The following events occurred in February 1954:
February 1, 1954 (Monday) Died: 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 (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 teacher (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: , French voice actress, especially well-known for dubbing 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 (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 References