Gillooly Pleads Guilty
Feb 1 Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his part in attack on American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan; plea bargain, confesses to racketeering in exchange for testimony implicating ex-wife Tonya Harding
- Feb 1 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
- Feb 1 South African cricket fast bowler Fanie de Villiers bravely survives 197 minutes for 30 on last day of 3rd Test against Australia in Adelaide; Proteas finally all out 129; Australia win by 191, draw series
Vietnam Trade Embargo Lifts
Feb 3 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
- Feb 3 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
- Feb 4 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
- Feb 4 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
- Feb 4 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
- Feb 4 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
- Feb 5 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
- Feb 5 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
De La Beckwith Sentenced
Feb 5 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson, Mississippi, 30 years after the crime
- Feb 6 "Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
- Feb 6 Jose Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica
- Feb 6 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
- Feb 6 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 17-3; MVP: Andre Rison, Atlanta Falcons, WR
21st American Music Awards
Feb 7 21st American Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins
- Feb 7 American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC) undergoes a liver transplant
Stern Stops Jumper
Feb 7 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
- Feb 8 "Sátántangó", Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr, starring Mihály Víg, Putyi Horváth, is released
Nicholson Attacks Car
Feb 8 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
The Scream
Feb 12 "The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version) is stolen in Oslo
- Feb 12 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn sonatas takes place in Boston
- Feb 12 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
Film & TV History
Feb 12 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
- Feb 12 XVII Winter Olympic Games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
NBA All-Star Game
Feb 13 44th NBA All-Star Game, Target Centre, Minneapolis, MN: East beats West, 127-118; MVP: Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls, F
- Feb 13 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
- Feb 13 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
- Feb 13 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
ESPY Awards
Feb 14 2nd ESPY Awards: Barry Bonds, Julie Krone win
- Feb 15 Tom Barrasso becomes winningest US born goalie in NHL history, as the Pittsburgh Penguins win, 5-3 over visiting Winnipeg; passes record of 252 career wins set by Frank Brimsek
- Feb 15 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
- Feb 16 6.5 earthquake strikes South East Sumatra, kills 200
- Feb 16 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
- Feb 16 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru
World Record
Feb 18 Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
- Feb 18 Shreveport Pirates join Canadian Football League as 4th US-based team; fold 1995
- Feb 20 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
- Feb 20 36th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins his first NASCAR race; Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr killed in separate practice incidents
- Feb 20 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
Event of Interest
Feb 20 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
- Feb 23 Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
- Feb 24 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
- Feb 25 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres at least 55 Palestinians at Hebron Ibrahimi Mosque, with an assault style rifle
Baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 25 New York Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Feb 25 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
- Feb 26 St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
- Feb 27 Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas' percussion revue "Stomp" opens at the Orpheum Theatre, NYC; runs for 11,475 performances
- Feb 27 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
- Feb 27 XVII Winter Olympic Games close in Lillehammer, Norway
- Feb 28 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA, comes into effect
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