Feb 24 24th Grammy Awards Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy win

Feb 16 Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce

Feb 25 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs

Feb 06 "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart

Feb 05 Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns &flees to Netherlands

Feb 04 Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees

Feb 02 Government troops & Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria

Feb 03 Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder

Feb 27 Earl Anthony becomes first pro bowler to win more than $1 million

Feb 05 Laker Airways collapse owing £270 million ($351 million)

Feb 22 Britain and US sent ships to Persian Gulf following Iranian offensive

Feb 27 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw

Feb 28 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street

Feb 15 Off the Newfoundlandthe oil drilling rig Ocean Ranger capsizes and sinks in 18 m waves during a fierce storm on the Grand Banks 315 km east of St. John's; all 84 crewmen, 56 of whom are Newfoundlanders, drown in worst marine disaster in Canada

Feb 13 Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week

Feb 25 House of Commons starts inquiry into bank profits, in wake of record interest rates

Feb 07 Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica

Feb 15 Eighty-four workers die when an oil drilling rig sinks off the coast of Newfoundland during a storm.

Feb 28 AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day

Feb 04 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47 meters) Tacoma WA

Feb 02 "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC

Feb 16 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad

Feb 01 Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium in Alberta .

Feb 25 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)

Feb 23 Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London

Feb 05 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people

Feb 26 Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs Australia Wellington, run out 9

Feb 21 "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances

Feb 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 19 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Feb 27 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

Feb 03 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission

Feb 03 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR

Feb 22 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)

Feb 01 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)

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