Historical Events
Gillooly Pleads Guilty
Feb 1 Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his part in attack on American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan; plea bargain, confesses to racketeering in exchange for testimony implicating ex-wife Tonya Harding
- Feb 1 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
- Feb 1 South African cricket fast bowler Fanie de Villiers bravely survives 197 minutes for 30 on last day of 3rd Test against Australia in Adelaide; Proteas finally all out 129; Australia win by 191, draw series
Vietnam Trade Embargo Lifts
Feb 3 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
- Feb 3 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
- Feb 4 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
- Feb 4 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
- Feb 4 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
- Feb 4 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
- Feb 5 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
- Feb 5 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
- Feb 6 "Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
- Feb 6 Jose Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica
- Feb 6 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
- Feb 6 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 17-3; MVP: Andre Rison, Atlanta Falcons, WR
- Feb 7 American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC) undergoes a liver transplant
Stern Stops Jumper
Feb 7 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
- Feb 8 "Sátántangó", Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr, starring Mihály Víg, Putyi Horváth, is released
Dev Test Wicket Record
Feb 8 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
Tommy Lee Charged
Feb 8 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee is charged with possession of a loaded firearm
- Feb 10 44th Berlin International Film Festival: "In the Name of the Father" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 11 Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
- Feb 11 Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
- Feb 12 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn sonatas takes place in Boston
- Feb 12 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
- Feb 12 XVII Winter Olympic Games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
- Feb 13 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
- Feb 13 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
- Feb 13 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
- Feb 15 Tom Barrasso becomes winningest US born goalie in NHL history, as the Pittsburgh Penguins win, 5-3 over visiting Winnipeg; passes record of 252 career wins set by Frank Brimsek
- Feb 15 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
- Feb 16 6.5 earthquake strikes South East Sumatra, kills 200
- Feb 16 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
- Feb 16 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru
- Feb 18 Shreveport Pirates join Canadian Football League as 4th US-based team; fold 1995
- Feb 20 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
- Feb 20 36th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins his first NASCAR race; Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr killed in separate practice incidents
- Feb 20 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
- Feb 23 Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
- Feb 24 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
- Feb 25 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres at least 55 Palestinians at Hebron Ibrahimi Mosque, with an assault style rifle
- Feb 25 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
- Feb 26 St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
- Feb 27 Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas' percussion revue "Stomp" opens at the Orpheum Theatre, NYC; runs for 11,475 performances
- Feb 27 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
- Feb 27 XVII Winter Olympic Games close in Lillehammer, Norway
- Feb 28 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA, comes into effect
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Julia Garner, American Actress (Ozark), born in New York City
- Feb 3 Tallulah Belle Willis, American 3rd daughter of actors Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
- Feb 4 Alexia Putellas, Spanish soccer midfielder (FIFA Ballon d'Or Féminin 2021, 22; FC Barcelona Femení), born in Mollet del Vallès, Spain
- Feb 8 (Nicole) "Nikki" Yanofsky, Canadian jazz-pop singer ("I Believe"), born in Montreal, Quebec.
- Feb 10 Makenzie Vega, American actress, born in Los Angeles, California
- Feb 11 Dominic Janes, American actor, born in Tucson, Arizona
- Feb 13 Memphis Depay, Dutch football player ( Atlético Madrid), born in Moordrecht, Netherlands
- Feb 14 Becky Hill, English singer (Remember), born in Bewdley, England
- Feb 14 Paul Butcher, American actor, born in Los Angeles, California
- Feb 18 J-Hope [Jung Ho-seok] South Korean rapper (BTS), born in Gwangju, South Korea,
- Feb 20 Brigid Kosgei, Kenyan athlete (marathon world record 2019; Chicago Marathon 2018-9, London Marathon 2019), born in Kenya
- Feb 23 Little Simz [Simbiatu Ajikawo], English rapper and actress (Sometimes I might be Introvert), born in London, England
- Feb 24 Jessica Pegula, American tennis player, born in Boca Raton, Florida
- Feb 25 Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player (Wimbledon 2014 runner-up), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Feb 26 Ahmet Çalık, Turkish soccer centre-back (8 caps; Gençlerbirliği, Galatasaray, Konyaspor), born in Ankara, Turkey (d. 2022)
- Feb 26 Creason Carbo Moss, daughter of American actor Ronn Moss
- Feb 27 Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player, born in Xinghua, China
- Feb 28 Jake Bugg [Kennedy], British blues-rock singer-songwriter, and musician, born in Nottingham, England
Famous Weddings
- Feb 18 Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
- Feb 26 Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg (25) at Church of St. Eleanore, Stockholm; divorce in 2011
Famous Deaths
- Feb 1 Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
- Feb 1 John Littlejohn [Funchess], American electric blues slide guitarist ("So-Called Friends"), dies of renal failure at 62
- Feb 1 Olan Soule, American character radio and screen actor (The First Nighter Program; Captain Midnight; Dragnet; Arnie), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Feb 2 John Littlejohn, American blues guitarist and singer, dies at 62
- Feb 2 Stephen Barclay, American actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
- Feb 2 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith (née Ford), American gospel singer, evangelist, and folk artist, dies at 89
- Feb 2 Zilner Randolph, American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and music educator, dies at 95
- Feb 4 Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62
- Feb 4 Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
- Feb 4 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist and director (KNMI), dies at 84
- Feb 4 Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79
- Feb 5 Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at 63
- Feb 5 Hermann Abs, German banker to Adolf Hitler & Konrad Adenauer and director of Deutsche Bank (1938-45), dies at 92
- Feb 5 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, American blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59
- Feb 6 Gwendoline "Gwen" Watford, British actress (Present Laughter, Cleopatra, Taste the Blood of Dracula), dies from cancer at 66
- Feb 6 Ignace Strasfogel, Polish-American pianist, conductor, composer, dies at 84
- Feb 6 Joseph Cotten, American actor (Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Airport 77, Hearse), dies from pneumonia at 88
- Feb 6 Norman Del Mar, British conductor and writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74
- Feb 7 Luc Peire, Belgian painter and graphic artist, dies at 77
- Feb 7 Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
- Feb 7 Witold Lutosławski, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (Musique funèbre; Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux), dies of cancer at 81
- Feb 8 Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
- Feb 8 Ken Hall, Australian director and producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
- Feb 8 Raymond Scott, American composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
- Feb 9 Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
- Feb 9 Bud Wilkinson, American college football coach (Oklahoma), dies at 77
- Feb 9 Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (Nobel Prize, 1975), dies at 59
- Feb 9 Jarmila Novotná, Czech-American soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1940-56), and actress (The Search), dies at 86
- Feb 9 Louis Kaufman, American violinist and conductor (Gone With The Wind), dies at 88
- Feb 11 Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23
- Feb 11 Neil Bonnett, American race car driver, dies at 47
- Feb 11 Sorrell Booke, American actor (Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazard), dies of colorectal cancer at 64
- Feb 11 Vincent Wigglesworth, British entomologist (Metamorphosis hormones), dies at 94
- Feb 11 William Conrad [John Cann], American actor (The Killers, Bullwinkle Show, Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
- Feb 12 Donald Judd, American minimalist sculptor and artist, dies of cancer at 65
- Feb 12 Ray Dandridge, American Baseball HOF third baseman (3 × NgL All-Star 1935, 37, 44; American Association MVP 1950 Minneapolis Millers), dies at 80
- Feb 12 Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate, dies at 43
- Feb 13 Michael Lindsay, British-Australian scholar (aided communists against Japanese occupation in China), dies at 84
- Feb 13 Theo Bitter, Dutch painter and set designer, dies at 79
- Feb 14 Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet-Russian serial killer who murdered at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990, executed by a single gunshot at 57
- Feb 14 Christopher Lasch, American historian and author (The Culture of Narcissism), dies of metastatic cancer at 61
- Feb 14 Gary "BB" Coleman, American blues singer, guitarist and producer, dies at 47
- Feb 15 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
- Feb 15 George "Tiger" Haynes, American jazz guitarist (The Three Flames), and stage and screen actor (The Wiz; In the Heat of the Night), dies at 79
- Feb 15 Maria Britneva, Russian actress (A Room with a View, Maurice), dies of heart failure 72
- Feb 17 Gretchen Fraser, American slalom skier (Olympic gold 1948, 1st American Olympic skiing gold), dies at 75
- Feb 17 Randy Shilts, American journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDS at 41
- Feb 18 Peter Caddy, British caterer (co-founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76
- Feb 19 Derek Jarman, English filmmaker (The Tempest), artist and gay rights activist, dies of AIDS at 52
- Feb 19 Fausto Bara, Mexican-American actor (The Renegades - "Gaucho"), dies of AIDS at 42
- Feb 19 Georges Watin, Algerian-French officer (OAS), dies at 71
- Feb 19 Gordon Sparling, Canadian pioneering filmmaker (Canadian Cameo series - Canada's first major films with sound), dies at 93 [1]
- Feb 19 Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19
- Feb 19 Vittorio Rieti, Jewish Italian-American composer, dies at 96
- Feb 20 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
- Feb 20 Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49
- Feb 20 Willi Schmidt, German director (Eli), dies at 84
- Feb 22 "Papa" John Creach, American blues violinist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane), dies of heart failure at 76
- Feb 23 Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
- Feb 24 Donald Phillips, pianist and composer, dies at 80
- Feb 24 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 58
- Feb 24 Jean Sablon, French pop singer-songwriter, dies at 87
- Feb 24 Lores Bonney, Australian aviator, 1st female solo flight Australia to UK, dies at 96
- Feb 25 Baruch Goldstein, American-Israli physician and mass murderer (at least 55 dead in shooting at Hebron Ibrahimi Mosque), lynched at 42
- Feb 25 Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (170 wickets for South Africa in 37 Tests), dies
- Feb 25 Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Polish lawyer and adviser to Solidarity labor union, dies of heart disease at 80
- Feb 25 Yann Piat [née Marie], French politician (National Assembly, 1986-94 - FN/PR), assassinated at 44
- Feb 26 Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
- Feb 26 Bill Hicks, American stand-up comedian and social critic, dies of pancreatic cancer at 32
- Feb 26 Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
- Feb 27 "Hans" Leopold Kohr, Austrian social philosopher and economist, dies at 84
- Feb 27 Harold Acton, English-Italian historian and art collector, dies at 84
- Feb 27 Karl Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor involved in the art movement De Ploeg, dies at 66
- Feb 27 Laurence Craigie, American aviator (1st US jet pilot), dies at 92
- Feb 27 Roosevelt Holts, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 89
- Feb 28 (Elbert) "Skippy" Williams, American jazz tenor saxophonist and musical arranger, dies at 77
- Feb 28 Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
- Feb 28 Buster Holmes, American chef and New Orleans restaurateur, dies at 88
- Feb 28 G. O. Sayles, English historian, dies at 92
- Feb 28 Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90
- Feb 28 Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
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