1855 – Michigan State University established
1934 – The four-day February Uprising, sometimes called the Austrian Civil War, begins
1964 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1964 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1981 – Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m
2012 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected President of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
2013 – North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, saying it was a nuclear device that could be weaponized
2016 – Fiji becomes the first country to ratify the UN climate deal (signed Paris, December 2015)
2019 – US national debt tops 22 trillion for the first time according to US Treasury
2023 – Super Bowl LVII, State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona: Kansas City Chiefs beat Philadelphia Eagles, 38-35; MVP: Patrick Mahomes, KC, QB
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 11th February 2024
1543 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and English King Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1897 – White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
1929 – Vatican City, the world’s smallest country, is made an enclave of Rome
1945 – 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
1948 – John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1951 – Kwame Nkrumah and his Convention People’s Party wins 1st legislative general election in the Gold Coast (Ghana) in a landslide
1953 – J Styne and Bob Hilliard’s musical “Hazel Flagg” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances
1956 – British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean deny working as spies for Soviet Russia after reappearing in the Soviet Union after going missing 5 years earlier
1979 – Iran’s premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1992 – Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
Historical Events for 10th February 2024
1763 – Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, France surrenders Canada to Great Britain
1842 – Moreton Bay Penal Colony abolished and opened for free settlement (modern city of Brisbane, Australia)
1931 – Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s musical “America’s Sweetheart” premieres on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre, NYC
1934 – Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
1953 – Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer and John Nicks of GRB
1970 – Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel at Val d’Isere, France, killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths
1989 – Miami Vice’s 100th episode seen on TV
2013 – 55th Grammy Awards: “Somebody That I Used To Know” (Goyte); “We Are Young” (fun); and “Babel” (Mumford and Sons) win
2014 – After winning Vancouver (2010) Olympic moguls title, Canadian freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau wins 2nd consecutive Olympic gold medal in Sochi; beats teammate Mikaël Kingsbury
2019 – 61st Grammy Awards: Childish Gambino first rapper to win Best Song and Best Record for “This Is America”; Best Album “Golden Hour” Kacey Musgraves
Historical Events for 9th February 2024
1941 – Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang “No Entry for Jews” signs in front of cafe)
1945 – The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway
1945 – WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
1946 – Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
1971 – Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1974 – “Daddy What If” by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
1983 – Belgium buys 44 F-16s
1996 – WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM
2014 – Slovak biathlete Anastasiya Kuzmina retains her Olympic 7.5k sprint title (Vancouver 2010) at the Sochi Winter Games
2018 – XXIII Olympic Winter Games open in PyeongChang, South Korea
Historical Events for 8th February 2024
1649 – Sobornoye Ulozheniye of 1649: Russia adopts new code of laws, consolidating serfdom (OS 29 Jan)
1750 – Minor earthquake in London
1924 – 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
1929 – KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
1936 – German alpine skier Christi Cranz wins the inaugural Olympic women’s combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of teammate Käthe Grasegger
1943 – Red Army recaptures Kursk on the eastern front
1945 – Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach
1975 – Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
1990 – “60 Minutes” commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
2009 – 51st Grammy Awards: Best Album “Raising Sand” and Record of the Year “Please Read The Letter”, both by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss win
Historical Events for 7th February 2024
1668 – Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of “Ballet of Peace”
1836 – “Sketches by Boz” (essays) published by Charles Dickens
1904 – Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
1920 – Russian Imperial Navy Admiral Kolchak, leader of anti-communist “White Movement” executed by Bolshevik firing squad in Irkutsk, Russian SFSR
1974 – Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1987 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1993 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 23-20; MVP: Steve Tasker, Buffalo Bills, WR
1995 – Bluegrass and country musician Alison Krauss releases her compilation album “Now that I’ve Found You”
2005 – Britain’s Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world, taking 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes 33 seconds
2019 – Measles cases in Europe highest in a decade, tripling in a year to 82,596 according to WHO
Historical Events for 6th February 2024
1904 – Japan notifies Russia that in view of Russia’s delaying tactics and provocative military action, Japan is ending negotiations and recalling its members from Moscow
1953 – US controls on wages and some consumer goods lifted
1961 – KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 – Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer’s musical “Shelter” opens at John Golden Theater, NYC; runs for 31 performances
1974 – US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of President Richard Nixon
1977 – 4th time New York Rangers shut-out New York Islanders, 4-0
1987 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1990 – Groundbreaking begins on Baltimore Orioles’ new $102 million stadium
1995 – Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket
2020 – Antarctica records high temperature of 64.9 F / 18.2 C at Esperanza, Argentina’s research station
Historical Events for 5th February 2024
1576 – Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours
1943 – Jake LaMotta defeats future multi-weight world boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson by unanimous points decision in Detroit in the 2nd of their 6 meetings; his only win of their rivalry; Robinson’s first loss in his first 40 pro bouts
1945 – Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
1972 – Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they were planting exploded prematurely
1978 – Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
1986 – Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on “Nightline”
1991 – All American Bowl ends after 14 years
2006 – Super Bowl XL, Ford Field, Detroit, MI: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Seattle Seahawks, 21-10; MVP: Hines Ward, Pittsburgh, WR
2016 – Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities
2018 – A share market sell off starts on Wall Street with Dow Jones sinking 4.6%, spreads around the globe
Historical Events for 4th February 2024
1922 – After boycotts and international pressure, Japan agrees to return Shantung Province to China
1933 – German President Paul von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
1937 – Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
1951 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1964 – FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City
1972 – Dutch speed skater Ard Schenk wins the 5,000m at the Sapporo Winter Olympics; also wins the 1,500m and 10,000m gold medals
1974 – Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
1985 – 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
1997 – O.J. Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson in a civil court action
1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
Historical Events for 3rd February 2024
1857 – Early ice hockey game played between teams from Swavesey and Over on Mare Fen, England
1863 – Samuel Clemens first uses the pen name Mark Twain in a Virginia City newspaper, the “Territorial Enterprise”
1870 – US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races and colors
1907 – Josek Suk’s “Asreal Symphony”, dedicated to his late wife and father-in-law Antonin Dvořák, premieres at the Prague National Theatre, conducted by Karel Kovařovic
1930 – William Howard Taft resigns as US chief justice for health reasons
1971 – KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
1987 – Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
1998 – Stamps commemorating Diana, Princess of Wales, go on sale in Britain
2019 – Rapper 21 Savage arrested by US immigration for overstaying his visa
2020 – First Democratic caucus in Iowa won narrowly by Pete Buttigieg (most delegates) and Bernie Sanders (most votes) after lengthy delays and irregularities in reporting the results