February 1953

• The surge of the North Sea flood continues from January 31.

• Died: Alan Curtis, American actor (b. 1909)

• Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres.
• Sweet rationing ended in the UK.
• Died: Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)

• Born: Mary Steenburgen, American actress

• Died: Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874)

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel after a bomb explosion at the Soviet embassy in reaction to the "Doctors' plot".

• The Nordic Council is inaugurated.
• Died: Hal Colebatch, Australian politician (b. 1872)

• The Pakistan Academy of Sciences is established in Pakistan.

• Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States (→ Book censorship in the United States).
• Born: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine politician, former President of Argentina and current Vice President of Argentina
• Died: Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)

• Nitroform Products Company plant in Newark was destroyed by an explosion.[1]

• Born: Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer, writer, actor (d. 2008)

• Died: Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, British colonial administrator (b. 1874)

• Died: Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)

• Release, in France, of Jacques Tati's film Les Vacances de M. Hulot, introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot.
• Died: Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)

Born: Michael Bolton, in New Haven, Connecticut.

• Died: Paul Hurst, American actor (b. 1888)

• James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
• Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact.
• Joseph Stalin held a party at his Volynskoe dacha. The party broke up on 4 AM the following day, March 1, 1953.