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  • Algiers, Algeria
    Feb, 1957
    Algerian War

    The bombings however continued

    Algiers, Algeria
    Feb, 1957

    The bombings however continued and in mid-February female FLN operatives planted bombs at the Municipal Stadium and the El-Biar Stadium in Algiers killing 10 and injuring 45. After visiting Algiers, a clearly shocked defense minister Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury told General Massu after the bombings: "We must finish these people off!".




  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Feb, 1957
    John Forbes Nash Jr.: A Beautiful Mind

    Marriage

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Feb, 1957

    Not long after breaking up with Stier, Nash met Alicia Lardé Lopez-Harrison, a naturalized U.S. citizen from El Salvador. Lardé graduated from MIT, having majored in physics. They married in February 1957; although Nash was an atheist, the ceremony was performed in an Episcopal church. They had a son together, John Charles Martin Nash, who earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rutgers University.




  • Algeria
    Saturday Feb 9, 1957
    Algerian War

    2e RCP arrested a prominent young lawyer and FLN sympathiser Ali Boumendjel

    Algeria
    Saturday Feb 9, 1957

    On 9 February, paratroopers of the 2nd Parachute Chasseur Regiment (2e RCP) arrested a prominent young lawyer and FLN sympathiser Ali Boumendjel. After attempting suicide Boumendjel volunteered everything he knew, including his involvement in the murder of a European family.




  • U.S.
    Wednesday Feb 13, 1957
    Audrey Hepburn

    Funny Face

    U.S.
    Wednesday Feb 13, 1957

    Hepburn exhibited her dancing abilities in her debut musical film, Funny Face (1957), wherein Fred Astaire, a fashion photographer, discovers a beatnik bookstore clerk (Hepburn) who, lured by a free trip to Paris, becomes a beautiful model.




  • Algeria
    Tuesday Feb 19, 1957
    Algerian War

    the 3e RPC raided the bomb factory finding 87 bombs, 70 kg of explosives

    Algeria
    Tuesday Feb 19, 1957

    While females had not previously been searched in Algiers; following the Coq Hardi explosion one of the waiters identified the bomber as a woman. Accordingly, female suspects were subsequently searched by metal detectors or physically, limiting the ability of the FLN to continue the bombing campaign from the Casbah. In February Bigeard's troops captured Yacef's bomb transporter, who under extreme interrogation gave the address of the bomb factory at 5 Impasse de la Grenade. On 19 February the 3e RPC raided the bomb factory finding 87 bombs, 70 kg of explosives, detonators and other material, Yacef's bomb-making organisation within the Casbah had been destroyed.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Friday Feb 22, 1957
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Queen granted her husband the style and title of a Prince of the United Kingdom by Letters Patent

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Friday Feb 22, 1957

    Further press reports claimed that the Queen and the Duke were drifting apart, which enraged the Duke and dismayed the Queen, who issued a strongly worded denial. On 22 February 1957, the Queen granted her husband the style and title of a Prince of the United Kingdom by Letters Patent, and it was gazetted that he was to be known as "His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh".




  • Algeria
    Monday Feb 25, 1957
    Algerian War

    Colonel Trinqier's intelligence sources located Ben M'hidi who was captured

    Algeria
    Monday Feb 25, 1957

    On 25 February Colonel Trinqier's intelligence sources located Ben M'hidi who was captured in his pyjamas by Paras at Rue Claude-Debussy.


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