February 1

February 11931 Boris Yeltsin , president of Russia

1790 Supreme Court

convenes for the 1st time

(New York, NY)

February 21895 George S Halas , co-founder

NFL

1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires TX, CA, NM & AZ for $15 million

February 31894- Norman Rockwell (American

artist and illustrator ,born in New York City)

1870 - The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing the right of citizens to vote, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

February 41902- Charles Lindbergh (Made first

non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris, May 20-21, 1927)

1976 In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000

February 5

1723 John Witherspoon ,signed Declaration of Independence

1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs

February 6

1756 Aaron Burr, 3rd US Vice-President (1801-05)

1933 20th Amendment goes into effect; Presidential term begins in Jan. not March

February 7

1817 Frederick Douglass, 1st high ranking black in US government

1935 Monopoly invented

by Charles Darrow

February 81940 Ted Koppel, newscaster

(ABC Nightline)

1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed

February 9

1773 William Henry Harrison (Whigs) 9th President

1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state

February 101950 Mark Spitz (swimmer)

1990 South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela, the black activist imprisoned for 27 years, will be released the next day

February 11

1847- Thomas Edison (Inventor of incandescent bulb, phonograph and movie camera)

660 BC -Founding date of the Japanese nation, occurred with the accession to the throne of the first Emperor, Jimmu

February 12

1809 Abraham Lincoln, (R) 16th President (1861-65)

1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah

February 131885 Elizabeth Virginia "Bess"

Truman, 1st lady

1566 St Augustine FL founded

February 14Jim Kelly and Drew Bledsoe, quarterbacks for the Buffalo Bills

1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state

February 151564- Galileo Galilei (first

astronomer to use a telescope)

1861 Abraham Lincoln declared President

February 16

1812 Henry Wilson (R) 18th Vice-President (1873-75)

0600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze

February 17

1963 Michael Jordan (basketballer)

1967 Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"

February 18

1950 John Hughes (film director)

1979 Snow fell in the Sahara Desert for the first and only recorded time in history

February 191473- Nicolaus Copernicus

(Astronomer, theorized that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system)

1987 Anti-smoking ad airs for first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner

February 20

1967 Kurt Cobain (singer, songwriter)

1792 US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance

1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin

February 21

1728 Peter III, Russian tsar (1761-62), husband of Catherine

885 Washington Monument dedicated (Washington, DC)

February 221632 Thomas Osborne English PM

(1690-94)/founder of the Tories

1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

February 23

1868 William E B Du Bois , civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk)

1945 US Marines raiseFlag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue

February 241955 Steven Jobs (Computer engineer,

entrepreneur)

1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found

1980 The U.S. hockey team beats Finland 4-2, to win the gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, NY.

February 251971 Sean Astin ( actor- Rudy, Lord of

the Rings)

1793 George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States

February 261802 Victor Hugo, author (Hunchback of

Notre Dame, Les Miserables)

1977 1st flight of Space Shuttle

(a top a Boeing 747)

February 270280 Constantine the Great Roman

emperor (306-37)

1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti

February 28

1802 Victor Hugo, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)

1930 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)