| February
1 |
Freedom
Day - www.FreedomDayInfo.com |
| February
2 |
First
World Disarmament Conference opened Geneva
1932 |
| February
3 |
Carlos
Felipe Ximenes Belo born in East
Timor, 1948
Blythe
Danner born in Pennsylvania, 1943
|
| February
4 |
St.
Francis of Assisi, memorial, born
1181, Italy
Rosa
Parks born in Tuskegee, Alabama,
1913
Betty
Friedan born in Illionois, 1921
National
Holiday of Sri Lanka
UN
Convention against torture signed 1985
|
| February
5 |
Anwarul
Chowdhury born in Bangladesh,
1943
Ratification
of Human Rights Conventions, 1952
|
| February
6 |
National
Holiday of New Zealand |
| February
7 |
National
Holiday of Grenada
Diana,
Princess of Wales, advocated world-wide
ban on landmines, Angola 1997
Sir
Thomas More born in England, 1478
Helder
Camara born in Fortaleza, Brazil,
1909
Duane
Elgin born in Idaho, 1943
|
| February
8 |
Paul
Hawken born, 1946 |
| February
9 |
Alice
Walker born in Georgia, 1944
|
| February
10 |
Georges
Pire born in Belgium, 1910
|
| February
11 |
National
Holiday of Islamic Republic of Iran
Yalta
Declaration resolved to establish 'a general
international organization to maintain
peace and security' 1945
|
| February
12 |
Abraham
Lincoln born in Kentucky, 1809
Women
gained the right to vote in Utah Territory,
1870
The
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) was founded,
1909
|
| February
13 |
Peter
Gabriel was born in England, 1950 |
| February
14 |
Race
Relations Day
Frederick
Douglass born in Maryland, 1818
League
of Women Voters formed, 1920
Treaty
of Tlatelolco, Mexico, banning nuclear
weapons in Latin America signed 1967
|
| February
15 |
Susan
B. Anthony born in Massachusetts,
1820
Woodrow
Wilson presented the League of Nations
Covenant to the Versailles Conference
1919
|
| February
16 |
National
Holiday of Lithuania
UN
Human Rights Commission established, 1946 |
| February
17 |
USA
ratified Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war
1929 |
| February
18 |
Julia
Butterfly Hill born in Missouri,
1974
National
Holiday of Gambia
|
| February
19 |
UN Development Programme
created, 1951 |
| February
20 |
René
Dubos born in France, 1901
MIR
('world,' 'Peace'), Russian-built space
station launched in 1986
|
| February
21 |
*International
Mother Language Day
- www.LanguageDay.net
John
R. Lewis born in Alabama, 1940
|
| February
22 |
National
Holiday of Saint Lucia
Mahmoud
ul Haq born 1934 in Kashmir
|
| February
23 |
W.
E. B. DuBois born in Massachusetts,
1868
National
Holiday of Brunei Darussalam,Guyana
|
| February
24 |
Edward
James Olmos born in California,
1947
National
Holiday of Estonia
|
| February
25 |
National
Holiday of Kuwait |
| February
26 |
Secretary-General
U Thant signed United Nations proclamation
of the vernal equinox as Earth Day, 1971
|
| February
27 |
National
Holiday of Dominican Republic
Rudolf
Steiner born in Austria, 1861
Ralph
Nader born in Connecticut, 1934
|
| February
28 |
Linus
Pauling born in Oregon, 1901 |
| February
29 |
The
minimum working age for factory, mill, and
mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen
years old in South Carolina, 1916. |
