- Feb 1 -50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
- Feb 1 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
- Feb 1 Arms manufacturer Alfred Krupp (43) and 28 other convicted German war criminals granted amnesty
- Feb 1 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
- Feb 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site; 1st live television broadcast of such detonation by KTLA in Los Angeles, California at 5:30 AM local time
- Feb 2 -35°F (-37°C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
- Feb 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
"The Victor Borge Show"
Feb 3 "The Victor Borge Show" debuts on NBC-TV
- Feb 3 Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
- Feb 3 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
"The Rose Tattoo"
Feb 3 Tennessee Williams' play "The Rose Tattoo" premieres in NYC
Harvey Arrested at Test Site
Feb 6 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago, Illinois
- Feb 6 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
Browns Sign Paige
Feb 9 St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45
- Feb 10 "John and Marsha" by Stan Freberg, a parody of daytime soap operas which had only two voices repeating each other's names, peaks at #21 in the USA
1st General Election in the Gold Coast
Feb 11 Kwame Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party wins 1st legislative general election in the Gold Coast (Ghana) in a landslide
Sports History
Feb 14 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
- Feb 16 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
- Feb 16 San Francisco City Hall dome fire
Sports History
Feb 17 Detroit right wing Gordie Howe scores his 100th career NHL goal and adds an assist in a 2-1 Red Wings' victory over the Canadiens, in Montreal, Quebec
- Feb 18 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
- Feb 18 Nepal becomes a constitutional monarchy
- Feb 18 Netherlands Radio School forms
- Feb 21 South Carolina House of Representatives urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated by Major League Baseball
- Feb 22 4th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): "All About Eve" Best Film
- Feb 24 "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 performances
- Feb 24 Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER
- Feb 24 Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of Great Britain
- Feb 24 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button of USA
- Feb 25 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden, NYC, after 278 performances
- Feb 25 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
- Feb 26 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia begins
- Feb 27 22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms
8th Golden Globes
Feb 28 8th Golden Globes: "Sunset Boulevard", Jose Ferrer, & Gloria Swanson win
- Feb 28 French government of Pleven dissolves
- Feb 28 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
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