The FSLIC forced Mr. Bright to sell the Cowboys to Jerry Jones on February 25, 1989.

Then Jerry Jones bought the team on February 25, 1989, and promptly fired Landry, the only head coach Dallas ever had.

* February 1 – Jerry Spinelli, American children's author

* February 17 – Jerry O ' Connell, American Actor

* February 4 – Jerry Adler, American actor

* February 24 – Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $ 200, 000 for defamation.

* February 10 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in Puss Gets the Boot.

After having been vetoed in a previous attempt by owner Jerry Reinsdorf, Krause traded Scottie Pippen for Roy Rogers ( who was released in February 1999 ) and a conditional second-round draft pick from the Houston Rockets.

On February 10, 2011, with the team record at 31 – 23 after a loss to the Chicago Bulls, head coach Jerry Sloan resigned, along with assistant Phil Johnson.

Jerry Seinfeld is an avid fan and " The Old Man " ( Season 4, Episode 18, aired 18 February 1993 ) featured a cantankerous old man named " Sid Fields ," played by veteran actor Bill Erwin, as a tribute to Sidney Fields, the landlord from the Abbott & Costello TV show.

In February 2007, Jerry Yang and his wife gave US $ 75 million to Stanford University, their alma mater, the bulk of which went to building the " Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building ", a multi-disciplinary research, teaching and lab building, the first to be realized on Stanford's new Science and Engineering Quad.

The first, in January and February 1986, featured Bragg, Weller's band The Style Council, The Communards, Junior Giscombe, Lorna Gee and Jerry Dammers, and picked up guest appearances from Madness, Heaven 17, Bananarama, Prefab Sprout, Elvis Costello, Gary Kemp, Tom Robinson, Sade, The Beat, Lloyd Cole, The Blow Monkeys and The Smiths along the way.

* February 16 – Jerry Lee Lewis surrenders to federal authorities on charges of income tax evasion.

* February 10 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer for film and television ( d. 2004 )

* February 17 – Jerry O ' Connell, actor

Two weeks later on February 26, 1989, Landry was dismissed as head coach, shortly after Bright sold the team to Jerry Jones.

Jeremiah " Jerry " O ' Connell ( born February 17, 1974 ) is an American actor, best known for his roles in the TV series Sliders, Andrew Clements in My Secret Identity, Vern Tessio in the film Stand by Me, Derek in Scream 2, Charlie Carbone in Kangaroo Jack, and Detective Woody Hoyt on the drama Crossing Jordan.

American chat show host and former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, Jerry Springer claims he was born inside the station on 13 February 1944, during the Blitz, but he may be mistaken and it's more likely that it was Highgate station where his mother was sheltering since there is no deep shelter at East Finchley, a surface station.

Edmund Gerald “ Pat ” Brown, Sr. ( April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996 ) was the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967 and the father of 34th and 39th governor of California, Jerry Brown.

In January and February 1978 the Misfits, then consisting of Danzig, guitarist Franché Coma, bassist Jerry Only, and drummer Mr. Jim, recorded seventeen songs at C. I.

* February 23 – Jerry Holland, fiddler

* February 10, 1992 – Tom Harkin ( 76 %), " Uncommitted " ( 12 %), Paul Tsongas ( 4 %), Bill Clinton ( 3 %), Bob Kerrey ( 2 %), and Jerry Brown ( 2 %)

" Jerry " Nachman ( February 24, 1946 – January 19, 2004 ) born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh.

The city decided that the experiment was successful and decided to make the change permanent in February 2010.

However, as of February 2009, at least four players must wear numbers between 50 and 79 on first, second, or third down, which by rule would make them ineligible receivers.

Shortly before the trial Eiffel had announced his intention to resign from the Board of Directors of the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, and did so at a General Meeting held on 14 February, saying " I have absolutely decided to abstain from any participation in any manufacturing business from now on, and so that no one can be misled and to make it most evident that I intend to remain absolutely uninvolved with the management of the establishments which bear my name, I wish to that my name should disappear from the name of the company.

By threatening to withdraw his troops, William in February 1689 convinced a newly chosen Convention Parliament to make him and his wife joint monarchs.

First published on 21 February 1848, it laid out the beliefs of the Communist League, a group who had come increasingly under the influence of Marx and Engels, who argued that the League must make their aims and intentions clear to the general public rather than hiding them as they had formerly been doing.

San Marino finally had to make a choice on February 5, 1797, when, with the arrival of a letter from General Louis Alexandre Berthier addressed to the Regents, it was required to arrest and consign the Bishop of Rimini, Monsignor Vincenzo Ferretti, accused of instigating crimes against the French, who fled with all his possessions to San Marino.

It was eventually decided to make every effort to maintain a full regular season and playoff, and push the Super Bowl back to February 3.

" The Undertones did, however, release two studio singles, " Beautiful Friend " and " The Love Parade ", in February and October, however both of the singles the band released failed to make an impact upon the UK charts.

* February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.

* February 9 – The Qianlong Emperor abdicates at age 84 to make way for his son, the Jiaqing Emperor.

But Fulk le Réchin ( the Cross-looking ), brother of Geoffrey the Bearded, who had at first been contented with an appanage consisting of Saintonge and the châtellenie of Vihiers, having allowed Saintonge to be taken in 1062 by the duke of Aquitaine, took advantage of the general discontent aroused in the countship by the unskilful policy of Geoffrey to make himself master of Saumur ( 25 February 1067 ) and Angers ( 4 April ), and cast Geoffrey into prison at Sablé.

" On February 13, 1861, the newly elected President Lincoln arrived in Cincinnati by train to make a speech.

In February 2010 APA's Council of Representatives voted to amend the association's Code of Ethics to make clear that its standards can never be interpreted to justify or defend violating human rights.

The parliamentary session began on 4 February, and Cromwell introduced a new bill restricting the right to make appeals to Rome.

On February 4, 2010, at his war crimes trial in the Hague, Taylor testified that Robertson was his main political ally in the U. S., and that he had volunteered to make Liberia's case before U. S. administration officials in exchange for concessions to Robertson's Freedom Gold, Ltd., to which Taylor gave a contract to mine gold in southeast Liberia.

Accordingly, Raeder planned the Channel Dash of February 1942 that saw the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau make the run from Brest to Norway.

He also worked to make union strong arm squads more effective when the Communists declared a " Red Terror " after the failed February uprising ; this action resulted in the murder of twenty " anti-union " figures, and the kidnapping, beating, and intimidation of others associated with anti-union activities.

In an attempt to make the party more broadly appealing to larger segments of the population, the DAP was renamed on February 24, 1920 to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party.

* February 22: Asteroid 2 Pallas will make a record close approach to Earth at 1. 233 AU.

In this, Canaris was successful, and the " Dutch War Scare " played a major role in causing Chamberlain to make the " continental commitment " ( i. e. sending a large British ground force to the defence of France ) in February 1939.

The USSR did not make such great demands, however, with Gorbachev stating in February 1990 that " The Germans must decide for themselves what path they choose to follow ".

The kingdom simply lacked the money to make the entire fleet seaworthy, so it was decided in February that the heavy ships would remain laid up at Chatham.

Charles abdicated as Emperor in 1556 in favor of his brother Ferdinand ; however, due to lengthy debate and bureaucratic procedure, the Imperial Diet did not accept the abdication ( and thus make it legally valid ) until 24 February 1558.

After playing in three preseason games, he underwent surgery to correct the hernia and would not appear during the regular season until mid-December, to which he lasted a month before attempting to make another comeback in February and early March, however he only played sporadically.