1958

1958 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1958; MCMLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2711
Armenian calendar	1407; ԹՎ ՌՆԷ
Assyrian calendar	6708
Baháʼí calendar	114–115
Balinese saka calendar	1879–1880
Bengali calendar	1365
Berber calendar	2908
British Regnal year	6 Eliz. 2 – 7 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2502
Burmese calendar	1320
Byzantine calendar	7466–7467
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster); 4655 or 4448; — to —; 戊戌年 (Earth Dog); 4656 or 4449
Coptic calendar	1674–1675
Discordian calendar	3124
Ethiopian calendar	1950–1951
Hebrew calendar	5718–5719
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2014–2015
- Shaka Samvat	1879–1880
- Kali Yuga	5058–5059
Holocene calendar	11958
Igbo calendar	958–959
Iranian calendar	1336–1337
Islamic calendar	1377–1378
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 33; (昭和３３年)
Javanese calendar	1889–1890
Juche calendar	47
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4291
Minguo calendar	ROC 47; 民國47年
Nanakshahi calendar	490
Thai solar calendar	2501
Tibetan calendar	阴火鸡年; (female Fire-Rooster); 2084 or 1703 or 931; — to —; 阳土狗年; (male Earth-Dog); 2085 or 1704 or 932

Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961

1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented.
January 3 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957).
January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
January 13 - 9235 scientists publish a plea to stop nuclear bomb tests.
January 18 - Armed Lumbee Indians confront a handful of Klansmen at the town of Maxton, North Carolina.
January 23 - Following a two-day general strike, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela was overthrown by a military-popular uprising.
January 28 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
January 29 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
January 31 - The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.
January 31 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.

February

February 1 - Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic
February 5 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic
February 6 - Munich air disaster - 21 dead, including 7 players for Manchester United
February 11 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
February 11 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African American woman hired as a flight attendant
February 17 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television
February 20 - Test rocket explodes in Cape Canaveral
February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio. They release him 28 hours later
February 23 - Arturo Frondizi wins presidential elections in Argentina
February 24 - In Cuba, Radio Rebelde, radio of rebels of Fidel Castro, begins broadcasting from Sierra Maestra
February 25 - Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
February 28 - One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurred at Prestonsburg, Kentucky, killing 27.

March-April

March 1 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, ninth bishop (fourth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagaion of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia
March 2 - A British team led by Sir Vivian Fuchs completes the first crossing of the Antarctic in Snow-cat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams in 99 days
March 8 - USS Wisconsin is decomissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896.
March 11 - The US B-47 bomber drops a nuclear bomb in the Mars Bluff, South Carolina
March 17 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite
March 26 - The United States Army launches Explorer III
March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union
April 3 - Castro's revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana
April 4-April 7 - The first protest march for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from Hyde Park, London to Aldermarston, Berkshire. Demonstrators demand ban of nuclear weapons
April 4 - The daughter of the actress Lana Turner stabs her mother's gangster lover to death (eventually ruled self defence)
April 6 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari divorces the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after she is unable to produce any children.
April 17 - King Baudouin of Belgium officially opens the World Fair in Brussels, also known as Expo '58.

May

May 1 - Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina
May 2 - A State of Emergency is declared in Aden
May 12 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada
May 13 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators
May 15 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3
May 16 - Short-lived outburst of friendship between Arabs and Europeans in Algiers
May 18 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph
May 20 - Batista's government launches counteroffensive against Castro's rebels
May 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area. [1]
May 23 - Explorer I ceased transmission
May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.

June

June 1 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months
June 1 - Iceland extends its fishing limits to 12 miles
June 4 - Charles De Gaulle visits Algeria
June 16 - Imre Nagy is hanged for treason in Hungary
June 27 - Peronist party becomes legal again in Argentina
June 29 - Brazil beat Sweden 5-2 to win the 1958 World Cup

July

July 5 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest mountain in the world
July 7 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law
July 10 - 7.5 Richter scale earthquake in Lituya Bay, Alaska, causes a landslide that produces a huge 520 meter high wave
July 10 - First parking meters installed in Britain
July 14 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Qassim becomes the nation's new leader
July 14 - A left wing military coup in Iraq leads to the murder of the king, Faisal II
July 15 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there
July 17 - British paratroopers arrive in Jordan; king Hussein has asked help against pressure from Iraq
July 20 - Various rebel groups in Cuba join forces but communists do not join the deal
July 24 - The first life peerage is created in Britain
July 26 - Explorer program: Explorer IV is launched
July 29 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

August-October

August 3 - The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water
August 23 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
August 30-September 1 - Riots between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London
September 14 - Two rockets designed by German engineer Ernst Mohr (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere
September 27 - Hurricane Vera in Honshu, Japan, kills 615
September 28 - In France, a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the Fifth Republic.
September 30 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
October 1 - Tunisia and Morocco join the Arab League
October 1 - NASA starts operations and replaces the NACA
October 2 - Guinea declares itself independent from France
October 4 - BOAC uses new Comet jets to become the first airline to fly jet passenger services across the Atlantic.
October 9 - Pope Pius XII dies.
October 11 - Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of three project Able space probes, became the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA.

November

November 3 - New UNESCO building inaugurated in Paris
November 22 - Menzies Government re-elected for a 5th Term
November 23 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio
November 25 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community
November 28 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community
November 30 - Gaullists win parliamentary elections in France

December

December 1 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
December 1 - At least 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago.
December 5 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Queen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost. [2]
December 5 - The Preston bypass, the United Kingdom's first motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. This stretch is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
December 9 - The John Birch Society is formed in the USA
December 14 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility
December 21 - General Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes.
December 28 - The Baltimore Colts beat The New York Giants 23-17 in overtime to win The NFL Championship.
December 29 - Rebel troops under Che Guevara begin to invade Santa Clara in Cuba

unknown dates

The First Cod War between UK and Iceland
BBC Radiophonic Workshop created
During the International Geophysical Year, Earth's magnetosphere is discovered
The United States conducts Operation Argus during August and September
Foundation of Amirkabir University of Technology
Based on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-war baby boom ended in the United States as an eleven-year decline in the birth rate began - the longest on record in that country
Last legal female circumcision in the United States.
Denatonium, the bitterest substance known is discovered. It is used as an aversive agent in products such as bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them.
Van Cliburn wins the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in the USSR, breaking cold war tensions.
The Jim Henson Company founded
Andorra declared peace with Germany, having been forgotten on the Treaty of Versailles and remaining legally at war.

Births

January-February

January 2 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
January 9 - Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish militant
January 20 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
January 24 - Jools Holland, British musician
January 26 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedienne
January 27 - Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist, jewellry designer
February 4 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (d. 2005)
February 11 - Michael Jackson, British broadcast executive
February 11 - Regina Maršíková, Czechoslovakian tennis player
February 13 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
February 16 - Ice-T, American singer, songwriter, and actor
February 21 - Jake Burns, Irish singer (Stiff Little Fingers}
February 21 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
February 24 - Sammy Kershaw, American musician

March-April

March 1 - Nik Kershaw, English singer
March 3 - Miranda Richardson, English actress
March 4 - Patricia Heaton, American actress
March 4 - Lennie Lee British artist
March 5 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (d. 1988)
March 8 - Gary Numan, British singer
March 10 - Sharon Stone, American actress
March 14 - Albert II, Prince of Monaco
March 18 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (d. 2005)
March 20 - Holly Hunter, American actress
March 21 - Gary Oldman, English actor
April 3 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
April 10 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian-born pianist
April 10 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, American musician and record producer
April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and musician
April 21 - Andie MacDowell, American actress
April 22 - Ken Olandt, American actor
April 25 - Fish, Scottish singer
April 28 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress

May-July

May 23 - Mitch Albom, American author
May 23 - Drew Carey, American comedian and actor
May 27 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
May 28 - Annette Bening, American actress
June 7 - Prince, American musician
June 8 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, American comedian, actor, and director
June 12 - Rebecca Holden, American actress, singer, and entertainer
June 17 - Jello Biafra, American musician and activist
June 20 - Chuck Wagner, American actor
June 27 - Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
June 30 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
July 2 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
July 6 - Jennifer Saunders, British comedienne
July 7 - Michala Petri, Danish recorder player
July 15 - Mac Thornberry, American politician
July 28 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981)
July 30 - Kate Bush, British singer and songwriter
July 31 - Mark Cuban, American entrepreneur and basketball team owner
July 31 - Bill Berry, American drummer (R.E.M.)

August-September

August 1 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
August 7 - Bruce Dickinson, English musician
August 15 - Victor Shenderovich, Russian writer
August 16 - Madonna, American musician, songwriter, and actress
August 19 - Anthony Muñoz, American football player
August 22 - Colm Feore, American-born actor
August 29 - Michael Jackson, American singer
September 10 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor
September 14 - Jeff Crowe, New Zealand cricketer
September 16 - Orel Hershiser, baseball player
September 19 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
September 22 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
September 23 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach
September 23 - Scott Shaw, American author, actor, and filmmaker
September 25 - Michael Madsen, American actor
September 30 - Marty Stuart, American country singer

October-December

October 5 - Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian
October 13 - Derri Daugherty, American musician (The Choir and The Lost Dogs)
October 14 - Thomas Dolby, English musician
October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
October 17 - Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter
October 20 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler
October 20 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
October 27 - Simon Le Bon, English musician (Duran Duran)
November 2 - Willie McGee, baseball player
November 18 - Laura Miller, Mayor of Dallas, Texas
November 22 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
November 25 - Kim Ashfield, British model
November 28 - Dave Righetti, baseball player
November 30 - Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
December 1 - Charlene Tilton, American actress
December 6 - Nick Park, English filmmaker and animator
December 11 - Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
December 17 - Mike Mills, American bassist (R.E.M.)
December 25 - Hanford Dixon, American football player
December 25 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
December 31 - Bebe Neuwirth, American actress

Deaths

January-June

January 1 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
January 8 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
January 11 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
January 30 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
February 1 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
February 4 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
February 13 - Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
March 22 - Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
March 25 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
March 26 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
March 28 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
April 16 - Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (b. 1920)
April 19 - Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874)
May 3 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
May 19 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
May 29 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
June 20 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
June 26 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876)
June 28 - Alfred Noyes, English poet [b. 1880)

July-December

July 14 - King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935)
August 14 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
August 22 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
August 24 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
August 27 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
October 9 - Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
October 17 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
November 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
November 27 - Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (b. 1892)
December 8 - Tris Speaker, baseball player (b. 1888)
December 15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

Nobel Prizes

Fields Medalists

Klaus Roth, Rene Thom

External links

1958 Coin Pictures

Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961