- Feb 3 Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time" premieres in NYC
"Our Town"
Feb 4 "Our Town" a play by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway, NYC (later awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Hitler Controls German Army
Feb 4 Adolf Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazis in key posts
Film & TV History
Feb 11 World's first science fiction TV program - a broadcast of the play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
- Feb 12 3rd British Empire Games close in Sydney, Australia
- Feb 12 Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg visits Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden
Bringing Up Baby
Feb 16 "Bringing Up Baby" film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, is released
- Feb 16 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
- Feb 17 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
- Feb 19 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
- Feb 20 Adolf Hitler announces his support for Japan during the Sino-Japanese War
Anthony Eden Resigns
Feb 20 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns, stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany
- Feb 24 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
- Feb 25 Lord Halifax becomes British Foreign Secretary
- Feb 26 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
- Feb 26 Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6)
- Feb 26 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
- Feb 26 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
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