|
Date
|
Event
|
| February, 1 |
1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey |
| February, 2 |
1974 Barbra Streisand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were" |
| February, 3 |
1910 Author James Weldon Johnson (38) weds civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson (24) at her family's home |
| February, 4 |
1939 American singer Frank Sinatra (23) marries 1st wife Nancy Barbato (21) at Our Lady of Sorrows catholic church in Jersey City, New Jersey; divorce in 1951 |
| February, 5 |
1936 "Modern Times", silent film directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released |
| February, 6 |
1993 US Senator Mitch McConnell (51) weds economist Elaine Chao |
| February, 7 |
1974 Mel Brooks' film "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder |
| February, 8 |
2001 MLB outfielder David Justice (34) weds model Rebecca Villalobos |
| February, 9 |
1989 NBA power forward Charles Barkley (26) weds legal aide Maureen Blumhardt in Elkton, Maryland |
| February, 10 |
1863 P. T. Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren, both midgets, in NYC |
| February, 11 |
1938 World's first science fiction TV program - a broadcast of the play R.U.R. by Karel apek |
| February, 12 |
1914 "The Squaw Man", 1st feature-length film shot in Hollywood, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel, is released in the US |
| February, 13 |
1983 Film genius Jerry Lewis (56) marries 2nd wife dancer SanDee Pitnick |
| February, 14 |
1903 Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (27) weds Emma Rauschenbach (20) |
| February, 15 |
2005 YouTube, Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States |
| February, 16 |
1784 American Revolutionary War patriot Ethan Allen (46) weds second wife Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan |
| February, 17 |
1904 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" premieres at La Scala in Milan, Italy |
| February, 18 |
1952 4th Emmy Awards: first time awards presented based on nationwide basis, "The Red Skelton Show", Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca win |
| February, 19 |
1964 Actor Peter Sellers (38) weds actress Britt Ekland in London, England |
| February, 20 |
1980 Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski |
| February, 21 |
2003 Bill Maher's political talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher" debuts on HBO |
| February, 22 |
1949 Future Portuguese President Mrio Soares (24) weds actress Maria de Jesus Barroso (24) at the 3rd Conservatory of the Civil Register of Lisbon |
| February, 23 |
1996 "Trainspotting" directed by Danny Boyle based on the book by Irvine Welsh, starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller opens in cinemas in the UK and Ireland |
| February, 24 |
1969 "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" film based on novel by Muriel Spark directed by Ronald Neame, starring Maggie Smith (Academy Award Best Actress) premieres in London |
| February, 25 |
1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC. Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen. |
| February, 26 |
1934 Theoretical physicist Edward Teller (25) weds Augusta Maria Harkanyi |
| February, 27 |
1968 CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America's chances of winning the Vietnam War |
| February, 28 |
1993 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife |
| February, 29 |
1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st African American woman to win an Oscar for "Gone With The Wind" |