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1958 Jan 1, Treaties establishing the European Economic Community went into effect.
(AP, 1/1/98)
1958 Jan 1, Dr. Douglas Kelley (45), psychiatrist, committed suicide using potassium cyanide. He was one of the psychiatrist used by the US Army to interview Nazi war criminals at Nurem-berg and authored the book “22 Cells in Nuremberg.”
(SSFC, 2/6/05, p.A17)
1958 Jan 1, Photographer Edward Weston (b.1886) died. A 1973 biography was titled "Ed-ward Weston: Fifty Years." In 1998 his model Charis Wilson published "Through Another Lens: My Years with Edward Weston."
(SFEM, 6/30/96, p.23)(SFC, 5/18/98, p.D1)(SFC, 9/2/06, p.E3)
1958 Jan 3, The first six members of the newly formed US Commission on Civil Rights held their first meeting at the White House after they were sworn in by President Eisenhower.
(AP, 1/3/08)
1958 Jan 3, Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole (Antarctica) overland. Hillary was part of a joint New Zealand-British ice trek that drove farm tractors on the Skelton Glacier to the South Pole. He beat Vivian Fuchs to the South Pole by 17 days.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.C2)(MC, 1/3/02)
1958 Jan 3, The British created the West Indies Federation with Lord Hailes as governor general. The federation lasted to 1962. It included Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago and the Windward and Leeward Islands.
(HN, 1/3/99)(WUD, 1994, p.1623)
1958 Jan 6, Moscow announced a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1958 Jan 7, USSR shrank its army to 300,000.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1958 Jan 7, Petru Groza (74), premier and president (Romania, 1945-58), died.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1958 Jan 8, Bobby Fisher won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at 14 years of age.
(MC, 1/8/02)
1958 Jan 9, President Eisenhower, in his State of the Union address to Congress, warned of the threat of Communist imperialism.
(AP, 1/9/08)
1958 Jan 10, Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reached #1.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1958 Jan 13, 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petitioned the UN for a nuclear test ban.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1958 Jan 21, Charles Starkweather, 19, killed the mother, stepfather and half-sister of his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, at her family's home in Lincoln, Neb. Starkweather, who had also killed a gas station attendant the previous November, and Fugate went on a road trip which resulted in seven more slayings. Starkweather was executed in 1959; Fugate, who main-tained she had been Starkweather's hostage, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life; she was paroled in 1976. His slaying spree inspired the 1973 film “Badlands” starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.
(SFEM, 2/8/98, p.8)(AP, 1/21/08)
1958 Jan 21, James Grover Tarver (b.1885), Texas-born giant, died in Arkansas. He had grown to be 8 feet 4 inches tall and traveled with the Ringling Bros. and other circuses. In 1917 he played the giant in the film “Jack and the Beanstalk.”
(SFC, 3/5/08, p.G5)(www.forensicgenealogy.info/contest_80_results.html)
1958 Jan 21, The Soviet Union called for a ban on nuclear arms in Baghdad Pact countries.
(HN, 1/21/99)
1958 Jan 23, Venezuela gained liberties with the overthrow of Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez, its last dictator. The social democrats' Democratic Action (AD) and the Christian Democrats (Copei) began alternating power and then entered into the power-sharing agreement called "Pacto de Punto Fijo." Rafael Antonio Caldera (1916-2009) was one of the three signers of the Punto Fijo pact, which organized democratic elections after the fall of Jimenez.
(WSJ, 2/26/99, p.A15)(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.T6)(AP, 1/23/04)(AP, 12/24/09)
1958 Jan 24, After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms were bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in the 1st man-made nuclear fusion.
(MC, 1/24/02)
1958 Jan 28, Roy Campanella, catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, was paralyzed in a car crash. In 1959 Topps Chewing Gum Company issued a baseball card in his honor featuring Campanella in a wheelchair with the phrase “Symbol of Courage.”
(AH, 6/03, p.56)(http://tinyurl.com/ry7spx)
1958 Jan 29, Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married in Las Vegas.
(AP, 1/29/08)
1958 Jan 30, The play "Sunrise at Campobello," by Dore Schary about Franklin D. Roose-velt's struggle against polio, opened on Broadway with Ralph Bellamy as FDR.
(AP, 1/30/08)
1958 Jan 31, Explorer 1, the first successful US satellite, was launched by a Jupiter-C rocket and the United States entered the Space Age. It discovered the "Van Allen radiation belts" around Earth named after James Van Allen. Radio signals from the transmitter aboard the 30.8 pound satellite were picked up in California within a few minutes after the launch. Two months earlier, the first attempt to launch a satellite had failed.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)(AP, 1/31/98)(SFC, 8/10/06, p.B7)
1958 Feb 1, Syria and Egypt formed the United Arab Republic. Most Syrians resented the merger, which was led by the radical Baath (Arab Socialist Resurrection) party. The union of Syria and Egypt was dissolved in 1961 following a coup in Syria. Egypt kept the name United Arab Republic until 1971.
(WUD, 1994, p.1555)(HNQ, 6/5/98)(AP, 2/1/08)
1958 Feb 5, A B-47 accidentally dropped an unarmed thermonuclear bomb at the mouth of Georgia’s Savannah River. It was never found.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, Par p.22)
1958 Feb 5, Gamel Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic. Egypt used the UAR name from 1961-1971.
(AP, 2/5/97)(WUD, 1994, p.1555)
1958 Feb 7, Brooklyn Dodgers officially became the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1958 Feb 13, Georges Rouault (86), French painter (Christ aux outrages), died.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1958 Feb 14, The Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan formed under Iraq’s Faisal II. King Hussein forged a federation with Iraq, which was led by his cousin, Faisal II. The federation failed when Faisal was killed during a revolution in Iraq.
(HNQ, 8/20/00)(MC, 2/14/02)
1958 Feb 15, Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara formed the anti-government of Middle Sumatra.
(MC, 2/15/02)
1958 Feb 17, The comic strip "B.C.", created by Johnny Hart (1931-2007), 1st appeared.
(http://www.toonopedia.com/bc.htm)
1958 Feb 19, Rebecca ("Becky") Hoppe, founder of Soccer Moms of US, was born.
(MC, 2/19/02)
1958 Feb 19, Hail the size of baseballs was reported with flash lightning over parts of Min-neapolis.
(MC, 2/19/02)
1958 Feb 20, The Broadway play “The Day the Money Stopped” opened at the Belasco Thea-ter. It featured the debut of actress Collin Wilcox-Paxton (d.2009 at 74).
(SFC, 10/23/09, p.D5)
1958 Feb 21, Egypt-Syria as UAR elected Gamel Nasser president with a 99.9% vote.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1958 Feb 27, Harry Cohn, CEO of Columbia Pictures, died of a heart attack.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1958 Mar 1, Doctors declared that President Eisenhower had fully recovered from his stroke.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1958 Mar 2, Chart Toppers: Sweet Little Sixteen, Chuck Berry; At the Hop, Danny & the Jun-iors; Oh Julie, Crescendos; Don't, Elvis Presley.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1958 Mar 2, A multinational expedition led by British geologist and explorer Vivian Fuchs (d.1999 at 91) completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica by way of the South Pole in 99 days.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A22)(AP, 3/2/08)
1958 Mar 2, Yemen announced it will join the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria).
(SC, 3/2/02)
1958 Mar 3, Nuri ash Said became premier of Iraq.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1958 Mar 6, Form letters from Pres. Eisenhower to 6 civilians appointees provided for them to take office in the event of a national emergency. The group met in 1960 with the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to discuss staffing for their agencies. Pres. Kennedy relieved the group of its duties in 1961.
(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.A2)
1958 Mar 8, William Faulkner said US schools had degenerated to become babysitters.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1958 Mar 11, A B-47 out of Hunter AFB in Savannah, Georgia, had just leveled off at 15,000 feet, when a bomb lock failed and dropped a nuclear bomb on the suburban neighborhood of Florence, South Carolina. The bomb's high explosives exploded on impact, wrecking a house and injuring several people on the ground. The extent of radioactive contamination was never revealed.
(www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Broken_Arrows.html)
1958 Mar 14, RIAA certified its 1st gold record: Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1958 Mar 17, The U.S. Navy launched the Vanguard 1 satellite.
(AP, 3/17/02)
1958 Mar 19, The film "South Pacific," adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, was released.
(AP, 3/19/08)
1958 Mar 21, Gary Oldman, actor (Sid and Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace), was born.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1958 Mar 22, Movie producer Mike Todd (56) and three other people were killed in the crash of Todd's private plane near Grants, N.M.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1958 Mar 24, Rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn. After nearly six months of basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, Presley was posted to Friedberg, West Germany; he was honorably discharged in 1960.
(AP, 3/23/08)
1958 Mar 25, Canada’s era of supersonic flight began when pilot Jan Zurakowski took off from Malton Airport near Toronto in an Avro CF-105 Arrow for a 35-minute maiden flight. Less than a month later, Zurakowski flew the Arrow at Mach 1.5 at an altitude of 50,000 feet. In spite of the aircraft’s early promise, the Canadian government scrapped the project before the Arrow could be put into production.
(HN, 3/21/99)
1958 Mar 26, In the 30th Academy Awards "The Bridge on the River Kwai" won 7 Awards, including best picture of 1957; its director, David Lean, and star Alec Guinness also received Oscars. Joanne Woodward was named best actress for "The Three Faces of Eve."
(AP, 3/26/08)
1958 Mar 26, The U.S. Army launched America’s third successful satellite, Explorer 3.
(AP, 3/26/97)
1958 Mar 27, The U.S. announced a plan to explore space near the moon.
(HN, 3/27/98)
1958 Mar 27, CBS Labs announced new stereophonic records.
(MC, 3/27/02)
1958 Mar 27, The Havana Hilton opened.
(MC, 3/27/02)
1958 Mar 27, Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.
(AP, 3/27/97)(HN, 3/27/98)
1958 Mar 28, W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues," died in New York at age 84.
(AP, 3/28/08)
1958 Mar 29, Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn died. He and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr. complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean in 1931.
(HN, 10/2/99)(ON, 1/03, p.10)
1958 Mar 31, US Navy formed the atomic sub division.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1958 Mar 31, Moscow declared a halt on all atomic tests and asked other nations to follow.
(HN, 3/31/98)
1958 Mar, A gas analyzer was installed on the slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii. It gave a reading of 314 ppm for carbon dioxide. It was part of the International Geophysical Year project and the carbon dioxide research was under Charles Keeling. After one year of gathering data it was clear that the whole planet has an annual cycle for photosynthesis and respiration that is visible by measuring carbon dioxide concentration. [See 1988].
(NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.33-34)
1958 Apr 1, President Eisenhower signed a $1.85 billion emergency housing measure.
(AP, 4/1/08)
1958 Apr 2, National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.
(HN, 4/2/98)
1958 Apr 3, "Say, Darling" opened at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances.
(MC, 4/3/02)
1958 Apr 3, Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana.
(MC, 4/3/02)
1958 Apr 4, The 1st march against nuclear weapons began in London with a 4-day to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment close to Aldermaston, England.
(Econ, 8/16/08, p.56)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldermaston_Marches)
1958 Apr 9, A Cuban general strike was called but failed. Urban militias in Havana and Santi-ago were put down by the police.
(WSJ, 7/10/02, p.D8)
1958 Apr 13, In the 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man won.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1958 Apr 13, Van Cliburn became the first American to win the Tchaikovsky International Pi-ano Contest in Moscow. Lev Vlasenko (1929-1996) took 2nd place. Liu Chi Kung came in 2nd. [see China 1959]
(SFC, 7/6/96, p.E3)(TMC, 1994, p.1958)(SFC, 8/27/96, p.A17)(AP, 4/13/97)(SFEC, 10/22/00, Z1 p.1)
1958 Apr 14, Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burned up in the atmosphere.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1958 Apr 15, In the 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young and Jane Wyatt won.
(MC, 4/15/02)
1958 Apr 15, The Giants baseball team of Horace Stoneham, brought from New York to San Francisco, opened at Seal Stadium against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants won 8-0.
(SFC, 10/8/97, p.A20)(SFEC,12/797, Z1 p.4,5)
1958 Apr 16, Arnold Palmer won his first Masters golf tournament.
(HN, 4/16/98)
1958 Apr 17, A World Fair opened in Brussels, Belgium. The 335-foot Atomium, representing a large-scale metal molecule, was built to celebrate the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. It be-came one of Belgium's most famous landmarks and in 2005 was restored to its shiny splendor, the faded aluminum sheets on the nine balls fully replaced with hardy stainless steel.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_'58)(AP, 9/16/05)
1958 Apr 19, The last Key System train left Oakland for SF. Ferry service from the Ferry Building ended the next day when the Southern Pacific "Eureka" made its last crossing from SF to Oakland.
(SFC, 8/10/98, p.A5)(SFC, 9/4/98, p.A25)(SFC, 8/7/07, p.A6)(SFC, 4/18/08, p.B1)
1958 Apr 20, The last Key System train left San Francisco for Oakland. Ferry service from the SF Ferry Building ended when the Southern Pacific "Eureka" made its last crossing to Oakland. Train tracks were taken off the lower deck of the Bay Bridge and the lanes were paved in for car traffic.
(SFC, 8/10/98, p.A5)(SFC, 9/4/98, p.A25)(SFC, 8/7/07, p.A6)(SFC, 4/18/08, p.B1)
1958 Apr 23, The film noir thriller "Touch of Evil," starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles, who also directed, was released.
(AP, 4/23/08)
1958 Apr 27, Billy Graham began a 6-week Bay Area crusade at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. Some 18,000 crowded inside as another 5,000 stood in the parking lot. Graham began a 3-day revival crusade at the Cow Palace that drew nearly 700,000 people.
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.D1)(SSFC, 4/27/08, DB p.58)
1958 Apr 28, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, began a goodwill tour of Latin America that was marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.
(AP, 4/28/99)
1958 Apr 28, The United States conducted the first of 35 nuclear test explosions in the Pacific Proving Ground as part of Operation Hardtack I.
(AP, 4/28/08)(http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Hardtack1.html)
1958 Apr 29, Daniel Day-Lewis, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot), was born in Eng-land.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1958 Apr 29, Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, was born in Midway City, Calif.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1958 Apr 30, Britain's Life Peerages Act 1958 allowed women to become members of the House of Lords.
(AP, 4/30/08)
1958 May 3, Ismael Valenzuela (1935-2009) rode Tim Tam to victory in the Kentucky Derby.
(SFC, 9/4/09, p.D6)(www.kentuckyderby.com/2009/history/statistics/1951-1975)
1958 May 5, The Arkansas Gazette received the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis; James Agee was posthumously honored for his novel "A Death in the Family."
(AP, 5/5/08)
1958 May 7, Howard Johnson set an aircraft altitude record in F-104.
(HN, 5/7/98)
1958 May 8, Vice President Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru. Vice President Richard Nixon’s eight-nation South America goodwill tour in May 1958 encountered violent demonstrations, particularly in Peru and Vene-zuela, spurring President Dwight Eisenhower to order the movement of U.S. forces into Carib-bean bases.
(AP, 5/8/97)(HNQ, 6/14/99)
1958 May 9, The film "Vertigo" with James Stewart and Kim Novak was released. It was di-rected by Alfred Hitchcock and had been shot in the SF Bay Area. "Vertigo" premiered in San Francisco.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.39)(AP, 5/9/08)
1958 May 12, The United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD for short).
(AP, 5/12/08)
1958 May 13, Stan Musial made hit # 3000.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1958 May 13, Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. Nixon’s eight-nation South America goodwill tour en-countered violent demonstrations, particularly in Peru and Venezuela, spurring President Dwight Eisenhower to order the movement of US forces into Caribbean bases.
