Historical Events
- Feb 1 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
- Feb 1 Hayes Alan Jenkins leads only US sweep of Olympic men's figure skating medals at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Games; Ronald Robertson wins silver with bronze to Jenkins' younger brother, David
- Feb 1 WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Albright Olympic Champion
Feb 2 Despite a severe ankle injury Tenley Albright leads an American 1-2 in the women's figure skating at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; Carol Heiss takes the silver medal
- Feb 2 The Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
- Feb 3 Autherine Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
- Feb 3 Toni Sailer of Austria wins the downhill at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; becomes first athlete to sweep all 3 alpine skiing events in a single Olympics
- Feb 4 AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
- Feb 4 Soviet Union beats Canada, 2-0 at Cortina d'Ampezzo to clinch their first ever Olympic ice hockey gold medal; US takes silver, Canada bronze
- Feb 5 Finland goes 1-2 in the ski jumping at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics; Antti Hyvärinen takes gold ahead of teammate Aulis Kallakorpi
- Feb 5 NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
- Feb 5 VII Winter Olympic Games close in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
- Feb 6 Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
Mollet Pelted with Tomatoes
Feb 6 French Prime Minister Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
- Feb 6 University of Alabama suspends African-American student Autherine Lucy claiming that it can no longer provide for her safety
- Feb 8 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
- Feb 9 -5°F (-20.6°C) in Sicily
- Feb 9 KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Feb 9 R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
- Feb 10 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
- Feb 11 British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean deny working as spies for Soviet Russia after reappearing in the Soviet Union after going missing 5 years earlier
- Feb 13 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
- Feb 14 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
- Feb 14 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
- Feb 14 Verhoeven, Nauta and De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
- Feb 15 Pirates & KC As cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
- Feb 15 Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
- Feb 17 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB
- Feb 17 Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz & Oppelt of AUT
- Feb 17 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA
- Feb 17 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA
- Feb 20 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 22 1st English soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
Golden Globes
Feb 23 13th Golden Globes: "East of Eden", Ernest Borgnine, & Anna Magnani win
- Feb 23 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) closes in Moscow, Russia, USSR
Music Concert
Feb 24 Walter Piston's 5th Symphony, commissioned by the Juilliard School of Music for their 50th anniversary, premiere performance by the Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Jean Morel
Conference of Interest
Feb 25 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Event of Interest
Feb 26 Writers and poets Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
Cleveland Indians Sold for $4M
Feb 29 MLB's Cleveland Indians franchise is sold for nearly $4m; former player and the team’s general manager Hank Greenberg is part of the new ownership group
Eisenhower Seeks 2nd Term
Feb 29 US President Eisenhower announces he will seek a 2nd term
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 (Christine) "Exene" Cervenka, American punk rock singer and poet (X), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Feb 1 Brahmanandam, Indian film actor and comedian, born in Sattenapalle, India
- Feb 1 Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (NJ Devils) and coach (St. Louis Blues 2003-07), born in Newmarket, Canada
- Feb 3 John Jefferson, American football wide receiver (First-team All-Pro 1979, 80 SD Chargers; 4 × Pro Bowl; NFL receiving yards leader 1980; NFL receiving TD leader 1978, 80; GB Packers), born in Dallas, Texas
- Feb 3 Lee Ranaldo, American rock guitarist, and singer-songwriter (Sonic Youth - "100%"), born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York
Nathan Lane (68 years old)
Feb 3 American actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
- Feb 3 Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
- Feb 5 Betty Ong, flight attendant that died on September 11, 2001, on American Airlines Flight 11
- Feb 5 Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver, born in Mexico City
- Feb 5 Vincent "Vinnie" Colaiuta, American touring and session rock and jazz drummer (Frank Zappa, 1979-83; Joni Mitchell, 1982-91; Sting, 1993-2003), born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania
- Feb 6 Jon Walmsley, British actor (Jason in The Waltons), born in Lancashire, England
- Feb 6 Linda Grovenor, American actress (Die Laughing, Wheels of Fire), born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Feb 7 Emo Philips, American comedian
- Feb 7 Mark St. John [Norton], American rock guitarist (KISS, April- November, 1984), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2007)
- Feb 8 Dave Meros, American progressive rock bassist (Spock's Beard), born in Salinas, California
- Feb 9 Philip Jackson Ford Jr, NC, basketball player (Olympic gold 1976)
- Feb 10 Kenny Leon, American stage director, producer and actor (A Raisin in the Sun - Tony Award for Best Direction), born in Tallahassee, Florida
- Feb 11 Catherine Hickland, American actress (One Life to Live), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Feb 11 David Uosikkinen, American drummer (The Hooters - "All You Zombies"; "And We Danced"), born in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania
- Feb 11 Didier Lockwood, French violinist, born in Calais, France (d. 2018)
