Franz Schmidt ( 22 December 187411 February 1939 ) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.

Schmidt died on 11 February 1939.

From a private letter from journalist Susan Myrick to Margaret Mitchell in February 1939: " George finally told me all about it.

Helene Kröller-Müller, ( February 11, 1869 – December 14, 1939 ) was one of the first European women to put together a major art collection.

Germany and the Soviet Union entered an intricate trade pact on February 11, 1940, that was over four times larger than the one the two countries had signed in August 1939.

Pius XI died on 10 February 1939.

However the première of the opera was postponed because Meyerhold was arrested on 20 June 1939 by the NKVD ( Joseph Stalin's Secret Police ), and shot on 2 February 1940.

* February 10 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer ( d. 1939 )

* February 12 – Sal Mineo, American actor ( b. 1939 )

* February 13 – Nienke van Hichtum, Dutch children's author ( d. 1939 )

* February 28 – Carl Georg Barth, American mathematician and mechanical engineer ( d. 1939 )

* February 11 – Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts ( d. 1939 )

* February 26 – Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian Marxist revolutionary and Vladimir Lenin's wife ( d. 1939 )

* February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America ( d. 1939 )

On February 28, 1939, an editor noticed " dord " lacked an etymology and investigated.

There is strong evidence to suggest that Simjian worked on this device before 1939 while his 132nd patent ( US3079603 ) was first filed on 30 June 1960 ( and granted 26 February 1963 ).

In February 1939 Keitel again became Chief of OKW.

By 23 January 1939 the British government received information to the effect that Germany intended to invade the Netherlands in February 1939 with the aim of using Dutch air-fields to launch strategic bombing offensive intended to achieve a " knock-out " blow against Britain by razing British cities to the ground.

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.

At the 11th Academy Awards held on February 23, 1939, La Grande Illusion became the first foreign language film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

William Halse Rivers Rivers was the oldest of four children, with his siblings being brother Charles Hay ( 29 August 1865 – 8 November 1939 ) and sisters Ethel Marian ( 30 October 1867 – 4 February 1943 ) and Katharine Elizabeth ( 1871 – 1939 ).

Seven weeks later, November 17, 1939, on the orders of General Władysław Sikorski, this organization was succeeded by Związek Walki Zbrojnej ( Union for Armed Struggle ), which over two years later, on February 14, 1942, became the AK.

Ar., lxiv, and De Syn., xviii ), St Athanasius does not recall from memory being a first hand witness to the onset of the great persecution by the Tetrarchy of Diocletian and Maximian in February 303, for in referring to the events of this period he makes no direct appeal to his own personal recollections, but falls back on tradition.

* Shares St. Louis Blues team record for assists in one game ( 5 on February 27, 1988 )

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

* St Nicholas Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1188 was consecrated on the 30 March 1955, it currently meets on the third Thursday in February, April, June, August & October

* Imette St. Guillen-a graduate student, murdered in February 2006, studying criminal justice ; a scholarship was created in her name

Sometimes the trees are left standing until February 2, the feast day of St. Mary of the Candle of Lightning.

* St Brigid ’ s Day: February 1, Ireland

His incorrupt body was taken from the island in February 1553 and was temporarily buried in St. Paul's church in Malacca on 22 March 1553.

On 17 February 1461 the Second Battle of St Albans on Bernards Heath north of the town centre resulted in a Lancastrian victory.

He preached his final sermon in St. Pierre on 6 February 1564.

While the date of his death is not known, " Dowland's last payment from the court was on 20 January 1626, and he was buried at St Ann's, Blackfriars, London, on 20 February 1626.

The film continues to cause controversy ; in February 2007 the Church of St Thomas the Martyr in Newcastle upon Tyne held a public screening in the church itself, with song-sheets, organ accompaniment, stewards in costume and false beards for female members of the audience ( alluding to an early scene where a group of women disguise themselves as men so that they are able to take part in a stoning ).

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

* 1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution ( so named because it was February on the Julian calendar ).

In February she suffered a fall at her Bel Air home and was taken to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.

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

Gregory died on 11 February 731, and was buried in St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

A fierce nationalistic spirit was aroused ; the London Evening News called for the story to be read to schoolchildren throughout the land, to coincide with the memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral on 14 February.

The February Revolution ( March 1917 ) was a revolution focused around Petrograd ( now St. Petersburg ).

The original fever of patriotic excitement, which had caused the name of St. Petersburg to be changed to the less German sounding Petrograd, may have subsided a little in the subsequent years, but it had not turned to defeatism and during the initial risings in Petrograd in February 1917, the crowds in the streets clearly objected to the banners proclaiming " down with the war ".

This interim arrangement ended on February 22, 1979, when St. Lucia achieved full independence.

John Compton was premier of St. Lucia from 1964 until independence in February 1979 and remained prime minister until elections later that year.

About 1, 196 of these former American slaves ( who were mainly from Virginia and South Carolina originally ) sailed in 15 ships and arrived in St. George Bay between February 26-March 9.

Sts Cyril and Methodius ' feast day is currently celebrated on 14 February in the Roman Catholic Church ( to coincide with the date of St Cyril's death ); on 11 May in the Eastern Orthodox Church ( though note that for Eastern Orthodox Churches still on the Julian Calendar or ' old calendar ' this is 24 May according to the Gregorian calendar ); and on 7 July according to the old sanctoral calendar that existed before the revisions of the Second Vatican Council.