- Feb 1 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
"Fine Things"
Feb 1 Danielle Steel publishes her 21st novel “Fine Things”
Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC
Feb 1 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 10-6; MVP: Reggie White, Philadelphia Eagles, DE
- Feb 2 KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
- Feb 2 Philippines adopts constitution
- Feb 3 MLB Montreal Expos trade pitcher Jeff Reardon to Minnesota Twins for pitcher Neal Heaton
- Feb 4 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
- Feb 4 San Diego Yacht Club's 'Stars & Stripes' captained by Dennis Conner beats Royal Perth Yacht Club of Australia's 'Kookaburra III' to capture the America's Cup at Freemantle, Western Australia
- Feb 4 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
Congress Overrides Reagan Veto
Feb 4 US President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
- Feb 5 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
- Feb 5 Soyuz TM-2 launches
- Feb 6 No-smoking rules take effect in US federal buildings
- Feb 6 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
- Feb 7 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
- Feb 7 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring the America's Cup back to US
- Feb 7 Police in South Korea make hundreds of arrests during protest demonstrations, the country's biggest for 6 years, after a student died in custody
Boitano US Champion
Feb 7 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
- Feb 8 37th NBA All-Star Game, Kingdome, Seattle, WA: West beats East, 154-149 (OT); MVP: Tom Chambers, Seattle SuperSonics, C
Event of Interest
Feb 9 Former US national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide by overdosing on Valium hours before scheduled testimony before panel investigating illegal arms-for-hostages "Iran-Contra" affair
- Feb 9 NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
- Feb 10 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre
- Feb 11 British Airways begins trading stocks
- Feb 11 England beat Australia 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
- Feb 11 Philippines constitution goes into effect
- Feb 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 12 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
Sports History
Feb 13 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
- Feb 14 Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53,745 at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac; third largest crowd in NBA history; Pistons win, 125-107
Disqualified for Kneeling
Feb 15 1982 Masters champion Craig Stadler is disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
Daytona 500
Feb 15 29th Daytona 500: Bill Elliott leads for 104 of 200 laps including the last 3; had won pole with record speed of 210.364 mph
- Feb 15 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
- Feb 15 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
- Feb 15 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
Senior PGA Championship
Feb 15 Senior PGA Championship, PGA National GC: Chi-Chi Rodríguez wins his second and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Dale Douglass
- Feb 17 Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
Sports History
Feb 17 New York Yankees Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
- Feb 19 Minnesota sheriff's office arrest FBI's most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson
- Feb 19 Musical revue "Stardust - The Mitchell Parish Musical", featuring songs of the Lithuanian-American lyricist, opens at Biltmore Theater, NYC; runs for 101 performances
- Feb 19 US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
- Feb 20 37th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Theme" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 20 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by a computer store in Salt Lake City
- Feb 20 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America" after 11 years
- Feb 21 Syrian army marches into Beirut
- Feb 22 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
- Feb 23 Baseball World Series winning manager (1985) Dick Howser retires from Kansas City Royals role due to brain tumor
- Feb 23 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
- Feb 23 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
Grammy Awards
Feb 24 29th Grammy Awards: "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood; "Graceland" by Paul Simon; and Bruce Hornsby win
Radio History
Feb 24 American radio and television personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
Sports History
Feb 24 LA Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point in a 97-93 win over the Suns in Phoenix
- Feb 25 Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva discovers royal tombs of Sipan from Moche culture (A.D. 100 to 800) in northern Peru, after a police tip off - richest archaeological find of the New World [1]
- Feb 25 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
- Feb 26 1st release of Beatles on compact disc: "Please Please Me"; "With The Beatles"; "A Hard Day's Night"; and "Beatles For Sale" [1]
- Feb 26 NASA launches GEOS-H
Sports History
Feb 26 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record
- Feb 26 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
- Feb 26 USSR resumes nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Feb 26 Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
- Feb 27 "Washington Week In Review" 20th anniversary on PBS
- Feb 27 American Mike Conley sets world indoor triple jump record (17.76m) in New York
- Feb 27 Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff
- Feb 27 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
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