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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1958


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 1 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
  • January 8 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
  • January 11 - Alec Rowley, English composer (b. 1892)
  • January 11 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
  • January 12 - Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
  • January 13 - Jesse L. Lasky, U.S. film producer (b. 1880)
  • January 23 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
  • January 30 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
  • January 30 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
  • February 1 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist
  • February 4 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
  • February 6 - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
  • February 6 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
  • February 6 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
  • February 6 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
  • February 6 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
  • February 6 - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
  • February 6 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
  • February 6 - Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
  • February 11 - Ernest Jones, British psychonanalyst (b. 1879)
  • February 12 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (b.1897)
  • February 13 - Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
  • February 13 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, a leading suffragette (English) "Queen of the mob" (b.1880)
  • February 14 - Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement
  • February 17 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (b. 1876)
  • February 21 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
  • March 2 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
  • March 11 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
  • March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
  • March 22 - Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
  • March 25 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
  • March 26 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
  • March 28 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
  • April 2 - Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
  • April 4 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (b. 1925)
  • April 8 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
  • April 10 - Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
  • April 11 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
  • April 16 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
  • April 18 - Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
  • May 3 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
  • May 19 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
  • May 19 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
  • May 29 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer
  • June 9 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
  • June 10 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
  • June 13 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
  • June 16 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
  • June 20 - Kurt Alder, German chemist
  • June 26 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
  • June 26 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
  • June 29 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
  • July 15 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
  • July 22 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
  • July 27 - Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
  • August 3 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
  • August 4 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
  • August 10 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
  • August 13 - Otto Witte, acrobat and
  • August 14 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist
  • August 14 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873)
  • August 22 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer
  • August 24 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
  • August 26 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
  • August 27 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist
  • September 11 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
  • September 11 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician (b. 1889)
  • October 1 - Robert Falk, Russian painter (b. 1886)
  • October 8 - Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
  • October 9 - Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
  • October 12 - Gordon Griffith, American actor
  • October 14 - Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
  • October 17 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
  • October 17 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
  • October 29 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
  • November 15 - Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
  • November 17 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
  • November 21 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (b. 1909)
  • November 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
  • November 27 - Artur Rodziñski, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
  • November 30 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
  • December 8 - Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
  • December 10 - Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b.1864)
  • December 13 - Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887)
  • December 15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist
  • December 21 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (b. 1884)

Events
  • January 1 - The European Community is established.
  • January 3 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
  • January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (it was launched on October 4, 1957).
  • January 13 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
  • January 18 - Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
  • January 21 - The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
  • January 23 - Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pérez Jiménez
  • January 26 - Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
  • January 28 - The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
  • January 31 - Explorer program: Explorer 1
  • January 31 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
  • February 1 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
  • February 3 - Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
  • February 5 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
  • February 5 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
  • February 6 - Eight Manchester United players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
  • February 17 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television.
  • February 21 - The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
  • February 22 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
  • February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
  • March 1 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
  • March 1 - Turkish passenger ship Uskudar capsized and sank at Izmit Bay, Kocaeli, Turkey, killing at least 300.
  • March 3 - Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
  • March 5 - The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
  • March 5 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit.
  • March 16 - The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
  • March 17 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
  • March 24 - Elvis Presley is officially inducted into the U.S.Army.
  • March 25 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
  • March 26 - The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
  • March 26 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.
  • March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
  • April 4 - The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.
  • April 5 - Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
  • April 13 - Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Chaikovsky Compettion in Moscow.
  • April 14 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
  • April 18 - A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
  • 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 Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
  • May 13 - The trade mark Velcro is registered.
  • May 13 - May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
  • May 15 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
  • May 18 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 2,259.82 km/h (1,404.19 mph).
  • May 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, subscriber trunk dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
  • May 23 - Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
  • May 24 - United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
  • May 27 - The F-4 Phantom II first flight.
  • May 30 - Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
  • June 1 - Charles de Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
  • June 9 - HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
  • June 16 - Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising executed.
  • June 17 - The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing being built connecting Vancouver and North Vancouver, Canada, collapses into the Burrard Inlet, killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
  • June 17 - The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day
  • June 23 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
  • July 1 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
  • July 1 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
  • July 5 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.
  • July 7 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
  • July 9 - Lituya Bay is hit by a mega-tsunami. The wave was recorded at 524 meters high, making it the largest wave in history.
  • July 10 - Highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, Alaska, at 524m high.
  • July 14 - Iraqi Revolution: in Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces lead by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation's new leader.
  • July 25 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
  • July 26 - Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
  • July 28 - Lord Jellicoe makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
  • July 29 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
  • August 3 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
  • August 3 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
  • August 6 - Australian runner Herb Elliot breaks the world record for the mile at the Morton Stadium in Dublin, with a time of 3:54.5.
  • August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
  • August 23 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
  • August 29 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • September 2 - U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
  • September 12 - Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
  • September 14 - Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
  • September 15 - A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
  • September 28 - France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
  • October 1 - NASA created to replace NACA.
  • October 2 - Guinea declares its independence from France.
  • October 4 - Fifth Republic of France is established.
  • October 7 - President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
  • October 7 - The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
  • October 11 - Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
  • October 13 - Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun".
  • October 13 - Michael Bond publishes the first story on Paddington Bear.
  • October 14 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
  • October 14 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
  • October 23 - The Springhill Mine Bump
  • October 23 - The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series appear for the first time, in the story Le flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou
  • October 26 - Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
  • October 27 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
  • November 10 - The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
  • 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.
  • December 1 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
  • December 1 - The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns.
  • December 4 - Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.
  • December 5 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
  • December 5 - The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
  • December 9 - Red Scare: The John Birch Society was founded in the United States.
  • December 11 - Upper Volta gains self-government from France, and becomes an autonomous republic in the French Community.
  • December 14 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
  • December 21 - French presidential election: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France as his Union des Démocrates pour la République party gain 78.5% of the vote.
  • December 23 - Dedication of Tokyo Tower, world's highest self-supporting iron tower.


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