- Feb 1 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Mervyn Rose wins his first Grand Slam title; beats fellow Australian Rex Hartwig 6-2, 0-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Feb 1 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Thelma Coyne Long beats Jenny Staley 6-3, 6-4 for the 2nd of her 2 Australian singles titles
- Feb 1 Dutch soccer club De Graafschap "The County" forms in Doetinchem, Netherlands
- Feb 1 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
- Feb 1 US TV soap opera "The Secret Storm" premieres on CBS
"The Nutcracker"
Feb 2 "The Nutcracker" ballet choreographed by George Balanchine with Maria Tallchief as the Sugar Plum Fairy opens in New York, establishes its popularity in the US
First Hydrogen Bomb
Feb 2 President Eisenhower announces the detonation of the world's 1st hydrogen bomb (tested in 1952)
- Feb 2 Rio Grande College basketball forward Bevo Francis scores NCAA record 113 points vs Hillsdale College
- Feb 2 Snow falls on Gibraltar
- Feb 3 Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
- Feb 5 WCDC-TV channel 19 in Adams, Massachusetts (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Feb 9 Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy
- Feb 10 President Dwight Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
- Feb 10 World Figure Skating Championship at Oslo: Ice Dancing - won by Great Britain's team of Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy
- Feb 10 World Figure Skating Championship at Oslo: Pairs - won by Canadian team of Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden
- Feb 10 World Figure Skating Championship in Oslo: Ladies - won by West Germany's Gundi Busch
- Feb 10 World Figure Skating Championship in Oslo: Men - won by American Hayes Alan Jenkins
- Feb 11 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden win
- Feb 12 The UK government establishes an organisation to control atomic energy in the country under The Atomic Energy Authority Bill
- Feb 13 American college basketball player Frank Selvey scores a record 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95
Event of Interest
Feb 14 Senator John F. Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
- Feb 14 WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 15 1st Bevatron particle accelerator in operation at Berkeley, California
- Feb 15 WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 16 WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Feb 17 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
- Feb 18 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California
- Feb 20 General Zahedi wins election in Persia
Polio
Feb 23 First mass inoculation against polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Feb 23 Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli
- Feb 25 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
- Feb 26 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy, Massachusetts
- Feb 26 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
- Feb 28 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists