- Feb 1 Auction of British musician Mark Knopfler's guitar collection auction of realizes $11.27 M USD (8.8M GBP). with 25% earmarked for his favorite charities at Christies Auction House in London, England
- Feb 2 Wildfires begin burning in Chile, east of Viña del Ma, spread to Quilpué and Villa Alemana, killing at least 131 with hundreds missing. Chile's greatest natural disaster since 2010. [1]
- Feb 4 President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, the self-titled "world's coolest dictator", wins re-election in a landslide [1]
Grammy Awards
Feb 5 66th Grammy Awards: Taylor Swift wins record 4th Best Album with "Midnights", Best Record Miley Cyrus "Flowers", Best Song Billie Eilish “What I Was Made For”, Killer Mike led away in handcuffs [1]
- Feb 5 Brazil warns it is expecting a very bad year of dengue fever with over 4.2 million cases - with Rio de Janeiro already declaring a public health emergency [1]
Hiss Goes #1
Feb 5 Megan Thee Stallion's achieves her first solo #1 with diss single "Hiss" amid a feud with fellow rapper Nicki Minaj [1]
Dune: Part Two
Feb 6 Denis Villeneuve's science fiction film epic "Dune: Part Two" premieres in Mexico City, starring Timothée Chalamet and an ensemble cast
- Feb 6 Jennifer Crumbley is the first American parent of a school shooter to be found guilty of manslaughter, held responsible for her teenager killing four at Oxford High School (2021) [1]
Charles Diagnosed with Cancer
Feb 6 King Charles III diagnosed with cancer according to Buckingham Place, Queen Camilla takes on his public duties while he receives treatment [1]
Netanyahu Seeks Total Victory
Feb 7 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects Hamas's ceasefire proposal, saying he will continue till "total victory", saying forces will push further south into city of Rafah [1]
Pakistan Election
Feb 8 Pakistan election: In an upset independents backed by imprisoned Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party win the most seats with 97, PML-N win 76, PPP 54 [1]
Trump Threatens Allies
Feb 10 Donald Trump says he threatened a NATO ally over their defense spending "No, I would not protect you. I would encourage them (Russia) to do whatever the hell they want" at South Carolina rally [1]
- Feb 10 Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigns after pardoning a man involved in a child sexual abuse case [1]
- Feb 11 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final; hosts Ivory Coast defeat Nigeria 2-1 at Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan [1]
- Feb 11 Argentina's first female saint María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, (Mama Antula) canonised at a ceremony attended by President Javier Milei at the Vatican [1]
- Feb 11 Former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb wins the presidential election over the Green Party [1]
- Feb 11 Super Bowl LVIII is the most-watched TV program in US history, averaging 123.4 million viewers across television and streaming platforms [1]
Super Bowl LVIII
Feb 11 Super Bowl LVIII, Allegiant Stadium, LV: Kansas City Chiefs win back to back titles and 3rd in 5 years with an overtime 25-22 win over the SF 49ers; MVP: Patrick Mahomes, KC, QB
Usher Headlines Halftime Show
Feb 11 Usher performs the halftime show at Super Bowl LVIII with guests Alicia Keys, will.i.am, Lil Jon, H.E.R. and Ludacris [1]
- Feb 12 Oldest known 11,000 Stone Age megastructure, used for hunting, revealed submerged in Bay of Mecklenburg, off the German coast [1]
- Feb 14 Indonesian presidential election: Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto appears to win by significant margin (full results 20 March) [1]
- Feb 14 Israel launches air strikes in Lebanon in an escalation of conflict along the border, killing four, in a retaliation after a Hezbollah rocket killed an Israeli soldier in Safed [1]
- Feb 14 Korean scientists say they have created "meaty rice", with beef grown inside rice grains in a lab, adding 8% more protein [1]
- Feb 14 Shooting at a rally to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory kills one and injures more than 20 in downtown Kansas City, Missouri [1]
- Feb 14 Technology and AI company, Nvidia's market capitalization reaches $1.83 trillion, overtaking Alphabet and Amazon [1]
Women's NCAA Scoring Record
Feb 15 Caitlin Clark becomes the NCAA Division I women's career scoring leader in a game for Iowa against Michigan, scoring a career-high 49 points
- Feb 15 Germany becomes the world's third-largest economy after Japan slips into recession [1]
- Feb 15 Greece is the first Christian Orthodox county to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption [1]
- Feb 15 Private company Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander Odysseus launches aboard SpaceX’s Falcon from the Kennedy Space Center [1]
- Feb 16 Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos can be considered children as part of a wrongful death case where frozen embryos were accidentally destroyed at a clinic [1]
- Feb 16 Donald Trump and Trump Organization ordered to pay $354 million in fines in NY civil fraud case - one of the largest corporate sanctions in NY history [1]
- Feb 17 Donald Trump launches his “Never Surrender High-Tops” footwear (US$399) at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia [1]
- Feb 17 Ukraine withdraws its troops from the key eastern town of Avdiivka, blaming a lack of western-supplied weapons [1]
BAFTA Awards
Feb 18 77th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) "Oppenheimer" Best Film, Christopher Nolan Best Director, Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy acting awards [1]
- Feb 18 Massacre leaves 49 dead after tribal fighting in Papa New Guinea's Enga Province [1]
Historians Rank Presidents
Feb 18 Poll by historians' ranks Joe Biden as the 14th best US president, with Donald Trump ranked last [1]
- Feb 18 Singaporean chess prodigy Ashwath Kaushik at eight years old is the youngest player to defeat a grandmaster in a classic tournament game at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open, Switzerland [1]
- Feb 19 66th Daytona 500: William Byron takes the lead on a restart with 4 laps to go and then wins after Ross Chastain and Austin Cindric crash to bring out a race-ending caution; Hendrick Motorsports record-tying 9th win
- Feb 19 Brightest known object in the universe identified as a quasar, 500 trillion x brighter than the sun, powered by a supermassive black hole that devours a sun-sized mass every day [1]
- Feb 19 Investigation into 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise charges his wife, the former PM and ex-chief of police [1]
- Feb 20 Australia announces plans to double its naval fleet of warships to create its largest fleet since WWII [1]
- Feb 20 Former Youtuber Ruby Franke and her business partner sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for physically and emotionally abusing her children [1]
- Feb 22 Japan’s benchmark stock exchange, the Nikkei average reaches its highest-ever level at 39,098, breaking its 1989 record [1]
- Feb 22 Odysseus is the first private spacecraft to land on the moon though on its side, 1st US moon landing since 1972 [1]
- Feb 23 German parliament votes to legalize cannabis 407 votes to 226, with restrictions [1]
- Feb 24 Brian Ortega wins against Yair Rodríguez at UFC Fight Night 237, earning Performance of the Night
- Feb 24 Senegalese-French director's Mati Diop’s documentary "Dahomey" is the surprise winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival [1]
EFL Cup final
Feb 25 Lewis Koumas is an unused substitute in the 2024 EFL Cup final where Liverpool beat Chelsea 1–0 after extra time
- Feb 25 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died fighting in the two years since Russia invaded [1]
- Feb 25 The Great Mosque of Algiers is opened by Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune - third largest mosque in the world, able to hold 120,000 worshippers [1]
- Feb 27 First confirming sighting of a sexual encounter between humpback whales, and the first homosexual coupling, published in "Marine Mammal Science" [1]
- Feb 27 Quickly spreading wildfires across Texas Panhandle propel Governor Greg Abbott to issue a disaster declaration for 60 counties [1]
Marian Anderson Hall
Feb 27 The Philadelphia Orchestra announces renaming of their concert home as Marian Anderson Hall, in honor of the noted 20th century contralto who was from the city [1]
- Feb 28 Ghana passes new legislation making it illegal to identify as LGBTQ+ [1]
- Feb 28 Lewis Koumas makes his first team debut for Liverpool and scores his first senior goal against Southampton in the FA Cup fifth round
McConnell to Step Down
Feb 28 Mitch McConnell announces he is stepping down as Senate Republican leader in November, as the longest-serving Senate leader in US history [1]
Oprah Leaves WeightWatchers
Feb 28 Oprah Winfrey says she is stepping down from the board of WeightWatchers and selling her shares, months after she confirmed taking prescription weight-loss drugs [1]
- Feb 28 Wisconsin records 60-degree temperature swing in 24 hours, with Madison registering 70 degrees (21.11 C) Tuesday, plunging to 11 degrees (-11.67 C) Wednesday morning [1]
- Feb 29 At least 112 Palestinians killed as they desperately swarm aid convoys in north Gaza [1]
- Feb 29 The Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle, home to most of the state's cattle ranches, becomes the second-largest fire in US history, burning over 1.1 million acres [1]
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