Feb 09 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed President of South Yemen

Feb 23 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7.00 seconds)

Feb 03 President Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident

Feb 25 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao

Feb 07 Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos

Feb 16 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad

Feb 08 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

Feb 19 Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO

Feb 02 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

Feb 01 Dick James, music publisher for the Beatles from 1962-70, dies in London at age 58.

Feb 11 Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup

Feb 10 "John Lennon Live in NYC" album is released

Feb 26 Goaltending great Jacques Plante 1929-1986 dies at his home near Geneva at age 57

Feb 23 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic

Feb 23 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)

Feb 28 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated in Stockholm.

Feb 20 The Channel Tunnel project was given the official go ahead

Feb 11 Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq

Feb 08 A head on collision between a freight train and a passenger train near Hinton, Alberta claims 23 lives.

Feb 24 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million

Feb 25 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel

Feb 05 Corazon Aquino &Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"

Feb 10 Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti flees the country to France

Feb 16 Mário Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's first civilian president

Feb 11 Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country

Feb 25 President Marcos of the Philipines escapes to the United States

Feb 01 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland

Feb 02 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected President of Costa Rica

Feb 20 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY

Feb 04 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)

Feb 19 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit

Feb 21 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School

Feb 07 Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees, ending 28 years of rule by his family.

Feb 07 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas

Feb 21 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks

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