György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.

In February 1946 he also forced the French to surrender all of their concessions in China and to renounce their extraterritorial privileges in exchange for the Chinese withdrawing from northern Indochina and allowing French troops to reoccupy the region.

Orwell suffered a tubercular haemorrhage in February 1946 but disguised his illness.

He married Carol Gimbel ( of the New York department store family ) on February 18, 1946, three days after signing a $ 60, 000 ($ today ) contract with the Tigers.

The last burial was at the SMERSH facility in Magdeburg on 21 February 1946.

He was captured by French troops at the end of the war and released in February 1946.

The first sinking took place on 17 November 1945 and the last on 11 February 1946.

The first occasion on 18 February 1946 – which has become known as the " Grand Consistory " – yielded the elevation of a record 32 new cardinals, almost 50 percent of the College of Cardinals and reaching the canonical limit of 70 cardinals.

On 25 February 1946 ( when Soviet national symbols replaced revolutionary symbols ), the Red Army was renamed the Soviet Army ( Советская Армия, Sovetskaya Armiya ).

Returning to Australia in February 1946, he was demobilised on 22 March.

In February 1946, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations helped draft the constitution of the new body.

* February 7 – Maritime Commission fleet operations transferred to War Shipping Administration ( lasting until September 1, 1946 ).

* February 28 – Otto Dowling, United States Navy Captain, and the 25th Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1946 )

* February 3 – Gertrude Stein, American writer and patron of the arts ( d. 1946 )

* February 16 – Frank Burke, American baseball player ( d. 1946 )

* February 19 – Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg, Danish civil servant ( d. 1946 )

* February 4 – Edward Sheldon, American playwright, ( d. 1946 )

AT & T made its first postwar addition in February 1946, with the completion of a cable between New York City and Washington, D. C., although a blurry demonstration broadcast showed that it would not be in regular use for several months.

Baird died in Bexhill on 14 June 1946 after a stroke in February of that year.

Sir Walter Winterbottom CBE ( 31 January 1913 – 16 February 2002 ) was the first manager of the England football team, serving from 1946 until 1962.

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman ( born 21 February 1946 ) is an English actor of stage and screen.

Nevertheless, in February 1946 Rodriguez left New Mexico to join Williams in his New Orleans apartment and they lived and traveled together until late 1947 when Williams ended the affair.

The Labour Party ( PvdA ) was founded on 9 February 1946, through a merger of three parties: the Social Democratic Workers ' Party ( SDAP ), the minor left-liberal Free-thinking Democratic League ( VDB ) and the small social-Protestant Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

Ahmed Zewail () ( born February 26, 1946 ) is an Egyptian chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.

Chiang Kai-shek threatened the French with war in response to manoeuvering by the French and Ho Chi Minh against each other, forcing them to come to a peace agreement, and in February 1946 he also forced the French to surrender all of their concessions in China and renounce their extraterritorial privileges in exchange for withdrawing from northern Indochina and allowing French troops to reoccupy the region starting in March 1946.

On February 16, Steele took his seat in Parliament.

From October 1960 to February 1961, the U.N. forces in the Congo took little action.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

Pillow took up a position at nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and did not move into the fort itself until February 7, 1862.

The first recorded aircraft hijack took place on February 21, 1931, in Arequipa, Peru.

Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

On March 14, 2002, an agreement was signed to transform the FRY into a loose state union called Serbia and Montenegro ; it took effect on February 4, 2003.

As the February 28, 2008 deadline to approve or reject CAFTA loomed, Arias decided to call for the referendum himself, and it took take place on October 7, 2007.

He took the oath of office on 18 February 2010.

In February, the people rose again: Alexius IV was imprisoned and executed, and Murzuphlus took the purple as Alexius V. He made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution.

The current National Chairman is Colin Valentine, who took over from Paula Waters in February 2010.

The current executive secretary is Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, who took up this post on 15 February 2012.

as it took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 and is still continuing as of February 2012.

In February 1809 one Thomas Windeatt, from Bridgetown, Totnes, took over the lease of a plot of land ( a " newtake ") of about 582 acres in the valley of the River Swincombe.

Ratings reached a low of 8 million in February 1973, Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples ) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed ( Annie Walker ) took two months ' leave.

After the federation dissolved, Dominica became an associated state of the United Kingdom on February 27, 1967 and formally took responsibility for its internal affairs.

The Paquisha War was a brief military clash that took place between January and February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts.

Capello took charge of his first game on 6 February 2008 against Switzerland, in which England won 2 – 1.

In February 1913, a military coup took place in the Mexican capital led by General Victoriano Huerta, the military commander of the city.

Bacon took his third parliamentary seat for Middlesex when in February 1593 Elizabeth summoned Parliament to investigate a Roman Catholic plot against her.

In February 1944, Operation Hailstone, one of the most important naval battles of the war, took place at Truk, in which many Japanese support vessels and aircraft were destroyed.

An interim government turned over power in February 2000 when opposition leader Kumba Ialá took office following two rounds of transparent presidential elections.

Further to the north, Saint-Barthélemy and the northern French part of Saint Martin once came under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe but on 7 December 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity, a decision which took effect on 22 February 2007.

However, in February 1852, Palmerston took revenge on Russell by voting with the Conservatives in a " no confidence " vote against the Russell government.

In February 1912, Princip took part in protest demonstrations against the Sarajevo authorities, for which he was expelled from school.