13/02/1984 - 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant 15/02/1984 - 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq 19/02/1984 - 1st brother combo to win Gold and Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil and Steve Mahre-Slalom) 19/02/1984 - 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 28/02/1984 - 26th Grammy Awards: Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8 01/02/1985 - -69øF (-56øC), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record) 01/02/1985 - -61øF (-52øC), Maybell, Colorado (state record) 04/02/1985 - 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture 08/02/1985 - 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados 10/02/1985 - 35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana 12/02/1985 - 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary 17/02/1985 - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon) 17/02/1985 - 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England 17/02/1985 - 1st class postage rises from 20› to 22› 19/02/1985 - 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain 26/02/1985 - 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins 04/02/1986 - 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford 08/02/1986 - 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition 09/02/1986 - 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas 12/02/1986 - 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana 15/02/1986 - 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit 17/02/1986 - 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles 25/02/1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins 01/02/1987 - 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit 01/02/1987 - 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze 08/02/1987 - 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle 14/02/1987 - 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit 24/02/1987 - 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins 26/02/1987 - 1st release of Beatles compact discs 16/05/1987 - Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA 05/02/1988 - 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan 07/02/1988 - 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago 09/02/1988 - 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St Louis 10/02/1988 - 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) 13/02/1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada 14/02/1988 - 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player 16/02/1988 - 1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador 20/02/1988 - 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil 23/02/1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games opens in Calgary, Alberta 28/02/1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada 07/02/1989 - 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton 08/02/1989 - 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles 12/02/1989 - 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry 12/02/1989 - 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel 12/02/1989 - 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston 17/02/1989 - 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole" 22/02/1989 - 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award) 22/02/1989 - 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman 24/02/1989 - 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found 25/02/1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms 04/02/1990 - 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo 10/02/1990 - 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome) 11/02/1990 - 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami 13/02/1990 - 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa 21/02/1990 - 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins 22/02/1990 - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps 10/02/1991 - 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte 20/02/1991 - 33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey 08/02/1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France 09/02/1992 - 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando 15/02/1992 - 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox 23/02/1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France 25/02/1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins 27/12/1992 - "Tommy Tune Tonite! Song and Dance Act" opens at Gershwin NYC for 10 per 06/02/1993 - 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal 21/02/1993 - 43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City 24/02/1993 - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins 26/02/1993 - 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards 26/02/1993 - 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die 28/02/1993 - 7th American Comedy Award: Seinfeld wins 04/02/1994 - 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan 04/02/1994 - 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins 07/02/1994 - 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins 12/02/1994 - 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston 12/02/1994 - 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway 13/02/1994 - 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis 16/02/1994 - 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200 20/02/1994 - 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage 27/02/1994 - 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway 28/02/1994 - 100 agents raid Branch Davidian compound at Waco Texas 08/02/1995 - 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed) 12/02/1995 - 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix 17/02/1995 - 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards 19/02/1995 - 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV 11/02/1996 - 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio 17/02/1996 - 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47 18/02/1996 - 1st full ODI for Kenya, Cricket World Cup v India 28/02/1996 - 38th Grammy Awards: Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morisette wins 04/02/1997 - 73 Israelis die when army copters collide 05/02/1997 - 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund 09/02/1997 - 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds 09/02/1997 - 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland 10/02/1997 - 5th annual ESPY Awards presented 10/02/1997 - 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards 26/02/1997 - 39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck and LeAnn Rimes wins 01/02/1998 - 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62) 07/02/1998 - 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan 08/02/1998 - 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0 08/02/1998 - 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC 09/02/1998 - 6th annual ESPY Awards
