* Congresswoman Barbara Charline Jordan of Texas, the first African-American congresswoman to come from the Deep South and the first woman ever elected to the Texas Senate, who had received widespread recognition as a key member of the House Judiciary Committee during President Nixon's impeachment, delivered the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention.

It was held by Barbara Charline Jordan, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South ( in 1972 ), who was praised by many for her powerful presence in that body, and in particular, for her oratorical skills.

Voice actors for the special included Barbara Harris, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Jack Gilford and Will Jordan.

* 1936 – Barbara Jordan, American politician ( d. 1996 )

* January 17 – Barbara Jordan, American politician ( b. 1936 )

* July 12 – Barbara Jordan is the first black person to keynote a political convention.

* Barbara C. Jordan and Elspeth D. Rostow ( editors ) The Great Society: a twenty year critique: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs 1986 ISBN 0-89940-417-0

Among the 400 guests were many dignitaries and business leaders, including former US President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush, Queen Noor of Jordan, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and his Greek-born wife Katherine, Galen Weston and Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Hilary Weston, U. S. television personality Kathie Lee Gifford, and media magnate Ted Rogers.

The city also has one middle school, Brittany Woods Middle School, and four elementary schools: Flynn Park, Barbara C. Jordan, Pershing and Jackson Park.

Barbara C. Jordan Intermediate

The Barbara Jordan Youth Debates, made possible by the Kaiser Family Foundation, were held for urban debaters.

Other directors were former President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., former U. S. Representative Barbara Jordan and the Odessa oil industrialist Bill Noël.

* 1992 Barbara C. Jordan ( public servant )

* John Peter Oleson, M. Barbara Reeves, Barbara J. Fisher, New Dedicatory Inscriptions from Humayma ( Ancient Hawara ), Jordan, ZPE 140 ( 2002 ), pp. 103 – 121

Barbara Jordan was elected to the US House of Representatives by Houston residents on November 8, 1966.

Barbara Jordan was born in Houston, Texas ' Fifth Ward.

She kept the state of her health out of the press so well that in the KUT radio documentary Rediscovering Barbara Jordan, President Bill Clinton stated that he wanted to nominate Jordan for the United States Supreme Court, but by the time he could do so, Jordan's health problems prevented him from nominating her.

The main terminal at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is named after her, as are an elementary school in Odessa, Texas, a middle school in Cibolo, Texas ; and Barbara Jordan High School in Houston.

The Kaiser Family Foundation currently operates the Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars, a fellowship designed for people of color who are college juniors, seniors, and recent graduates as a summer experience working in a congressional office.

On April 24, 2009, a Barbara Jordan statue was unveiled at the University of Texas at Austin, where Jordan taught at the time of her death.

The Barbara Jordan statue campaign was paid for by a student fee increase approved by the University of Texas Board of Regents.

Many of Jordan's speeches have been collected in a 2007 publication from the University of Texas Press, Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder.

Along with Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader and close confidante of Martin Luther King, Jr., Barbara Jordan is remembered for her advocacy of progressive politics.

* Grandchildren: Alexander ( b. March 1974 ), Kindra ( b. May 1976 ), Camberley ( b. June 1978 ), and Francis ( b. February 1981 ), Michael & Barbara Crick's children ; Mark & Nicholas, the late Jacqueline and Christopher Nichols ' children.

* 1810 February – The Governor of Gibraltar removed the Spanish forts of San Felipe and Santa Barbara, located on the northern boundary of the neutral ground.

* Barbara Sophie ( 16 November 1584 – 13 February 1636 ), married John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg

* February 5 – A huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California closes the city's harbor.

* February 23 – The Japanese submarine I-17 fires 17 high-explosive shells toward an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, causing little damage.

* February 11 – Barbara Clementine Harris is consecrated as the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America ( and also the first female bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion ).

* February 26 – Barbara Erni Liechtenstein Confidence trickster ( b. 1743 )

Together, Wilhelm and Henriette had four children: Jacob Grimm ( 3 April 1826 – 15 December 1826 ), Herman Friedrich Grimm ( 6 January 1828 – 16 June 1901 ), Rudolf Georg Grimm ( 31 March 1830 – 13 November 1889 ), and Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie ( 21 August 1832 – 9 February 1919 ).

In the February 28th, 2007 all-star benefit reading of " The Gift of Peace " at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, he portrays a hopeful member of a struggling immigrant family, and plays alongside actors Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, Amy Brenneman, George Coe, Wendie Malick, and James Pickens, Jr ..

Hold Back the Dawn was adapted as a radio play on the November 10, 1941 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward, again on the February 8, 1943 episode of The Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Susan Hayward, the July 31, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater starring Olivia de Havilland and Jean Pierre Aumont, the May 31, 1948 episode of Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, the May 14, 1949 episode of Screen Director's Playhouse with Boyer and Vanessa Brown, the May 4, 1950 episode of Screen Guild Theater with de Havilland and Boyer and the June 15, 1952 Screen Guild Theater with Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Pierre Aumont.

On February 20, 1541, he married Barbara Brück, who went on to bear three sons and a daughter.

On February 23, 1942, not long after the outbreak of war in the Pacific, the Japanese submarine I-17 surfaced offshore and lobbed 16 shells at the Ellwood Oil Field, about west of Santa Barbara, in the first wartime attack by an enemy power on the U. S. mainland since the War of 1812.

Back in London by February 1671, Churchill's handsome features and manner – described by Lord Chesterfield as " irresistible to either man or woman " – had soon attracted the ravenous attentions of one of the King's most noteworthy mistresses, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.

Over the next 13 years George and Barbara Bush had six children: George W. Bush ( born July 6, 1946 ), Pauline Robinson Bush ( December 20, 1949 – October 11, 1953, died of leukemia ), John Ellis " Jeb " Bush ( born February 11, 1953 ), Neil Mallon Bush ( born January 22, 1955 ), Marvin Pierce Bush ( born October 22, 1956 ), and Dorothy Bush Koch ( born August 18, 1959 ).

According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre has included The Great Exhibition at Hampstead Theatre ( February 1972 ); I, Claudius at the Queen's Theatre ( July 1972 ); A Feast of Snails at the Lyric Theatre ( February 2002 ); Where There's a Will at the Theatre Royal, Bath ; King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre ( in 2005, see details below ); and also Major Barbara on Broadway.

* February 22 – Barbara Jo Rubin becomes the first female winner of a USA race

Wouter and Barbara Bos have two daughters, Iris Jessie ( February 5, 2004 ) and Julia Roos ( January 3, 2006 ) and a son Joppe ( April 18, 2009 )

In February 1974, as Barbara Ann Allen, she had become the first female aviator in the United States Armed Forces.

Two weeks later on February 22 at Charles Town in West Virginia, Barbara Jo Rubin becomes the first woman to win a race and goes on to win 11 of her first 22.

On February 14, 1948, Rockefeller married Mrs. Barbara " Bobo " Sears.

In February 2007 Barbara Fischinger performed on this Lumigraph.

* February 2-The first transposons are discovered in maize ( Zea mays, aka corn ) by Barbara McClintock.

In February 2003, he was one of the featured speakers at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco where other notable speakers included names such as author Alice Walker, singer Joan Baez, United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland.