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# January 21 - Five lifeboatmen are killed when the Fraserburgh lifeboat Duchess of Kent capsizes during a rescue off Kinnaird's Head, Aberdeenshire.

January 26 - Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.

February 1 - A train collision near Buenos Aires, Argentina, at least 236 killed.

February 2 - British philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell dies.

February 10 - An avalanche at Val d'Isère, France kills 39 tourists.

February 11 - Osumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lamba-4 rocket.

February 13 - Black Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath (album) released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.

February 14 - Iconic live album "The Who: Live at Leeds" recorded.

# February 17 - MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.

February 17 - Author David Irving is ordered to pay £40,000 libel damages to Capt. John Broome over his book "The Destruction of Convoy PQ17".