26/02/1917 - 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) 05/02/1918 - 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson 15/02/1918 - 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland 06/02/1919 - 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike 27/02/1919 - 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets" 01/02/1920 - 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn) 04/02/1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1« months) 22/02/1920 - 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville Calif) 23/02/1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF 24/02/1921 - 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida 13/02/1923 - 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes 22/02/1923 - 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA Calif) 04/02/1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France 08/02/1924 - 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic 22/02/1924 - 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge) 01/02/1925 - 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontk„mpferbund in Berlin 10/02/1925 - 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind 12/02/1925 - 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress 21/02/1925 - 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published 02/02/1926 - 3 men dance Charleston for 22« hours 18/02/1927 - 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts" 07/02/1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler) 08/02/1928 - 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY 11/02/1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland 19/02/1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland 22/02/1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler) 01/02/1929 - 1st clean and jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402« lbs 04/02/1930 - 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans 05/02/1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins 26/02/1930 - 1st red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC) 02/02/1931 - 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria) 02/02/1931 - 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students 15/02/1931 - 1st Dracula movie released 17/02/1931 - 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball) 04/02/1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY 06/02/1932 - 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport) 11/02/1932 - 73øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February 15/02/1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY 16/02/1932 - 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree 02/02/1933 - 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament 03/02/1933 - 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC 06/02/1933 - 20th amendment (terms of office) passed 06/02/1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March 06/02/1933 - 112' ocean wave observed near Manila 06/02/1933 - -90øF (-68øC), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record) 08/02/1933 - -23øF (-31øC), Seminole, Texas (state record) 08/02/1933 - 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247 09/02/1933 - -63øF (-53øC), Moran, Wyoming (state record) 10/02/1933 - -54øF (-48øC), Seneca, Oregon (state record) 17/02/1933 - 1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine published 25/02/1933 - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger 28/02/1933 - 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor 07/02/1934 - 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss 09/02/1934 - -14.3øF (-25.7øC), coldest day in New York City 09/02/1934 - -51øF (-46øC), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record) 10/02/1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 17/02/1934 - 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn) 01/02/1935 - 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol 06/02/1935 - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey 08/02/1935 - 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL 10/02/1935 - 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service 11/02/1935 - 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY 11/02/1935 - -11øF (-24øC), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low) 13/02/1935 - 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland 04/02/1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E) 06/02/1936 - 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 08/02/1936 - 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers 08/02/1936 - 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn 08/02/1936 - 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger 15/02/1936 - -60øF (-51øC), Parshall, North Dakota (state record) 16/02/1936 - 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 17/02/1936 - -58øF (-50øC), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record) 23/02/1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY 05/02/1937 - 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released 11/02/1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends 20/02/1937 - 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca 24/02/1937 - 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC 17/02/1938 - 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London) 26/02/1938 - 1st passenger ship equipped with radar 25/02/1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden 24/10/1939 - Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance" 25/02/1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians) 28/02/1940 - 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37) 29/02/1940 - 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton) 10/02/1941 - 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA 11/02/1941 - 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo) 14/02/1941 - 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel 20/02/1941 - 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland 24/02/1941 - 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague 26/02/1941 - 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO 28/02/1941 - 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month 01/02/1942 - 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms 03/02/1942 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java 07/02/1942 - 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8") 12/02/1942 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany 27/02/1942 - 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany 28/02/1942 - 1st weapon drop on Netherlands 03/02/1943 - 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others 06/02/1943 - 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down 10/02/1943 - 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
