Everything Happens to Me
Feb 7 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"
- Feb 8 Radio presenter and National Socialist Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch national radio (executed for it in 1946)
- Feb 9 British troops conquer El Agheila
- Feb 9 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
- Feb 10 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington, D.C. to Harrisonburg, Virginia
- Feb 10 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
Rommel Arrives in Tripoli
Feb 11 Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
- Feb 11 Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
- Feb 12 First injection of penicillin into a patient by British physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England
- Feb 12 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms under Ascher and Cohen
- Feb 12 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
- Feb 13 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
- Feb 14 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
- Feb 14 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
- Feb 14 German Afrika Korps lands in Tripoli, Libya
- Feb 14 One millionth vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
Take the A Train
Feb 15 Duke Ellington first records "Take the A Train"
Music History
Feb 15 Greek-American singer Maria Callas makes her professional opera debut as Beatrice, in Franz von Suppé's "Boccaccio" at the Olympia Theatre in Athens, Greece
General Bradley
Feb 21 US officer Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general
- Feb 22 Arthur "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
- Feb 22 German assault on El Agheila Libya
- Feb 22 IG Farben company decides to build its Buna-Werke (rubber factory) adjacent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp to have easy access to slave labor and safe cover from Allied bombing
- Feb 22 Nazi police raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation to be sent to Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps
- Feb 22 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony premieres
- Feb 22 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man" premieres
- Feb 23 Plutonium first produced and isolated by American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg at Berkeley
- Feb 24 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
- Feb 24 Anti-Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
- Feb 25 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
- Feb 25 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
- Feb 26 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO
- Feb 26 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
- Feb 26 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
- Feb 26 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
Academy Awards
Feb 27 13th Academy Awards: "Rebecca", James Stewart & Ginger Rogers win
- Feb 28 British-Italian dogfight above Albania
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists