Feb 04 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil

Feb 04 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC

Feb 09 Apollo 14, and its crew of three astronauts, returns to Earth after America's third lunar landing mission.

Feb 10 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa

Feb 14 Movie "Ben Hur" first shown on television

Feb 13 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos

Feb 23 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year as a result of several speeding tickets

Feb 14 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House

Feb 15 After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal

Feb 28 53rd PGA Championship Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his 2nd golf grand slam

Feb 09 San Fernando, California an earthquake measuring 6.5 lasted about 60 seconds, took 65 lives, injured more than 2,000, and caused property damage estimated at $505 million

Feb 28 Women refused the right to vote in Lichtenstein elections

Feb 11 US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons

Feb 24 Algeria nationalizes French oil companies

Feb 21 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic

Feb 04 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt

Feb 05 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro; Alan Shepard &Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours

Feb 23 Lieutenant Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina

Feb 20 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda

Feb 28 The birth of Tristan Louis, Internet entrepreneur (me)

Feb 09 Probably first gay theme TV episode - All in the Family

Feb 06 The First time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard)

Feb 24 Captain JJ Smith, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, wins a Bar to his Military Cross The AATTV was the most decorated unit in Australian military history

Feb 25 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances

Feb 11 Montréal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal

Feb 09 Satchel Paige becomes first negro-league player elected to baseball HOF

Feb 04 Rolls Royce goes bankrupt after a disastrous contract to supply aero engines to Lockheed Aircraft

Feb 01 Canada and China open diplomatic relations; exchange diplomats in both countries, and officially recognize each other's sovereignty

Feb 02 Idi Amin becomes ruler of Uganda, following a coup that ousts President Milton Obote.

Feb 05 The US Apollo 14 (Shepard and Mitchell onboard) lands on the Moon

Feb 21 Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi & Louisiana killing 117

Feb 08 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos

Feb 19 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK

Feb 20 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio &TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes

Feb 22 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria

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