Editing 1959 (section)

===February===
{{Main|February 1959}}
[[file:Vanguard 2 satellite sketch.png|170px|right|thumb|[[February 17]]: Technical drawing of [[Vanguard 2]]]]
* [[February 2]] – Nine ski hikers mysteriously perish in the northern [[Ural Mountains]] in the [[Dyatlov Pass incident]] and are all found dead a few weeks later.
* [[February 3]]
** A chartered plane transporting musicians [[Buddy Holly]], [[Ritchie Valens]] and [[The Big Bopper]] with pilot [[Roger Peterson (pilot)|Roger Peterson]] goes down in foggy conditions near [[Clear Lake, Iowa]], killing all four on board. The tragedy is later termed "[[The Day the Music Died]]", popularized in [[Don McLean]]'s [[1971]] song "[[American Pie (song)|American Pie]]".
** [[American Airlines Flight 320]], a [[Lockheed L-188 Electra]] from Chicago crashes into the [[East River]] on approach to New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
* [[February 6]] – At [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]], the first successful test firing of a [[Titan intercontinental ballistic missile]] is accomplished.
* [[February 9]] – [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and [[Francoist Spain|Spain]] set trade relations (not diplomatic ones).
* [[February 13]] – [[TAT-2]], [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]]'s second [[transatlantic telephone cable]] goes into operation between [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] and France.
* [[February 16]] – [[Fidel Castro]] becomes Premier of [[Cuba]].
* [[February 17]] – [[Vanguard 2]], the first [[weather satellite]], is launched to measure [[cloud cover]] for the [[United States Navy]].
* [[February 18]]
** [[Jesús Sosa Blanco]], a colonel in the Cuban army of [[Fulgencio Batista]], is executed in [[Cuba]] after being convicted of committing 108 murders for Batista.
** Women in [[Kingdom of Nepal|Nepal]] vote for the first time.
* [[February 19]] – First of the [[London and Zürich Agreements]] under which the United Kingdom agrees to grant independence to [[Cyprus]].
* [[February 20]] – The [[Politics of Canada|Canadian Government]] cancels the [[Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow]] [[interceptor aircraft]] project.