In February, 2006, he decided to move into town, emptying the visitor museum as well.

On February 9, 1734, the town was incorporated as Rumford, from which Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford would take his title.

In February 1932, Howard vacationed at a border town on the lower Rio Grande.

On 4 February 2008 an Israeli woman was killed and 38 others injured in the town by a Palestinian suicide bomber ( see Dimona bombing ).

* 1982 – February 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.

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.

* 1706 17 February – Queen Anne though not yet the legal ruler of the territory, declared Gibraltar a free port ( upon request of the Sultan of Morocco, who wanted Gibraltar being given this status in return for supplying the town )

On 17 February 1461 the Second Battle of St Albans on Bernards Heath north of the town centre resulted in a Lancastrian victory.

After sending a couple of exploratory missions to the area, the British East India Company coaptured the town when HMS Wellesley anchored off Manora island on 1 February 1839.

The town was later annexed to British India when Sindh was annexed by Major-General Charles James Napier at the Battle of Miani on 17 February 1843.

Yet, just as the movement reached its apex, it ended abruptly as a result of a violent clash in the town of Chauri Chaura, Uttar Pradesh, in February 1922.

On 13 February 1976, the Argentine Army scored a major success when the 14th Airborne Infantry Regiment ambushed the 65-strong Montoneros Jungle Company, in an action near the town of Cadillal in Tucumán province.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

The town was founded by merchant George W. Wright, who donated of land in February 1844, when the community was also designated the county seat.

In late February 1919, civil unrest — including strikes and clashes between communist and anti-communist groups — took place in Heydrich's home town of Halle.

As part of the official " Roadmap for the End of Transition ", a political process which provides clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.

As part of the official " Roadmap for the End of Transition ", a political process which provides clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.

After the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake the Wizard has planned to retire and leave Christchurch for good saying the town he loved had gone and that it was the end of an era.

The Group originated in a summit meeting of the heads of state or government of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland held in the Hungarian castle town of Visegrád on 15 February 1991 ( not to be mistaken with Vyšehrad, a castle in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, or with the town of Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina ).

Pujol was born in the Catalan city of Barcelona, Spain on 14 February 1912 ( or possibly 28 February 1912 ) to Juan Pujol, a Catalan who owned a factory that produced dye, and Mercedes Guijarro Garcia, from the Andalusian town of Motril in the Province of Granada.

In January 1967, there were mass riots by NLF and FLOSY supporters in the old Arab quarter of Aden town, which continued until mid February, despite the intervention of British troops.

* February 19 – February 22 – WWII: Three Nights ' Blitz over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of intensive bombing, which last a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea's town centre is almost completely obliterated by the 896 high explosive bombs employed by the Luftwaffe.

* In February 2011 five new jetways were installed, two on the east Concourse ( gates 3 & 4 ) and three on the west Concourse ( gates 15, 17, and 19 )

The Woolf Report, quoting many of the 1700 replies, was published on 25 February 1991, and blamed the loss of control of the Strangeways prison on the prison officers abandoning the gates outside the chapel, which " effectively handed the prison to the prisoners ".

The walls were again restored under Andronikos II Palaiologos ( r. 1282 – 1328 ) and again under his successor Andronikos III Palaiologos ( r. 1328 – 1341 ), when, on 12 February 1332, a major storm caused breaches in the wall and forced the seaward gates open.

On 26 February 1289, in front of the city gates of Siewierz, the allied forces of Władysław I the Elbow-high, then Duke of Kujawy and Mazovia, the future King of Poland, defeated the army of Henryk IV Probus, duke of Wrocław and Kraków.

In February 1082, Dyrrhachium fell after a Venetian or Amalfian citizen opened the gates to the Normans.

By late February 1942, the Soviet winter counteroffensive, which pushed the Germans from the gates of Moscow, had petered out, leaving both sides licking their wounds.

The pincer movement of the Canadian 1st Army in Operation Veritable advancing from Nijmegen area of the Netherlands and the U. S. 9th Army crossing the Ruhr in Operation Grenade was planned to start on 8 February 1945, but it was delayed by two weeks when the Germans flooded the river valley by destroying the dam gates upstream.

As of February 7, many teams of workers, wearing grey uniforms, moved the vertical parts of the gates, and attached them to the base plates.

After the exhibition closed on February 27, the gates and bases were removed and the materials were industrially recycled.

* Thozamile Taki, the " sugarcane serial killer " and eight other awaiting trial prisoners broke out of their cell at the Medium " A " section of the prison on February 21, 2010 by sawing through a steel door and the grill gates.

* 27 February – Zimbabwe opens the sluice gates of Kariba Dam

One of the gates into Ashdown Forest at sunset, taken by Robert Broadie on 7 February 2005.

In February 2002, Morpheus, a commercial file sharing group, abandoned its FastTrack-based peer-to-peer software and released a new client based on the free and open source gnutella client Gnucleus.

On 4 February 2009, Jersey Finance officially announced its intention to open a new representative office in London.

Elections for the two legislative chambers — a 35-seat full-time assembly and a 70-seat part-time assembly — were held in February 1995 after campaigns considered remarkably free and open by most international observers, although the election-day proceedings were marred by widespread irregularities.

Elections for the two legislative chambers – a 35-seat full-time assembly and a 70-seat part-time assembly – were held in February 1995 after campaigns considered remarkably free and open by most international observers, although the election-day proceedings were marred by widespread irregularities.

* February 21 – In Dhaka, East Pakistan ( present-day Bangladesh ) police open fire on a procession of students, killing 4 people and starting a country-wide protest which leads to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan.

* February 8 – The 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo, SFRY.

* February 13 – The 1980 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.

* February 11 – The II Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

* February 10 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating the restitution of Polish access to the open sea.

* February 8 – 20 fans of Olympiacos and 1 fan of AEK Athens die, while 54 are injured, after a stampede at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, possibly because gate 7 does not open immediately after the end of the game.

* February – Foreign ministers meeting in Hyōgo are persuaded to recognise the restored Emperor Meiji of Japan with promises that harbours will be open in accordance with international treaties.

* February 11 – The first session of the United States Senate is open to the public.

Several gardens open specially in February for visitors to admire the flowers.

On 10 February, the Schwammenauel dam was taken by American forces, although the Germans had jammed open the dam's floodgates a day earlier, flooding the Rur Valley and delaying the U. S. advance to the Rhine for two further weeks, until 23 February, when the flood waters had receded.

* Gallery Hop: a seasonal event where the city's art galleries are open to the public on the third Friday of February, April, June, September and November.

Although the old parliamentary leaders were released without trial on February 26, 1994, they would not play an open role in politics thereafter.

Under Anderson, Wired has produced some widely noted articles, including the April 2003 " Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy " story, the November 2003 " Open Source Everywhere " issue ( which put Linus Torvalds on the cover and articulated the idea that the open source method was taking off outside of software, including encyclopedias as evidenced by Wikipedia ), the February 2004 " Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye " issue ( which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives ), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term " Long Tail.

The latter four run most Jewish-related activities on campus, including holiday celebrations and the famed SOY Seforim ( Jewish book ) sale annually around February, which is open to the general public and attracts large crowds from near and far.

On February 27, 1876, after certain incidents and confrontations involving Korean isolationists and the Japanese, Japan imposed the Japan – Korea Treaty of 1876 ; forcing Korea to open itself to Japanese and foreign trade and to proclaim its independence from China in its foreign relations.

The University of Gloucester, whose campus boasts wide open spaces and even an artificial lake but whose buildings look rather drab and unspectacular in the harsh February weather, caters for all sorts of tastes and needs.

On 17 February 2012 46-year-old Irishman Steve Redmond swam Cook Strait as a part of the Oceans 7 Challenge, a series of open water swims that test a swimmer's mental and physical endurance.

However, in response to students, faculty, and staff who missed the former campus hangout, the Bog reopened in February 2007 and is now open every Thursday and Friday night offering bowling, billiards, table tennis, and video games.

Appanoose County was formed on February 17, 1843, from open territory.