Wikipedia:Today's featured list/February 2026

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February 2

The Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards for quality works in the genre of reggae. The award was first presented to Black Uhuru at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards (1985) for the album Anthem. Starting in 2002, awards were often presented to engineers, mixers or producers, in addition to the performing artists. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, eligible works are vocal or instrumental reggae albums "containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded music", including roots reggae, dancehall and ska music. Koffee became the youngest person and the first woman to win the award at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards (2020). Ziggy Marley (pictured) holds the record for the most wins, with seven. (Full list...)

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February 4

There have been 16 governors of Bauchi State, in northeastern Nigeria, since it was created on 3 February 1976 from part of the North-Eastern State. Bauchi has had alternating periods of military and civilian rule, with Colonel Mohammed Bello Kaliel as its first military governor (1976–1978). Civilian governance began in 1979 with Abubakar Tatari Ali of the National Party of Nigeria until a 1983 military coup. This was followed by a brief civilian regime from 1992 to 1993 under Dahiru Mohammed of the National Republican Convention, which was then toppled by a series of military governors and administrators that lasted until 1999. During this time, part of Bauchi was split off to form Gombe State in 1996. Democratic rule has continued in Bauchi since 1999, under Ahmadu Adamu Mu'azu from 1999 to 2007, Isa Yuguda from 2007 to 2015, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar (pictured) from 2015 to 2019, and the incumbent Bala Mohammed since 2019. (Full list...)

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February 6

There have been 286 medals awarded to figure skaters representing 29 National Olympic Committees at the Winter Olympic Games from 1908 to 2022. There are currently five figure skating events held at the Olympics: men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and the team event. Gillis Grafström of Sweden has won four Olympic medals in the men’s event; Sonja Henie of Norway has won three Olympic medals in the women’s event; Artur Dmitriev of Russia, Irina Rodnina of the Soviet Union, and Andrée and Pierre Brunet of France have each won three Olympic medals in the pairs event; and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (both pictured) of Canada have won three Olympic medals in the ice dance event. The figure skating events at the 2026 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at the Forum di Milano in Milan, Italy, between 6 and 19 February. (Full list...)

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February 9

The American television series Loki won 11 awards from 96 nominations. Created by Michael Waldron for the streaming service Disney+ and based on Marvel Comics, it features the character Loki. The character's actor, Tom Hiddleston (pictured), received the most acting nominations for the series. It was nominated for four Critics' Choice Television Awards and nine Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. From major guilds, the series was nominated for two Art Directors Guild Awards, three Costume Designers Guild Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Writers Guild of America Awards. (Full list...)

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February 11

There are 570 municipalities in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, more than in any other Mexican state. According to Oaxaca's constitution, the municipalities are grouped into 30 judicial and tax districts to facilitate the distribution of the state's revenues. It is the only state in Mexico with this particular organization of judicial and tax districts. Municipalities are responsible for public services (such as water and sewage), street lighting, public safety, traffic, and the maintenance of public parks, gardens and cemeteries. Oaxaca is the tenth-most-populated Mexican state, with 4,132,148 inhabitants as of the 2020 Mexican census, and the fifth-largest by land area spanning 93,757.6 square kilometres (36,200.0 sq mi). The largest municipality by population as of the 2020 census is Oaxaca de Juárez, the state capital, with 270,955 residents (6.55 percent of the state's total), while the smallest is Santa Magdalena Jicotlán, with 81 residents, and the least populated municipality in Mexico. (Full list...)

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February 13

In 1962, fifteen songs topped the Billboard Middle-Road Singles, a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States that were considered to be "easy listening" or "middle of the road". The listing was compiled simply by extracting from Billboard's pop music chart, the Hot 100, those songs which were deemed by the magazine's staff to be of an appropriate style, and ranking them according to their positions on the Hot 100. Fifteen different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine in 1962. The chart was published under the title Easy Listening through the issue of Billboard dated October 27, after which it was renamed Middle-Road Singles. Ray Charles (pictured) was the only artist with more than one number-one song in 1962, with two tracks from his album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. When Connie Francis reached number one with "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" in March, she became the first act to top the Easy Listening chart twice, having previously spent a single week in the top spot in 1961 with "Together". (Full list...)

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February 16

The World Women's Billiards Championship was first held in 1931, when the British cue sports company Burroughes and Watts organised a women's amateur billiards championship, which was later recognised as the world championship. As of 1930, many billiard halls in the UK did not admit women. Ruth Harrison (pictured) was the champion from 23 participants, and the highest break made was 28. The Women's Billiards Association took over responsibility for the amateur tournament from the 1932 edition, which had 41 entries. The tournament was held regularly until 1940, but then put on hold until after World War II. From 1947 to 1980, the tournament was held in most years, with Vera Selby winning eight titles, and Maureen Baynton (née Barrett) winning six. After a period of dormancy from 1980, the tournament was revived by the World Ladies' Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA) in 1998. Emma Bonney has won the title a record 13 times, between 2000 and 2018. (Full list...)

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February 18

There are 29 families of basal asterids grouped in two orders, Ericales and Cornales. Asterids are a large clade of flowering plants composed of 17 orders and more than 80,000 species, about a third of all species of flowering plants. Like most asterids, these species tend to have petals that are fused with each other and with the bases of the stamens, and just one integument (covering) around the embryo sac. The basal asterids include crops such as blueberries, cranberries, tea, and Brazil nuts. They also include kiwifruit, dogwoods, ebony trees, and hydrangea plants. Most Ericales species tend to have woody stems or branches and seed capsules, while species in Cornales tend to have anthers attached at their base and inflorescences, or flower groupings, with lateral stalks that terminate in a flower or another branch. (Full list...)

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February 20

American filmmaker Billy Wilder's first screenplay was for the German silent thriller The Daredevil Reporter (1929). In 1938, he began collaborating with Charles Brackett on screenplays with Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. It was the first of 14 consecutive commercially successful films that the pair co-wrote including the comedy Ninotchka (1939), and the romantic drama Hold Back the Dawn (1941). In 1944, he directed and co-wrote the screenplay for the film noir Double Indemnity, which is considered a classic of its genre. He followed this with The Lost Weekend (1945), a drama about a writer struggling with alcoholism, for which Wilder won his first Academy Award for Best Director and shared the Best Original Screenplay award with Brackett. He won his second Best Screenplay Oscar with Brackett for Sunset Boulevard (1950) as well as the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama. During the 1950s, Wilder also received Best Director nominations at the Oscars for Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and Some Like It Hot (1959). (Full list...)

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February 23

The Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England, reflect the region's architectural, industrial, and civic development seen across its ten boroughs from the Late Middle Ages into the 20th century. The 241 entries comprise "particularly important buildings of more than special interest", including timber‑framed halls, churches, mills, warehouses, transport structures, and public buildings that illustrate Greater Manchester's growth from rural townships into an industrial and urban centre. The list brings together these nationally important structures, outlining their historical context and architectural interest, and offering an overview of the area's diverse built heritage. (Full list...)

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February 25

There are 41 species of birds that have been recorded on Bouvet Island, an uninhabited, sub-Antarctic island administered as a dependency of Norway. A small, isolated volcanic island at the southern tip of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it is located around 2,600 km (1,600 mi) southwest of South Africa and 1,600 km (990 mi) from Antarctica. The island has undergone very little human modification and, along with its surrounding waters, has been declared a protected area. Of the birds found there, 12 species have confirmed breeding populations on the island, while another 2 are suspected. The species with large breeding populations include the southern fulmar, with an estimated population of 100,000 breeding adults, and the black-bellied storm petrel, with an estimated population of 1,000 breeding adults. A large number of penguins also breed there, and 19 species of birds are summer migrants to the island. The island has been designated an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International due to its high conservation value. (Full list...)

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February 27

The 1995 Pacific hurricane season consisted of the events that occurred in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation over the Pacific Ocean north of the equator and east of the International Date Line. Activity during the season was below average; only eleven tropical depressions developed, of which ten strengthened into named tropical storms. Seven became hurricanes, of which three further intensified into major hurricanes. The first system, Tropical Depression One-E, formed on May 21; the final, Hurricane Juliette, dissipated on September 26. The vast majority of damage and casualties during the season resulted from Hurricane Ismael (pictured) in mid-September. High seas damaged or destroyed fifty-two fishing boats, killing fifty-seven fishermen. On land, strong winds and severe flooding caused heavy damage and killed fifty-nine people in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. (Full list...)