February 21st, 1972 – Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to begin the normalization of relations between the two countries.
February 23rd, 1945 – World War II: U.S. Marines raise the United States flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in a moment immortalized by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press.
February 23rd, 1945 – World War II: Manila is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
February 25th, 1986 – President Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines and Corazon Aquino becomes its first woman president.
February 27th, 2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.