1960年2月1日，四名黑人大学生在北卡莱罗纳州格林斯伯的一间餐馆开始静坐抗议该餐馆拒绝向他们提供服务。
1943年2月2日，苏联取得第二次世界大战斯大林格勒战役的胜利，战役后残存的纳粹军队向苏联投降。
1917年2月3日，美国在德国宣布无限制潜艇战政策以后，和德国断绝外交关系。
1974年2月4日，报纸业大亨之女帕特里夏·赫斯特在加利福尼亚州伯克利被共生解放军绑架。
1937年2月5日，罗斯福总统提议增加最高法院大法官的人数，此举被批评为试图“填充”最高法院。
1952年2月6日，英国国王乔治六世去世。国王的女儿继位，登基成为伊丽莎白二世。
1984年2月7日，太空梭宇航员布鲁斯·迈克堪得利斯二世和罗伯特·L·斯特瓦特进行了人类航天史上第一次无系留太空行走。
1996年2月8日，在国会图书馆的庆典上，克林顿总统签署了新的《电信法》，宣称这将会“把未来带到我们的家门口”。
1943年2月9日，第二次世界大战中，西南太平洋上的瓜达卡纳尔战役以美军的胜利结束。
1962年2月10日，苏联用俘虏的美国U-2侦察机飞行员弗朗西斯·格雷·鲍尔斯交换被美国逮捕的苏联间谍鲁道夫·伊凡诺维奇·阿贝尔。
1945年2月11日，罗斯福总统、英国首相温斯顿·丘吉尔和苏联领导人约瑟夫·斯大林在第二次世界大战期间签署雅尔塔协定。
1973年2月12日，在越南冲突发生后被俘的美国人首次被释放。
1935年2月13日，新泽西州福勒明顿的法庭认定布鲁诺·理查德·郝普曼绑架查理·林勃和安妮·林勃的儿子并致死，犯有一级谋杀罪，随后赫普曼被处死。
1929年2月14日，芝加哥的一个车库里发生情人节大屠杀，阿尔·卡彭黑帮的七个对手被枪杀。
1898年2月15日，美国战列舰缅因号在哈瓦那港爆炸，260名水手死亡，此次事件导致美国和西班牙之间的关系更加紧张。
1923年2月16日，埃及图坦卡门国王的墓室被发掘。
1972年2月17日，尼克松总统出发开始历史性的中国之旅。
1861年2月18日，杰佛逊·戴维斯在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利宣誓成为美国联盟总统。
1945年2月19日，第二次世界大战期间，约30000名美国海军陆战队员在琉璜岛登陆，他们在岛上遭到日本军队的激烈抵抗。美军经过近一个月的战斗夺取了这座西太平洋上最具有战略价值的岛屿的控制权。
1962年2月20日，友谊7号水星仓的宇航员约翰·格伦成为第一个在太空环绕地球的美国人。
1965年2月21日，前黑人穆斯林领导人麦尔科姆X在准备去往纽约市一次示威活动作演讲时被一个黑人穆斯林刺杀，时39岁。
1980年2月22日，纽约州普莱西德湖举行的冬奥会上爆冷，美国奥林匹克冰上曲棍球队在以四比三击败苏联队（在其后的比赛中美国队最终赢得该项目的金牌）。
1954年2月23日，匹茨堡开创向儿童大规模接种索尔克疫苗防治脊髓灰质炎（小儿麻痹症）的行动。
1868年2月24日，众议院在安德鲁·约翰逊总统试图解除陆军部长埃德温·M·斯坦顿之后，对总统进行弹劾；参议院之后开始了约翰逊。
1870年2月25日，密西西比州的海拉姆·R·瑞威尔斯，成为美国参议院的第一个黑人成员，其任期为杰佛逊·戴维斯所未到期的那段时间。
1993年2月26日，纽约世贸中心大楼车库发生炸弹爆炸，六人死亡，一千多人受伤。
1991年2月27日，乔治·H·W·布什总统宣布：“科威特被解放了，伊拉克被打败了”，同时还宣布联军将在午夜停止作战行动。
1993年2月28日，德克萨斯州维克附近爆发枪战，当时烟酒火器管理局人员试图对大卫教的一个分支执行搜查令。枪战导致四名管理局探员和六名大卫教徒死亡，并且导致政府对此处开始了长达51天的包围行动。
On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.
On Feb. 2, 1943, the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered in a major victory for the Soviets in World War II.
On Feb. 3, 1917, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
On Feb. 4, 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
On Feb. 5, 1937, President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court.
On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.
On Feb. 7, 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk.
On Feb. 8, 1996, in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, President Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry, saying it would "bring the future to our doorstep."
On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.
On Feb. 10, 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
On Feb. 11, 1945, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II.
On Feb. 12, 1973, the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.
On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed.
On Feb. 14, 1929, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.
On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 260 crew members and escalating tensions with Spain.
On Feb. 16, 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt.
On Feb. 17, 1972, President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China.
On Feb. 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala.
On Feb. 19, 1945, during World War II, some 30,000 United States Marines landed on the Western Pacific island of Iwo Jima, where they encountered ferocious resistance from Japanese forces. The Americans took control of the strategically important island after a month-long battle.
On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth as he flew aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39.
On Feb. 22, 1980, in a stunning upset, the United States Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-to-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.
On Feb. 24, 1868, the House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the Senate later acquitted Johnson.
On Feb. 25, 1870, Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black member of the United States Senate as he was sworn in to serve out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis.
On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
On Feb. 27, 1991, President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.
On Feb. 28, 1993, a gun battle erupted near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began.
