February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 days in leap years.
February symbols: Its birth flower is the violet (Viola) and the common primrose (Primula vulgaris). Its birthstone is the amethyst. It symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity. Its Zodiac signs are Aquarius (until February 18) and Pisces (February 19 onwards).
Historical Events for February, 1971
Day of Week 2nd » Idi Amin replaces President of Uganda called President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
2nd » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
Day of Week 3rd » New York City Police or New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
Day of Week 5th » Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
Day of Week 8th » The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
Day of Week 9th » The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
9th » Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League baseball named Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
9th » Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
Day of Week 11th » Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
Day of Week 13th » Vietnam War: Backed by United States e.g American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
Day of Week 15th » The decimalisation of Coins of the pound sterling named British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
Day of Week 20th » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
Day of Week 21st » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
Day of Week 24th » The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
Day of Week 25th » The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
Day of Week 26th » Secretary-General of the United Nations named U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
Day of Week 27th » Doctors in the first Netherlands named Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform 'abortus provocatus known as aborti provocati'.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1971
1st » Harald Martin Brattbakk, Norwegian footballer
1st » Michael C. Hall, American actor
1st » Tomomi Hayashi, Japanese-Estonian architect
1st » Ajay Jadeja, Indian cricketer
1st » Jill Kelly (pornographic actress) called Jill Kelly, American porn actress, director, and producer
1st » Alison Mowbray, English rower
1st » Hynden Walch, American actress
1st » Ron Welty, American drummer (The Offspring and Steady Ground)