- Feb 1 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
Soviet Union Recognized
Feb 1 Ramsay MacDonald's incoming Labour government formally recognizes the Soviet Union
- Feb 2 International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
1st Winter Olympics
Feb 2 Norway’s Thorleif Haug takes the cross-country double at the Chamonix Winter Olympics when he wins the 18k event; Haug also 50k gold medalist
- Feb 3 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
- Feb 3 Canada beats United States, 6-1 to retain the Olympic ice hockey gold medal (won at 1920 Summer Games) at the Chamonix Games; Canadian LW Harry Watson top scores with 46 points
- Feb 3 Switzerland claims the inaugural Olympic bobsleigh gold medal at the Chamonix Games, ahead of Great Britain and Belgium
- Feb 4 George Kelly's play "Show-Off," premieres in New York City
- Feb 4 Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway wins ski jumping gold at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; in 1936 he earns a silver medal in sailing at Berlin Summer Games
- Feb 4 Norway sweeps the medals in the Nordic combined event at the inaugural Chamonix Winter Olympics; Thorleif Haug wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Thoralf Strømstad & Johan Grøttumsbråten
- Feb 5 1st Winter Olympic Games close at Chamonix, France
Event of Interest
Feb 5 Mahatma Gandhi is released from Yerwada Prison in Pune, British India, on health grounds after a bout of appendicitis
- Feb 5 Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips"
Russian Diplomat Exchange
Feb 7 Benito Mussolini's Italian government exchanges diplomats with USSR
Sports History
Feb 10 Bucky Harris at 27, becomes youngest major league baseball manager (Washington Senators)
Rhapsody In Blue
Feb 12 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at influential concert "Experiment in Modern Music" held by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra at the Aeolian Hall, NYC [1]
- Feb 12 George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback" premieres in NYC
International Business Machines
Feb 14 Thomas J. Watson Sr. renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM)
- Feb 15 A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill
Sports History
Feb 17 American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller sets 100m world freestyle record 57.4s at Miami, Florida
- Feb 18 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
Sports History
Feb 18 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
Event of Interest
Feb 18 US Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to Teapot Dome scandal
Beer Hall Putsch
Feb 26 Trial against Adolf Hitler for treason in "Beer Hall Putsch" begins in Munich, Germany