looking for info on events of the year 1958?

Answer 1

Dang carla b, are you sure you haven't left anything out... lol

Answer 2

Google '1958 timeline events history' and you'll get an astonishing lineup of info - for every country, every sport, etc. The best source I found was Wikipedia - where in their search box you can ask for the same thing, refine it down to your own country or whatever.

Answer 3

I was 4yrs old and fell out of a moving train and was on the front page of the newspaper. Princess margaret"s picture was smaller.

Answer 4

Go to THe Daily mirror newspaper archives.

Answer 5

here's a site:
http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1958.html

I was in 2nd grade and crashed my new bike into a rock wall. no face plant but i did rack myself. maybe that's why i never had children...LOL

Answer 6

January
January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented.
January 3 - The West Indies Federation is formed.

Jan.4 Sputnik falls to Earth.


January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957).
January 8 - A 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
January 13 - 9235 scientists publish a plea to stop nuclear bomb tests.
January 18 - Armed Lumbee Indians confront a handful of Klansmen at the town of Maxton, North Carolina.
January 23 - Following a two-day general strike, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela was overthrown by a military-popular uprising.
January 28 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
January 28 - Hall of Fame baseball player Roy Campanella is involved in an automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed.
January 29 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
January 31 - The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.
January 31 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.

[edit] February
February 1 - Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic.
February 2 - The word Aerospace is coined, from the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space) taking into consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a single realm.
February 5 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
February 6 - Munich air disaster - 21 dead, including 7 players for Manchester United.
February 11 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
February 11 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African American woman hired as a flight attendant.
February 14 - The Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan unites in the Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan with the Iraqi King Faisal II as head of state.
February 17 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television
February 20 - Test rocket explodes in Cape Canaveral.
February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio. They release him 28 hours later.
February 23 - Arturo Frondizi wins presidential elections in Argentina.
February 24 - In Cuba, Radio Rebelde, radio of rebels of Fidel Castro, begins broadcasting from Sierra Maestra.
February 25 - Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
February 28 - One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurred at Prestonsburg, Kentucky, killing 27.

[edit] March
March 1 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, ninth bishop (fourth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
March 2 - A British team led by Sir Vivian Fuchs completes the first crossing of the Antarctic in Snow-cat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams in 99 days.
March 8 - USS Wisconsin is decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896 (recommissioned October 22, 1988).
March 11 - U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no nuclear fission occurs.
March 17 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
March 25 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes its debut flight.
March 26 - The United States Army launches Explorer III.
March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

[edit] April
April 3 - Castro's revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana.
April 4-April 7 - The first protest march for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from Hyde Park, London to Aldermaston, Berkshire. Demonstrators demand ban of nuclear weapons.
April 4 - The daughter of the actress Lana Turner stabs her mother's gangster lover to death (eventually ruled self-defense).
April 6 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari divorces the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after she is unable to produce any children.
April 17 - King Baudouin of Belgium officially opens the World Fair in Brussels, also known as Expo '58.

[edit] May
May 1 - Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina.
May 9 - Actor-singer Paul Robeson, whose passport has been reinstated, sings in a sold-out one-man recital at Carnegie Hall. The recital is such a success that Robeson gives another one at Carnegie Hall a few days later. But after these two concerts, Robeson is seldom seen in public in the United States again. His Carnegie Hall concerts are later released on records and on CD.
May 12 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
May 13 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
May 15 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
May 16 - Short-lived outburst of friendship between Arabs and Europeans in Algiers.
May 18 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph.
May 20 - Fulgencio Batista's government launches counteroffensive against Castro's rebels.
May 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area. [1]
May 23 - Explorer I ceased transmission
May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.

[edit] June
June 1 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
June 1 - Iceland extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (22.2 km).
June 4 - Charles De Gaulle visits Algeria.
June 16 - Imre Nagy is hanged for treason in Hungary.
June 27 - Peronist party becomes legal again in Argentina.
June 29 - Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 to win the 1958 World Cup.

[edit] July
July 5 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest mountain in the world.
July 7 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
July 7 - First International House of Pancakes (IHOP) opens in Toluca Lake, Calif.
July 10 - 7.5 Richter scale earthquake in Lituya Bay, Alaska, causes a landslide that produces a huge 520-meter high wave
July 10 - First parking meters installed in Britain
July 14 - Iraqi Revolution: The Iraqi monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists, King Faisal II is murdered and Abdul Karim Qassim assumes power.
July 15 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there.
July 17 - British paratroopers arrive in Jordan; king Hussein has asked help against pressure from Iraq.
July 20 - Various rebel groups in Cuba join forces but communists do not join the deal.
July 24 - The first life peerage is created in Britain.
July 26
Explorer program: Explorer IV is launched
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives her son Charles the title of Prince of Wales.
July 29 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

[edit] August
August 3 - The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water.
August 23 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
August 29 - Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana.
August 30-September 1 - Riots between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London.

[edit] September
September 12 - Jack St. Clair Kilby invents first integrated circuit.
September 14 - Two rockets designed by German engineer Ernst Mohr (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere.
September 27 - Typhoon Ida in Honshū, Japan kills 615.
September 28 - In France, a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the Fifth Republic.
September 30 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.

[edit] October
October 1 - Tunisia and Morocco join the Arab League.
October 1 - NASA starts operations and replaces the NACA.
October 2 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.
October 4 - BOAC uses new Comet jets to become the first airline to fly jet passenger services across the Atlantic.
October 9 - Pope Pius XII dies.
October 11 - Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of three project Able space probes, became the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA.
October 28 - Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII as the 261st pope.

[edit] November
November 3 - New UNESCO building inaugurated in Paris.
November 22 - Menzies Government (Australia) re-elected for a 5th Term.
November 23 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.
November 25 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
November 28 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
November 30 - Gaullists win parliamentary elections in France.

[edit] December
December 1 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
December 1 - At least 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago.
December 5 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Queen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost. [2]
December 5 - The Preston bypass, the United Kingdom's first motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. This stretch is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
December 9 - The John Birch Society is founded in the USA by Robert Welch, a retired candy manufacturer.
December 14 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.
December 21 - General Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes.
December 25 - Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (the George Balanchine version) is shown on prime-time television in color for the first time, as an episode of the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90.
December 28 - The Baltimore Colts beat The New York Giants 23-17 in overtime to win The NFL Championship.
December 29 - Rebel troops under Che Guevara begin to invade Santa Clara in Cuba