"Manon Lescaut"
Feb 1 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Manon Lescaut" premieres in Turin
World's First Movie Studio
Feb 1 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
Falstaff
Feb 9 Giuseppe Verdi's comic opera "Falstaff" premieres at La Scala in Milan, Italy
Barnum Museum
Feb 18 The Barnum Museum opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut, dedicated to the life of P. T. Barnum
- Feb 22 1st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 32-22 in Birmingham
- Feb 24 The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America
- Feb 26 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, in Michigan
- Feb 26 Norwegian Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec)
- Feb 28 Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" (Silicon carbide)
Historic Publication
Feb 28 Stephen Crane's first novel "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" is published under the pseudonym "Johnston Smith"
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