February 2: President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across the river Indus near Sukkur.

February 4: France prohibits U.N. involvement in Algeria. - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". - A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop coal mine in Bishop, Virginia kills 37 men.

February 15: Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of the Soviet Union.

February 16: The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., is abolished in the United Kingdom. - Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens in Sweden.

February 17: A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, kills 72 people.

February 18: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government. - The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.

February 23: The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc opens in Dakar.

February 25: The Boy In The Box was discovered along a sidewalk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The boy was described of Caucasian appearance and 4 to 6 years old. The case still remains unsolved. (source: Wikipedia)