February in History

Historical Events on February

1899 The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.

2004 Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.

1962 French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.

1997 The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

1963 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.

1943 World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.

2011 The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.

1801 An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

1792 The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.

1937 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.

1972 United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.

532 Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople - the Hagia Sophia.

1945 World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.

1945 World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.

1868 Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.

1983 A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.

1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.

1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.

Famous Birthdays on February

1985 Cristiano Ronaldo

1992 Neymar

1911 Ronald Reagan

412 Proclus

1979 Valentino Rossi

1985 Ron Vlaar

1967 Roberto Baggio

1954 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Famous Deaths on February

1597 Franciscus Patricius

1296 Przemysł II

1957 John von Neumann

1998 Enoch Powell

1960 Aloysius Stepinac

2012 Whitney Houston

1804 Immanuel Kant

1928 H. H. Asquith

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