- Feb 1 NBC performs the first inter-city television broadcast from its station in New York City to another in Schenectady, New York by General Electric relay antennas.
- Feb 1 Soviet Union begins new offensive against Finland
Sinatra in Indianapolis
Feb 2 Frank Sinatra performs at the Lyric Theater in Indianapolis, Indiana, his first as featured singer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
- Feb 5 General Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
"Tuxedo Junction"
Feb 5 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
Pinocchio
Feb 7 Walt Disney's second feature length movie, "Pinocchio" premieres (NYC)
- Feb 8 Lewis & Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show" premieres in NYC
- Feb 8 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
- Feb 10 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
Tom & Jerry
Feb 10 First "Tom and Jerry" cartoon "Puss Gets the Boot" created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera is released to theatres by MGM
- Feb 10 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
- Feb 14 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
- Feb 16 British search plane finds German supply ship Altmark, used to accommodate allied sailors from vessels sunk by the Graf Spee off Norway
- Feb 17 Altmark Incident: Crew of the British destroyer "Cossack" board German "Altmark" in Jøssingfjord, Norway, releasing 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass
- Feb 20 Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
- Feb 22 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
- Feb 22 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
- Feb 23 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
- Feb 23 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio" released
- Feb 24 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
- Feb 25 1st televised hockey game in US - New York Rangers defeat visiting Montreal Canadians 6-2 at Maison Square Garden; W2XBS broadcasts to up to 300 receivers in NYC
- Feb 26 US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
- Feb 27 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
- Feb 28 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)
- Feb 28 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
- Feb 28 US population at 131,669,275 with 12,865,518 African American (9.8%)
Gone With The Wind's Eight Oscars
Feb 29 12th Academy Awards: "Gone With The Wind" wins eight Oscars, Robert Donat & Vivien Leigh also win
Demaret's One Stroke Win
Feb 29 American golfer Jimmy Demaret wins his third PGA Tour event within an 8-day span, taking the St. Petersburg Open by one stroke from Byron Nelson
- Feb 29 Detroit's Cecil "Tiny" Thompson becomes first goaltender in NHL history to play 40 (or more) games for 12 straight seasons; milestone comes in a 3-1 Red Wings loss at Toronto
- Feb 29 Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations
- Feb 29 Frederic from G & S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate
McDaniel 1st African American Oscar
Feb 29 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st African American woman to win an Oscar for "Gone With The Wind"
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