Feb 15 Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece
Feb 17 Garry Kasparov defeats Deep Blue 4-2 in chess
Feb 22 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
Feb 24 Cuba downs 2 US planes
Feb 24 The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
Feb 27 First ever appearance of Pokémon in role-playing video game "Pocket Monsters Red and Green" for Game Boy in Japan
Feb 29 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-23 returning from Mir space station
Feb 29 Serb forces withdraw from Sarajevo, ending the siege after 1,425 days, the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare