History on February!
February 1st
1788 – The Steamboat is invented
1790 - Start of the US Supreme Court
1793 – France declares war on the UK
1913 – New York’s Grand central station opens
2003 – The space shuttle Columbia crashes
February 2nd
1536 – Argentina is founded
1848 – end of the Mexican – American war
1876 – Major league baseball is started
1925 – Iditarod race begins
1943 - WWII: the German Sixth Army surrenders at Stalingrad
1989 - Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ends
February 3rd
1870 - The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution is passed
1913 – US starts income tax
1959 – Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash
1969 - Yasser Arafat becomes leader of the PLO
February 4th
1783 – American Revolutionary War ends
1789 – George Washington becomes the first US president
1861 - The Confederacy is formed in the US Civil War.
1927 – The first Talkie movie is released
1938 – Snow White and the 7 dwarfs released
1945 – The Yalta conference begins
February 5th
1917 - The Constitution of Mexico is ratified
1953 – The movie ‘Peter Pan’ is released
1958 – The Tybee bomb is lost
1971 – Apollo 14 lands on the moon
February 6th
337 – Julius I is elected Pope
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore
1862 - Battle of Fort Henry in the US Civil War
1959 - The Integrated Circuit is invented
February 19th
1847 – The Donner Party is rescued
1878 – Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
1913 – Prizes are now included in Cracker Jacks
1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima
1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station
February 25th
1570 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England
1836 - Samuel Colt invents the Colt Revolver
1837 - The electric printing press is patented by Thomas Davenport
1901 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1933 - First aircraft carrier is launched, the USS Ranger
1954 Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1964 Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston to become heavyweight champion
2004 The movie Passion of the Christ is released