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February is National Dental Health Month and American Heart Month
February 1st is Robinson Crusoe Day
February 2nd is Groundhog Day!
February 3rd is National Carrot Day and, according to Sesame Street, Elmo's Birthday
February 4th is the day that the first US Presidential Election took place in 1789, and also, in 1930, the first Snickers Bar was sold on this day. It cost a nickel.
February 5th is National Weatherperson's Day
February 6th is Ronald Reagan's Birthday
February 7th is both Charles Dicken's and John Deere’s Birthday
February 8th is Police Dog Day
February 9th is the day that Hershey's Chocolate was founded1894, and (probably as a result of that) Toothache Day
February 11th is Thomas Edison's Birthday
February 12th is Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
February 13th; this was the day that, in 1941, Penicillin was first used on humans
February 14th is Valentine's Day!
February 15th is Galileo Galilei's birthday. He was a famous astronomer, and built the first telescope so that he discovered stars in the Milky Way, craters on the moon, and the four largest satellites of Jupiter.
On February 16th, the first commercial helicopter was flown
February 17th is Michael Jordan's Birthday
February 18th; today in 1930, Pluto was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
On February 19th, the show “Mr. Roger's Neighborhood” debuted
February 21st is Presidents Day. Also, in 1902, the first brain operation in the US took place.
February 22nd is George Washington's birthday
February 25th is remembered as the day that a hen laid the largest egg any hen had ever laid. It weighed 16 ounces!
February 26th is Levi Strauss' Birthday, and was also the day that the Grand Canyon was first declared a National Park
February 27th is the day that the Leaning Tower of Pisa first started…leaning.
February 28th is Smokey Bear's Birthday!
February 29th is Leap Year Day. The next leap year we’ll have will be in 2008.