February

February 2003

February 1	New Year's Day
February 2	Ground Hog Day Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo Signed - 1848
February 3	15th Amendment Ratified - 1870 16th Amendment Ratified - 1913 Birthday of Sidney Lanier - 1842-1881
February 4	Formation of the Confederate States of America - 1861 First Winter Olympics - 1832 Birthday of Charles Lindbergh - 1902-1074 Birthday of Rosa Parks - 1913 Birthday of Dan Quayle - 1947
February 5	Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius - 63 A.D.
February 6	Birthday of President Ronald Reagan - 1911 Queen Elizabeth II of England is crowned - 1952
February 7	Birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder - 1867 Great Baltimore Fire begins
February 8	Birthday of Jules Verne - 1828
February 9	Birthday of President William Henry Harrison - 1773 Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate State of America - 1861
February 10	The Seven Years' War ends - 1763 American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is released in Berlin, Germany - 1962
February 11	The first American hosiptal, the Pennsylvania Hospital, opens in Philiadelphia - 1752 Birthday of Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1812 Birthday of Thomas Alva Edison - 1847 The Vatican State in Rome is created.
February 12	Lady Jane Grey, wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded - 1554 Birthday of Charles Darwin - 1809 Birthday of Abraham Lincoln - 1809 Australian gold rush begins - 1851
February 13	Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded - 1542 Jesse James robs his first bank, in Liberty, Missouri - 1866 Birthday of Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager - 1923 Bruno Hauptmann is convicted of the Lindbergh kidnapping - 1935 Barbie debuts in New York City - 1959
February 14	St. Valentine's Day Birthday of Frederick Douglass - 1818
February 15	Birthday of Galileo Galilei - 1564 Mustard is invented - 1758 St. Louis, Missouri is founded - 1764 Birthday of Susan B. Anthony - 1820 The Germany battleship Bismarck is launched - 1939
February 16	King Tutankamen's tomb is unsealed by English achaeologist Howard Carter - 1923 U.S. Troops under Gen. Douglas MacArthur recapture the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines - 1945 Fiedel Castro is sown in as prime minister of Cuba - 1959 the Bee Gees win a Grammy for their album Saturday Night Fever - 1979
February 17	H.L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine, sinks in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina - 1864 Birthday of Marion Anderson - 1902
February 18	Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is published - 1678 The Adventures of Hucklebery Finn by Mark Twain is published - 1885 Pluto is discovered - 1930
February 19	Birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus - 1473 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is arrested for treason - 1807 Rescuers reach the Donner Party who were stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains - 1847 Russian czar Alexander II abolishes serfdom - 1861 President franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 - 1942 The Chicago Seven are convicted - 1970
February 20	Birthday of Ansel Adams - 1902 Navy fighter pilot Edward O'Hara becomes the first American flying ace of WWII - 1942 John Glenn becomes the first person to orbit the earth - 1962
February 21	Joan of Arc is captured and imprisoned - 1431 The Washington Monument is dedicated - 1885 Malcolm X is assassinated - 1965
February 22	Birthday of George Washington - 1732 The US Soccer Team beats Russia and wins gold at the Olympics - 1980
February 23	Leo Hirshfield introduces the Tootsie Roll - 1896 US Marines raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima - 1945
February 24	Birthday of Wilhelm Grimm - 1786 Birthday of Winslow Homer - 1836
February 25	The 16th Amendment is ratified - 1913
February 26	Birthday of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody - 1846
February 27	Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807 The first Union prisoners arrive at Andersonville Prison in Georgia - 1862
February 28	The euro becomes the sole currency for 12 members of the European Union - 2002
February 29	A Scottish law takes effect allowing women to propose marriage to men on Feb. 29 and requiring men to pay fines if they refuse - 1288