Notable Historical Events - 1958
1958 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
BOAC Britannia flies London to NY in a record 7h57m |
Jan 1 |
European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation |
Jan 1 |
WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 2 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY |
Jan 3 |
Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland |
Jan 3 |
Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town |
Jan 3 |
The West Indies Federation is formed. |
Jan 4 |
Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up |
Jan 6 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings |
Jan 6 |
Gibson patents Flying V Guitar |
Jan 6 |
WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 7 |
USSR reduces army to 300,000 |
Jan 8 |
Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana |
Jan 9 |
In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54 |
Jan 10 |
Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts |
Jan 12 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
Jan 12 |
NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring |
Jan 12 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-7 |
Jan 12 |
Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points |
Jan 13 |
9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban |
Jan 13 |
US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication |
Jan 13 |
Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. |
Jan 15 |
NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV |
Jan 16 |
William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw," premieres in NYC |
Jan 18 |
1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins) |
Jan 19 |
Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League |
Jan 20 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
Jan 20 |
KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 21 |
KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 21 |
Phillies agree to televise 78 games into NYC (doesn't happen) |
Jan 22 |
KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Jan 23 |
"Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 60 performances |
Jan 23 |
Dictator Marcos Perez Jiménez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power |
Jan 23 |
Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes v West Indies |
Jan 24 |
After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion |
Jan 26 |
H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense |
Jan 26 |
Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It" |
Jan 26 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational |
Jan 26 |
Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed. |
Jan 27 |
Ferenc Munnich succeeds Kadar as premier of Hungary |
Jan 28 |
Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor |
Jan 28 |
Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck |
Jan 28 |
The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today. |
Jan 29 |
Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming |
Jan 30 |
1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx |
Jan 30 |
Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars |
Jan 30 |
Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in NYC |
Jan 30 |
UK House of Lords passes bill allowing women to take seats |
Jan 31 |
"Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host |
Jan 31 |
James van Allen discovers radiation belt |
Jan 31 |
US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1 |
Feb 1 |
1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched |
Feb 1 |
Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic |
Feb 1 |
WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 2 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open |
Feb 2 |
Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic |
Feb 2 |
WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 3 |
Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3 |
Feb 4 |
"Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances |
Feb 4 |
Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950 |
Feb 5 |
Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania) |
Feb 5 |
Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic |
Feb 5 |
Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI v Pakistan, Port-of-Spain |
Feb 5 |
Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km |
Feb 6 |
Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid |
Feb 7 |
1st showing of DAF 600 auto |
Feb 7 |
Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc |
Feb 7 |
Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced |
Feb 8 |
Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia |
Feb 8 |
French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die |
Feb 8 |
KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 11 |
Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Feb 11 |
Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY |
Feb 11 |
WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 12 |
Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101 |
Feb 12 |
Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala |
Feb 14 |
Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms |
Feb 15 |
Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB |
Feb 15 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN |
Feb 15 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA |
Feb 15 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA |
Feb 15 |
Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra |
Feb 16 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
Feb 17 |
Comic strip "BC" 1st appears |
Feb 17 |
WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 19 |
Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records |
Feb 20 |
Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner |
Feb 20 |
LA Coliseum Comm approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility |
Feb 21 |
"Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances |
Feb 21 |
Egypt-Syria as United Arab Republic elect Nasser president (99.9% vote) |
Feb 22 |
"Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances |
Feb 22 |
Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days |
Feb 22 |
Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR) |
Feb 22 |
Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes |
Feb 23 |
5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels |
Feb 23 |
Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina |
Feb 23 |
Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913) |
Feb 23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Feb 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Feb 28 |
West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket |
Mar 1 |
Gary Sobers 365* v Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara |
Mar 1 |
Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260 |
Mar 1 |
West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl v Pakistan |
Mar 1 |
Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia. |
Mar 2 |
1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days |
Mar 2 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
Mar 2 |
Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic |
Mar 3 |
KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast |
Mar 3 |
Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq |
Mar 5 |
Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit |
Mar 5 |
KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Mar 7 |
Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo |
Mar 8 |
Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita |
Mar 8 |
William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters |
Mar 9 |
George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season |
Mar 11 |
Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" |
Mar 11 |
Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets |
Mar 12 |
British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" |
Mar 13 |
Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia |
Mar 14 |
RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star) |
Mar 14 |
Recording Industry Association of American created |
Mar 14 |
South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress |
Mar 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 14 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
Mar 15 |
"Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances |
Mar 15 |
KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 15 |
Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts |
Mar 15 |
Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled |
Mar 15 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
Mar 16 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Mar 17 |
Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape |
Mar 18 |
Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958 |
Mar 19 |
Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London |
Mar 19 |
Gary Sobers completes a century in each innings v Pakistan |
Mar 20 |
50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line |
Mar 20 |
Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting |
Mar 20 |
Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission |
Mar 21 |
1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award |
Mar 21 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
Mar 22 |
20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72 |
Mar 22 |
Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia |
Mar 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Mar 24 |
Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) |
Mar 25 |
Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times |
Mar 25 |
West German parliament desires German atomic weapons |
Mar 26 |
30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai" best film, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness best actress/actor |
Mar 26 |
US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III" |
Mar 26 |
The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris. |
Mar 27 |
CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records |
Mar 27 |
Havana Hilton opens |
Mar 27 |
Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party |
Mar 31 |
US Navy forms atomic sub division |
Mar 31 |
USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same |
Apr 1 |
KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 1 |
Marshal Nikolai Bulganin becomes director of Soviet State Bank |
Apr 2 |
Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens |
Apr 2 |
Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record) |
Apr 3 |
"Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances |
Apr 3 |
Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana |
Apr 4 |
1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston, England) |
Apr 4 |
Eugene Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt |
Apr 4 |
The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London. |
Apr 5 |
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. |
Apr 6 |
22nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284 |
Apr 7 |
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 |
Apr 10 |
Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco |
Apr 11 |
Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (SF) |
Apr 12 |
12th NBA Championship: St Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 12 |
Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk |
Apr 13 |
12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello & Music Man win |
Apr 13 |
Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Chaikovsky Compettion in Moscow. |
Apr 14 |
Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere |
Apr 15 |
10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win |
Apr 15 |
1st baseball game in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0 |
Apr 16 |
French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis |
Apr 17 |
Brussells (Belgium) World Fair opens |
Apr 18 |
Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia |
Apr 18 |
NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in LA |
Apr 18 |
A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum. |
Apr 19 |
62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54 |
Apr 20 |
Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM |
Apr 20 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Apr 20 |
Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup |
Apr 20 |
Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops |
Apr 23 |
Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game |
Apr 24 |
Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2 |
Apr 28 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
Apr 28 |
Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
Apr 28 |
Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America |
Apr 30 |
Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits |
May 1 |
Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai |
May 1 |
Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina |
May 2 |
Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into NYC |
May 3 |
84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05 |
May 3 |
WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits |
May 4 |
Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia |
May 5 |
KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting |
May 5 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) |
May 5 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
May 7 |
US Air Force Major Howard Johnson sets world aircraft altitude record in a Lockhead F-104 Starfighter at 27,810 m |
May 8 |
US President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock, Arkansas |
May 8 |
VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru |
May 8 |
"Dracula", starring Christopher Lee as the titular vampire, debuts |
May 9 |
Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship |
May 9 |
Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, is released |
May 11 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
May 11 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
May 11 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
May 12 |
"Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #40 |
May 12 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
May 13 |
French settlers riot against French army in Algeria |
May 13 |
Jordan & Iraq form Arab Federation |
May 13 |
Pierre Pflimlin forms French government |
May 13 |
Rioters attack US VP Richard Nixon in Venezuela |
May 13 |
Stan Musial is 8th to get 3,000 hits |
May 13 |
The trade mark Velcro is registered. |
May 15 |
USSR launches Sputnik III |
May 16 |
Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight F-104 A to a record 1,404.18 MPH |
May 16 |
Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico |
May 17 |
84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2 |
May 17 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria |
May 18 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
May 19 |
Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London |
May 19 |
South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
May 19 |
US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) |
May 20 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
May 21 |
Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island |
May 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) |
May 23 |
US schools 1st use Cliff's Notes |
May 23 |
Mao Zedong starts "Great leap forward" movement in China |
May 23 |
Explorer 1 ceases transmission. |
May 24 |
"New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 432 perfs |
May 24 |
Cuban President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion |
May 24 |
UP & International News Service merge into United Press International |
May 26 |
Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed |
May 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
May 26 |
Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark |
May 27 |
Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS |
May 27 |
Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
May 27 |
Maiden flight of the F-4 Phantom II |
May 28 |
French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle |
May 28 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open |
May 28 |
Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels |
May 30 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
May 30 |
Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Jimmy Bryan wins in 3:44:21.064 (215.316 km/h) |
May 31 |
Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin" |
May 31 |
US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) |
Jun 1 |
Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election |
Jun 1 |
Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France |
Jun 1 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open |
Jun 2 |
Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio |
Jun 2 |
Brooks Robinson hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays |
Jun 2 |
Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record |
Jun 3 |
Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers |
Jun 4 |
French premier Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
Jun 4 |
SF Giants Hank Sauer & B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
Jun 6 |
Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger |
Jun 6 |
Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French |
Jun 7 |
90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2 |
Jun 7 |
Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out |
Jun 8 |
4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
Jun 9 |
"Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1 |
Jun 9 |
HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom. |
Jun 11 |
UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon |
Jun 12 |
"Make Me Laugh" TV Game Show last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979 |
Jun 13 |
Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca |
Jun 14 |
58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa |
Jun 14 |
British parachutists lands on Cyprus |
Jun 15 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
Jun 16 |
"Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46 |
Jun 16 |
Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia |
Jun 17 |
Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy |
Jun 17 |
The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day |
Jun 20 |
NZ all out 47 v England at Lord's, Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17 |
Jun 21 |
French franc devalues |
Jun 22 |
Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado |
Jun 22 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
Jun 23 |
Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers |
Jun 23 |
US Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock, Arkansas |
Jun 23 |
Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established |
Jun 26 |
Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium |
Jun 26 |
Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated |
Jun 26 |
Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
Jun 27 |
Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th |
Jun 27 |
Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London |
Jun 28 |
Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden |
Jun 28 |
Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6) |
Jun 29 |
Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm |
Jun 30 |
"No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24 |
Jun 30 |
Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers |
Jul 1 |
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave. |
Jul 2 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
Jul 3 |
"Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC) |
Jul 4 |
72nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (3-6 6-3 6-4 13-11) |
Jul 5 |
65th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (8-6 6-2) |
Jul 5 |
J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname |
Jul 5 |
First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth. |
Jul 6 |
Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico |
Jul 6 |
Alaska becomes 49th state |
Jul 7 |
C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley |
Jul 7 |
Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood |
Jul 7 |
William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY |
Jul 8 |
25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt |
Jul 9 |
Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain |
Jul 10 |
1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed) |
Jul 10 |
Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia |
Jul 12 |
"Li'l Abner" closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances |
Jul 12 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
Jul 13 |
13th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
Jul 13 |
87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham |
Jul 13 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
Jul 14 |
General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq overthrowing the monarchy |
Jul 14 |
Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th & last encyclical Meminisse juvat |
Jul 15 |
Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months |
Jul 17 |
King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation |
Jul 17 |
Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise" premieres in London |
Jul 17 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak |
Jul 19 |
"Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances |
Jul 19 |
Charly Gaul wins Tour de France |
Jul 20 |
40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA |
Jul 20 |
Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
Jul 20 |
King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR |
Jul 22 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
Jul 23 |
1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords |
Jul 24 |
14 people named 1st life peers in UK |
Jul 24 |
Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again |
Jul 24 |
Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row |
Jul 25 |
The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. |
Jul 26 |
Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV |
Jul 27 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open |
Jul 28 |
Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship |
Jul 29 |
US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 |
Jul 29 |
Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running |
Jul 31 |
Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet |
Aug 1 |
US 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years) |
Aug 1 |
US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st begins transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine" |
Aug 2 |
Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months |
Aug 3 |
USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole |
Aug 3 |
The Billboard Hot 100 is founded |
Aug 4 |
Dumont TV Network crumbles |
Aug 5 |
Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi |
Aug 6 |
Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles |
Aug 6 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Aug 10 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open |
Aug 13 |
Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2 |
Aug 14 |
Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21) |
Aug 14 |
Cleve Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game |
Aug 14 |
KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99 |
Aug 15 |
25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000) |
Aug 15 |
Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank |
Aug 17 |
Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
Aug 17 |
World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec |
Aug 18 |
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov published |
Aug 18 |
Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel |
Aug 18 |
Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde |
Aug 18 |
Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
Aug 18 |
Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales) |
Aug 18 |
Perez Prado "Mambo King" receives one of the 1st gold records |
Aug 18 |
TV game show scandal investigation starts |
Aug 18 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
Aug 18 |
Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
Aug 19 |
NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters |
Aug 20 |
Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906 |
Aug 20 |
Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years |
Aug 20 |
Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0 |
Aug 21 |
KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions |
Aug 22 |
Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return |
Aug 22 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
Aug 23 |
China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe |
Aug 23 |
Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours |
Aug 23 |
Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy. |
Aug 24 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
Aug 24 |
Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR) |
Aug 27 |
Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn |
Aug 27 |
US performs nuclear test at South Atlantic Ocean |
Aug 27 |
USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard |
Aug 28 |
Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98) |
Aug 29 |
US Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo |
Aug 29 |
George Harrison joins The Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe) |
Aug 30 |
US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
Sep 1 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open |
Sep 1 |
St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout |
Sep 2 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
Sep 2 |
Hendrik Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa |
Sep 2 |
KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 2 |
Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium |
Sep 2 |
National Defense Education Act was signed |
Sep 2 |
U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost. |
Sep 5 |
"Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US |
Sep 5 |
1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte, NC |
Sep 5 |
WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 6 |
Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959 |
Sep 6 |
US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
Sep 7 |
72nd US Women's Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (3-6 6-1 6-2) |
Sep 7 |
78th US Men's Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (6-2 3-6 4-6 10-8 8-6) |
