22/02/1864 - 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS 22/02/1864 - -27] Battle at Dalton Georgia 27/02/1864 - 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties) 01/02/1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) 06/02/1865 - 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run) 08/02/1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany 17/02/1865 - -18] Battle of Charleston SC 17/02/1867 - 1st ship passes through Suez Canal 24/02/1868 - 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama) 29/02/1868 - 1st British govt of Disraeli forms 26/02/1869 - 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states 03/02/1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed 05/02/1870 - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia 26/02/1870 - 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered) 28/02/1871 - 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections 14/02/1872 - 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA) 22/02/1872 - 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio) 07/02/1877 - 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC) 12/02/1877 - 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass 20/02/1877 - 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky 11/02/1878 - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK 11/02/1878 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms 17/02/1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones 21/02/1878 - 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut) 10/02/1879 - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater) 12/02/1879 - 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC) 22/02/1879 - 1st 5› and 10› store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY) 26/02/1881 - -27] Natal: British troops under gen-major Colley occupy Majuba Hill 15/02/1882 - 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin 17/02/1882 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground 28/02/1882 - 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard U 14/02/1883 - 1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions 21/02/1883 - 2nd French government of Ferry begins 28/02/1883 - 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston) 01/02/1884 - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 09/02/1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii 12/02/1886 - 2nd British govt of Salisbury forms 16/02/1887 - 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY) 20/02/1887 - 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh) 21/02/1887 - 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn) 14/02/1889 - 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east 14/02/1890 - 1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game 06/02/1891 - 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17) 09/02/1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento 26/02/1891 - 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park 23/02/1892 - 1st college student govt forms at Bryn Mawr Penn 02/02/1893 - 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ 26/02/1893 - 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich 03/02/1894 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me 04/02/1895 - 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago 09/02/1895 - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3) 11/02/1895 - -17øF (-27.2øC) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record) 15/02/1895 - 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans 01/02/1898 - 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co 10/02/1899 - -39øF (-39øC), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature) 11/02/1899 - -61øF, Montana (record low temperature) 11/02/1899 - -15øF (-26øC), Washington, DC (district record) 12/02/1899 - 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, MSG, NYC 12/02/1899 - -47øF (-44øC), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record) 13/02/1899 - -2øF (-19øC) Tallahassee, Florida (state record) 13/02/1899 - -1øF (-18øC) New Orleans, La 13/02/1899 - -16øF (-27øC), Minden Louisiana (state record) 18/02/1899 - 80øF in SF 16/02/1900 - 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF) 20/02/1901 - 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes 15/02/1903 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom 16/02/1903 - -59øF (-51øC), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record) 13/02/1905 - -40øF (-40øC) Lebanon, Kansas (state record) 13/02/1905 - -29øF (-34øC) Pond, Arkansas (state record) 13/02/1905 - -40øF (-40øC) Warsaw, Missouri (state record) 15/02/1905 - 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark) 16/02/1905 - 1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston 01/02/1906 - 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas 14/02/1907 - 1st US fox hound association forms in NYC 22/02/1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London 18/02/1908 - 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued 25/02/1908 - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens 09/02/1909 - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio 09/02/1909 - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) 16/02/1909 - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC) 01/02/1910 - 1st British labour exchange opens 23/02/1910 - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia) 06/02/1911 - 1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz 17/02/1911 - 1st hydroplane flight to and from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego) 07/02/1912 - 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40) 08/02/1912 - 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla 14/02/1912 - 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct 03/02/1913 - 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified 09/02/1913 - -18] 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die 15/02/1913 - 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC 17/02/1913 - 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon) 19/02/1913 - 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box 25/02/1913 - 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax 28/02/1913 - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic) 16/02/1914 - 1st airplane flight (LA to SF) 07/02/1915 - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army 07/02/1915 - 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received 21/02/1915 - 20th Russian Army corps surrenders 12/02/1916 - 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps" 16/02/1917 - 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid
04/04/1996 - Joy Newton, dancer, dies at 82 16/04/1996 - Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73 20/05/1996 - Jack Wyngaard, dancer, dies at 37 29/05/1996 - Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77 11/06/1996 - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer, dies at 49 17/07/1996 - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48 30/08/1996 - Louise Brown, dancer/teacher, dies at 89 14/09/1996 - Juliet Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59 16/09/1996 - Gene Nelson, actor/dancer (SOB, Purple Hills, Starlift), dies at 76 20/09/1996 - Paul Draper, dancer, dies at 87 22/09/1996 - Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer, dies at 72 25/10/1996 - Eugene Polyakov, dancer, dies at 95 27/10/1996 - John Gregory, dancer, dies at 82 05/11/1996 - Paula Hinton, dancer, dies at 72 09/12/1997 - Tamara Geva, dancer, dies at 91 10/12/1997 - Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97
