- Feb 1 Urko Kekkonen elected Prime Minister of Finland
Sports History
Feb 1 Green Bay Packers founder, player and coach Curly Lambeau resigns after 31 seasons and 6 NFL titles to his credit
- Feb 2 "Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances
- Feb 2 1st broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS-TV
- Feb 3 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spying charges
- Feb 4 IV British Empire Games open in Auckland, New Zealand
- Feb 7 Georges Bidault forms French government
- Feb 7 Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Department of State (equiv. Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Historic Event
Feb 9 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists
Historic Event
Feb 12 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
- Feb 12 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
- Feb 14 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
- Feb 14 USSR & China sign peace treaty
- Feb 15 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 15 WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba" premieres in NYC
- Feb 15 WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
Film Premiere
Feb 15 Walt Disney's animated film "Cinderella" premieres in Boston
- Feb 16 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS
- Feb 16 Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame
- Feb 17 Two Long Island Rail Road trains collide head-on, killing 32 near Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York
- Feb 18 "Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances
- Feb 19 Groundbreaking ceremony held for Mississippi Vocational College (later Mississippi Valley State University)
- Feb 20 Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
- Feb 20 WOL-AM in Washington, D.C. swaps calls with WWDC
- Feb 21 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 22 Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
Golden Globes
Feb 23 7th Golden Globes: "All the King's Men", Broderick Crawford, and Olivia de Havilland win
- Feb 24 Labour wins UK parliamentary election by 5 seats
Television Premiere
Feb 25 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC. Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen.
Music History
Feb 26 Jerome Robbin's ballet choreographed to Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" premieres at the New York City Center Theater
Election of Interest
Feb 27 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
- Feb 28 "Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 performances