Apart from being the shortest month, February is also perhaps the most unpopular. Whilst teasing us with the promise of spring with the appearance of snowdrops, it just disappoints us with more cold. Still it only lasts 28 days! Here are some events that took place in the month of February:

    1 February 1949: The end of clothes rationing in Britain, four years after the end of World War II.

3 February 1959: American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash. The event later became known as "The Day the Music Died", after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his
1971 song "American Pie".

 4 February 1927: Malcolm Campbell reached over 174.883mph in Bluebird on the Pendine
 Sands in Wales to set a new land speed record.

11 February 1990: Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years.

15 February 1971: Decimal Day - the day the United Kingdom decimalised its currency.
 Goodbye to farthings, florins, shillings and half-crowns - and thinking in 12’s

19 February 1910: Manchester United played its first game at Old Trafford.

19 February 1985: First broadcast of EastEnders, the long-running soap opera, on BBC One.

‘If February give much snow, a fine summer it doth foreshow.’

Folklore Keep on keeping warm,

Carolyn (07786 835181)
 

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