1900 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 5-4 to take challenge series, 3-1
1942 – Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one nurse and two soldiers survive.
1966 – Australian cricket batsman Bob Cowper makes a patient 307 (727 mins, 20 x 4s) in drawn 5th Test v England in Melbourne
1969 – “Andrei Rublev”, Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Anatoly Solonitsyn and Ivan Lapikov, premieres in Moscow after a limited release in 1966
1972 – American guitar legend Chuck Berry and former Beatle John Lennon perform together, with Yoko Ono, on ‘The Mike Douglas Show’ TV program
1985 – Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
1999 – O.J. Simpson’s 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend
2021 – Athens and parts of Greece covered in unusual heavy snowfall
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 15th February 2026
1898 – USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die
1933 – Social-democratic newspaper “Vorwarts” banned again in Berlin
1956 – Pirates and KC As cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama, due to a local ordinance barring Black players from playing against White players
1959 – Antonio Segni forms Italian government
1985 – World chess championship match abandoned with Anatoly Karpov 25 leading Garry Kasparov 23
2000 – Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails
2001 – First draft of the complete human genome is published in the journal “Nature”
2002 – At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on crematorium’s property. One of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.
Historical Events for 14th February 2026
1896 – George Lohmann takes a hat-trick for England v South Africa, 8-7 for inning – their lowest ever
1952 – Giant slalom event for women debuts at the Winter Olympics at Oslo Games; American skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence wins gold ahead of Dagmar Rom of Austria and German Annemarie Buchner
1953 – “Trionfo di Afrodite (Triumph of Aphrodite)”, the final work of Carl Orff’s Trionfi trilogy premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan, Italy
1979 – Revival of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn’s musical comedy “Whoopee!” opens at ANTA Theater, NYC; runs for 204 performances
2010 – America’s Cup: Team USA defeats Alinghi 2-0 to win in Spain
2016 – 69th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): “The Revenant” Best Film, and Best Director – Alejandro González Iñárritu
2018 – South African President Jacob Zuma resigns from office
2024 – Indonesian presidential election: Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto appears to win by significant margin (full results 20 March)
Historical Events for 13th February 2026
1786 – Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
1837 – Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour
1960 – “Beg, Borrow or Steal” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
1984 – Karin Enke of East Germany wins her 2nd gold medal of the Sarajevo Winter Games, winning the women’s 1,000m in Olympic record 1:21.61; also wins 1,500m gold
1995 – 3rd ESPY Awards: Steve Young, Bonnie Blair win
1996 – Death Row/Interscope Records releases rapper Tupac Shakur’s fourth studio album “All Eyez on Me,” his final release during his lifetime
2009 – Unix time passes 1,234,567,890 seconds at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC) on February 13, 2009
2015 – “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” 4th mixtape by Drake is released
Historical Events for 12th February 2026
1901 – Dutch Penitentiary children’s law proclaimed
1954 – The UK government establishes an organisation to control atomic energy in the country under The Atomic Energy Authority Bill
1955 – Soviets decides space center to be built in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
1964 – The Beatles first NYC concerts, two shows at Carnegie Hall
1985 – 37th NHL All-Star Game, Olympic Saddledome, Calgary: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 6-4; MVP: Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins, C
1994 – “The Scream” by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version) is stolen in Oslo
1995 – Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
2019 – Trial of 12 Catalonia independence leaders begins in Madrid
Historical Events for 11th February 2026
1908 – Heemskerk’s government begins in Holland
1948 – Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140
1985 – Kent Hrbek signs 5-year $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
1986 – Australia beat India 2-0 to win cricket’s World Series Cup, David Boon scores the most runs in the series (418)
1992 – F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo, Netherlands (No deaths)
2007 – 60th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): “The Queen” Best Film, Paul Greengrass Best Director
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation effective February 28, becoming the first pope to resign since 1415
2021 – World’s second oldest person, French nun Sister André, celebrates her 117th birthday after surviving COVID-19 in Toulon
Historical Events for 10th February 2026
1535 – Twelve nude Anabaptists run through the streets of Amsterdam
1713 – Netherlands and Britain sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
1879 – 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
1923 – Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
1966 – “Valley of the Dolls” by Jacqueline Susann is published by Bernard Geis Associates in the US – sold over 31 million copies
1968 – “Spooky” by Classics IV hits #3
1992 – Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
2013 – 66th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): “Argo”, Ben Affleck (Director); Daniel Day-Lewis and Emmanuelle Riva win
Historical Events for 9th February 2026
1870 – US President Ulysses S Grant signs law resulting in US Army Signal Service’s establishment of its “Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce”, later known as the National Weather Service
1934 – Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania)
1955 – Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
1972 – British government declares a state of emergency after a month-long coal miners’ strike
1979 – New York City premiere of Paul Schrader’s allegedly fact based film “Hardcore”
1984 – Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen wins the 10k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; first of 3 individual medal sweep, also winning 5k and 20k events
1995 – Augustus and Ruth Goetz’ stage drama “The Heiress” opens at Cort Theater, NYC; runs for 340 performances
2000 – 50th Berlin International Film Festival: “Magnolia” wins the Golden Bear
Historical Events for 8th February 2026
1849 – New Roman Republic established in Italy
1924 – 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
1943 – Red Army recaptures Kursk on the eastern front
1953 – WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
1960 – Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
1979 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 – For the 1st time eight people are in space
2009 – Al Gore’s book “An Inconvenient Truth” wins a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
Historical Events for 7th February 2026
1668 – Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of “Ballet of Peace”
1827 – Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
1845 – The Portland Vase, thought to date to the 1st century BC is shattered into more than 80 pieces by a drunken visitor to the British Museum
1972 – Dutch Olympic 1,500m and 5,000m speed skating champion Ard Schenk wins his 3rd gold medal at the Sapporo Winter Games when he takes out the 10,000m
1973 – Iggy Pop and The Stooges release their influential 3rd album “Raw Power”
1974 – UK Prime Minister Edward Heath calls for a ‘snap’ general election in the midst of a protracted miners’ strike
1979 – “Supertrain”, TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
1998 – NHL’s Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten’s #7