- Feb 1 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
- Feb 2 Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
- Feb 5 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
- Feb 5 Soviet lunar probe failure
- Feb 8 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
- Feb 8 AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
- Feb 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 9 1st test flight of Boeing 727 jet
- Feb 9 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
- Feb 10 US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
- Feb 10 US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz
- Feb 11 American chef Julia Child's show "The French Chef" premieres on WGBH in Boston - one of the first cooking shows in the US
- Feb 11 Beatles record 10 of the 14 tracks for their 1st UK album "Please Please Me"
- Feb 11 CIA Domestic Operations Division created
Event of Interest
Feb 12 Argentina requests the extradition of ex-president Juan Perón
8½
Feb 14 "8½" film directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale, is released (Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film 1964)
- Feb 14 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
Sports History
Feb 15 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
- Feb 15 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
- Feb 16 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
- Feb 16 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
- Feb 16 C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down
NBA Record
Feb 16 North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson
The Banality of Evil
Feb 16 Philosopher Hannah Arendt's controversial account of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is first published in "The New Yorker"
- Feb 17 Japanese runner Toru Terasawa runs a world record marathon (2:15:15.8) at the Beppu Marathon on the island of Kyushu, Japan
The Feminine Mystique
Feb 19 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published
Event of Interest
Feb 19 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
- Feb 20 Australian cricket greats Neil Harvey and Alan Davidson play final Test match in drawn 5th Test vs England at the Sydney Cricket Ground
Mays Signs Record Contract
Feb 20 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays becomes the highest-paid player in MLB, signing a record $100,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants
Music History
Feb 23 Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at the Vienna State Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's "La traviata"
Contract of Interest
Feb 27 Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
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Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
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