1958 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1958?
- January 28, 1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme Goon Show was broadcast.
- February 3, 1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
- February 18, 1958 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dog in Chinese astrology.
- March 27, 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
- April 5, 1958 – 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 15, 1958 – Walter O'Malley’s Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
- April 26, 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- May 15, 1958 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
- May 18, 1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
- May 23, 1958 – Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
- June 16, 1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
- June 17, 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
- July 26, 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
- August 31, 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
- September 2, 1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
- September 14, 1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
- October 23, 1958 – 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 La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
- November 28, 1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- December 18, 1958 – Project SCORE, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched.
- December 23, 1958 – Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world’s highest self-supporting iron tower.
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