February 1954

February 1, 1954 (Monday)

• *Edwin Howard Armstrong, 63, American electrical engineer, suicide by jumping

February 2, 1954 (Tuesday)

• U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower reported the detonation of the first H-bomb.
• Born: Christie Brinkley, American actress, model, and entrepreneur, in Monroe, Michigan

February 3, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Elizabeth II became the first reigning monarch to visit Australia.

February 5, 1954 (Friday)

• Born: Guy Novès, former French rugby player and teacher, in Toulouse, Occitania Region, France

February 6, 1954 (Saturday)

• Died: Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist

February 7, 1954 (Sunday)

• Born :, French voice actress, she dubbed especially Whoopi Goldberg.

February 8, 1954 (Monday)

• Died: Laurence Trimble, 68, American actor
• Born: Larry Lee McCallister

February 9, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Died: Mabel Paige, 73, American actress

February 10, 1954 (Wednesday)

• After authorizing $385 million over the $400 million already budgeted for military aid to Vietnam, President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against his country's intervention in Vietnam.

February 12, 1954 (Friday)

• Died: Dziga Vertov, 58, Russian filmmaker

February 13, 1954 (Saturday)

• Born: Donnie Moore, American baseball player

February 15, 1954 (Monday)

• Born: Matt Groening, cartoonist and creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, in Portland, Oregon

February 16, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Born: Iain Banks, Scottish author, in Dunfermline, Fife

February 17, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Born:
• * Rene Russo, American actress
• * Brian Houston, New Zealand-Australian pastor, in Auckland

February 18, 1954 (Thursday)

• Born: John Travolta, American actor, director and singer, in Englewood, New Jersey

February 19, 1954 (Friday)

• 1954 transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union ordered the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
• Born: Sócrates, Brazilian footballer, in Belém, Pará

February 21, 1954 (Sunday)

• Died: William K. Howard, 54, American film director

February 23, 1954 (Tuesday)

• The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, United States.

February 24, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Born: Sid Meier, Canadian video game designer, in Sarnia, Ontario

February 25, 1954 (Thursday)

• Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser became premier of Egypt.

February 26, 1954 (Friday)

• Born: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish politician, President of Turkey, in Istanbul