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.

His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

On February 15, 2011, she played one of the instruments live from orbit on National Public Radio.

On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In February 2011, she announced that she would embark on the Better Day World Tour on July 17, 2011, with shows in northern Europe and the U. S. The album's lead-off single, " Together You and I ," was released on May 23, 2011, and Better Day was released on June 28, 2011.

On February 28, she entered a video store, produced a gun, and demanded the money from the register.

On 14 February 2003, Dolly was euthanised because she had a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis.

In February 1577, it was rumoured that Oxford's sister Mary would marry Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ( 1559 – 1580 ), but by 2 July, she was linked with Peregrine Bertie, later Lord Willoughby d ' Eresby.

On 24 February 1593, she gave birth to Oxford's only surviving son and heir, Henry de Vere, at Stoke Newington.

If he or she was born in the United States, Taiwan or New Zealand, he or she legally becomes 18 on February 28, 2014, a day earlier.

He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.

The role of Aida was written for her, and although she did not appear in the world premiere in Cairo in 1871, she created Aida in the European premiere in Milan in February 1872.

In February 1923, she launched Renascença, a periodical linked with the anarchist, progressive, and freethinking circles of the period.

Ten years later on 11 February 1490, at age 16, she married Francesco Gonzaga, who had by then succeeded to the marquisate.

* Eleonora Gonzaga ( 31 December 1493 – 13 February 1570 ), married Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, by whom she had issue.

This was not enough to satisfy Isabella, already in her mid-60s, so she returned to political life and ruled Solarolo, in Romagna until her death on 13 February 1539.

In February 1997, she played in the Linares " supertournament " which Kasparov won by edging out Kramnik.

On February 2 the next year ( 1388 ), she was also recognized as regent of Norway.

She was sentenced on February 14, 2003 for the maximum term allowed under her plea bargain, which was a six-year term concurrent to the 14-year sentence she was already serving.

On February 11, 2011 it was further reported that she had been made bankrupt over her stay at the five-star Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in London's upmarket Knightsbridge in 2008.

On February 2, 2009, she returned to the role of Alexx Woods for a guest appearance in the episode " Smoke Gets In Your CSI's ".

In February 2010, she played Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which also featured Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson.