February 1953

February 1, 1953 (Sunday)

• The surge of the North Sea flood continues from January 31.

  February 2, 1953 (Monday)

• Died:Alan Curtis, American actor

  February 3, 1953 (Tuesday)

February 4, 1953 (Wednesday)

February 5, 1953 (Thursday)

• Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres.
• Sweet rationing ended in the UK.
• Died: Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician

  February 6, 1953 (Friday)

February 7, 1953 (Saturday)

February 8, 1953 (Sunday)

• Born:Mary Steenburgen, American actress

  February 9, 1953 (Monday)

• Died:Cecil Hepworth, English director

  February 10, 1953 (Tuesday)

February 11, 1953 (Wednesday)

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel after a bomb explosion at the Soviet embassy in reaction to the "Doctors' plot".

  February 12, 1953 (Thursday)

• The Nordic Council is inaugurated.
• Died:Hal Colebatch, Australian politician

  February 13, 1953 (Friday)

February 14, 1953 (Saturday)

February 15, 1953 (Sunday)

February 16, 1953 (Monday)

• The Pakistan Academy of Sciences is established in Pakistan.

  February 17, 1953 (Tuesday)

February 18, 1953 (Wednesday)

February 19, 1953 (Thursday)

• Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
• Born: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine politician, former President of Argentina and current Vice President of Argentina
• Died:Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral

  February 20, 1953 (Friday)

February 21, 1953 (Saturday)

• Nitroform Products Company plant in Newark was destroyed by an explosion.

  February 22, 1953 (Sunday)

• Born:Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer, writer, actor

  February 23, 1953 (Monday)

• Died:Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, British colonial administrator

  February 24, 1953 (Tuesday)

• Died:Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal

  February 25, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Release, in France, of Jacques Tati's film Les Vacances de M. Hulot, introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot.
• Died:Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist

  February 26, 1953 (Thursday)

February 27, 1953 (Friday)

• Died:Paul Hurst, American actor

  February 28, 1953 (Saturday)

• James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
• Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact.
• Joseph Stalin held a party at his Volynskoe dacha. The party broke up on 4 AM the following day, 1 March.