(AP, 5/13/97)(HNQ, 6/14/99)
1958 May 13, French troops took control of Algiers as French settlers rioted against the French army.
(HN, 5/13/98)(MC, 5/13/02)
1958 May 15, The MGM movie musical "Gigi," starring Leslie Caron as a young French cour-tesan-in-training, was released.
(AP, 5/15/08)
1958 May 15, Vice President Richard Nixon received a hero's welcome on his return from a violence-marred tour of Latin America.
(AP, 5/15/08)
1958 May 15, In South Korea the Yoido Full Gospel Church was founded by David Yonggi Cho and his mother-in-law, Choi Ja-shil, both Assemblies of God pastors. Their first worship service was held in the home of Choi Ja-shil. Apart from the two pastors, only Choi Ja-shil's three daughters and one elderly woman, who had come in to escape from the rain, attended the first service. By 2007 Yoido counted some 830,000 members and its church in Seoul was the largest in the world.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yonggi_Cho)
1958 May 15, Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.
(HN, 5/15/99)
1958 May 16, A man endured a record 82.6 G for .04 seconds on a water-braked rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base. He was hospitalized for 3 days for recovery.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, Z1 p.2)
1958 May 18, Chairman Mao Tse Tung spoke at the Second Session of the Eight Party Con-gress and called for schoolchildren to assist in the elimination of the four pests, which included sparrows, rats, flies and mosquitoes. A massive 3-day campaign soon began to exterminate sparrows, which were thought harmful because they ate the peasant's grain. Numerous other birds were killed in the process and the following year a plague of locusts became a problem. In 2001 Judith Shapiro, Donald Worster and Alfred W. Crosby authored “Mao's War Against Na-ture: Politics & the Environment in Revolutionary China.”
(http://tinyurl.com/8gbhg)(Econ, 12/20/08, p.65)(http://tinyurl.com/7m9egc)
1958 May 19, The movie "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" was released in the movie theaters in USA.
(DTnet, 5/19/97)
1958 May 19, The United States and Canada formally established the North American Air De-fense Command (NORAD).
(AP, 5/19/97)(Econ, 3/5/05, p.38)
1958 May 19, British actor Ronald Colman died in Santa Barbara, Calif., at age 67.
(AP, 5/19/08)
1958 May 23, Mao Tse Tung started his "Great leap forward" movement in China. China tried to modernize its economy in "The Great Leap Forward" and urged factories and farms to meet impossible production targets. Farmers were forced to pool their possessions and devote all land to grain cultivation. Rather than concede failure, local officials misled central planners about output. The result: a famine that may have killed as many as 30 million people by the end of 1960. The story is told by Jasper Becker in his 1997 book "Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine."
(WSJ 12/10/93)(SFEC, 10/7/96, A12)(WSJ, 2/7/97, p.A14)(MC, 5/23/02)
1958 May 24, United Press International (UPI) was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
(AP, 5/24/97)
1958 May 24, Pres Batista opened an offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion.
(MC, 5/24/02)
1958 May 25, Paul Weller, guitar (Jam-This is the Modern World, Style Council), was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1958 May 26, Janice Kulsar was born in Manhattan, N.Y. She later established renown as a denizen of the Cafe Babar in SF, and went on to sail the world as an adventuress and healer.
(CB, 12/28/97)
1958 May 26, Union Square in San Francisco became a state historical landmark.
(HN, 5/26/98)
1958 May 27, Ernest Green and 600 whites graduated from Little Rock's Central High School. Green became the first black Central High graduate.
(http://tinyurl.com/qyjp4)(www.centralhigh57.org/1957-58.htm)
1958 May 28, Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky (77), composer, died.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1958 May 29, Annette Bening, actress (American Beauty, Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont), was born in Topeka, KS.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1958 May 29, Juan Ramón Jimenez (76), Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1958 May 30, Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
(AP, 5/30/97)
1958 Jun 1, "Youth Wants To Know", TV Public Affairs; last aired on NBC. Apparently, they didn’t want to know.
(DT, 6/1/97)
1958 Jun 1, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic. France, on the verge of civil war over Algeria, called De Gaulle out of re-tirement.
(TMC, 1994, p.1958)(AP, 6/1/08)
1958 Jun 4, French premier De Gaulle arrived in Algiers.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1958 Jun 6, Premier Charles de Gaulle said Algeria will always be French.
(MC, 6/6/02)
1958 Jun 7, Prince Rogers Nelson, rock star later known as Prince, was born in Minneapolis, Minn.
(WSJ, 3/30/04, p.B1)
1958 Jun 15, Greece severed military ties to Turkey because of the Cyprus issue.
(HN, 6/15/98)
1958 Jun 16, The US Supreme Court, in Kent v. Dulles, ruled that artist Rockwell Kent could not be denied a passport because of his communist affiliations.
(AP, 6/16/08)
1958 Jun 16, Imre Nagy (b.1896), former Hungarian premier (1956) and symbol of the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, was hanged by the Communist government of Janos Kadar.
