February 26. Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from his imprisonment on the island of Elba, 1815.
February 25. Italian-American tenor and actor Enrico Caruso born, 1873.
February 24. The National Socialist Party is founded in Germany, 1920.
February 23. Mexican American War. U.S. troops victorious at the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847.
February 22. President Coolidge delivers first radio broadcast from White House in 1924.
February 21. Dedication day for the newly completed Washington Monument, 1885.
February 20. Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball in 1951
February 19. The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison, 1878.
February 18. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the U.S., 1885.
