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February 6 - Tarja Halonen is elected the first Finnish female president.
February 12 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tom Landry, Charles M. Schulz, and Oliver die, of unrelated causes
February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published.
February 16 - Archbishop Desmond Tutu makes an address at the University of Toronto. [1]
February 16 - UMBC's Poetry Symposium takes place, with the participation of poets Linda Pastan, Michael Harper, Ray Gonzalez, Leo Connellan, Forrest Gander, Derrick Gilbert, Terence Winch, and Michael Fallon. [2]
February 29 - This leap year day is the last in a turn of the century year until February 29, 2400.
February 29 - Six year old Dedrick Owens shoots and kills Kayla Rolland, also six years old, at Theo J. Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan. Rolland is currently the youngest victim of a school shooting [3]