(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/nagy/)(Econ, 10/21/06, p.95)
1958 Jun 17, Radio Moscow reported the execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy by hanging.
(MC, 6/17/02)
1958 Jun 18, President Eisenhower expressed support for his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, who was accused of improperly accepting gifts from a businessman. Adams resigned in Sep-tember 1958.
(AP, 6/18/08)
1958 Jun 19, "The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney", TV Variety; last aired on NBC.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1958 Jun 19, In Washington, D.C. nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional com-mittee’s questions on communism.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1958 Jun 19, Entrepreneurs Richard Knerr and Arthur Melin sought a trademark for a plastic cylinder based on a similar toy in Australia. Wham-O began selling the Hula Hoop following a demonstration of a rattan hoop imported from Australia. After one year teenagers in the US purchased some 100 million hoops at a suggested retail price of $1.98.
(SFC, 7/1/02, p.B5)(SFC, 6/19/08, p.C3)
1958 Jun 20, FBI headquarters learned of Ronald Reagan’s desire to star in the film "The FBI Story." The bureau rejected the idea because of Reagan’s association with Communist front organizations in the 1940s.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F3)
1958 Jun 21, A federal judge allowed Little Rock Arkansas to delay school integration.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1958 Jun 23, In the Netherlands the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation was founded by Prince Bernhard. It awarded the annual Erasmus Prize to individuals or institutions that have made notable contributions to European culture, society, or social science.
(www.123exp-culture.com/t/03604490053/)
1958 Jun 24, Victor M. Gerena, security guard who robbed $7 million (FBI wanted), was born in NYC.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1958 Jun 25, A four-day dedication of the Mackinac Bridge linking Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas began, even though the bridge had been open to traffic since November 1957.
(AP, 6/25/08)
1958 Jun 27, Rebel forces kidnapped 29 US sailors and Marines and held them until Jul 18.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A7)
1958 Jun 28, Alfred Noyes (77), British poet, essayist (Robin Hood, The Highwayman), died.
(MC, 6/28/02)
1958 Jun 29, A bomb exploded at the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.; there were no injuries.
(AP, 6/29/08)
1958 Jun 30, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Giro), was born in Helsinki, Finland.
(MC, 6/30/02)
1958 Jun 30, Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union, the first new state since 1912. The Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill by a vote of 64-20.
(HN, 6/30/98)(AP, 6/30/08)
1958 Jun, In Japan Mount Aso erupted and left 12 people dead.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A17)
1958 Jul 7, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill. Alaska became the 49th state in January 1959.
(AP, 7/7/07)
1958 Jul 8, President Eisenhower began a visit to Canada, where he conferred with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and addressed the Canadian Parliament.
(AP, 7/8/08)
1958 Jul 10, A largest tsunami on record was caused by the fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska, following a local earthquake. The wave washed 500 meters up a mountain on the opposite shore.
(CW, Spring ‘99, p.30)
1958 Jul 11, Monument Valley, straddling the Arizona-Utah border, became the 1st Navajo Tribal Park.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.C15)
1958 Jul 14, In Iraq Gen. Abdel Karim al-Kassem (Qassim) assassinated Faisal II with his son and premier. Karim proclaimed a republic. Jordan’s King Hussein succeeded Faisal. Faisal II, Hashemite King of Iraq (1939-58), was assassinated at Baghdad and Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, was murdered. Mohammed Hadid (d.1999 at 92) served as the first finance minister under the government of Abdel Karim Qassem.
(PC, 1992 ed, p.963)(AP, 7/14/97)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)(SFC, 8/6/99, p.D4)
1958 Jul 15, President Eisenhower ordered 5,000 U.S. Marines to Lebanon, at the request of that country’s president, Camille Chamoun, in the face of a perceived threat by Muslim rebels; to help end a short-lived civil war.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, p.T8)(AP, 7/15/98)(HN, 7/15/98)
1958 Jul 16, Michael Flatley, Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1958 Jul 16, The science-fiction film "The Fly" opened in San Francisco.
(AP, 7/16/08)
1958 Jul 20, King Hussein of Jordan broke off diplomatic relations with UAR.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1958 Jul 23, Queen Elizabeth named four women to peerages, the 1st women to it in Britain's House of Lords.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1958 Jul 24, Jack Kilby (1923-2005) of Texas Instruments came up with the idea for creating the 1st integrated circuit on a piece of silicon. By September 12 he made a working prototype.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A6)(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A5)(Econ, 7/25/05, p.75)
1958 Jul 26, Britain's Prince Charles (9), was made the Prince of Wales by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, although his investiture did not take place until the following year.
(AP, 7/26/08)
1958 Jul 29, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.
(AP, 7/29/97)
1958 Jul 31, There was an anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet.
(MC, 7/31/02)
1958 Jul, Mildred Loving (1940-2008), a woman of American Indian and black heritage, and her white husband, Richard (d.1975), were arrested in Virginia within weeks of arriving from Washington DC and convicted on charges of "cohabiting as man and wife. In 1967 the US Su-preme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
(Econ, 5/17/08, p.105)
1958 Jul, Soviet fighter planes shot down an RB-50G US reconnaissance plane over the east coast of the USSR. In 2002 William E. Burrows authored "by Any Means Necessary: America’s Secret Air War in the Cold War."
(AH, 6/02, p.70)
1958 Aug 1, US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dove under the North Pole.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1958 Aug 1, Jordan’s King Hussein dissolved the Arab Federation of Jordan and Iraq.
(PCh, 1992, p.963)
1958 Aug 3, The nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. The Nautilus was decommissioned in 1980 and designated a Na-tional Historic Landmark in 1982.
(PCh, 1992, p.965)(AP, 8/3/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_%28SSN-571%29)
1958 Aug 4, Mary Decker Stanley, winner of seven track and field records, was born.
(HN, 8/4/98)
1958 Aug 4, Billboard, founded in 1894, premiered its all-genre singles Hot 100 chart.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100)
1958 Aug 14, Gladys Love Smith Presley (48), Elvis Presley's mother, died in Memphis, Tenn.
(AP, 8/14/08)
1958 Aug 14, KLM Superconstellation crashed west of Ireland, killing 99.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1958 Aug 14, Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), died.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1958 Aug 16, Madonna [Ciccone], entertainer and singer whose biggest record was "Like a Virgin," was born.
(HN, 8/16/98)
1958 Aug 17, Belinda Carlisle, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth), was born in Hollywood.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1958 Aug 17, World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, exploded at T +77 sec.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1958 Aug 18, The 1st US edition of the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov was published by Putnam. The 1st French edition was in 1955.
(WSJ, 3/20/97, p.A14)(www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=9§ion=notes)
1958 Aug 18, A TV game show scandal investigation started.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1958 Aug 18, Fidel Castro made a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1958 Aug 21, Walter Schumann (44), choral director (Ford Show), died.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1958 Aug 23, China resumed fire on Quemoi and Matsu.
(MC, 8/23/02)
1958 Aug 24, Leo Blech (87), German conductor and composer, died.
(MC, 8/24/02)
1958 Aug 25, The game show "Concentration" premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 8/25/08)
1958 Aug 25, President Eisenhower signed a measure providing pensions for former U.S. presidents and their widows.
(AP, 8/25/08)
1958 Aug 25, Momofuku Ando (48), head of Japan’s Nissin Food Products, announced that he had finally perfected his flash-frying method and therefore invented the instant noodle.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_Ando)
1958 Aug 26, Alaskans went to the polls to overwhelmingly vote in favor of statehood.
(AP, 8/26/08)
1958 Aug 26, Ralph Vaughan Williams (85), English composer (Fantasia on Themes of Tho-mas Tallis), died.
(MC, 8/26/02)
1958 Aug 27, The Arkansas Legislature voted 94-1 to pass a law allowing Gov. Orval E. Fau-bus to close public schools in the face of forced integration. Ray S. Smith (1924-2007) was the only dissenting legislator.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1958 Aug 27, USSR launched Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1958 Aug 28, Ernest Orlando Lawrence (b.1901), US physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1939), died.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1958 Aug 29, Michael Jackson (d.2009), pop singer, entertainer, was born in Gary, Ind., the 7th of nine children.
(SFC, 6/14/05, p.D6)(SFC, 6/26/09, p.A1)
1958 Aug 29, Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colo.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1958 Aug 31, Edwin Moses, track star, was born. Olympic Gold Medalist [1976, 1984] & Hall of Famer: 400-meter hurdles: the first athlete to use 13 strides between hurdles; 1983 winner of Sullivan Award: the U.S. outstanding amateur athlete.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1958 Aug, The CBS TV game show “Dotto,” hosted by Jack Narz (1922-2008), was cancelled following allegations that the show was rigged.
(SFC, 10/17/08, p.B8)
1958 Sep 2, President Eisenhower signed the National Defense Education Act, which pro-vided aid to public and private education to promote learning in such fields as math and sci-ence.
(AP, 9/2/08)
1958 Sep 5, The novel "Doctor Zhivago" by Russian author Boris Pasternak was published in the United States for the first time.
(AP, 9/5/98)
1958 Sep 5, Martin Luther King was arrested in an Alabama protest for loitering and fined $14 for refusing to obey police.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1958 Sep 5, The 1st color video recording on magnetic tape was presented in Charlotte, NC.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1958 Sep 6, Miss Mississippi Mary Ann Mobley was crowned Miss America 1959 in Atlantic City, N.J.
(AP, 9/6/08)
1958 Sep 11, Responding to Communist China's artillery attacks on the Taiwan-held islands of Quemoy and Matsu, President Eisenhower said in a broadcast address the US had to be prepared to fight to prevent a communist takeover of the islands.
(AP, 9/11/08)
1958 Sep 11, India passed its Armed Forces Special Powers Act. It conferred special powers upon armed forces in what the language of the act calls "disturbed areas" in the states of Arun-achal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. It allowed sol-diers to search houses without warrants and shoot anyone suspected of being a terrorist.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_%28Special_Powers%29_Act,_1958)
1958 Sep 12, The US Supreme Court, in Cooper v. Aaron, unanimously ruled that Arkansas officials who were resisting public school desegregation orders could not disregard the high court's rulings.
(AP, 9/12/08)
1958 Sep 15, A commuter train crashed through a drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, NJ.
(http://www.emergency-management.net/traincrash.htm)
1958 Sep 20, Rev. Martin Luther King was stabbed by Izola Curry, a deranged woman, during a book signing on 125th St. in Harlem. Dr. Aubre De Lambert Maynard (d.1999 at 97) per-formed a successful operation on King who had a knife embedded in his sternum. Curry was later found mentally incompetent.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.C3)(AP, 9/20/08)
1958 Sep 22, The detective TV show "Peter Gunn" premiered on NBC with Craig Stevens (d.2000 at 81) as the private eye.
(SFC, 5/13/00, p.A19)(AP, 9/22/08)
1958 Sep 22, Sherman Adams, assistant to President Eisenhower, resigned amid charges of improperly using his influence to help an industrialist. Critics of the Eisenhower Administration called Chief Presidential Adviser Sherman Adams the "Assistant President" because they con-sidered him to be too powerful. Adams was the former governor of New Hampshire. Adams re-signed after it was revealed that a Boston industrialist had given him gifts in exchange for pref-erential treatment before the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
(AP, 9/22/97)(HNQ, 6/13/98)
1958 Sep 22, The nuclear submarine USS Skate remained a record 31 days under the North Pole.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1958 Sep 24, "The Donna Reed Show" premiered on ABC-TV.
(AP, 9/24/08)
1958 Sep 25, John B Watson, US psychologist and behaviorist, died.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1958 Sep 28, Voters in the African country of Guinea overwhelmingly favored independence from France.
(AP, 9/28/08)
1958 Sep 30, The police drama "Naked City" debuted on ABC-TV.
(AP, 9/30/08)
1958 Sep, Orval Faubus (1910-1994), governor of Arkansas, shut Little Rock’s schools to prevent any more black children from attending white schools.
(Econ, 9/22/07, p.44)(www.africanamericans.com/LittleRock.htm)
1958 Sep, A Navy plane crashed during a training mission in Washington’s Puget Sound. The plane carried an unarmed nuclear weapon that was never found.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, Par p.22)
1958 Oct 1, America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was inaugu-rated [See Apr 2, Jul 29].
(SFC, 10/2/07, p.A6)
1958 Oct 1, American Express launched its first credit card.
(www.bostonapartments.com/loans/american_express_credit_card.html)
1958 Oct 1, Britain transferred Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1958 Oct 2, Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, died.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1958 Oct 2, The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence from France under the leadership of Sekou Toure.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A15)(AP, 10/2/97)
1958 Oct 4, The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York.
(AP, 10/4/97)
1958 Oct 4, In Minnesota a single engine military Cessna L-19 crashed into Green Lake and took the life of Captain Richard P. Carey, 36, who was returning to the Willmar airfield from Rochester. The pane was recovered in 2005.
(AP, 8/14/05)
1958 Oct 5, Racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.
(AP, 10/5/08)
1958 Oct 6, The US nuclear submarine Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged.
(AP, 10/6/08)
1958 Oct 7, In Pakistan President Iskander Mirza abrogated the Constitution and declared Martial Law in the country. Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan was named chief martial law administrator.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayub_Khan)
1958 Oct 8, Dr. Ake Senning installed the 1st pacemaker in Stockholm. Arne Larsson (43) received the pacemaker, which was built Dr. Rune Elmqvist.
(Econ, 3/7/09, TQ p.25)
1958 Oct 9, Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy. He was suc-ceeded by Pope John the 23rd. In 1999 John Cornwell published "Hitler's Pope: The Secret His-tory of Pius XII."
(WSJ, 4/25/97, p.A18)(AP, 10/9/00)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A4)
1958 Oct 10, The private-eye series "77 Sunset Strip" premiered on ABC-TV. The hour-length American television private detective series, created by Roy Huggins, starred Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes.
(AP, 10/10/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77_Sunset_Strip)
1958 Oct 11, The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the atmosphere.
(AP, 10/11/97)
1958 Oct 14, Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1958 Oct 14, Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premiered in London.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1958 Oct 16, Tim Robbins, West Covina, Ca., actor (Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption), was born.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1958 Oct 17, The special "An Evening with Fred Astaire," the first major TV program pro-duced on color videotape, aired on NBC.
(AP, 10/17/08)
1958 Oct 19, John Bloom, [Joe Bob Briggs], drive-in movie critic, was born.
(MC, 10/19/01)
1958 Oct 23, Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize in literature. However, Soviet authorities pressured Pasternak into relinquishing the award.
(SFC,11/27/97, p.B3)(AP, 10/23/99)
1958 Oct 23, De Gaulle offered Algerian defiance "peace of the brave."
(MC, 10/23/01)
1958 Oct 23, USSR lent money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1958 Oct 25, The last U.S. troops left Beirut
(HN, 10/25/98)
1958 Oct 26, Pan American Airways pilot Samuel H. Miller (d.2001 at 84) flew the first Boeing 707 passenger service jetliner from New York’s Idlewild Airport (later JFK) to Paris; the trip took eight hours and 41 minutes. 111 passengers flew aboard the Clipper America and a ticket cost $489.60. The plane was christened a week earlier by Mamie Eisenhower. The first New York London transatlantic jet passenger service was inaugurated by BOAC. [see Oct 4]
(AP, 10/26/97)(WSJ, 10/23/98, p.W6)(HN, 10/26/98)(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A21)
1958 Oct 27, In Pakistan Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan carried out the country’s first military coup. He announced that "our ultimate aim is to restore democracy but of the type that people can understand." Corruption had become so widespread within the national and civic systems of administration that Ayub Khan was welcomed as a national hero by the people. This launched more than a decade of military rule.
