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February 1 — Super Bowl XLIII will be held in Tampa, Florida.

February 3 - "The Day the Music Died" a movie made about the event with the same name will be released exactly 50 years after the crash.

February 12 - National celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission has scheduled a series of events in Washington, D.C.

February 12 - Darwin Day. 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Events are already being planned at the National History Museum in London.

February 13 — The Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC.

February 15 — The 2009 NBA All-Star Game will be held in Phoenix, AZ.

February 17 — Analog television broadcasts will mostly end in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission will require all full power stations to send their signals digitally.

February 19-March 1 — 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin, China.

# February 22 - The 81st Academy Awards will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.

# NASA Kepler Mission, a space photometer to search for extrasolar planets