February  

1949  Paul Issa is born.

1973  The first "Drug Sniffer" dog, Rip, joins the airports customs team.

5th
1793  Capt William Bligh arrives at Port Royal with two ships, The Providence and The Assistance, filled with trees and plants from the Pacific. The cargo includes breadfruit, almond, pomegranate, otaheite apples, tree ferns and bougainvillea.

1911  The rebuilt Holy Trinity Cathedral is solemnly opened with a High Mass concelebrated by Rt Rev John J Collins, RC Bishop of Jamaica and several visiting  bishops from overseas. The original structure was destroyed by the Great Earthquake of 1907.

1933  Hugh Wynter is born in Spanish Town to Dr TAP Wynter and Theresa Grant Wynter. 

1974  Municipal and Parish Council elections are held. This is the first election since the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18.

6th
1945  Bob Marley is born at Nine Miles in St Ann.

1952 King George VI dies and Queen Elizabeth II is proclaimed Monarch of Great Britain, its dominions and colonies, which includes Jamaica.

1956  Rt Rev Percival Gibson, the founding principal of Kingston College, is enthroned as Lord Bishop of Jamaica at the Cathedral of St James in Spanish Town. He is the first Jamaican to attain this office.

8th
1942  Karl Samuda is born in Kingston to Enid (Espeut) and Kenneth Samuda.

1942  Bustamante is released from detention at Up Park Camp. He had been detained 17 mo. previously under the Defence of the Realm Act.

1963  The recently founded National Dance Theatre Company performs its first production "African Scenario" at the Assembly Hall of the University of the West Indies. The production, choreographed by Rex Nettleford, is based on West African song and dance.

16th
1963  Rev Martin Luther King Jr is detained by immigration officials at the Palisadoes International Airport. After lengthy interrogation it is discovered that the eminent civil rights leader has been confused with an individual who had previously been deported.

1974 Bob Marley and the Wailers release their second album, Burning, to the international market. Their first album, Catch A Fire, has been an international success.

1989  Jamaican born Tony Robinson, resident in the UK, is elected the first black Sheriff of Nottingham.

18th
1845  The corner stone of the new General Penitentiary is laid by the Governor, The Earl of Elgin.

1918  Kenneth McNeill is born in Richmond, St Mary to Eustace and Blanche McNeill.

24th
1884  William Alexander Clarke (Bustamante) is born in Blenheim, Hanover to Mary (Wilson) & Robert Constantine Clarke.

1930  George Headley scores 112, after 114 in the first innings of the Third Test between the West Indies and England. He becomes the youngest player, at 20, to score a century in each innings of a Test Match.

1941 Kenneth Baugh is born in Montego Bay to Lillieth (King) and Kenneth Baugh.

1989 Dr Warren Blake successfully reattaches the severed hand of Lloyd Patterson, a factory worker. The operation, done at the Kingston Public Hospital, is the first of its kind attempted in Jamaica.

25th
1951 Donald Quarrie is born.

26th
1956  Chief Electoral Officer, OM Royes,  completes the allocation of symbols to candidates contesting the next General and Municipal Elections. PNP candidates are allocated The Head, JLP the Hand and independents, the Star. Up to this point, symbols were allocated to each individual candidate and not Parties.

27th
1977  Acting Corporal Ionie Ramsey graduates as Jamaica's first  motorcycle policewoman.