Feb 24 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA

Feb 03 Dick Button win US skating title for 6th time

Feb 04 US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button

Feb 06 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne Atomic Lab (Illinois), to demonstrate lax in security

Feb 18 Nepál becomes a constitutional monarchy

Feb 28 French government of Pleven dissolves

Feb 01 -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record)

Feb 01 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea

Feb 02 -35ºF (-37ºC), Greenburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)

Feb 16 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing

Feb 16 San Francisco City Hall dome fire

Feb 01 First telecast of atomic explosion

Feb 02 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 06 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84

Feb 01 Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed

Feb 04 US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer

Feb 06 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 26 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia

Feb 21 South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated

Feb 24 Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of Germany

Feb 28 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates

Feb 14 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title

Feb 26 The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which limits a president to two terms of office, is ratified.

Feb 01 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 03 "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV

Feb 23 In Korea Canadian troops with 27th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade make first contact with enemy.

Feb 24 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of Great Britain

Feb 10 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21

Feb 15 The birth of Jane Seymour, English actress

Feb 09 The Royal Commission on Transportation, the Turgeon Commission produces its report.

Feb 10 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari

Apr 23 Battle of Kapyong, Korea starts

Apr 04 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Per¢n in Buenos Aires Argentina

Apr 05 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death

Apr 11 General MacArthur relieved of command in the Far East, over Korea

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