- Feb 11 H.R. [Paul D. Hudson], British-American singer (Bad Brains), born in London, England
- Feb 11 Raoul Björkenheim, American avant-garde jazz guitarist, born in Los Angeles, California
- Feb 12 Ad P. Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, born in Gouda, Netherlands
Arsenio Hall (68 years old)
Feb 12 Anerican comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Feb 12 Brian Robertson, Scottish rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy), born in Clarkston, Scotland
- Feb 13 Liam Brady, Irish footballer, born in Dublin, Ireland
- Feb 13 Peter Hook, English rock bassist (New Order - "Round & Round"; "Run"), born in Salford, United Kingdom
- Feb 13 Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member, born in Amman, Jordan
- Feb 13 Richard Eden, Canadian actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Feb 13 Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian runner, born in Tripoli, Greece
- Feb 14 Howard Davis Jr., American boxer (Olympic gold lightweight 1976), born in Glen Cove, New York (d. 2015)
- Feb 15 Desmond Haynes, West Indian cricket batsman and administrator (116 Tests; 7,487 runs @ 42.29; 238 ODIs; Director WI Cricket Board), born in Saint James, Barbados
- Feb 15 Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara
- Feb 15 Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992)
- Feb 17 Jeffrey Foskett, American session and touring singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys; Brian Wilson; Wondermints), born in San Jose, California (d. 2023)
- Feb 17 Richard Karn [Wilson], American actor (Home Improvement) and TV game show host (Family Feud), born in Seattle, Washington
- Feb 18 Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer, born in Sollentuna Municipality, Sweden (d. 1997)
- Feb 19 Dave Wakeling, British Rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The English Beat; General Public), born in Birmingham, England
- Feb 19 George David Low, American astronaut (STS 32, STS 43), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Jeffrey Immelt (68 years old)
Feb 19 American CEO of General Electric (2001-17), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Feb 19 Kathleen Beller, American actress (Promises in the Dark, Dynasty, The Betsy), born in Westchester, New York
- Feb 19 Peter Holsapple, American rock-pop singer-songwriter (The dB's; Continental Drifters), born in Greenwich, Connecticut
- Feb 19 Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist (2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on ion channels), born in Burlington, Massachusetts
- Feb 19 Steve Randell, Tasmanian cricket Test umpire (international panel)
- Feb 20 Charles Cummins, 3rd of 5 siblings born on 2/20, born in Clintwood, Virginia
- Feb 20 Charlie Adler, American voice actor (Tiny Toon Adventures), born in Paterson, New Jersey
- Feb 21 Woody Brown, American actor (Cliff-Facts of Life), born in Dayton, Ohio
Amy Alcott (68 years old)
Feb 22 American golfer (5-time major title winner; US Open 1980), born in Kansas City, Missouri
Eddie Murray (68 years old)
Feb 24 American MLB Hall of Fame 1st baseman, 8x All-star, 3x Golden Glove (Baltimore Orioles, 1977-88 & 96; L.A. Dodgers, 1989-91 & 97, and three other teams), born in Los Angeles, California
- Feb 24 Judith Butler, American philosopher, and gender theorist, born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Feb 24 Paula Zahn, American journalist and news anchor (ABC; CBS This Morning; Fox; CNN; PBS), born in Omaha, Nebraska
- Feb 25 Davie Cooper, Scottish soccer winger (22 caps; Clydebank, Rangers 376 games, Motherwell), Hamilton, Scotland (d. 1995)
- Feb 26 Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese pop singer,songwriter and film score composer, born in Chigasaki, Japan
- Feb 28 Jimmy Nicholl, Irish soccer defender (73 caps Northern Ireland; Manchester United 197 games) and manager (Millwall, Raith Rovers, Cowdenbeath), born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Feb 28 Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator
- Feb 29 (Jonathan) "Jono" Coleman, British-Australian television and radio, writer, and comedian, born in Hackney, England (d. 2021)
- Feb 29 Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer whose life portrayed in film "Monsters", born in Troy, Michigan (d. 2002)
- Feb 29 J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebrity journalist
- Feb 29 Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian entertainer
Famous Weddings
Willie Mays
Feb 14 MLB center fielder Willie Mays (24) weds Margherite Wendell Chapman in NYC, New York
Famous Deaths
- Feb 2 Charley Grapewin, American actor (The Wizard of Oz; Libeled Lady), dies at 86
- Feb 2 Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
- Feb 3 Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
- Feb 3 Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
- Feb 4 Leendert Antonie Donker, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA), dies at 56
- Feb 4 Peder Gram, Danish composer, dies at 74
- Feb 5 Savielly Tartakower, Austrian Polish French chess player, dies at 74
Connie Mack (1862-1956)
Feb 8 American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, manager and owner (World Series 1910, 11, 13, 29, 30; most managerial wins, losses and games managed in MLB history; Philadelphia A's), dies at 93
- Feb 13 Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish logician, philosopher, professor, and author, dies at 77
- Feb 16 Frank H. Wilson, American actor (Beware, Paradise in Harlem), dies at 69
- Feb 18 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95
- Feb 21 Edwin Franko Goldman, American march music composer (founder of American Bandmasters Association), dies at 78
- Feb 22 Paul Léautaud [Maurice Boissard], French writer and theatre critic (Petit ami), dies at 84
- Feb 25 Marij Kogoj, Slovenian composer, dies at 59
- Feb 26 Herman Courtens, Belgian baron and painter, dies at 72
- Feb 27 Frank Dailey, American orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54
- Feb 27 Gunther Ramin, German organist and composer, dies at 57
- Feb 28 Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
Elpidio Quirino (1890-1956)
Feb 29 6th President of the Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65
