Usually the heaviest snows fall in February. Hunting becomes very difficult, and hence to some Native American tribes this was the Hunger Moon.
1770s
1800s
1820s
1870s
1900s
1930s
1940s
1950s
- 1951: THE 22ND AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS RATIFIED, STIPULATING A MAXIMUM OF TWO CONSECUTIVE PRESIDENTIAL TERMS
- 1951: EDWIN LAND GRANTED PATENT FOR SELF-DEVELOPING FILM
- 1951: 22ND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, ENFORCING TERM LIMITS, RATIFIED. (LIMITS U.S. PRESIDENTS TO TWO TERMS.)
1960s
- 1963: MICKEY MANTLE SIGNED A $100,000 CONTRACT WITH THE NY YANKEES. HIS NEW SALARY TIED HIM WITH JOE DIMAGGIO AS THE MOST HIGHLY PAID YANKEE PLAYERS OF THEIR TIME.
- 1964: ITALIAN GOVERNMENT ASKED PUBLIC FOR IDEAS ON HOW TO SAVE THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA
- BORN 1966: DONAL LOGUE (ACTOR)
1980s
- BORN 1980: CHELSEA CLINTON (DAUGHTER OF U.S. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AND SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON)
- BORN 1981: JOSH GROBAN (SINGER)
1990s
- 1992: 16-YEAR-OLD TIGER WOODS, YOUNGEST PGA GOLFER IN 35 YEARS, TEED OFF IN L.A. OPEN
- DIED 1993: LILLIAN GISH (ACTRESS)
2000s
- DIED 2002: SPIKE MILLIGAN (COMEDIAN)
- DIED 2003: FRED ROGERS (HOST OF THE PBS CHILDREN’S SHOW, MR. ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD)
- 2008: A 5.3-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE STRUCK ABOUT 125 MILES NORTH OF LONDON, ENGLAND
- DIED 2008: WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. (WRITER & FOUNDER OF NATIONAL REVIEW)
2010s
- 2010: AN 8.8-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE STRUCK CENTRAL CHILE
- DIED 2011: FRANK W. BUCKLES (LAST SURVIVING U.S. WW I VETERAN; HE WAS 110 YEARS OLD)
- 2013: NINE-FOOT TALL BRONZE SCULPTURE OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST ROSA PARKS UNVEILED IN STATUARY HALL IN THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C.
- DIED 2015: LEONARD NIMOY (ACTOR)
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