Feb 23 Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina

Feb 01 US satellite (Explorer I) launched

Feb 02 Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic

Feb 21 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote)

Feb 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Feb 05 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as first US black foreign minister (Romania)

Feb 15 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA

Feb 08 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia

Feb 28 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket

Feb 11 Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs

Feb 14 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms

Feb 15 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones Great Britain

Feb 05 Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, West Indies vs Pakistan, Port-of-Spain

Feb 06 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash

Feb 23 Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)

Feb 11 Auto racer Marshall Teague died at age thirty-seven after attempting to raise the closed-course speed record at Daytona.

Feb 11 Ruth Carol Taylor is first African-American woman hired as flight attendant

Feb 22 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)

Feb 05 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated first President of United Arab Republic

Feb 22 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes

Feb 03 Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart &peaks at #3

Feb 01 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic

Feb 15 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra

Feb 21 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances

Feb 23 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels

Feb 06 A plane carrying the Manchester United football team crashed at Munich airport, killing 7 of the team

Feb 15 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN

Feb 08 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle WA (CBS) begins broadcasting

Feb 01 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women

Feb 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Feb 15 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA

Feb 08 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die

Feb 07 Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced

Feb 05 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km

Apr 04 EugŠne Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt

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