
- Feb 24 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, Ukrainian composer, dies at 66
- Feb 28 Pauline Lucca, Austrian operatic soprano, dies at 66
- Feb 29 John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (as Lord Hopetoun)
- Feb 29 Pat Garrett, American Western lawman, dies at 57
