2nd » Idi Amin replaces President of Uganda called President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
2nd » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
3rd » New York City Police or New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
5th » Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
8th » The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
9th » The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
9th » Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League baseball named Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
9th » Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
11th » Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
13th » Vietnam War: Backed by United States e.g American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
15th » The decimalisation of Coins of the pound sterling named British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
20th » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
21st » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
24th » The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
25th » The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
26th » Secretary-General of the United Nations named U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
27th » Doctors in the first Netherlands named Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform 'abortus provocatus known as aborti provocati'.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1971
1st » Harald Martin Brattbakk, Norwegian footballer
1st » Michael C. Hall, American actor
1st » Tomomi Hayashi, Japanese-Estonian architect
1st » Ajay Jadeja, Indian cricketer
1st » Jill Kelly (pornographic actress) called Jill Kelly, American porn actress, director, and producer
1st » Alison Mowbray, English rower
1st » Hynden Walch, American actress
1st » Ron Welty, American drummer (The Offspring and Steady Ground)