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 )

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The Gallup Organization published a poll in February 2007, a correspondents to name the greatest president in U. S. history ; Clinton came in fourth place, capturing 13 % of the vote.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( right ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( left ) meet in Ottawa in February 2009

Although it is not recognized as such by the U. S Government, it opened in February 2006 as the Atchison County Historical Museum in Atchison, Kansas.

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.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

United States Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.

Soon after his return to the U. S., Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910.

On 6 February 2009, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first human biological drug produced from such an animal, a goat.

On February 29, 2004, a coup d ' état ousted the popularly elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, allegedly with the assistance of the French and United States governments ; U. S. and French soldiers were on the ground in Haiti at the time, recently arrived ( See controversy ).

" In February 1979, U. S. Ambassador Adolph " Spike " Dubs was murdered in Kabul after Afghan security forces burst in on his kidnappers.

This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.

The second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was awarded to Stevie Wonder by U. S. President Barack Obama on February 25, 2009.

The Big Three: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President of the United States | U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.

In February 1865, Booth became infatuated with Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of U. S. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire, and they became secretly engaged when Booth received his mother's blessing for their marriage plans.

In a February 2010 interview with Megyn Kelly of Fox News, Quayle announced that his son, Ben Quayle, would be a candidate for the U. S. Congress, running for a seat representing Arizona's 3rd congressional district.

James Ewell Brown " Jeb " Stuart ( February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864 ) was a U. S. Army officer from Virginia and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War.

Following several weeks of aerial bombardment, a U. S .- led United Nations ( UN ) coalition began a ground assault on 23 February 1991 that completely removed Iraqi forces from Kuwait in four days.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

Per a subsequent announcement, the U. S. Coast Guard, in accordance with the DHS Appropriations Act, terminated the transmission of all U. S. LORAN-C signals on February 8, 2010.

He filed the first patent for an MRI machine, U. S. patent # 3, 789, 832 on March 17, 1972, which was later issued to him on February 5, 1974.

In February 1821, Martin Van Buren was elected a U. S. Senator from New York, defeating the incumbent Nathan Sanford who ran as the Clintonian candidate.

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.