1958 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1958?
- January 31, 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
- February 5, 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.
- February 6, 1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
- February 18, 1958 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dog in Chinese astrology.
- March 17, 1958 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
- April 26, 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- May 12, 1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
- May 18, 1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
- May 27, 1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
- May 28, 1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro’s 26 July movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
- June 17, 1958 – The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens. It is still open today.
- August 18, 1958 – Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He became first among 39 competitors.
- September 1, 1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
- September 28, 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.
- October 1, 1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
- October 4, 1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
- December 1, 1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
- December 11, 1958 – French Upper Volta gains self-government from France, becomes the Republic of Upper Volta, and joins the French Community.
- December 28, 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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