- Feb 1 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
- Feb 1 62nd Rose Bowl: #11 UCLA beats #1 Ohio State, 23-10
"The Sonny & Cher Show"
Feb 1 Sonny & Cher resume TV variety show, despite real-life divorce; now titled "The Sonny & Cher Show"
- Feb 2 "Rich Little Show" debuts on NBC-TV
"The Honeymooners Second Honeymoon"
Feb 2 "The Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV
Hua Guofeng Premier
Feb 4 Hua Guofeng becomes Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Feb 4 US Federal Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
- Feb 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 4 XII Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria
- Feb 5 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies
- Feb 5 Last day of Test cricket for West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs & Australian opening batsman Ian Redpath, 6th Test in Melbourne
"This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"
Feb 6 George Harrison releases single "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"
- Feb 7 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York)
- Feb 7 Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9
Sittler's 10 Points
Feb 7 Toronto center Darryl Sittler sets NHL record with 10 points in a Maple Leafs' 11-4 win over Boston at Maple Leaf Gardens; 6 goals, 4 assists
- Feb 7 World's then largest telescope at 605 cm, the BTA-6 begins operations in the USSR
Taxi Driver
Feb 8 "Taxi Driver" directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, premieres in NYC (Palme d'Or 1976)
- Feb 8 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
- Feb 9 Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's Hall of Fame
- Feb 11 Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st African American US Secretary of Army
- Feb 11 John Curry wins Britain's first Olympic gold medal in figure skating at Innsbruck Winter Games; finishes men's singles ahead of Soviet skater Vladimir Kovalyov and Canadian Toller Cranston
- Feb 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Olympic Gold
Feb 13 American Dorothy Hamill (19) wins the free skate to clinch the women's figure-skating gold medal at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics
- Feb 13 Major-General Olusegun Obasanjo becomes military ruler of Nigeria
- Feb 13 Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 hours
- Feb 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Daytona 500
Feb 15 18th Daytona 500: David Pearson makes contact with Richard Petty just yards from finish line into a wall and to infield; Petty stalls whilst Pearson restarts to win
- Feb 15 XII Winter Olympic Games close in Innsbruck, Austria
- Feb 17 Cliff Jones' theatrical rock opera "Rockabye Hamlet", starring Beverly D'Angelo, opens at Minskoff Theater, NYC; runs for 7 performances
- Feb 17 Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
- Feb 17 NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India
Sports History
Feb 17 Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 New Zealand v India, his 1st match-winning spell
- Feb 19 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
Ali KOs Coopman
Feb 20 Muhammad Ali's bout against Belgian boxer Jean Pierre Coopman in San Juan, Puerto Rico is often regarded as a glorified sparring session; Ali wins by 5th round KO
- Feb 20 The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
- Feb 21 Cardinal Willebrands installed as Archbishop of Utrecht
- Feb 21 Cliff Jones' theatrical rock opera "Rockabye Hamlet", starring Beverly D'Angelo, closes at Minskoff Theater, NYC, after 7 performances
- Feb 23 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
- Feb 24 Cuba adopts its constitution
- Feb 24 Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Feb 24 Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
Meeting of Interest
Feb 27 Final meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon
Grammy Awards
Feb 28 18th Grammy Awards: "Love Will Keep Us Together" Record of the Year; Natalie Cole 1st African American to win Best New Artist
- Feb 28 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara, leaving Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) as the last European possessions in Africa
- Feb 29 ABC-TV broadcasts premiere of 1965's hit "The Sound of Music"
- Feb 29 American driver Richard Petty wins the only Winston Cup race run on Leap Day, taking the Carolina 500 at Rockingham by 2 laps over Darrell Waltrip
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