Feb 25 Jersey Joe Walcott, world heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52), dies in Camden, NJ, at age 80.

Feb 16 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru

Feb 12 Rev. Victoria Matthews consecrated the first female Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada

Feb 20 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals

Feb 08 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm

Feb 01 Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, pleads guilty to taking part in an attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.

Feb 12 17th Olympics Winter games open in Lillehammer, Norway

Feb 12 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose

Feb 20 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage

Feb 04 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan

Feb 27 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway

Feb 22 Iraq begins flooding its southern marshes to destroy the Shia Muslims living there

Feb 16 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200

Feb 07 Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant

Feb 22 Paul Martin tables his first Budget as Finance Minister; wants to cut deficit from $45 to 39 billion; cuts tobacco taxes to curb smuggling; announces four military bases to close.

Feb 05 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson MS, 30 years after the crime

Feb 07 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge

Feb 06 Actor Joseph Cotten dies in Los Angeles at age 88.

Feb 12 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston

Feb 03 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam

Feb 03 "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore

Feb 14 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons

Feb 22 Health Canada project finds traces of cigarette smoke compounds in fetal hair; first biochemical proof that even offspring of non-smoking mothers are affected by passive smoke Ladies there is a reason to quit smoking

Feb 18 Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)

Feb 03 Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok

Feb 15 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti

Feb 05 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV

Feb 28 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect

Feb 12 Edward Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen from the Norwegian National Gallery. It is later returned and promptly stolen again.

Feb 11 Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA

Feb 08 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car

Feb 12 Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease

Feb 09 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat

Feb 25 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31

Apr 04 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion Arkansas Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72

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