- Feb 1 Severe bushfires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & take 60 lives
American Basketball Association
Feb 1 The 10-team American Basketball Association (ABA) with George Mikan as Commissioner is formed and lasts 9 years; its three-point shot remains a feature of the game
- Feb 1 WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 2 Bolivia adopts its constitution
- Feb 2 Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
"Purple Haze"
Feb 3 Jimi Hendrix adds vocals and overdubs for "Purple Haze" at Olympic Studios in London; basic track had been recorded by the band in January
- Feb 3 Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne
- Feb 4 "Wild Thing" cover version by "Senator Bobby" hits #20 on the pop singles chart
- Feb 4 US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
- Feb 5 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" variety show premieres on CBS TV [1]
Anastasio Somoza Debayle President
Feb 5 Anastasio Somoza Debayle elected President of Nicaragua
- Feb 5 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
- Feb 6 Cultural Revolution in Albania
Ali vs. Terrell
Feb 6 Muhammad Ali pummels Ernie Terrell for 15 rounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing crown at Houston Astrodome; regains Terrell’s WBA belt as well
- Feb 7 A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people
- Feb 8 English Pirate Radio UKGM closes down
- Feb 8 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
- Feb 8 Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
- Feb 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 10 25th Amendment (US Presidential Disability & Succession) ratified
- Feb 12 Dutch speed skater Kees Verkerk becomes All-Around World Champion
Music History
Feb 12 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs in a raid at Richards' Sussex home
- Feb 12 Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
Music History
Feb 12 Promotional films (music videos) for the Beatles' forthcoming single "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields" debut on the Ed Sullivan Show in the US
- Feb 13 Capitol Records releases the Beatles' double "A" side single "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields" in the US
Respect
Feb 14 Aretha Franklin records her single "Respect" at Atlantic Studio in NYC; her rendition of Otis Redding's tune becomes Billboard Song of the Year (1967)
- Feb 14 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
- Feb 15 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
Golden Globes
Feb 15 24th Golden Globes: A Man for All Seasons, Paul Scofield, and Anouk Aimée win
- Feb 15 D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
- Feb 15 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
Baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 16 NY Yankees pitcher Red Ruffing elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Feb 17 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit
- Feb 17 Parlophone releases the Beatles' double "A" side single "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields" in the UK
- Feb 18 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
- Feb 19 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
- Feb 22 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since World War II.
- Feb 22 Barbara Garson's "MacBird" premieres in NYC
- Feb 22 Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
- Feb 23 25th amendment (US Presidential succession) adopted
- Feb 23 John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes" premieres in NYC
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Feb 23 Noam Chomsky's anti-Vietnam war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" is published by the New York Review of Books
- Feb 23 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
Daytona 500
Feb 26 9th Daytona 500: Mario Andretti wins his first and only NASCAR Grand National event; only time driver born outside the US has ever won the Great American Race
- Feb 26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Feb 26 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion
- Feb 27 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
- Feb 27 Dominica gains independence from England
- Feb 27 Rio de la Plata Treaty
- Feb 28 A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years
NBA Record
Feb 28 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
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