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The following events occurred in February 1955:

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The Pact of Mutual Cooperation ("Baghdad Pact") is signed.
British Navy W-class destroyer HMS Wrangler runs aground at Villefranche sur Mer, France. Refloated on 6 February by Marine Nationale and Marina Militare tugs.^[1]

Lichen Island, a small island lying north of the Bølingen Islands and 5 kilometres (2.5 nmi) north-west of Cleft Island in southern Prydz Bay, Antarctica, is visited by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions party led by Phillip Law, who names it for the rich growth of lichens found there.^[2]

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Nikolai Bulganin is new Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, succeeding Georgy Malenkov.

Apartheid in South Africa: 60,000 non-white residents of the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg are forcibly evicted.
Twenty nautical miles (37 km) southeast of the Tachen Islands, the People's Republic of China shoots down a U.S. Navy AD Skyraider attack aircraft covering the evacuation of Nationalist Chinese forces from the islands.^[3]
In Italy, the Rome Metro opens to passengers.^[4]

The United States Seventh Fleet helps the Republic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan.
Born: Chris Adams, English wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)

Died: Ona Munson, American actress (b. 1903)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.
Died:
- Thomas J. Moore, Irish-American film actor (b. 1883)
- S. Z. Sakall, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)

Sabena Flight 503: Douglas DC-6 of the Belgian airline company Sabena crashed into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy, killing all 29 people on board.
Died: Marcella Mariani, 19, Italian actress and model, passenger of Sabena Flight 503

The West German cargo ship Hoheweg collides with Sunny Prince and sinks in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent. All fifteen crew were rescued by Sunny Prince and landed at Dover.^[5]

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Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan.

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The Cambodian Red Cross is established.^[6]

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is established at a meeting in Bangkok.^[7]
Born: Jeff Daniels, American actor, in Athens, Georgia

Died: Oswald Avery, 77, US physician and medical researcher

Born: Kelsey Grammer, American actor and producer, in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, by 364,839 votes to 264,077.

Died: Paul Claudel, 86, French poet, dramatist, and diplomat

Born:
- Steve Jobs, US businessman and founder of Apple Inc, in San Francisco, California (d. 2011)
- Woo Bum-kon, South Korean policeman and spree killer, in Pusan, South Gyeongsang (d. 1982)

Pope Pius XII creates the Roman Catholic Diocese of Penang and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kuala Lumpur.
New Zealand philanthropist Edith Winstone Blackwell is awarded the MBE by Governor General Sir Willoughby Norrie.

George F. Smith becomes the first person to survive a supersonic ejection, from a North American F-100 Super Sabre travelling at Mach 1.05.

Died: Trixie Friganza, 84, US actress

The Maltese general election ends in another victory for the Malta Labour Party, which wins 23 of the 40 seats.^[8]
Born: Gilbert Gottfried, American stand up comedian and actor, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2022)
Died: Isak Penttala, Finnish politician (b. 1883)^[9]

February 1955

^ "Telgrams in Brief". The Times. No. 53159. London. 7 February 1955. col C-D, p. 6.
^ "Lichen Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
^ Isenberg, Michael T., Shield of the Republic: The United States Navy in an Era of Cold War and Violent Peace, Volume I: 1945-1962, New York: St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-09911-8, p. 614.
^ "Roma". UrbanRail.Net. 2004. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
^ "Sinking Ship's Crew Of 15 Saved". The Times. No. 53166. London. 15 February 1955. col C, p. 8.
^ Brief History of Cambodian Red Cross^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Leifer, Michael (2005). Chin Kin Wah, Leo Suryadinata (ed.). Michael Leifer: Selected Works on Southeast Asia. ISBN 978-981-230-270-0.
^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1302 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ "Kansanedustajat: Isak Penttala" (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Parliament of Finland. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011.

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