History of 1958

During the year of 1958 the following events have happened in our world's history.

January 01, 1958 - European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
January 03, 1958 - Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
January 08, 1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
January 28, 1958 - Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
January 29, 1958 - Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming
January 30, 1958 - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service Dallas Texas
January 31, 1958 - US launches 1st artificial satellite Explorer 1
January 31, 1958 - James van Allen discovers radiation belt
January 31, 1958 - 1st US satellite launched Explorer I from Cape Canaveral
February 01, 1958 - Egypt & Syria join to form United Arab Republic
February 11, 1958 - 1st flight with Negro stewardess - RC Taylor - Ithaca NY
March 02, 1958 - 1st surface crossing of the Antarctic continent is completed
March 11, 1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV's 21
March 12, 1958 - Commonwealth Day
March 17, 1958 - Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
March 24, 1958 - Elvis Presley inducted into Army in Memphis Tenn
March 26, 1958 - Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III
March 27, 1958 - Khrushchev became Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
March 31, 1958 - US Navy forms atomic sub division
April 11, 1958 - Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated.
April 20, 1958 - Buses replace Key System trains at 3AM.
May 08, 1958 - VP Nixon was shoved stoned booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
May 15, 1958 - USSR launched Sputnik III
May 26, 1958 - Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark
July 07, 1958 - Pres Eisenhower signs Alaska statehood bill
July 14, 1958 - Iraqi army Iraq overthrew monarchy
July 15, 1958 - US troops occupy Lebanon stay 3 months.
July 29, 1958 - Pres Eisenhower signs into law NASA & Space Act of 1958.
July 29, 1958 - Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running
August 01, 1958 - 1st Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
August 03, 1958 - USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
August 04, 1958 - Dumont TV Network crumbles
August 14, 1958 - Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29 Edmonton 21)
August 18, 1958 - Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov published.
August 18, 1958 - Investigation starts of TV Game show scandal
September 05, 1958 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented Charlotte NC
September 21, 1958 - 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours landed Dallas Texas
September 21, 1958 - Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no hits Yankees 1-0
September 24, 1958 - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed Urbandale Ia
October 01, 1958 - Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
October 02, 1958 - Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
October 04, 1958 - Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began
October 09, 1958 - Yanks beat Braves 4 games to 3 in the world series
October 09, 1958 - Pope Pius XII died 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy.
October 11, 1958 - Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA
October 23, 1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize for Literature
October 26, 1958 - PanAm flies the 1st transAtlantic jet trip - NY to Paris.
November 15, 1958 - Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at 44
November 30, 1958 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched Dewey Bath Me
December 01, 1958 - Central African Republic established (National Day)
December 10, 1958 - 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
December 11, 1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
December 18, 1958 - 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
December 18, 1958 - 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
December 18, 1958 - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
December 31, 1958 - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X