- Feb 1 "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 28 performances
- Feb 1 "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", the debut novel by Ken Kesey is published by Viking Press
- Feb 1 MLB's National League releases its first 162-game schedule due to expansion (18 games between opponents)
Trade Banned with Cuba
Feb 3 US President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
- Feb 4 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
- Feb 4 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
- Feb 4 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
- Feb 4 US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
- Feb 5 Black and White parents stage an overnight sit-in after school board denies transfer requests of nine Black families for their children to be transferred to newer school facility in Englewood, New Jersey
Event of Interest
Feb 5 French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
- Feb 5 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all within 16 degrees
- Feb 6 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
- Feb 7 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
- Feb 7 US President JFK begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports.
- Feb 8 In Paris, 8 people killed at a protest against independence for the French colony Algeria
- Feb 8 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Feb 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 9 Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
- Feb 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 10 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
- Feb 10 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
- Feb 12 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
Film and TV History
Feb 14 US 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
- Feb 15 Lawsuit is filed on behalf of nine families whose requests for children to be transferred to newer school facility in Englewood, New Jersey; parents charge denial was "racial segregation"
- Feb 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 16 "La Jetée", French film directed by Chris Marker, starring Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich and Jacques Ledoux, is released
Music Premiere
Feb 16 Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony premieres
John Glenn Orbits Earth
Feb 20 John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7
- Feb 21 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen, Netherlands
NBA Record
Feb 22 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free-throw attempts (converts 19) in Warriors 139-121 win over St. Louis Hawks at Philadelphia Civic Center
- Feb 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 24 "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
- Feb 24 "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
- Feb 24 General mobilization in Indonesia over New Guinea
- Feb 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 25 India Congress Party wins elections
- Feb 25 Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon
- Feb 25 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scores 67 points against NY Knicks at Philadelphia Civic Center for the second successive year; Warriors lose 149-135
Event of Interest
Feb 25 Robert F. Kennedy visits Netherlands
Oh Dad, Poor Dad
Feb 26 Arthur Kopit's play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" premieres in NYC
- Feb 26 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
Assassination Attempt
Feb 27 South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm's palace bombed by dissident air pilots in a failed assassination attempt
- Feb 28 WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
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