1958 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1958?
- January 13, 1958 – The Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
- January 31, 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
- February 1, 1958 – Egypt and Syria merge to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
- February 18, 1958 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 28, 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 the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.
- March 3, 1958 – Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
- March 25, 1958 – Canada’s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
- 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 13, 1958 – The trade mark Velcro is registered.
- May 15, 1958 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
- May 18, 1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
- May 23, 1958 – Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
- May 30, 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.
- 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.
- June 23, 1958 – The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
- 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.
- August 23, 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People’s Liberation Army’s bombardment of Quemoy.
- September 15, 1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
- October 7, 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
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