The strongest recorded earthquakes in the region occurred on 5 April 1959, with its epicentre at Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye and a recorded intensity of 6. 5 at Barcelonnette, and on 17 February 1947, with its epicentre at Prazzo over the Italian border.

* Draft, Report on Communist Expansion, February 28, 1947

The first to be born was the radical Chadian Progressive Party ( PPT ) in February 1947, initially headed by Panamanian born Gabriel Lisette, but from 1959 headed by François Tombalbaye.

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

In February 1947, the British announced that they would end the mandate and withdraw from Palestine and they asked the arbitration of the United Nations.

James Danforth " Dan " Quayle (; born February 4, 1947 )

John Coolidge Adams ( born February 15, 1947 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism.

In February 1947, Philby was appointed head of British intelligence for Turkey, and posted to Istanbul with his second wife, Aileen, and their family.

Legislation was passed that enshrined the right to organize, and membership rapidly rose to 5 million by February, 1947.

* 1947 – Butch Trucks, American drummer ( The Allman Brothers Band and The 31st of February )

Initially Britain had supported the anti-communist factions in those countries, but due to its dire economic condition it decided to pull out and in February 1947 requested the U. S. to continue its efforts.

* Sikhote-Alin – Massive iron meteorite impact event that occurred on February 12, 1947.

Najibullah was born in February 1947 in the city of Kabul, in the Kingdom of Afghanistan.

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He published four influential short stories for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, leading off, in February 1947, with " The Green Hills of Earth ".

On 20 February 2006, Irving was found guilty, and sentenced to three years imprisonment for Holocaust denial, under Austria's 1947 law banning Nazi revivalism and criminalising the " public denial, belittling or justification of National Socialist crimes ".

On February 24, 1886, at the age of thirty-nine, Edison married the 20-year-old Mina Miller ( 1866 – 1947 ) in Akron, Ohio.

* Yorktown-class aircraft carrier ( 12 May 1938 – 17 February 1947 ), the seventh ship to bear this name, served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, becoming the most-decorated vessel in the history of the U. S. Navy.

* In Europe, the winters of early 1947, February 1956, 1962 – 1963, 1981 – 1982 and 2009 – 2010 were abnormally cold.

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* February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster ( d. 1947 )

* February 7 – G. H. Hardy, British mathematician ( d. 1947 )

* February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author ( d. 1947 )

General George C. Marshall, in a memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated 3 February 1944, wrote

Four days after Andropov's death, on 9 February 1984, Chernenko was elected as the party's General Secretary.

After a one year assignment in France, Eisenhower served as executive officer to General George V. Mosely, Assistant Secretary of War, from 1929 to February 1933.

In February 1943, his authority was extended as commander of AFHQ across the Mediterranean basin to include the British 8th Army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery.

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

Some of them, such as Mikhail Svetšnikov, led Red troops in western Finland throughout February 1918, while other officers were mistrustful of their revolutionary underlings and co-operated with their former colleague General Mannerheim, assisting the Whites in the disarmament of the Russian garrisons in Finland.

In February 1918 General Mannerheim weighed the question of where to focus the general offensive of the Whites, between two strategically vital enemy strongholds: Tampere, Finland's major industrial town in the south-west, and Viipuri, Karelia's main city.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

Shortly before the trial Eiffel had announced his intention to resign from the Board of Directors of the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, and did so at a General Meeting held on 14 February, saying " I have absolutely decided to abstain from any participation in any manufacturing business from now on, and so that no one can be misled and to make it most evident that I intend to remain absolutely uninvolved with the management of the establishments which bear my name, I wish to that my name should disappear from the name of the company.

The Washington conference concluded in February with the adoption of the General Treaty of Peace and Amity of 1923, which had eleven supplemental conventions.

At the end of February, General Motors announced it would begin dismantling the Hummer brand.

On February 1, 2010 it was announced that Sichuan and General Motors had agreed to extend the deadline until the end of February as Sichuan tried to get approval by the Chinese government.

His celebration is on 1 February in the General Roman Calendar of 1962.

Chernenko's illness was first acknowledged publicly on 22nd February 1985 during a televised election rally in Kuibyshev Borough of northeast Moscow, where the General Secretary stood as candidate for the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, when Politburo member Viktor Grishin revealed that the General Secretary was absent in accordance with doctors ' advice.

In February 1989, General Aoun launched the " War of liberation ", a war against the Syrian Armed Forces in Lebanon.

Although critical of the Tsar, General Kornilov felt that Russia, as part of the Triple Entente, was committed to continue the war against the Central Powers, and he shared the widespread belief of some Russians that after the February Revolution the country was descending into anarchy and that military defeat would be disastrous for Russia.

In the February 1964 issue of Popular Science, von Braun, then director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ), discussed the need for a lunar surface vehicle, and revealed that studies had been underway at MSFC in conjunction with Lockheed, Bendix, Boeing, General Motors, Brown Engineering, Grumman, and Bell Aerospace.

The Indian consulate was opened in Muscat in February 1955 and five years later it was upgraded to a Consulate General and later developed into a full fledged Embassy in 1971.

General Noriega's February 1988 indictment in U. S. courts on drug-trafficking charges sharpened tensions.

On February 3, 1989, Stroessner was overthrown in a military coup headed by General Andrés Rodríguez.

The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on February 6, 2006, by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, following the general election that took place that year.

By Executive Order of the President of the United States, the Purple Heart was revived on the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth, out of respect to his memory and military achievements, by War Department General Orders No. 3, dated February 22, 1932.

The first independent evidence for Chalmers ' claim is the essay and proposal he submitted for adhesive postage stamps to the General Post Office, dated 8 February 1838 and received by the Post Office on 17 February 1838.