(www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A065)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A22)
1958 Oct 28, The Samuel Beckett play "Krapp's Last Tape" premiered in London.
(AP, 10/28/08)(SFEC, 10/15/00, DB p.50)
1958 Oct 28, The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII.
(AP, 10/28/97)
1958 Oct 29, Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel prize for literature. Pasternak's novel "Dr. Zhivago" was on the best seller list in the west.
(WSJ, 10/10/95, p.A-14)(MC, 10/29/01)
1958 Oct 29, Dr. F. Mason Sones became the 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1958 Oct, The Kingston Trio released the "Ballad of Tom Dooley."
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.E5)(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.52)
1958 Nov 4, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown was elected as democratic governor of California.
(SSFC, 1/30/05, p.C1)
1958 Nov 4, Angelo G. Roncalli was crowned as Pope John XXIII.
(MC, 11/4/01)
1958 Nov 12, Warren Harding (d.2002 at 77), Wayne Merry and George Whitmore scaled the "nose" of El Capitan in California’s Yosemite Valley. They had spent 47 days of climbing over 16 months to reach the top of the 2,99 foot cliff. In 1970 Harding and Dean Caldwell spent 27 days climbing another route up El Capitan. Harding later authored "Downward Bound."
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A24)(SSFC, 11/9/08, p.B6)
1958 Nov 15, Tyrone Power (44), actor, died of a heart attack in Madrid, Spain, while filming "Solomon and Sheba."
(AP, 11/15/08)
1958 Nov 18, The cargo freighter SS Carl D. Bradley sank during a storm in Lake Michigan, claiming 33 of the 35 lives on board.
(AP, 11/18/08)
1958 Nov 18, The 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opened.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1958 Nov 21, Mel Ott (49), Baseball Hall-of-Famer, died in New Orleans.
(AP, 11/21/08)
1958 Nov 21, A Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to discuss the transfer to East German control of Soviet functions and end its occupation status in Berlin.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1958 Nov 25, Charles F. Kettering (82), inventor of the auto self-starter, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1958 Nov 27, Artur Rodzinski (66), Polish conductor and composer, died.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1958 Nov 28, The U.S. reported the first full-range firing of an ICBM
(DT, 11/28/97)
1958 Nov 28, The Middle Congo province of French Equatorial Africa voted to proclaim itself independent as the Congo Republic (Brazzaville). French Equatorial Africa, was a federation of French territories in Central Africa that included Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo and Ubanga-Shari. Each became autonomous in 1958.
(WUD, 1994, p.567)(DT, 11/28/97)
1958 Nov 28, The African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.
(AP, 11/28/97)
1958 Nov 30, Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins (70) died. In 1959 the USS Skate became the 1st submarine to surface at the North Pole and the ships crew held a funeral service and scattered the ashes of Wilkins (d.1958), who had attempted the feat in 1931.
(ON, 1/02, p.9)
1958 Dec 1, The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Flower Drum Song" opened on Broad-way.
(AP, 12/1/97)
1958 Dec 1, In Chicago Our Lady of Angels School burned. 92 students and 3 nuns were killed.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1958 Dec 9, Robert H.W. Welch Jr. and 11 other men met in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society.
(AP, 12/9/97)
1958 Dec 10, The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the United States as a Na-tional Airlines Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers from New York City to Miami.
(AP, 12/10/97)
1958 Dec 13, Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, was executed along with Burhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign Affairs and Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1958 Dec 14, The United States, Britain and France rejected Soviet demands that they with-draw their troops from West Berlin and agreed to liquidate the Allied occupation in West Berlin.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1958 Dec 17, Howard Hickey (41) was named coach of the SF 49ers to replaced Frank Al-bert, who had retired unexpectedly.
(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.54)
1958 Dec 19, An Eisenhower White House memo gave authority to senior military command-ers to retaliate with nuclear weapons if the president could not be reached or was unable to re-spond to a nuclear attack against the US in a policy known as "pre-delegation authority."
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A2)(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A5)
1958 Dec 21, Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), having come out of retirement, was elected to a seven-year term as the first president of the Fifth Republic of France. De Gaulle selected Mau-rice Couve de Murville (d.1999 at 92) as his foreign minister.
(AP, 12/21/98)(SFC, 12/25/99, p.B4)(Econ, 10/04/08, p.56)
1958 Dec 28, At Yankee Stadium the Baltimore Colts beat the NY Giants in the NFL champi-onship game 23-17, after the game went into overtime for the first time. In 2008 Mark Bowden authored “The Best Game Ever: The Birth of the Modern NFL.”
(WSJ, 6/9/08, p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_NFL_Championship_Game)
1958 Dec 28, A Chipmunks song (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1. "The Chipmunk Song" went on to win 3 statues in the Grammys.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.38)(SFC, 12/24/99, p.C3)(MC, 12/28/01)
1958 Dec 31, Cuba’s dictator Juan Batista fled as Rebels under Fidel Castro marched into Havana.
(MC, 12/31/01)
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