February 1954

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The following events occurred in February 1954:

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• 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^[1]

• Elizabeth II became the first reigning monarch to visit Australia.

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• Born: Guy Novès, former French rugby player and coach (mainly Stade Toulousain), in Toulouse, Occitania Region, France^{[citation needed]}

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

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• Born : Maïk Darah [fr], French voice actress, she dubbed especially Whoopi Goldberg.

• Died: Laurence Trimble, 68, American actor

• Died: Mabel Paige, 73, American actress^[2]

• 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.

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• Died: Dziga Vertov, 58, Russian filmmaker

• Born: Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)

• Born: Matt Groening, cartoonist and creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, in Portland, Oregon

• Born: Iain Banks, Scottish author, in Dunfermline, Fife (d. 2013)

• Born:
  • Rene Russo, American actress
  • Brian Houston, New Zealand-Australian pastor, in Auckland

• Born: John Travolta, American actor, director and singer, in Englewood, New Jersey^[3]

• 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)

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• Died: William K. Howard, 54, American film director

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• The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, United States.

• Born: Sid Meier, Canadian video game designer, in Sarnia, Ontario

• Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser became premier of Egypt.

• Born: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish politician, President of Turkey, in Istanbul

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