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, 1998
Day of Week 1st » Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
Day of Week 3rd » Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
3rd » Cavalese cable car disaster (1998) or Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
Day of Week 4th » An February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake called earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
Day of Week 6th » Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Day of Week 10th » Voters in Maine repeal a LGBT rights in the United States e.g gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
Day of Week 14th » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created Yaoundé train explosion known as a massive explosion which kills 120.
Day of Week 16th » China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
Day of Week 20th » American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Day of Week 23rd » In the United States, Kissimmee Tornado Outbreak e.g tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
Day of Week 28th » First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
28th » Kosovo War: Serbia and Montenegro e.g Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.