- Feb 1 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Dmitri Shostakovich named professor at conservatoire of Leningrad
Dmitri Shostakovich
Donald Bradman
- Feb 5 Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland
- Feb 6 Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket
- Feb 7 The UK announces its intention to end the Mandate for Palestine
- Feb 8 Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
- Feb 8 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
Feb 9 Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia
Willie Sutton
- Feb 10 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
- Feb 10 Netherlands Radio Union forms
- Feb 10 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
- Feb 10 WW II peace treaties signed
- Feb 12 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
- Feb 12 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
Event of Interest
Feb 12 French fashion designer Christian Dior presents his first influential collection, named the "New Look"
Christian Dior
- Feb 15 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 performances
- Feb 16 Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres
- Feb 17 Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
- Feb 17 Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
- Feb 18 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania
- Feb 18 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone" premieres in NYC
- Feb 19 CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
- Feb 20 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
- Feb 20 Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence
- Feb 20 State of Prussia ceases to exist.
Event of Interest
Feb 21 1st instant developing camera demonstrated by Edwin Land in NYC
Edwin Land
- Feb 21 Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ
Event of Interest
Feb 23 US General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Film and TV Awards
Feb 26 4th Golden Globes: "The Best Years of Our Lives", Gregory Peck, & Rosalind Russell win
Gregory Peck
February 28 Massacre
Feb 28 February 28 Incident: Anti-government uprising in Taiwan is violently put down by Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang-led Republic of China government with the loss of 18,000-28,000 lives. Marks the beginning of the White Terror.
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