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Events on the year of 1958 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1958 BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7h57m
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01 Jan 1958 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
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01 Jan 1958 Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White
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01 Jan 1958 Treaties establish European Economic Community (Common Market)
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01 Jan 1958 WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jan 1958 The European Economic Community is established.
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03 Jan 1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
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03 Jan 1958 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town
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03 Jan 1958 The West Indies Federation is formed.
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04 Jan 1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up
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04 Jan 1958 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
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06 Jan 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
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06 Jan 1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
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06 Jan 1958 WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Jan 1958 USSR shrinks army to 300,000
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08 Jan 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
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09 Jan 1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
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10 Jan 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart
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12 Jan 1958 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points
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12 Jan 1958 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
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12 Jan 1958 NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring
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13 Jan 1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
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13 Jan 1958 The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
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13 Jan 1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
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15 Jan 1958 New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
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16 Jan 1958 William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw" premieres in New York City NY
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18 Jan 1958 Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
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18 Jan 1958 1st black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
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19 Jan 1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
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20 Jan 1958 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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20 Jan 1958 KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Jan 1958 The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
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21 Jan 1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
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21 Jan 1958 Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City NY (doesn't happen)
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22 Jan 1958 KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
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23 Jan 1958 "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 60 performances
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23 Jan 1958 After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
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23 Jan 1958 "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 60 performances
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23 Jan 1958 Dictator Marcos P
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23 Jan 1958 Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies
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24 Jan 1958 After warming to 100,000,000
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26 Jan 1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli Minister of Defense
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26 Jan 1958 Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
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26 Jan 1958 Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
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26 Jan 1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
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27 Jan 1958 Ferenc M
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28 Jan 1958 The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast.
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28 Jan 1958 The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
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28 Jan 1958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
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28 Jan 1958 Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck
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29 Jan 1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
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29 Jan 1958 Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
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30 Jan 1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas, Texas
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30 Jan 1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
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30 Jan 1958 Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
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30 Jan 1958 Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello" premieres in New York City NY
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31 Jan 1958 "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
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31 Jan 1958 James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
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31 Jan 1958 Explorer program: Explorer 1: The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
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31 Jan 1958 US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
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01 Feb 1958 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
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01 Feb 1958 Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
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01 Feb 1958 WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting
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02 Feb 1958 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open
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02 Feb 1958 Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
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02 Feb 1958 WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
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03 Feb 1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
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04 Feb 1958 "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
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04 Feb 1958 Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
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05 Feb 1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black Foreign Minister (Romania)
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05 Feb 1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st President of United Arab Republic
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05 Feb 1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
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05 Feb 1958 A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
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05 Feb 1958 Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
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06 Feb 1958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
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06 Feb 1958 Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
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06 Feb 1958 Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
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07 Feb 1958 1st showing of DAF 600 auto
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07 Feb 1958 Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
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07 Feb 1958 Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
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08 Feb 1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as Premier of South Rhodesia
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08 Feb 1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
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08 Feb 1958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Feb 1958 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca, New York
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11 Feb 1958 Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs
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11 Feb 1958 Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant
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11 Feb 1958 WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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12 Feb 1958 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101
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12 Feb 1958 General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala
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14 Feb 1958 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
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15 Feb 1958 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of the USA
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15 Feb 1958 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones Great Britain
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15 Feb 1958 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
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15 Feb 1958 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
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15 Feb 1958 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra
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16 Feb 1958 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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17 Feb 1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
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17 Feb 1958 WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Feb 1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
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19 Feb 1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
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20 Feb 1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
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20 Feb 1958 Los Angeles Coliseum Committee approves 2-year pact allows Dodgers to use facility
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21 Feb 1958 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
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21 Feb 1958 The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
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21 Feb 1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote)
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22 Feb 1958 "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
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22 Feb 1958 Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
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22 Feb 1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
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22 Feb 1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
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22 Feb 1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
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23 Feb 1958 Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
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23 Feb 1958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
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23 Feb 1958 Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
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23 Feb 1958 Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina
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23 Feb 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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27 Feb 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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28 Feb 1958 A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
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28 Feb 1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
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01 Mar 1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
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01 Mar 1958 Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
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02 Mar 1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
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02 Mar 1958 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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02 Mar 1958 Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
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03 Mar 1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
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03 Mar 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes Premier of Iraq
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03 Mar 1958 Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
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05 Mar 1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
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05 Mar 1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
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07 Mar 1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
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08 Mar 1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
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08 Mar 1958 William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
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09 Mar 1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
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11 Mar 1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
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11 Mar 1958 Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets
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12 Mar 1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
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13 Mar 1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
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14 Mar 1958 Recording Industry Association of American created
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14 Mar 1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
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14 Mar 1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
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14 Mar 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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15 Mar 1958 "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
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15 Mar 1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC / ABC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 points
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15 Mar 1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
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15 Mar 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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16 Mar 1958 The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
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16 Mar 1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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17 Mar 1958 The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
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17 Mar 1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
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18 Mar 1958 Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
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19 Mar 1958 The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
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19 Mar 1958 Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London
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19 Mar 1958 Sobers completes a century in each innings vs Pakistan
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20 Mar 1958 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
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20 Mar 1958 Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
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20 Mar 1958 Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
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21 Mar 1958 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
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21 Mar 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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22 Mar 1958 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
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22 Mar 1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
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22 Mar 1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
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22 Mar 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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24 Mar 1958 Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
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24 Mar 1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
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25 Mar 1958 Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
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25 Mar 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champion to win 5 times
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25 Mar 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
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26 Mar 1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai, " Woodward and Guinness win
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26 Mar 1958 Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
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26 Mar 1958 The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
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26 Mar 1958 The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
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26 Mar 1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness & Joanne Woodward win
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26 Mar 1958 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
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27 Mar 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
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27 Mar 1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
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27 Mar 1958 Havana Hilton opens
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27 Mar 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st Secretary of Communist Party
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29 Mar 1958 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Carol Heiss
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29 Mar 1958 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by David Jenkins
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31 Mar 1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges US and Britain to do same
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31 Mar 1958 In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
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31 Mar 1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
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01 Apr 1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC / ABC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Apr 1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes Director of Russian Staatsbank
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02 Apr 1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
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02 Apr 1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
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02 Apr 1958 Wind speed reaches 450 km/h in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)
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03 Apr 1958 "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
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04 Apr 1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
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04 Apr 1958 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
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05 Apr 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.
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06 Apr 1958 Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
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07 Apr 1958 Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line
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10 Apr 1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
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11 Apr 1958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (San Francisco)
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12 Apr 1958 12th NBA Championship St Louis Hawks beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
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12 Apr 1958 Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
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13 Apr 1958 Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
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13 Apr 1958 12th Tony Awards Sunrise at Campobello & Music Man win
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14 Apr 1958 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika. The female dog likely lived only a few hours.
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14 Apr 1958 Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
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15 Apr 1958 10th Emmy Awards Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win
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15 Apr 1958 1st baseball game in California, San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-0
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16 Apr 1958 22nd Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
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16 Apr 1958 French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
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17 Apr 1958 Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens
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18 Apr 1958 A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
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18 Apr 1958 Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia
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18 Apr 1958 National League single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles
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19 Apr 1958 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
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20 Apr 1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
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20 Apr 1958 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
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20 Apr 1958 Buses replace Key System trains in San Francisco area at 3 AM
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20 Apr 1958 Montr
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20 Apr 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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20 Apr 1958 Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
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23 Apr 1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th homerun & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
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24 Apr 1958 Lee Walls hits 3 homerunS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
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26 Apr 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.
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28 Apr 1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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28 Apr 1958 Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
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28 Apr 1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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30 Apr 1958 Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
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01 May 1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon / conquer Morotai
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01 May 1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina
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02 May 1958 Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into New York City
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03 May 1958 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
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03 May 1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
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04 May 1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia
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05 May 1958 KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 May 1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
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07 May 1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
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08 May 1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
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08 May 1958 VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru
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09 May 1958 Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
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09 May 1958 Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
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11 May 1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
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11 May 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
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12 May 1958 A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
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12 May 1958 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40
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12 May 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
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13 May 1958 Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuela
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13 May 1958 Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
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13 May 1958 May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
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13 May 1958 The trademark Velcro is registered.
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13 May 1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
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13 May 1958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
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13 May 1958 Jordan & Iraq form the Arab Federation
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13 May 1958 Pierre Pflimlin forms French Government
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13 May 1958 Rioters attack US Vice President Nixon in Venezuala
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13 May 1958 Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
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15 May 1958 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
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15 May 1958 USSR launches Sputnik III
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16 May 1958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico
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16 May 1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
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17 May 1958 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
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17 May 1958 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
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18 May 1958 An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
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18 May 1958 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
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19 May 1958 "South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
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19 May 1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London
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19 May 1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
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20 May 1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
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21 May 1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
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21 May 1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
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22 May 1958 Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils.
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23 May 1958 Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
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23 May 1958 The satellite Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
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24 May 1958 "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 432 performances
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24 May 1958 United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
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24 May 1958 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
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24 May 1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
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26 May 1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
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26 May 1958 Union Square, San Fransisco becomes state historical landmark
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26 May 1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
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27 May 1958 The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
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27 May 1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
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27 May 1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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28 May 1958 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
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28 May 1958 French Government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle
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28 May 1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
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29 May 1958 Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels
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30 May 1958 Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
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30 May 1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington
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30 May 1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
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31 May 1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
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31 May 1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
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01 Jun 1958 Belgian Christian-democrats win parliamentary election
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01 Jun 1958 Charles de Gaulle elected Premier of France
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01 Jun 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open
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01 Jun 1958 Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
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02 Jun 1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
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02 Jun 1958 Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
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02 Jun 1958 Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
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03 Jun 1958 Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers
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04 Jun 1958 French Premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
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04 Jun 1958 San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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06 Jun 1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
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06 Jun 1958 Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
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07 Jun 1958 90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2
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07 Jun 1958 Battles between Turkish and Greeks Cypriots break out
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08 Jun 1958 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
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09 Jun 1958 "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
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09 Jun 1958 Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London's Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
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11 Jun 1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
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12 Jun 1958 "Make Me Laugh, " TV Game Show; last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979
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13 Jun 1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California
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14 Jun 1958 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
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14 Jun 1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
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14 Jun 1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
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15 Jun 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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16 Jun 1958 Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
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16 Jun 1958 Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
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17 Jun 1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
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17 Jun 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.
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21 Jun 1958 French franc devalues
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22 Jun 1958 Game in Kansas City between Athletics and Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado
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22 Jun 1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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23 Jun 1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
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23 Jun 1958 The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
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26 Jun 1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes Premier of Belgium
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26 Jun 1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
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26 Jun 1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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27 Jun 1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) New York to London
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27 Jun 1958 Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th
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28 Jun 1958 Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden
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28 Jun 1958 Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6)
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29 Jun 1958 Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm
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30 Jun 1958 "No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24
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30 Jun 1958 Dutch Government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
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01 Jul 1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
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01 Jul 1958 Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
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03 Jul 1958 "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)
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04 Jul 1958 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11)
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05 Jul 1958 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62)
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05 Jul 1958 J Pengel forms government / Emanuels Premier of Suriname
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06 Jul 1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico
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06 Jul 1958 Alaska becomes 49th state
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07 Jul 1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
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07 Jul 1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York
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07 Jul 1958 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
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08 Jul 1958 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Baltimore
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09 Jul 1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
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09 Jul 1958 Lituya Bay is hit by a megatsunami. The wave is recorded at 30 to 91 meters high, the largest in recorded history.
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10 Jul 1958 Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed Premier of Cambodia
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10 Jul 1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
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13 Jul 1958 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
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14 Jul 1958 Colonel Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
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14 Jul 1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq
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14 Jul 1958 Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th and last encyclical Meminisse juvat
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14 Jul 1958 Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation's new leader.
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14 Jul 1958 Iraqi army overthrows monarchy; republic replaces Hashemite dynasty
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15 Jul 1958 President Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
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15 Jul 1958 US marines deployed in Lebanon
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17 Jul 1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan / Iraqi federation
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19 Jul 1958 "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
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19 Jul 1958 Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
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20 Jul 1958 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch Country Club - Pennsylvania
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20 Jul 1958 Betty Jameson / Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament
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20 Jul 1958 King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
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23 Jul 1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
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24 Jul 1958 14 people named 1st life peers in the UK
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24 Jul 1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
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25 Jul 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
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25 Jul 1958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel wins wrestling's WWF woman's title
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26 Jul 1958 Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
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26 Jul 1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
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27 Jul 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
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28 Jul 1958 Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship
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29 Jul 1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
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29 Jul 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).
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29 Jul 1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
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31 Jul 1958 Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
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01 Aug 1958 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
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01 Aug 1958 US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
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02 Aug 1958 Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
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03 Aug 1958 USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
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03 Aug 1958 The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
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04 Aug 1958 Dumont TV Network crumbles
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04 Aug 1958 The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
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05 Aug 1958 Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole
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05 Aug 1958 Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi
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05 Aug 1958 Herbert Hoover eclipses John Adams as having the longest retirement of any former U.S President until that time. Hoover would live another six years, his record 31 years 7 months 16 days retirement has since been eclipsed by Jimmy Carter.
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06 Aug 1958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
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06 Aug 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
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10 Aug 1958 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open
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12 Aug 1958 Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait "A Great Day in Harlem" in front of a Brownstone in New York City.
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14 Aug 1958 Cleveland Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
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14 Aug 1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
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14 Aug 1958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
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15 Aug 1958 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
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15 Aug 1958 Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago
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15 Aug 1958 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as Director of State Bank
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17 Aug 1958 Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
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17 Aug 1958 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
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18 Aug 1958 "Lolita, " by Vladimir Nabokov, published
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18 Aug 1958 Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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18 Aug 1958 Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
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18 Aug 1958 Perez Prado "Mambo King, " receives one of the 1st gold records
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18 Aug 1958 Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
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18 Aug 1958 Betsy Palmer joins the Today Show panel
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18 Aug 1958 Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
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18 Aug 1958 Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published
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18 Aug 1958 TV game show scandal investigation starts
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19 Aug 1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
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20 Aug 1958 Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
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20 Aug 1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
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20 Aug 1958 Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
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21 Aug 1958 KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
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22 Aug 1958 Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
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23 Aug 1958 China PR resumes fire on Quemoi and Matsoe
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23 Aug 1958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
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24 Aug 1958 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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24 Aug 1958 Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
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27 Aug 1958 Clark Griffith says Senators will probably accept offer to move to Minnesota
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27 Aug 1958 USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
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28 Aug 1958 Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
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29 Aug 1958 George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
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29 Aug 1958 United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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29 Aug 1958 Air Force Academy opens
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31 Aug 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.
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01 Sep 1958 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
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01 Sep 1958 Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
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02 Sep 1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa
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02 Sep 1958 KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Sep 1958 Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
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02 Sep 1958 National Defense Education Act was signed
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02 Sep 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.
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05 Sep 1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US
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05 Sep 1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte, North Carolina
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05 Sep 1958 WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Sep 1958 Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
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07 Sep 1958 72nd US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62)
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07 Sep 1958 78th US Mens Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86)
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08 Sep 1958 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
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08 Sep 1958 Paul Anka opens Asian tour in Tokyo
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09 Sep 1958 Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game
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09 Sep 1958 Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
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10 Sep 1958 WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1958 US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate
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12 Sep 1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
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13 Sep 1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
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13 Sep 1958 Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
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14 Sep 1958 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open
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14 Sep 1958 Yankees win 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel
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14 Sep 1958 The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
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15 Sep 1958 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport, New Jersey
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15 Sep 1958 A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
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15 Sep 1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
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20 Sep 1958 Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits New York Yankees 1-0
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20 Sep 1958 Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
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20 Sep 1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
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21 Sep 1958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands - Dallas, Texas
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22 Sep 1958 KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
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22 Sep 1958 US nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record)
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24 Sep 1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed in Urbandale, Iowa
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26 Sep 1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup
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28 Sep 1958 France adopts constitution
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28 Sep 1958 France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
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28 Sep 1958 Guinea votes for independence from France
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29 Sep 1958 "Studio One, " TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV
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29 Sep 1958 "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8
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01 Oct 1958 Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
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01 Oct 1958 Inauguration of NASA
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01 Oct 1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
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01 Oct 1958 NASA is created to replace NACA.
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02 Oct 1958 Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
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02 Oct 1958 Musical show "Valmouth, " 1st produced in London
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02 Oct 1958 Guinea declares its independence from France.
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04 Oct 1958 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal
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04 Oct 1958 5th French Republic forms
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04 Oct 1958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
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04 Oct 1958 Fifth Republic of France is established.
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05 Oct 1958 KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Oct 1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
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07 Oct 1958 Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
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07 Oct 1958 President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
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07 Oct 1958 The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
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08 Oct 1958 Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
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08 Oct 1958 Dr Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker (Stockholm)
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08 Oct 1958 KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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09 Oct 1958 New York Yankees appear in 9 and win 7 of last 10 World Series
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11 Oct 1958 "Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
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11 Oct 1958 Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
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11 Oct 1958 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
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12 Oct 1958 CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium
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12 Oct 1958 WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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13 Oct 1958 Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, makes his debut.
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14 Oct 1958 The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas.
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14 Oct 1958 The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
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14 Oct 1958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community
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15 Oct 1958 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
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21 Oct 1958 1st women in English House of Lords
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23 Oct 1958 De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"
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23 Oct 1958 The Springhill Mine bump: An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
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23 Oct 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 Spirou magazine.
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23 Oct 1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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23 Oct 1958 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
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24 Oct 1958 USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
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26 Oct 1958 Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
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26 Oct 1958 PanAm flies the 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
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27 Oct 1958 Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as President of Pakistan
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27 Oct 1958 WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 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.
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28 Oct 1958 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (average went from .230 to .322)
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28 Oct 1958 John XXIII is elected Pope.
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28 Oct 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII
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29 Oct 1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
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29 Oct 1958 Dr F Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
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04 Nov 1958 Angelo G Roncalli crowned as Pope John XXIII
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04 Nov 1958 Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns
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04 Nov 1958 Democrats win US congressional election
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05 Nov 1958 "Maria Golovin" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
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05 Nov 1958 KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
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06 Nov 1958 AL announces that Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
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06 Nov 1958 Belgium government of Eyskens and Lilar forms
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06 Nov 1958 Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
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08 Nov 1958 "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances
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10 Nov 1958 WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Nov 1958 "La Plume de Ma Tante" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 835 performances
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11 Nov 1958 AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
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12 Nov 1958 Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
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13 Nov 1958 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League
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17 Nov 1958 KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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18 Nov 1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
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18 Nov 1958 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
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24 Nov 1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
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25 Nov 1958 Senegal becomes an autonomous state in the French Community
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27 Nov 1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
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28 Nov 1958 AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9
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28 Nov 1958 KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
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28 Nov 1958 US reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM
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28 Nov 1958 Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
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28 Nov 1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community
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28 Nov 1958 Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community
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28 Nov 1958 George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
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29 Nov 1958 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28
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30 Nov 1958 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Maine
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30 Nov 1958 WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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01 Dec 1958 "Flower Drum Song" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 602 performances
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01 Dec 1958 Central African Republic made autonomous member of Fr Comm (National Day)
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01 Dec 1958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic)
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01 Dec 1958 The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
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01 Dec 1958 The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
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02 Dec 1958 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
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02 Dec 1958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
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02 Dec 1958 KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
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03 Dec 1958 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
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04 Dec 1958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
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04 Dec 1958 Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns
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05 Dec 1958 Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Philadelphia
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05 Dec 1958 WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Dec 1958 Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
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05 Dec 1958 The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
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06 Dec 1958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
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09 Dec 1958 Robert H W Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
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09 Dec 1958 The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
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10 Dec 1958 1st domestic (New York-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
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10 Dec 1958 University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
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11 Dec 1958 French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
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11 Dec 1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
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11 Dec 1958 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls
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11 Dec 1958 Archibald MacLeish's "JB" premieres in New York NY
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12 Dec 1958 Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs. West Indies at Kanpur
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12 Dec 1958 Guinea joins the United Nations.
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12 Dec 1958 Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
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14 Dec 1958 The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
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16 Dec 1958 Bogot
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18 Dec 1958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
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18 Dec 1958 Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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18 Dec 1958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment
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18 Dec 1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
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19 Dec 1958 1st radio broadcast from space (recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower: "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")
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21 Dec 1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Republic of France
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22 Dec 1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
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22 Dec 1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
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22 Dec 1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
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22 Dec 1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
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23 Dec 1958 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 38 performances
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23 Dec 1958 Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
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23 Dec 1958 Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco
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25 Dec 1958 Alan Freed's Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular opens
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28 Dec 1958 Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
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28 Dec 1958 "Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.
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28 Dec 1958 What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
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29 Dec 1958 Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
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29 Dec 1958 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
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29 Dec 1958 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
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30 Dec 1958 The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
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30 Dec 1958 French franc devalued
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31 Dec 1958 International Geophyscial Year ends
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31 Dec 1958 Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
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31 Dec 1958 47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2)
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31 Dec 1958 Cuban dictator Batista flees
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