How Portugal Lost Its Monarchy
Feb 1 King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican sympathizers in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon
Phillies Sell Waddell
Feb 7 Philadelphia Athletics' manager and owner Connie Mack sells future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
- Feb 8 Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert, Netherlands
Burns vs. Palmer
Feb 10 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Englishman Jack Palmer in round 4 in London in his 8th title defense
- Feb 11 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
- Feb 11 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
- Feb 12 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
- Feb 12 NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
- Feb 18 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
- Feb 18 The American ambassador to Japan is given a note by the Japanese in which they agree to restrict Japanese emigration to the US; this becomes known as the 'Gentlemen's Agreement'
- Feb 24 In 'Muller v Oregon', the US Supreme Court favors an Oregon law limiting maximum hours a woman may work and denies that it curtails 'liberty of contract'
- Feb 25 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
- Feb 27 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
- Feb 28 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Tehran
- Feb 29 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
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