- Feb 1 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
- Feb 1 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
- Feb 1 Dutch soccer club De Graafschap "The County" forms in Doetinchem, Netherlands
- 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 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 2 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
Event of Interest
Feb 2 President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Feb 2 Snow falls on Gibraltar
Event of Interest
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
George Balanchine
Maria Tallchief
- Feb 3 Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
- Feb 5 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Feb 9 Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy
- Feb 10 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
- Feb 10 Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy GRB
- Feb 10 Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden of Canada
- Feb 10 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER
- Feb 10 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US
- 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 Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95
Event of Interest
Feb 14 Senator John F. Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
John F. Kennedy
- 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
Jonas Salk
- 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 Mass
- Feb 26 Michigan rep 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