February 3: The lowest air temperature in North America (-63 degrees Celsius) is recorded in Snag, Yukon Territory. - Percival Prattis becomes the first African-American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries.

February 5: The Government of the United Kingdom announces the £25 million Tanganyika groundnut scheme for cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory.

February 6: South Pacific Commission (SPC) founded.

February 8: A dance hall fire in Berlin, Germany, kills over 80 people.

February 10: In Paris, France, peace treaties are signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Finland. Italy cedes most of Istria to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

February 12: A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union. - Christian Dior introduces The "New Look" in women's fashion, in Paris. - The Panglong Agreement was reached between the Burmese government under Aung San and the Shan, Kachin, and Chin peoples on 12 February 1947.U Aung Zan Wai, Pe Khin, Major Aung, Sir Maung Gyi and Dr. Sein Mya Maung and Myoma U Than Kywe were among the negotiators of the historical Panglong Conference negotiated with Burmese leader General Aung San and other ethnic leaders in 1947 in Burma .

February 17: Cold War: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

February 20: An explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company in Los Angeles, California, leaves 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, and a 22-foot-deep (6.7 m) crater in the ground. - U.S. Army Ordnance Corps Hermes program V-2 rocket Blossom I launched into space carrying plant material and fruitflies, the first animals to enter space.

February 21: In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.

February 22: Tom and Jerry cartoon Cat Fishin', is released.

February 23: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.

February 25: John C. Hennessy, Jr., brings the first Volkswagen Beetle to the United States. He purchased the 1946 VW from the U.S. Army Post Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Army. The Beetle was shipped from Bremerhaven, arriving in New York this day. - The state of Prussia officially ceases to exist. - The worst-ever train crash in Japan kills 184 people.

February 28: The United States grants France a military base in Casablanca. - In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with large loss of civilian lives. (source: Wikipedia)