Historical Events in February, Month of February Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| February 8, 1968 | American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. |
| February 17, 1949 | Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel. |
| February 15, 706 | Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. |
| February 23, 1778 | American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to help to train the Continental Army. |
| February 13, 1849 | The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized. |
| February 17, 1972 | Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T. |
| February 1, 1946 | The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic. |
| February 22, 1856 | The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh. |
| February 26, 1929 | President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing the 96,000 acres (390 km2) Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. |
| February 24, 1711 | Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, is premièred. |
| February 13, 1726 | Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26. |
| February 12, 1733 | Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah. |
| February 10, 1964 | Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82. |
| February 18, 1955 | Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series. |
| February 28, 1966 | A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett. |
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