February 1: Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected as a president of the Republic of China.

February 4: Ingrid Bergman's illegitimate child arouses ire in the U.S.

February 6: First Cabinet Secretary N.R.Pillai appointed in India.

February 8: Payment first made by Diners Club card, in New York, first use of a charge card.

February 9: Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.

February 11: Two Viet Minh battalions attack a French base in French Indochina. - Finland recognizes Indonesia.

February 12: Pro-communist riots erupt in Paris. - The European Broadcasting Union is founded. - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.

February 13: The U.S. Army begins to deploy anti-aircraft cannons to protect nuclear stations and military targets. - British Columbia B-36 crash - The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mark 4 nuclear bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produces the world's first Broken Arrow.

February 14: The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty. - In an election speech at Edinburgh, Winston Churchill proposes "a parley at the summit" with Soviet leaders, first use of term "summit" for such a meeting.

February 15: Juho Kusti Paasikivi is re-elected president of Finland. - Walt Disney releases his 12th animated film, Cinderella in Hollywood.

February 19: Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification.

February 21: Cunard liner RMS Aquitania arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36 year career, the longest of any in the 20th Century.

February 23: United Kingdom general election, 1950 : The Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee remains in office but the Tories, led by Winston Churchill increase their seats in the House of Commons. (source: Wikipedia)