February 1958 in History

Events in History

Feb 11 Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY
Feb 12 Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala
Feb 14 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
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 19 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
Feb 21 Egypt-Syria as United Arab Republic elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
Feb 21 British artist Gerald Holtom designs Nuclear Disarmament logo, based on blended semaphore signals for the letters N and D; it later became an international peace symbol
Feb 22 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
Feb 22 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra and Menado, Celebes
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 1 Kevin McCarra, Scottish sports journalist (The Guardian, Scotland on Sunday, The Times), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2020)
Feb 3 Joe Frank Edwards Jr, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 89), born in Richmond, Virginia
Feb 3 N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist
Feb 4 Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright and artist, born in Graz (d. 1994)
Feb 4 Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer
Feb 7 Matt Ridley, British science writer
Feb 13 Marc Emery, Canadian cannabis activist, born in London, Canada
Feb 15 Chrystine Brouillet, Quebec novelist
Feb 16 Michael W. Burns, American politician, born in Baltimore, Maryland
Feb 19 Helen Fielding, English writer (Bridget Jones), born in Morley, England
Feb 21 Jake Steinfeld, American exercise expert (Body by Jake), born in Brooklyn, New York

Feb 22 Kais Saied, Tunisian politician, President of Tunisia (2019-), born in Tunis, Tunisia
Feb 26 Susan J. Helms, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 54, 64, 78), born in Charlotte, North Carolina
Feb 26 Karen Berger, American comic book editor, born in New York City
Feb 26 Michel Houellebecq, French novelist, born in Saint-Pierre, Réunion
Feb 26 Tim Kaine, US Senator (D-Vir) and 2016 Democratic nominee for Vice President, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Feb 27 Nancy Spungen, American murder victim of Sid Vicious, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1978)

Feb 1 Clinton Davisson, American physicist (Nobel 1937- discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment), dies at 76
Feb 3 Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
Feb 3 Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 81
Feb 4 Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince, dies at 46
Feb 5 H. M. Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at 84
Feb 7 Betty MacDonald [nee Bard], American humor writer (The Egg and I), dies of cancer at 50
Feb 11 Ernest Jones, British psychonanalyst (b. 1879)
Feb 12 Marcel Cachin, French politician and co-founder of the French Communist Party, dies at 88
Feb 12 Douglas R. Hartree, English mathematician and physicist, dies at 60
Feb 13 Dame Christabel Pankhurst, a leading suffragette (English) "Queen of the mob" (b.1880)
Feb 13 Georges Rouault, French expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre), dies at 86

Feb 14 Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
Feb 17 Hugh McCrae, Australian writer and poet (Satyrs and Sunlight: Sylvarum Libri), dies at 81
Feb 22 Theo Harych, German writer, commits suicide at 54
Feb 22 Abul Kalam Azad, 1st Minister of Education in the Indian government, dies at 69
Feb 24 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
Feb 27 Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack