In February 1788, he selected its location to be Port Jackson ( now Sydney Harbour ).

Shortly after establishing the settlement at Port Jackson, on 15 February 1788, Phillip sent Lieutenant Philip Gidley King with 8 free men and a number of convicts to establish the second British colony in the Pacific at Norfolk Island.

Gary Wayne Coleman ( February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010 ) was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes ( 1978 – 1986 ) and for his small stature as an adult.

Clay's personal dislike for Jackson and the similarity of his American System to Adams ' position on tariffs and internal improvements caused him to throw his support to Adams, who was elected by the House on February 9, 1825, on the first ballot.

After Steve Jackson Games licensed the Traveller setting, JTAS was revived once again as a weekly, then bi-weekly subscriber-supported web magazine in February, 2000.

Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone initially produced a newsletter called Owl and Weasel, which ran for twenty-five issues from February 1975 before it evolved into White Dwarf.

* February 15 – Sherry Jackson, American actress

A statue of Queen Elizabeth by sculptor Philip Jackson at the George VI Memorial, off The Mall, London, was unveiled on 24 February 2009.

By February 1831, the break between Calhoun and Jackson was final.

Christensen next starred with Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell and Rachel Bilson in the film Jumper, the story of a young man who discovers he has the ability to teleport ; the film was released on February 14, 2008 .< ref >

Putnam County was first established on 2 February 1842, when the Twenty-fourth Tennessee General Assembly enacted a measure creating Putnam County from portions of Jackson, Overton, Fentress, and White counties.

* H. Dale Jackson ( 7 December 1930-15 February 2003 ), Baptist minister

On his first day in spring training the following February, however, Jackson wore number 20 ( the number of Frank Robinson, who had also just retired ) before switching to 44.

In a 90-minute interview with Oprah Winfrey in February 1993, Jackson claimed that he didn't bleach his skin, stating for the first time that he had vitiligo.

The county was organized February 14, 1845, and named after President Andrew Jackson, nicknamed " Old Hickory.

By the time the county was reestablished on February 26, 1857, John Duncombe of Fort Dodge ( namesake of Duncombe, Iowa ) had tricked Humboldt County into cedeing the southern four townships ( Jackson, Deer Creek, Badger, Newark ) to Webster County " on loan ".

On February 4, 1836, both the House and Senate passed a bill providing for the formation from western Bartholomew, eastern Monroe, and northern Jackson counties of a county to be named for Gen. Jacob Brown, who defeated the British at the Battle of Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812.

On February 27, 1843, the Illinois General Assembly created a commission to designate a new county seat for Jackson County.

On February 11, 1796, Jackson County was split off from part of Franklin County, Georgia.

During a peaceful march on 18 February 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler.

On February 27, 1967 Wharlest Jackson Sr. was killed when a car bomb went off in his truck as he drove home from work at the Armstrong Rubber Company, where he had recently received a promotion and was working in a position previously " reserved " for whites.

Portions of Freehold Township were taken to form Upper Freehold Township ( c. 1731 ), Millstone Township ( February 28, 1844 ), Jackson Township ( March 6, 1844 ), Atlantic Township ( February 18, 1847 ; now Colts Neck Township ), Marlboro Township ( February 17, 1848 ) and Manalapan Township ( March 9, 1848 ).

Over the years, portions of the township have been taken to form Millstone Township ( February 28, 1844 ), Jackson Township ( March 6, 1844 ) and Allentown ( January 20, 1889 ).

A story by Jerry Mitchell in the Clarion-Ledger on February 18 describes Beauchamp's allegation that fourteen or more were involved as a " legend.

* Fact, Fiction of Till's Murder, February 18, 2007, Jackson Clarion-Ledger

* Grand Jury Issues No Indictment in Till Slaying,, February 27, 2007, Jackson Clarion-Ledger

In February 1801, Oersted did manage to experiment with physical apparatus and reported experiments made with a voltaic battery of 600 plates of zinc and silver and of later experiments with a battery of 60 plates of zinc and lead.

On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama in February 1968.

The 9 February 1958 edition of the Los Angeles Times reported on the front page that Bardot was recovering in Italy from a reported nervous breakdown.

Captain Hume of HMS Scarborough reported on 6 February that a " Pyrate Ship of 36 Guns and 250 men, and a Sloop of 10 Guns and 100 men were Said to be Cruizing amongst the Leeward Islands ".

In February 2009, Science Daily reported that the Southern Indian Ocean is becoming less effective at absorbing carbon dioxide due to changes to the regions climate which include higher wind speeds.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Kansas reported in February 2006 that the glaciers are melting twice as fast as they were five years ago.

In February of 2012, it was reported in Turkish newspapers that another Syriac manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas had been found in Cyprus in 2000, in an operation conducted by police against smugglers ; and, having been kept in a police repository since then, had been deposited in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara.

In February 2012, Busey filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, with reported liabilities of $ 500, 000 to $ 1, 000, 000.

Before the Act was passed, on February 8, 1914 The New York Times published an article entitled " Negro Cocaine ' Fiends ' Are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks " by Edward Huntington Williams which reported that Southern sheriffs had increased the caliber of their weapons from. 32 to. 38 to bring down Negroes under the effect of cocaine.

On February 24, 2010, Reuters reported that the Chinese ministry of commerce had prevented the deal, although a ministry spokesperson denied rejecting the application, which had been stalled for eight months.

Johan Frederich Reichert, who later agreed to become Rapp's adopted son and took the name of Frederick Reichert Rapp, reported in a letter dated February 25, 1804, that there were " at least 100 families or 500 persons actually ready to go " even if they had to sacrifice their property.

The most widely reported evidence of this argument stemmed from the 23 February 2006 attack on the Al Askari Mosque in Samarra, one of Shi ' ite Islam's holiest sites.

Since 2002, most of the attention in the search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker has turned away from the Pearl River region, although several unconfirmed sightings have been reported there since February 2006, see video clips.

One of the authors, who was kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Monroe County, Arkansas, on 11 February 2004, reported on a website the sighting of an unusually large red-crested woodpecker.

In February 2005, it was reported that Major and Norman Lamont delayed the release of papers on Black Wednesday under the Freedom of Information Act.

On the 6th of February 2008, the BBC reported that heavy rain might lead to a release of water from the dam, which would force 50, 000 people downstream to evacuate.

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.

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 ".

The Associated Press reported that " Baba had decided to postpone the word-fast breaking until next February because ' conditions are not yet ripe '.

As of February 2012, it was reported that a Chinese company paid US $ 499, 950 into Shalli's account in Zambia while he was the NDF chief.

In February 2008, it was reported she was to be working on a new album.

People Magazine reported in February 2012 that Wright is seeing actor Ben Foster.

The Committee reported in January 1695, and suggested the renewal of the Licensing Act ; this was included in the " Continuation Bill ", but rejected by the House of Commons on 11 February.

The committee accepted this tactic when they reported in February 1668.