Editing 1957 (section)

===February===
* [[February 2]] – President [[Iskander Mirza]] of [[Pakistan]] lays the foundation-stone of the [[Guddu Barrage]] across the [[Indus River]], near [[Sukkur]].
* [[February 4]]
** France prohibits U.N. involvement in [[Algeria]].
** The first [[Nuclear marine propulsion|nuclear-powered]] [[submarine]], {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}}, logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional ''[[Nautilus (Verne)|Nautilus]]'' described in [[Jules Verne]]'s [[1870]] novel ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]]''. It is decommissioned on [[March 3]], [[1980]].
** A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop Coal Mine in [[Bishop, Virginia]], United States, kills 37 men.
* [[February 6]] – The [[Soviet Union]] announces that Swedish envoy [[Raoul Wallenberg]] had died in a Soviet prison ("possibly of a [[heart attack]]"), on [[July 17]], [[1947]]
* [[February 10]] – The [[Confederation of African Football]] is founded, at a meeting in [[Khartoum]].
* [[February 15]] – [[Andrei Gromyko]] becomes foreign minister of the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[February 16]] – [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s film ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'' opens at cinemas in [[Sweden]].
* [[February 17]] – A [[Warrenton Nursing Home fire|fire at a home]] for the elderly in [[Warrenton, Missouri]], United States, kills 72 people.
* [[February 18]]
** [[Kenya]]n 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]].