| February
1 |
Freedom
Day
Leadership
Week
- Feb 1-7* (Starting first Sunday in February)
Langston
Hughes born in Missouri, 1902
Fritjof
Capra born in Austria, 1939
Nanda
Pok born in Cambodia, 1959
|
| February
2 |
Shakira
born in Colombia, 1977
First
World Disarmament Conference opened Geneva 1932
|
| February
3 |
Elizabeth
Blackwell born in England, 1821
Blythe
Danner born in Pennsylvania, 1943
Melanie
Safka born in New York, 1947
Carlos
Felipe Ximenes Belo born in East Timor, 1948
|
| February
4 |
*
World
Cancer Day
St. Francis
of Assisi, memorial, born 1181, Italy
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer born in Germany, 1906
Rosa
Parks born in Tuskegee, Alabama, 1913
Betty
Friedan born in Illionois, 1921
Sima
Samar born in Afghanistan, 1957
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 |
Bob
Marley born in Jamaica, 1945
National
Holiday of New Zealand
|
| February
7 |
Sir
Thomas More born in England, 1478
Helder
Camara born in Fortaleza, Brazil, 1909
Duane
Elgin born in Idaho, 1943
Diana,
Princess of Wales, advocated world-wide ban on landmines,
Angola 1997
National
Holiday of Grenada
|
| February
8 |
Paul
Hawken born, 1946 |
| February
9 |
Alice
Walker born in Georgia, 1944
|
| February
10 |
Georges
Pire born in Belgium, 1910
Frances
Moore Lappé born in Oregon, 1944
Louise
Arbour born in Montreal, Canada, 1947
|
| February
11 |
Sheryl
Crow born in Missouri, 1962
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
Ceciliana
Olilaeni born in Solomon Islands, 1950
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
Richard
Allen born in Pennsylvania, 1760
Frederick
Douglass born in Maryland, 1818
Anna
Howard Shaw born in England, 1847
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
Susan
Brownmiller born in New York, 1935
Conor
Oberst born in Nebraska, 1980
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 |
Wendell
Wilkie born in Indiana, 1892
Julia
Butterfly Hill born in Missouri, 1974
National
Holiday of Gambia
|
| February
19 |
UN Development Programme created, 1951 |
| February
20 |
*
World Day of Social Justice
René Dubos
born in France, 1901
Buffy
St. Marie born in Canada, 1941
MIR
('world,' 'Peace'), Russian-built space station launched in 1986
|
| February
21 |
*
International
Mother Language Day
John
van Hengel born in Wisconsin, 1923
John
R. Lewis born in Troy, Alabama, 1940
Barbara
Jordan born in Houston, Texas 1936
|
| February
22 |
Gertrude
Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) born 1876 in South Dakota
Mahmoud
ul Haq born 1934 in Kashmir
Nader
Khalili born 1936 in Iran
Drew
Barrymore born 1975 in California
National
Holiday of Saint Lucia
|
| February
23 |
W.
E. B. DuBois born in Massachusetts, 1868
Inge
Sargent born in Austria, 1932
National
Holiday of Brunei Darussalam,Guyana
|
| February
24 |
Irwin Abrams born in California, 1914
Edward
James Olmos born in California, 1947
George
Harrison born in England, 1943
National
Holiday of Estonia
|
| February
25 |
Téa
Leoni
born in New York, 1966
Ellis
Jones
born in 1970
National
Holiday of Kuwait
|
| February
26 |
Secretary-General
U Thant signed United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox
as Earth Day, 1971 |
| February
27 |
Perseverance
Day
Rudolf
Steiner born in Austria, 1861
Joanne
Woodward born in Georgia, 1930
Ralph
Nader born in Connecticut, 1934
National
Holiday of Dominican Republic
|
| February
28 |
Linus
Pauling born in Oregon, 1901
Sir
Brian Urquhart born in England, 1919
|
| February
29 |
Khaled
born in Algeria, 1960
The
minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised
from twelve to fourteen years old in South Carolina, 1916.
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