- Feb 1 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
- Feb 1 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
- Feb 1 WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Feb 1 "Volare" ("Nel blu dipinto di blu") single released by Domenico Modugno (Grammy Award Record of the Year, Song of the Year 1958)
- Feb 1 Tommy Taylor scores 2 goals and Duncan Edwards 1, in Manchester United's 5-4 win vs Arsenal at Highbury; pair amongst 7 players killed 5 days later when team’s charter plane crashes at Munich airport
- Feb 1 Manchester United beats Arsenal, 5-4 at Highbury in the team's last game on British soil, 5 days prior to the plane crash at Munich airport that killed 7 players
- Feb 2 Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
- Feb 2 WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
- Feb 3 Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3
- Feb 4 "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
- Feb 4 MLB Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
- Feb 5 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US African American foreign minister ( to Romania)
- Feb 5 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st President of United Arab Republic
- Feb 5 Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI v Pakistan, Port-of-Spain
- Feb 5 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
Event of Interest
Feb 6 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ted Williams becomes highest paid player in MLB when he re-signs with Boston Red Sox for $135,000
Ted Williams
- Feb 6 21 dead in air crash at Munich-Riem Airport; 8 players and 3 staff are from the Manchester United football team
- Feb 7 Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
- Feb 7 1st showing of Dutch auto-transmission car, the DAF 600
- Feb 8 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
- Feb 8 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
- Feb 8 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 11 Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Feb 11 Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY
- Feb 11 WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
Feb 12 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101
Bill Russell
- Feb 12 Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala
- Feb 14 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
- Feb 15 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
- Feb 15 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
- Feb 15 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA
- Feb 15 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
- Feb 15 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra
- Feb 17 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
- Feb 17 WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 19 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
- Feb 20 American jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
- Feb 20 LA Coliseum Comm approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility
- Feb 21 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
- Feb 21 Egypt-Syria as United Arab Republic elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
- Feb 22 "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
- Feb 22 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
- Feb 22 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
- Feb 22 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra and Menado, Celebes
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Feb 22 15th Golden Globes: "The Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness, & Joanne Woodward win
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Event of Interest
Feb 23 5-time F1 World Drivers champion Juan Manuel Fangio is kidnapped by Cuban rebels from Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement; released soon after Cuban GP
Fidel Castro
- Feb 23 Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina
- Feb 23 Last Municipal arc light at Mission & 25th removed in San Francisco (installed 1913)
- Feb 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Feb 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Feb 28 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket