February 1954

The following events occurred in February 1954:

February 2, 1954 (Tuesday)

 * U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower reported the detonation of the first H-bomb (done in 1952).
 * 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 coach (mainly Stade Toulousain), in Toulouse, Occitania Region, France

February 6, 1954 (Saturday)

 * Died: Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist (murdered) (b. 1892)

February 7, 1954 (Sunday)

 * Born : Maïk Darah, French voice actress, she dubbed espiecially Whoopi Goldberg.

February 8, 1954 (Monday)

 * Died: Laurence Trimble, 68, American actor

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 (d. 1989)

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 (d. 2013)

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 (d. 2011)

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