Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* Telstra ( formerly Telecom Australia )-operated an AMPS network in Australia from February 1987 until the end of 2000.

* Opilio Rossi ( 2 February 1983 – 22 June 1987 )

Carl Ransom Rogers ( January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987 ) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology.

" Science and Politics: ' Nuclear Winter ' Clash ", The New York Times, February 17, 1987.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

Nixon in China ( 1987 ): The opera, in three acts, is based on Richard Nixon's visit to China on February 21 – 25, 1972.

The first entry in Nintendo's Kid Icarus series, it was published in Japan in December 1986, and in Europe and North America in February and July 1987, respectively.

In February and July 1987, respectively, a cartridge-based version of Kid Icarus was published for the NES in Europe and North America.

A large piece of skin was found by workmen on the elevator on 6 February 1987.

Lee Marvin ( February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987 ) was an American film actor.

This union was founded on 7 February 1987 and is today the largest student union of a private school in Norway.

He claimed that veteran stock trader Richard Wigton, of Kidder, Peabody & Co. was guilty of insider trading ; in February 1987 he had officers handcuff Wigton and march him through the company's trading floor, with Wigton in tears.

It was founded in 1977 by Meena Keshwar Kamal, an Afghan student activist who was assassinated in February 1987 for her political activities.

Her activities and views, as well as her work against the government and religious fundamentalists led to her assassination on February 4, 1987.

In February 1987 she co-founded, with Elaine Eason Steele, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an institute that runs the " Pathways to Freedom " bus tours which introduce young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.

As a result, the detector ( KamiokaNDE-II ) had become sensitive enough to detect neutrinos from SN 1987A, a supernova which was observed in the Large Magellanic Cloud in February 1987, and to observe solar neutrinos in 1988.

Twain's first break finally came on February 8, 1987, when Bell staged a fundraiser for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Twain performed with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, jazz guitarist Don Ross, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

The light from the new supernova reached Earth on February 23, 1987.

SN 1987A was discovered by Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on February 24, 1987, and within the same 24 hours independently by Albert Jones in New Zealand.

Walter Houser Brattain ( February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987 ) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor.

Alpha testing of the software started in February 1987, beta-testing in May ; the release of X11 finally occurred on 15 September 1987.

* February 2 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist ( died 1987 )

* February 26 – Madeleine Carroll, British actress ( d. 1987 )

Buddy – as it is abbreviated on occasion – is still running in the UK after 22 years, with a UK tour that went out in February 2011.

Yazz & The Plastic Population ) ( February 1988 ) UK # 6

However, following NTL's acquisition of Virgin Mobile, the NTL and Telewest services were rebranded Virgin Media on February 8, 2007, creating a single cable operator covering more than 95 % of the UK cable market.

Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974, and reached the lower regions of Billboard's Hot 100 ( it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success ).

In February 2006, UK Prime Minister Blair, acknowledging that the EPRDF has won the election, said he wanted to see Ethiopia resolve its internal problems and continue on a democratic path.

The scene appears to have taken the gothic name from an article published in UK rock weekly Sounds: " The face of Punk Gothique ", written by Steve Keaton and published in February 1981.

In economics, Holt's tenure began with the phasing in of Australia's new system of decimal currency, launched on 14 February 1966, and it was marked by a major realignment of commercial and military ties away from the UK and towards the US and Asia.

* Rob Coppinger, Secret files reveal US interest in UK HOTOL spaceplane, Flight International, 23 February 2009.

In February 2011, the UK Parliament was reported to be considering scrapping the bank holiday associated with May Day, replacing it with a bank holiday in October, possibly co-inciding with Trafalgar Day ( celebrated on 21 October ), to create a " United Kingdom Day ".

In February 1977, the first album by a British punk band appeared: Damned Damned Damned ( by the Damned ) reached number thirty-six on the UK chart.

Roxy Music performed seven dates around the UK in January and February 2011, in a tour billed ' For Your Pleasure ', to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary.

" The Undertones did, however, release two studio singles, " Beautiful Friend " and " The Love Parade ", in February and October, however both of the singles the band released failed to make an impact upon the UK charts.

In February 1965, it reached No. 1 in the UK and Australia, and No. 4 in the United States where it was released on EMI's Capitol label.

It was re-titled as The Best of the Seekers in the UK and spent one week at No. 1 in February 1969, managing to knock the Beatles ' ( White Album ) off the top of the charts and preventing the Rolling Stones ' Beggars Banquet from reaching the top spot.

The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968.

On 27 February 1858 the University received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, giving degrees conferred by the university rank and recognition equal to those given by universities in the UK.

In the UK, meteorologists consider winter to be the three coldest months of December, January and February.

The last major hit of XTC's touring phase was " Senses Working Overtime ", the first single from their double album English Settlement ( February 1982 ) and their first top 10 hit in the UK.

On her 78th Birthday, February 18, 2011, Ono took out a full page advert in the UK free newspaper Metro for ' Imagine Peace 2011 '.

January and February 1947 are remembered for the worst snowfalls in the UK in the 20th century, with extensive disruption of travel .< ref >

* February 11 – The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.

* February 11 – The US, UK, USSR and others sign the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.

* February 6 – Alexei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit.