1958 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1958?
- January 31, 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
- February 3, 1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
- February 6, 1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
- February 18, 1958 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 22, 1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- April 13, 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
- May 24, 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
- July 29, 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- September 12, 1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
- September 15, 1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
- October 7, 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
- October 14, 1958 – The District of Columbia’s Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
- 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.
- October 26, 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
- October 27, 1958 – 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 28, 1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- December 1, 1958 – The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
- December 4, 1958 – Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.
- December 5, 1958 – 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 12, 1958 – Guinea joins the United Nations.
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