February 1955 in History

Events in History

Feb 8 Georgy Malenkov resigns as USSR premier and is replaced by Nikolai Bulganin

Feb 8 The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
Feb 9 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
Feb 9 US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
Feb 10 The US Navy evacuate 1000s from Tachen Islands in the Pacific

Feb 12 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam

Feb 12 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Feb 13 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
Feb 15 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
Feb 17 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden of Canada
Feb 18 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
Feb 19 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect
Feb 22 British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sets sail
Feb 23 Edgar Faure forms French government
Feb 24 Pact of Baghdad signed between Iraq & Turkey
Feb 26 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith

Feb 8 American writer (Client, Firm, Pelican Brief), born in Jonesboro, Arkansas

Feb 17 Chinese novelist and nobel laureate (Red Sorghum Clan, The Republic of Wine), born in Gaomi, Shandong, China

Feb 24 American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple, born in San Francisco, California

Feb 16 Playwright Brendan Behan (32) weds Beatrice Salkeld at Donnybrook Church in Dublin, Ireland

Feb 17 Novelist J. D. Salinger (36) weds Claire Douglas

Feb 18 Sadako Sasaki,Japanese child hibakusha (victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb), dies at 12
Feb 23 Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (L'otage-1909), dies at 86