* February 19-Captain Henry Harrison, the last surviving member of the party led by Charles Stewart Parnell, dies aged 87.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

His long-anticipated rescue occurred on 1 February 1709 by way of the Duke, a privateering ship piloted by William Dampier.

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

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.

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

In February 2006, a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission that included Lawrence Korb, a former assistant defense secretary during the Reagan administration, William Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, and professors from the United States Military Academy released their assessment of the GAO's analysis of the cost of DADT released a year earlier.

Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.

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

The documents did not excite Woodford and in February 1886 he passed them on to Freemason William Wynn Westcott, who managed to decode them in 1887.

Wycliffe was summoned before William Courtenay, Bishop of London, on 19 February 1377, " to explain the wonderful things which had streamed forth from his mouth ".

* Archbishop William Laud imprisoned 26 February 1641

Beginning February 29, 1928 on NBC, Socony Oil reached radio listeners with a comedy program, Soconyland Sketches, scripted by William Ford Manley and featuring Arthur Allen and Parker Fennelly as rural New Englanders.

The Olney Hymns () were first published in February 1779, and are the combined work of curate John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ) and his poet friend, William Cowper ( 1731 – 1800 ).

On February 7, Henry Smith's stepson, William Butler, was lynched outside Paris.

Pope Blessed Calixtus II ( or Calistus II ) ( died 13 December 1124 ), born Guy de Burgundy, the fourth son of William I, Count of Burgundy, was elected Pope on 1 February 1119 after the death of Pope Gelasius II.

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On February 7, 1845, the vase was shattered by William Lloyd, who, after drinking all the previous week, threw a nearby sculpture on top of the case smashing both it and the vase.

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

On 1 February 2009, the FARC-EP proceeded with the release of the four security force members, Juan Fernando Galicio Uribe, José Walter Lozano Guarnizo, Alexis Torres Zapata and William Giovanni Domínguez Castro.

With the country now under submission, all the leading Scots, except for William Wallace, surrendered to Edward in February 1304.

Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".

This period is dramatised in the novel Summer in February by Jonathan Smith.

After more behind-the-scenes contract wrangling, Smith became a St. Louis Cardinal on February 11, 1982.

In February 1994, Smith took on the role of honorary chairman and official spokesman for the Missouri Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health.

Henry Smith ( born 1876 ) was an African-American who was tortured and murdered at a public, heavily attended and promoted lynching on February 1, 1893 at the Paris Fairgrounds in Paris, Texas.

On February 8, 2007, during Jack Cafferty's segment on CNN's The Situation Room on the day of the death of Anna Nicole Smith, he asked of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer " Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead, Wolf?

Democrats finally dropped their objections on January 31, and Smith was seated on February 3 by a vote of 166 – 0.

Smith at the At Long Last Leave # Promotion | Simpsons 500th Episode Marathon, February 2012

* February 28 – Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer

* February 28 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor ( d. 2011 )

* February 27 – The Smith Mine # 3 in Bearcreek, Montana, United States explodes, killing 74 men.

* February 22 – Norman Smith ( record producer ) English singer and record producer ( d. 2008 )

* February 6 – The ship Topaz ( from Boston April 5, 1807 hunting seals ) rediscovers the Pitcairn Islands ; only one HMS Bounty mutineer is still alive, Alexander Smith ( John Adams ).

* February 19 – Captain William Smith in British merchant brig Williams sights Williams Point, the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, the first land discovered south of latitude 60 ° S.

* February 2 – Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate ( d. 1931 )

* February 2 – Robert Smith, English mathematician ( b. 1689 )

And How Bush v. Gore became the One that Got Away " by Chris Smith, February 26, 2001

Howard Kingsbury Smith ( May 12, 1914 – February 15, 2002 ) was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film actor.

They had three children, Beatrice Smith ( March 19, 1911 – October 24, 1952 ), Ruth Ellen Patton Totten ( February 28, 1915 – November 25, 1993 ), who wrote The Button Box: A Loving Daughter's Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton, and George Patton IV ( December 24, 1923 – June 27, 2004 ), who followed in his father's footsteps, attending West Point and eventually rising to the rank of Major General as an armor officer in the United States Army.

Henry John Stephen Smith ( 2 November 1826 Dublin, Ireland – 9 February 1883 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith – Minkowski – Siegel mass formula in number theory.

The first land south of the parallel 60 ° south latitude was discovered by the Englishman William Smith, who sighted Livingston Island on 19 February 1819.

In February 1989, Tolhurst's exit was made official and announced to the press ; this resulted in Roger O ' Donnell becoming a full-fledged member of the band and left Smith as The Cure's only remaining founder member.

During this time, Richardson took on five more apprentices: Thomas Verren ( 1 August 1732 ), Richard Smith ( 6 February 1733 ), Matthew Stimson ( 7 August 1733 ), Bethell Wellington ( 7 May 1734 ), and Daniel Green ( 1 October 1734 ).