- Feb 1 Stapleton, Staten Island, becomes a customs-free port
Bradman Scores 212
Feb 3 Don Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th cricket test v England
- Feb 4 Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
- Feb 6 K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
Masque of Kings
Feb 8 Maxwell Anderson's dramatic play "Masque of Kings" premieres in NYC
- Feb 11 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends
- Feb 12 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
- Feb 13 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
- Feb 13 Boston Redskins receive approval from NFL to move to Washington, D.C; to share baseball's Griffith Stadium with first Washington Senators of the American League
Sports History
Feb 13 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
- Feb 13 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
- Feb 16 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace Carothers
Event of Interest
Feb 16 Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage" premieres in Paris
- Feb 21 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War
- Feb 21 Walter Waterman's Arrowbile, the 1st working automobile-airplane combination, tested at Santa Monica, California
- Feb 24 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington, D.C.
- Feb 26 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden's "Ascent of F6" premieres in London
- Feb 27 Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test match v England in 223 minutes, ensuring Australia wins the Ashes 3-2
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists