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February
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February Monthly Celebrations
- American Heart Month
- An Affair to Remember Month
- Black History Month
- Canned Food Month
- Creative Romance Month
- Great American Pie Month
- National Bird Feeding Month
- National Cherry Month
- National Children’s Dental Health Month
- National Grapefruit Month
- National Weddings Month
- Spunky Old Broads Month
February Weekly Events
3rd Week International Flirting Week
February Holidays That Vary
- Bubble Gum Day – first Friday of the month
- Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day – first Saturday of month
- Superbowl Sunday – date varies
- Clean out Your Computer Day – second Monday of Month
- Paczki Day in Poland – Thursday before Ash Wednesday
- President’s Day – third Monday of month
- Mardi Gras / Fat Tuesday – date varies
- Ash Wednesday – date varies
- Open That Bottle Night – last Saturday of month
February 1
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
- 1865 US President Lincoln signs 13th Amendment of US Constitution, abolishing slavery in US; celebrated as National Freedom Day [1]
- 1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
- 1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
- 1978 Harriet Tubman is 1st African American woman to be honored on a US postage stamp
February 2
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- 1950 1st broadcast of “What’s My Line” on CBS-TV
- 1962 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
February 3
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Holidays
The Day the Music Died – Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959.
This Day In History
- 1876 Albert Spalding invests $800 to start sporting goods company, manufacturing first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball and football
- 1882 Circus owner P. T. Barnum buys his world-famous elephant Jumbo
- 1966 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
- 1986 Pixar Animation Studios (Toy Story; The Incredibles) headed by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, is spun off from Lucasfilm, Ltd as an independent film production company, with backing of Steve Jobs
February 4
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- 1789 1st US electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President
- 1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
- 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room
- 2015 Post Malone uploads his debut single “White Iverson” to his SoundCloud account
February 5
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February 6
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February 7
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Holidays
Send a Card to a Friend Day – obviously created by a card company
This Day In History
February 8
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Holidays
Boy Scout Day – celebrates the birthday of scouting
Kite Flying Day – in the middle of winter!?!
This Day In History
- 1926 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios
- 1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
- 2018 Twitter reports its first quarterly profit as a public company
February 9
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1964 GI Joe character created
- 1969 1st flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet
- 1997 Fox cartoon series “The Simpsons” airs 167th episode; longest-running animated series in cartoon history
February 10
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia
- 1940 “Tom & Jerry” cartoon created by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera debut by MGM
- 1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of “Chattanooga Choo Choo”
- 1996 IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
February 11
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1942 “Archie” comic book debuts
- 1990 Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa
February 12
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This Day In History
- 1855 Michigan State University established
- 2016 Marvel superhero film “Deadpool” starring Ryan Reynolds is released
February 13
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1795 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln declared US President in Washington, D.C.
- 2000 The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies
- 2022 Super Bowl LVI halftime show features Hip Hop legends Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent
February 14
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This Day In History
- 1803 Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void
- 1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his photograph taken (by Matthew Brady).
- 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt signs bill into law establishing US Department of Commerce & Labor
- 1924 Thomas J. Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM)
- 1985 “Whitney Houston” debut album by Whitney Houston is released (Grammy Award Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female 1986, Billboard Album of Year 1986)
- 1989 World’s 1st satellite Skyphone opens
February 15
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- 399 BC Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of the city and for impiety
- 1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
- 1799 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
- 1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
- 1943 Wartime propaganda poster “We Can Do It!” produced by J. Howard Miller and posted on the walls of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company’s plants in the Midwest
- 1950 Walt Disney‘s animated film “Cinderella” premieres in Boston
- 2005 YouTube, Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States
February 16
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
- 1992 LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson‘s #32 uniform
- 2020 ‘Ghost ship’ cargo vessel MV Alta washed up on the Irish coast near Ballycotton by Storm Dennis, after drifting across the Atlantic from Bermuda
February 17
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This Day In History
- 1801 US House of Representatives breaks electoral college tie by electing Thomas Jefferson as President over Aaron Burr
- 1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it is never released
- 1982 Entrepreneur & Musician C.J. “S•Lock” Hallock was born
- 2014 “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” premieres on NBC
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February 18
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This Day In History
- 1879 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty
- 1885 Mark Twain publishes the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in the US
- 1986 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner: he died of smoking-induced lung cancer on 10th October 1985
February 19
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This Day In History
- 1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous ‘child in the post’ instance
- 1922 Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
- 2007 Blogging website Tumblr is founded by David Karp in New York
- 2019 Four-time MLB All-Star at 3B Manny Machado agrees to the biggest free-agent contract in American sports history, a 10 year deal worth $300 million with the San Diego Padres
February 20
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1673 1st recorded wine auction held in London
- 1959 Jimi Hendrix (16), rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig in the Temple De Hirsch synagogue basement, Seattle; fired from the band after the 1st set due to “wild” playing
- 1971 “Mr. Hockey,” Gordie Howe scores a goal and adds 3 assists, including his 1,800th career NHL point, in 6-5 Red Wings’ win over Buffalo in Detroit; Howe’s 1,670th game
- 2022 NBA All-Star Game, Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Arena, Cleveland: Team LeBron beats Team Durant, 163-160; MVP: Stephen Curry (50 points, record 16 x 3s)
February 21
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, “Cherokee Phoenix”, published
- 1842 1st known sewing machine patented in US by John Greenough of Washington, D.C.
- 1858 Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Massachusetts)
- 1931 Alka Seltzer introduced
- 1948 NASCAR is incorporated
- 1965 Rights activist Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers at Audubon Ballroom in New York City
February 22
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This Day In History
- 1854 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
- 1856 1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
- 1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia
- 1980 “Miracle on Ice”: US ice hockey team beats heavily favoured Soviet Union, 4-3 at Lake Placid in one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history; Americans go on to win gold medal
- 2017 Jay-Z becomes 1st rapper to be inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside Max Martin, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
February 23
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints his first Bible (estimated date)
- 1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed
- 1910 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
- 1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture
- 1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
- 1999 Hip Hop artist Eminem releases his first major record album ‘The Slim Shady LP’ (Grammy 2000 – Rap album)
February 24
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1857 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to government
- 1863 Arizona Territory created
- 1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile, Alabama)
- 1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
- 2010 Sachin Tendulkar scores the first double century in One Day International cricket
February 25
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1862 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States Note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America
- 1870 Hiram R. Revels is sworn in as 1st African American member of Congress as US Senator from Mississippi (R)
- 1964 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] wins his first world heavyweight boxing title when Sonny Liston fails to come out for round 7 at the Convention Center, Miami Beach
- 1995 Singer Frank Sinatra performs for final time before a live audience of 1200 select guests at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom, in Palm Desert, California, on the closing night of his charity golf tournament
February 26
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Holidays
This Day In History
February 27
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Holidays
No Brainer Day – this day is for me!
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February 28
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1940 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)
- 2012 Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall
February 29
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Holidays
Leap Day -The next time will be on February 29, 2024.
This Day In History
- 1692 First people are accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, a West Indian slave
NOTE: Information within the Content Calendar was curated from Holidayinsights.com, & OnThisDay.com.
