1958
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1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events
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January
- January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented
- January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957)
- January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship
- January 18 - Armed Lumbee Native Americans chased off an estimated 5,000 Klansmen and supporters at the town of Maxton, North Carolina.
- January 28 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister
- 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
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February
- February 1 - Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic
- 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 17 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television
- February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio
- 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.
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March-April
- March 1 - Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina
- March 1 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, ninth bishop (fourth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagaion 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 17 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite
- March 22 - Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia
- March 26 - The United States Army launches Explorer III
- March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union
- April 3 - Castro's revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana
- April 4 - The first protest march by CND begins from Hyde Park, London, for Aldermaston, Berkshire
- April 4 - The daughter of the actress Lana Turner stabs her mother's gangster lover to death (eventually ruled self defence)
- April 6 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari divorces Muhammad Reza Shah 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.
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May-June
- May 2 - A State of Emergency is declared in Aden
- 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 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area. [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/newsid_2510000/2510289.stm)
- 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.
- 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
- June 16 - Imre Nagy is hanged for treason in Hungary
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July-August
- 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 10 - First parking meters installed in Britain
- July 14 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Qassim becomes the nation's new leader
- July 14 - A left wing military coup in Iraq leads to the murder of the king, Faisal II
- July 15 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there
- July 24 - The first life peerage is created in Britain
- July 26 - Explorer program: Explorer IV is launched
- July 29 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- 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 30 - September 1 - Riots between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London
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September-October
- September 14 - Two rockets of the German engineer Ernst Mohr reach as first German post-war rockets the upper atmosphere
- September 28 - In France, a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the Fifth Republic.
- 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 program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up)
- October 28 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.
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November-December
- November 22 - Menzies Government 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
- December 1 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France
- 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] (http://www.bt.com/archives/history/19461959.htm#1958)
- December 9 - John Birch Society formed in the USA
- December 21 - General de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78,5% of the votes.
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unknown date
- The First Cod War between UK and Iceland
- BBC Radiophonic Workshop created
- During the International Geophysical Year, Earth's magnetosphere is discovered
- The United States conducts Operation Argus during August and September
- Foundation of Amirkabir University of Technology
- Based on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-war baby boom ended in the United States as an eleven-year decline in the birth rate began - the longest on record in that country
- Last female circumcision in the United States.
- Denatonium, the bitterest substance known is discovered. It is used as an aversive agent in products such as bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them.
- Van Cliburn wins the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in the USSR, breaking cold war tensions.
- The Jim Henson Company founded
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Year in topic
- 1958 in film
- 1958 in literature
- August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.
- Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything becomes a bestseller.
- 1958 in music
- January 20 - Elvis Presley receives his draft notice
- 1958 in rail transport
- 1958 in sports
- 1958 in television
- Ampex demonstrates their design for a color Video Tape Recorder
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Births
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January-March
- January 20 - Lorenzo Lamas, actor
- January 24 - Jools Holland, musician
- January 26 - Ellen DeGeneres, actress, comedienne
- February 4 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 2005)
- February 11 - Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.
- February 11 - Regina Marsikova, Czechoslovakian tennis player.
- February 13 - Pernilla August, actress
- February 16 - Ice-T, singer, songwriter, actor (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
- February 21 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, singer
- February 22 - Jake Burns, musician
- February 24 - Sammy Kershaw, musician
- March 3 - Miranda Richardson, actress
- March 4 - Patricia Heaton, actress (Everybody Loves Raymond)
- March 5 - Andy Gibb, singer (d. 1988)
- March 8 - Gary Numan, singer
- March 10 - Sharon Stone, actress
- March 14 - Albert II of Monaco
- March 20 - Holly Hunter, actress
- March 21 - Gary Oldman, actor
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April-August
- April 3 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
- April 10 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian pianist
- April 10 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, R&B producer and musician
- April 21 - Andie MacDowell, American actress
- April 28 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
- April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
- May 20 - Ron Reagan, dancer, talk show host, son of former President Ronald Reagan
- May 23 - Mitch Albom, author
- May 23 - Drew Carey, comedian, actor
- May 26 - Wayne Hussey, British rocker The Mission
- May 26 - Pete Michaels, comedian, singer, actor
- May 27 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
- May 27 - Wayne Williams, murderer in Atlanta
- May 28 - Annette Bening, actress
- June 7 - Prince, musician
- June 8 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian, actor, director
- June 17 - Jello Biafra, punk rock musician and political activist
- June 30 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
- July 2 - Thomas Bickerton, United Methodist Bishop
- July 15 - Mac Thornberry, American politician
- July 28 - Terry Fox, cancer activist (d. 1981)
- July 30 - Kate Bush, British singer-songwriter
- July 31 - Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner
- August 7 - Bruce Dickinson, English heavy metal musician
- August 16 - Madonna, musician, songwriter, actress
- August 19 - Anthony Muñoz, American football Hall of Famer
- August 22 - Colm Feore, actor (Pearl Harbor, Chicago, The Chronicles of Riddick)
- August 29 - Michael Jackson, American pop superstar
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September-December
- September 10 - Dan Castellaneta, voice actor (The Simpsons)
- September 16 - Orel Hershiser, baseball pitcher
- September 22 - Andrea Bocelli, singer
- September 23 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach
- October 5 - Bernie Mac, actor, comedian
- October 14 - Thomas Dolby, English rock musician
- October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
- October 27 - Simon Le Bon, musician, Duran Duran
- November 2 - Willie McGee, baseball player
- November 18 - Laura Miller, mayor of Dallas, Texas
- November 22 - Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
- November 25 - Kim Ashfield, British model
- November 28 - Dave Righetti, baseball pitcher
- December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator
- December 25 - Hanford Dixon, American football player
- December 25 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
- December 31 - Bebe Neuwirth, actress
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Deaths
- January 1 - Edward Weston, photographer (b. 1886)
- January 8 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
- January 11 - Edna Purviance, actress (b. 1895)
- January 30 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- February 4 - Henry Kuttner, science fiction author (b. 1915)
- February 13 - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette (b. 1880)
- March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer (b. 1923)
- March 22 - Michael Todd, Academy Award- winning film producer (b. 1909)
- March 25 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (b. 1888)
- March 26 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
- March 28 - W.C. Handy, blues composer (b. 1873)
- April 19 - Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874)
- May 3 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- May 19 - Ronald Colman, actor (b. 1891)
- May 29 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet (b. 1881)
- June 20 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- June 26 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876)
- July 14 - King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935) and most of his family
- August 14 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
- October 9 - Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
- October 17 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876).
- November 27 - Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (b. 1892)
- December 8 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1888)
- December 15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, physicist
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Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
- Chemistry - Frederick Sanger
- Medicine - George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
- Literature - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- Peace - Georges Pire
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Fields Medalists
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