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February is Black History Month

February 1	Freedom Day *Leadership Week - Feb 1-7 (Starting first Sunday in February) 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	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	* World Cancer Day 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	* World Day of Social Justice 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 Alabama, 1940 Barbara Jordan born in Texas, 1936
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.

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