Events
DateEvent
1958 Eve Beglarian Was Born
1958 Iva Bittová Was Born
1958 Maura Bosch Was Born
1958 Georges Boulanger Died
1958 Constantin Brăiloiu Died
August 14 1958 Big Bill Broonzy Died
1958 Karl Gottfried Brunotte Was Born
1958 Don Byron Was Born
1958 Eduard Erdmann Died
1958 Howard Goodall Was Born
1958 Kimmo Hakola Was Born
1958 W. C. Handy Died
1958 Patrick Hawes Was Born
1958 Joseph Holbrooke Died
1958 Simon Holt Was Born
June 23 1958 Armas Järnefelt Died
1958 Michael Jarrell Was Born
May 07 1958 Alan John Was Born
1958 James Lentini Was Born
1958 Magnus Lindberg Was Born
September 29 1958 Aarre Merikanto Was Born
September 29 1958 Aarre Merikanto Died
1958 José Pablo Moncayo Died
1958 Chris Newman Was Born
1958 Yuji Nomi Was Born
1958 Niki Reiser Was Born
1958 Esa-Pekka Salonen Was Born
1958 Florent Schmitt Died
January 12 1958 Arthur Shepherd Died
1958 Robert W. Smith Was Born
1958 Frank Ticheli Was Born
1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams Died
October 13 1958 Alexander Veprik Died
1958 Rodney Waschka II Was Born
1958 Erling Wold Was Born
January 01 1958 The EEC Is Established
January 03 1958 The West Indies Federation Is Formed
January 04 1958 Sputnik 1 Falls To Earth From Orbit
January 13 1958 Battle Of Edchera: Spain Ambushed By Morocco
January 18 1958 First African Canadian NHL Player Debuts
January 21 1958 Last Fokker Crashes, Killing Pilot
January 23 1958 President Jimenez Leaves Venezuela
January 26 1958 167 Died In Ferry Accident
January 28 1958 Lego Company Patents Lego Bricks Design
January 28 1958 Goon Show: Last Episode Broadcast
January 31 1958 Explorer 1 Was Launched Into Orbit
January 31 1958 Van Allen Belt Discovered
February 03 1958 Benelux Economic Union Created
February 05 1958 Nasser Nominated As United Arab Republic President
February 05 1958 Savannah, GA: USAF Loses Hydrogen""Tybee Bomb""
February 06 1958 8 Footballers Killed In Munich Accident
February 21 1958 Gerald Holtom Created The Peace Symbol Against The AWRE
February 22 1958 United Arab Republic Formed
February 23 1958 Cuban Rebels Kidnap Juan Manuel Fangio
February 28 1958 26 Children Die In Kentucky School Bus Accident
March 01 1958 Alphonsus Becomes First American Curia Member
March 03 1958 Prime Minister Al-Said Takes Eight Term
March 16 1958 Ford Makes 50 Millionth Car
March 17 1958 U.S. Launches Vanguard 1
March 19 1958 Monarch Underwear Fire Kills 24
March 24 1958 Elvis Drafted Into U.S. Army
March 25 1958 Canada's Avro Arrow Makes Its First Flight
March 26 1958 The United States Army Launches Explorer 3
March 26 1958 Paris: African Regroupment Party Is Launched
March 27 1958 Nikita Khrushchev Elected Soviet Premiere
March 31 1958 Progressive Conservative Win Candian Election
April 04 1958 Peace Symbol Displayed In London
April 05 1958 Ripple Rock Destroyed By Large Non-nuclear Explosion
April 13 1958 American Wins Music Competition In Moscow Mid-Cold War
April 14 1958 Sovient Satellite Sputnik 2 De-orbits After 162 Days
April 18 1958 US Court Releases Ezra Pound From Asylum
April 26 1958 B & O Royal Blue's Final Run
May 09 1958 Vertigo's World Premiere In San Francisco
May 12 1958 US And Canada Sign Aerospace Defense Agreement
May 13 1958 The Trademark Velcro Is Registered
May 13 1958 Nixon;s Car Was Attacked In Caracas
May 13 1958 French Coup In Algeria
May 13 1958 Carlin Circumnavigates Globe Amphibiously
May 15 1958 The Soviet Union Launches Sputnik 3
May 18 1958 Starfighter Sets World Speed Record
May 22 1958 Sri Lankan Riots A Watershed Event In Race Relationship
May 23 1958 The Satellite Explorer 1 Ceases Transmission
May 24 1958 The United Press International Is Formed
May 27 1958 The F-4 Phantom II Makes Its First Flight
May 28 1958 Castro Takes Out Post In El Uvero
May 30 1958 Two Unknown Serviceman Buried At Arlington Cemetery
June 01 1958 De Gaulle Comes Out Of Retirement
June 09 1958 The Gatwick Airport Opens
June 16 1958 Leaders Of Hungarian Uprising Executed
June 17 1958 Ironworkers Memorial Crossing Collapses Killing Many
June 23 1958 The Dutch Church Accepts Women Ministers
July 01 1958 CBC Broadcasts Via Microwave
July 01 1958 St. Lawrence Seaway Flooding Begins
July 07 1958 Eisenhower Signs Alaska Into Statehood
July 09 1958 Largest Megatsunami Hits Lituya Bay
July 14 1958 Iraqi Monarchy Overthrown By Popular Forces
July 25 1958 PRA Holds First Congress In Cotonou
July 26 1958 Explorer 4 Is Launched
July 29 1958 Eisenhower Signs NASA Into Law
August 03 1958 Nautilus Travels Beneath Arctic Ice
August 04 1958 Billboard Hot 100 Debuts
August 05 1958 Presidents Carter, Hoover, And Adams: Longest Retirement
August 12 1958 Art Kane Photographs ""A Great Day In Harlem"
August 17 1958 Pioneer 0 - First US Attempt At Lunar Orbit Fails
August 18 1958 Nabokov's Controversial ""Lolita"" Published In USA
August 18 1958 Das Swims Channel; Crosses First
August 23 1958 People's Liberation Army Sparks Crisis Taiwan
August 29 1958 USAF Academy Opens In Colorado Springs
August 31 1958 Parcel Bomb Fails To Kill King Sihanouk
September 01 1958 Iceland And The UK Clash Over Fishing
September 02 1958 A US C-130 Is Shot Down Over Armenia By The USSR
September 12 1958 Kilby Demonstrates First Integrated Circuit
September 14 1958 German Post-war Rockets Reach Upper Atmosphere
September 15 1958 Newark Train Accident Kills 48
September 28 1958 Guinea Votes For Independence
October 01 1958 NASA Is Created To Replace NACA
October 02 1958 Guinea Breaks Free From France/
October 04 1958 Fifth Republic Of France Is Established
October 07 1958 Pakistan Constitution Suspended And Martial Law Imposed
October 07 1958 U.S Space Project Renamed To Mercury
October 11 1958 NASA Pioneer Probe Launch Falls Short
October 13 1958 Paddington Bear Makes His Debut
October 14 1958 The AAEC Tests Nuclear Weapons In Nevada
October 14 1958 DCBA Votes To Accept African-Americans As Attorneys
October 23 1958 Springhill Earthquake Traps 174 Miners
October 23 1958 The Smurfs Debut In Spirou Magazine
October 26 1958 First Boeing 707 Flight For Pan Am
October 27 1958 Mirza Deposed By General Kahn With Martial Law
October 28 1958 John XXIII Is Elected Pope
November 10 1958 Harry Winston Donates The Hope Diamond
November 12 1958 Warren Harding Leads Team Up The Nose
November 25 1958 French Sudan Is A Self Goveerning Memeber Of French Community
November 28 1958 Chad, Congo, And Gabon Free From France
December 01 1958 Central African Republic Self-Rules Despite French
December 01 1958 Chicago School Fire Kills 92 Children, 3 Nuns
December 05 1958 STD Inaugurated By Queen Elizabeth II
December 05 1958 UK's First Motorway Opened To Traffic
December 09 1958 John Birch Society Founded In U.S
December 11 1958 French Upper Volta And Dahomey Become Self-governing
December 12 1958 Guinea Joins The United Nations
December 14 1958 Soviets Reach Southern Pole Of Inaccessibility
December 18 1958 First Communicaton Satellite Is Launched
December 23 1958 Heghest Self-supporting Iron Tower Dedicated
December 28 1958 Baltimore Defeats New York In NFL Overtime Game
December 30 1958 Guatemalans Sink Mexican Boats Killing Three