On February 26, Bush issued a formal letter of apology to Cardinal John Joseph O ' Connor of New York for failing to denounce Bob Jones University's history of anti-Catholic statements.

Charles Martin " Chuck " Jones ( September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002 ) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.

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

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

In February 2011, Jones confirmed rumours of another Monkees reunion.

On the morning of 29 February 2012, Jones went to tend his 14 horses at a farm in Indiantown, Florida.

Jones retired from the Marine Corps on February 1, 2007, after 40 years of service.

The Munich air disaster of 6 February 1958 claimed 23 lives, including those of eight players – Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor and Billy Whelan – and injured several more.

In February 1976, the band received its first significant press coverage ; guitarist Steve Jones declared that the Sex Pistols were not so much into music as they were " chaos ".

SN 1987A was discovered by Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on February 24, 1987, and within the same 24 hours independently by Albert Jones in New Zealand.

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

* February 1 – Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer

* February 28 – Brian Jones, English musician ( The Rolling Stones ) ( d. 1969 )

* February 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30. 28 to close at 4, 003. 33 – the Dow's first ever close above 4, 000.

* February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, and musician

* February 16 – Only a little more than four months after the release of the 70mm version of Oklahoma !, the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, is released in Cinemascope 55.

* February 10 – June Jones, American quarterback and current NCAA Football head coach at Southern Methodist University

* February 20 – Ken Jones, British actor

* February 1 – Anson Jones, President of the Republic of Texas, signs the charter officially creating Baylor University.

* February 2 – In a speech before The Asiatic Society in Calcutta, Sir William Jones notes the formal resemblances between Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, laying the foundation for comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies.

His parents were Thomas Woodward ( died 5 October 1981 ), a coal miner, and Freda Jones ( died 7 February 2003 ).

Dow Jones sold a 90 % stake in its Index business for $ 607. 5M to Chicago-based CME Group, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in February 2010.

On February 27, 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 3. 3 % ( 415. 30 points ), its biggest point drop since 2001.

* February 29 – Davy Jones, British singer and actor ( b. 1945 )

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Ski troops were trained for the war, and battles were waged in mountainous areas such as the battle at Riva Ridge in Italy, where the American 10th Mountain Division encountered heavy resistance in February 1945.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

He announced the invention at a meeting of the American Chemical Society on February 5, 1909.

William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.

A longitudinal study published in February 2006 in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology showed a link between psychosocial stress and bacterial vaginosis independent of other risk factors.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA ,< ref name =" UCLAHonorDinner2006_11_06 ">

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

Another well-documented case occurred in Chichijima in February 1945, when Japanese soldiers killed and consumed five American airmen.

Clyde William Tombaugh ( February 4, 1906January 17, 1997 ) was an American astronomer.

* Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, February 2-April 13, 2008

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

With the help of five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, it was agreed that a voluntary demobilization of the contras should start in early December 1989, in order to facilitate free and fair elections in Nicaragua in February 1990 ( even though the Reagan administration had pushed for a delay of contra disbandment ).

Carl Ransom Rogers ( January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987 ) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology.

Drew Blyth Barrymore ( born February 22, 1975 ) is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer, and model.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

* Jeffrey Wadsworth and Oleg D. Sherby, " Damascus Steels ", Scientific American, pp. 94 – 99, February 1985.

Douglas Richard Hofstadter ( born February 15, 1945 ) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

In February 2002, " American Pie " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Errol Mark Morris ( born February 5, 1948 ) is an American film director.

Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789 ) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician.

* The first untethered spacewalk was made by American Bruce McCandless II on February 7, 1984, during Challenger mission STS-41-B, utilizing the Manned Maneuvering Unit.