- Feb 1 Brooklyn Robins trade former NL MVP Jake Daubert to Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Tommy Griffith; result of a salary grievance
- Feb 2 Monarchist riot in Portugal
- Feb 3 Herbert and Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady" premieres in New York City
- Feb 3 Socialist conference convenes (Berne, Switzerland)
- Feb 3 The Bolshevik army is defeated in a series of clashes with the White Russians, who are fighting to reclaim the government after the 1917 revolution
- Feb 4 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
United Artists Founded
Feb 5 Hollywood film studio United Artists founded by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith
- Feb 5 NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers
- Feb 6 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
- Feb 6 The first day of the Weimar Republic which, because of its support of the Treaty of Versailles, does not receive proper allegiance from the German nation
Election of Interest
Feb 11 Friedrich Ebert (SPD) elected president of Germany
NHL Record
Feb 18 Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goal
Pan-African Congress
Feb 19 Pan-African Congress, organized by American civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois is held at the Grand Hotel in Paris, France
- Feb 20 Foundation NHL club Toronto Arenas are permitted to cease operations due to financial difficulties; later become Toronto St. Patricks and then Maple Leafs
Clemenceau Wounded in Assassination Attempt
Feb 20 French Prime Minister Georges Clémenceau injured during assassination attempt
- Feb 21 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria
- Feb 21 Kurt Eisner, Premier of the Bavarian Republic, is assassinated by a far-right German nationalist in Munich
- Feb 21 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
Italian History
Feb 23 Fascist Party formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini
- Feb 25 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
- Feb 26 Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
- Feb 26 US Congress establishes Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
- Feb 27 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
- Feb 27 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
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Industrialists
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