1958 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1958?
- January 21, 1958 – The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
- January 28, 1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme Goon Show was broadcast.
- January 31, 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
- February 1, 1958 – Egypt and Syria merge to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
- February 3, 1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
- February 5, 1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- February 18, 1958 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dog in Chinese astrology.
- March 19, 1958 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
- March 27, 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
- May 28, 1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro’s 26 July movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
- June 23, 1958 – The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
- July 1, 1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
- August 29, 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 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 1, 1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
- October 7, 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
- November 10, 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
- December 1, 1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
- December 14, 1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
- December 23, 1958 – Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world’s highest self-supporting iron tower.
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