16/02/1943 - -32øF (-36øC), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record) 17/02/1943 - -19] Hitler visits fieldmarshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje 18/02/1943 - 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw" 28/02/1943 - 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month 02/02/1944 - 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands 05/02/1944 - 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin 08/02/1944 - 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin 15/02/1944 - 891 British bombers attack Berlin 19/02/1944 - 823 British bombers attack Berlin 26/02/1944 - 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed 29/02/1944 - 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 06/02/1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz 11/02/1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA 14/02/1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 19/02/1945 - 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days 19/02/1945 - 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima 23/02/1945 - 2nd Dutch govt of Gerbrandy forms in London 10/02/1946 - 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum 16/02/1946 - 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct 26/02/1946 - 2 killed and 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn 27/02/1946 - 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (NYC) 03/02/1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis) 03/02/1947 - -81øF (-63øC), Snag Yukon (North American record) 18/02/1947 - 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa 21/02/1947 - 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land 21/02/1947 - 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember" 06/02/1948 - 1st radio-controlled airplane flown 08/02/1948 - 5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland 12/02/1948 - 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps 16/02/1948 - 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC 01/02/1949 - 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948] 02/02/1949 - 1st 45 RPM record released 14/02/1949 - 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel) 19/02/1949 - 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 20/02/1949 - 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks) 02/02/1950 - 1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV 17/02/1950 - 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY 01/02/1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion 01/02/1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated 01/02/1951 - -50øF (-46øC), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record) 02/02/1951 - -35øF (-37øC), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994) 18/02/1951 - 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes 25/02/1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina) 26/02/1951 - 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified 27/02/1951 - 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms 04/02/1952 - 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY) 14/02/1952 - 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway 18/02/1952 - 4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca wins 20/02/1952 - 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford) 25/02/1952 - 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway 05/02/1953 - 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes wins 01/02/1954 - 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres 11/02/1954 - 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden wins 15/02/1954 - 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California 23/02/1954 - 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh) 26/02/1954 - 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass 02/02/1955 - 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC 15/02/1955 - 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced 26/02/1955 - 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith 05/02/1956 - 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 09/02/1956 - -5øF (15øC) in Sicily 14/02/1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow 22/02/1956 - 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United 23/02/1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow 28/02/1956 - 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Mass 01/02/1957 - 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline 04/02/1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY) 01/02/1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched 06/02/1958 - 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash 07/02/1958 - 1st showing of DAF 600 auto 11/02/1958 - 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY 23/02/1958 - 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels 06/02/1959 - 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM 17/02/1959 - 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg 22/02/1959 - 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH) 01/02/1960 - 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86) 01/02/1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth 01/02/1960 - 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62) 18/02/1960 - 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colo 28/02/1960 - 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colo 29/02/1960 - 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago 01/02/1961 - 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful 03/02/1961 - 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm)) 16/02/1961 - 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va 02/02/1962 - 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years 02/02/1962 - 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16¬', Melrose Games) 14/02/1962 - 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV 08/02/1963 - 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) 09/02/1963 - 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7") 09/02/1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet 15/02/1963 - 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) 16/02/1963 - 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US) 09/02/1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria 09/02/1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers) 17/02/1964 - 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling) 03/02/1965 - 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams 18/02/1965 - 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC 03/02/1966 - 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) 03/02/1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US 10/02/1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect
