| February
1 | Freedom
Day Langston
Hughes born in Missouri, 1902 Fritjof
Capra born in Austria, 1939 Nanda
Pok born in Cambodia, 1959 |
| February
2 | Shakira
born in Colombia, 1977 First
World Disarmament Conference opened Geneva 1932 |
| February
3 | Leadership
Week
- Feb 3-9* (Starting first Sunday in February) Elizabeth
Blackwell born in England, 1821 Blythe
Danner born in Pennsylvania, 1943 Melanie
Safka born in New York, 1947 Carlos
Felipe Ximenes Belo born in East Timor, 1948 |
| February
4 | St.
Francis of Assisi, memorial, born 1181, Italy Dietrich
Bonhoeffer born in Germany, 1906 Rosa
Parks born in Tuskegee, Alabama, 1913 Betty
Friedan born in Illionois, 1921 Sima
Samar born in Afghanistan, 1957 National
Holiday of Sri Lanka UN
Convention against torture signed 1985
|
| February
5 | Anwarul
Chowdhury born in Bangladesh, 1943 Ratification
of Human Rights Conventions, 1952 |
| February
6 | Bob
Marley born in Jamaica, 1945 National
Holiday of New Zealand |
| February
7 | Sir
Thomas More born in England, 1478 Helder
Camara born in Fortaleza, Brazil, 1909 Duane
Elgin born in Idaho, 1943 Diana,
Princess of Wales, advocated world-wide ban on landmines, Angola 1997 National
Holiday of Grenada |
| February
8 | Paul
Hawken born, 1946 |
| February
9 | Alice
Walker born in Georgia, 1944 |
| February
10 | Georges
Pire born in Belgium, 1910 Frances
Moore Lappé born in Oregon, 1944 Louise
Arbour born in Montreal, Canada, 1947
|
| February
11 | Sheryl
Crow born in Missouri, 1962 National
Holiday of Islamic Republic of Iran Yalta
Declaration resolved to establish 'a general international organization to maintain
peace and security' 1945 |
| February
12 | Abraham
Lincoln born in Kentucky, 1809 Ceciliana
Olilaeni born in Solomon Islands, 1950 Women
gained the right to vote in Utah Territory, 1870 The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded,
1909 |
| February
13 | Peter
Gabriel was born in England, 1950 |
| February
14 | Race
Relations Day Richard
Allen born in Pennsylvania, 1760 Frederick
Douglass born in Maryland, 1818 Anna
Howard Shaw born in England, 1847 League
of Women Voters formed, 1920 Treaty
of Tlatelolco, Mexico, banning nuclear weapons in Latin America signed 1967 |
| February
15 | Susan
B. Anthony born in Massachusetts, 1820 Susan
Brownmiller born in New York, 1935 Conor
Oberst born in Nebraska, 1980 Woodrow
Wilson presented the League of Nations Covenant to the Versailles Conference 1919 |
| February
16 | National
Holiday of Lithuania
UN
Human Rights Commission established, 1946 |
| February
17 | USA
ratified Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war 1929 |
| February
18 |
Wendell
Wilkie born in Indiana, 1892 Julia
Butterfly Hill born in Missouri, 1974 National
Holiday of Gambia |
| February
19 |
UN Development Programme created, 1951 |
| February
20 | René
Dubos born in France, 1901 Buffy
St. Marie born in Canada, 1941 MIR
('world,' 'Peace'), Russian-built space station launched in 1986 |
| February
21 | *
International Mother Language
Day John
van Hengel born in Wisconsin, 1923 John
R. Lewis born in Texas, 1936 Barbara
Jordan born in Alabama, 1940 |
| February
22 | Gertrude
Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) born 1876 in South Dakota Mahmoud
ul Haq born 1934 in Kashmir Nader
Khalili born 1936 in Iran Drew
Barrymore born 1975 in California National
Holiday of Saint Lucia |
| February
23 | W.
E. B. DuBois born in Massachusetts, 1868 Inge
Sargent born in Austria, 1932 National
Holiday of Brunei Darussalam,Guyana |
| February
24 | Edward
James Olmos born in California, 1947 George
Harrison born in England, 1943 National
Holiday of Estonia |
| February
25 | Téa
Leoni
born in New York, 1966 Ellis
Jones
born in 1970 National
Holiday of Kuwait |
| February
26 | Secretary-General
U Thant signed United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day,
1971 |
| February
27 | Perseverance
Day Rudolf
Steiner born in Austria, 1861 Joanne
Woodward born in Georgia, 1930 Ralph
Nader born in Connecticut, 1934 National
Holiday of Dominican Republic |
| February
28 | Linus
Pauling born in Oregon, 1901 Sir
Brian Urquhart born in England, 1919 |
| February
29 | Khaled
born in Algeria, 1960 The
minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve
to fourteen years old in South Carolina, 1916. |