Sep 8 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
Sep 8 |
Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan |
Sep 8 |
Paul Anka opens Asian tour in Tokyo |
Sep 9 |
Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game |
Sep 9 |
Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London |
Sep 10 |
WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
Sep 12 |
US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate |
Sep 12 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 12 |
Jack Kilby demonstrates his first integrated circuit (IC) to his supervisor |
Sep 13 |
Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times |
Sep 13 |
Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam |
Sep 14 |
Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open |
Sep 14 |
WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 14 |
Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel |
Sep 14 |
Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere. |
Sep 15 |
48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ |
Sep 15 |
Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ) |
Sep 17 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 20 |
Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0 |
Sep 20 |
Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo) |
Sep 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 21 |
1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas Tx |
Sep 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 22 |
KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 22 |
US nuclear subne USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) |
Sep 23 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
Sep 23 |
Stravinsky's "Thieni" premieres in Venice |
Sep 23 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 24 |
Donna Reed Show premiers on ABC |
Sep 24 |
1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia |
Sep 26 |
Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (Britain) in 18th America's Cup |
Sep 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 28 |
France adopts constitution |
Sep 28 |
Guinea votes for independence from France |
Sep 28 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 28 |
USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's |
Sep 29 |
"Studio One" TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8 |
Sep 29 |
"Texan" debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 30 |
French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea |
Sep 30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 1 |
Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia |
Oct 1 |
US space agency NASA begins operations incorporating earlier National Advisory Council on Aeronautics and other bodies |
Oct 2 |
Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) |
Oct 2 |
Musical show "Valmouth" 1st produced in London |
Oct 2 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 4 |
12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal |
Oct 4 |
5th French republic forms |
Oct 4 |
Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC) |
Oct 4 |
Fifth Republic of France is established. |
Oct 5 |
KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 5 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 6 |
US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains record 60 days under pole |
Oct 7 |
Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court |
Oct 7 |
US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury |
Oct 8 |
Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time |
Oct 8 |
Dr Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm) |
Oct 8 |
KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 9 |
Israeli navy inaugrates its first submarine |
Oct 9 |
NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series |
Oct 9 |
NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series |
Oct 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 11 |
"Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances |
Oct 11 |
2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back |
Oct 12 |
CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium |
Oct 12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 12 |
WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 13 |
Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun". |
Oct 14 |
Brendan Behan's "Hostage" premieres in London |
Oct 14 |
Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
Oct 14 |
Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong" premieres in NYC |
Oct 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 14 |
The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members. |
Oct 15 |
Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
Oct 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 16 |
Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne," premieres |
Oct 16 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 19 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 21 |
1st women in British House of Lords |
Oct 23 |
De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave" |
Oct 23 |
Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
Oct 23 |
USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam |
Oct 23 |
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. |
Oct 24 |
USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam |
Oct 26 |
PanAm flies first transatlantic jet trip-New York to Paris |
Oct 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 27 |
Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan |
Oct 27 |
WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 28 |
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII |
Oct 28 |
Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322) |
Oct 29 |
Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature |
Oct 29 |
Dr F Mason Sones is first doctor to perform a coronary angiogram |
Oct 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Nov 3 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Nov 4 |
Angelo G Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII |
Nov 4 |
Belgian government of Eyskens resigns |
Nov 4 |
Democrats win US congressional election |
Nov 5 |
"Maria Golovin" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Nov 5 |
KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Nov 6 |
AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959 |
Nov 6 |
Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms |
Nov 6 |
Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
Nov 8 |
"Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances |
Nov 10 |
Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui" premieres |
Nov 10 |
WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 11 |
"La Plume de Ma Tante" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 835 perfs |
Nov 11 |
AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959 |
Nov 12 |
Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award |
Nov 13 |
NYC Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League |
Nov 17 |
KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 18 |
1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens |
Nov 18 |
Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay |
Nov 19 |
First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus |
Nov 24 |
Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community |
Nov 25 |
Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community |
Nov 27 |
USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany |
Nov 28 |
AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9 |
Nov 28 |
Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community |
Nov 28 |
Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community |
Nov 28 |
George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs |
Nov 28 |
KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 28 |
Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, v India at Bombay |
Nov 28 |
US reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM |
Nov 29 |
46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28 |
Nov 30 |
1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me |
Nov 30 |
WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 1 |
"Flower Drum Song" opens at St James Theater NYC for 602 performances |
Dec 1 |
Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Natl Day) |
Dec 1 |
Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chic) |
Dec 2 |
24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB) |
Dec 2 |
Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg |
Dec 2 |
KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 3 |
Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses |
Dec 4 |
Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community |
Dec 4 |
Finnish government of Fagerholm resigns |
Dec 5 |
Phils drop plans for NY sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Phila |
Dec 5 |
WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 5 |
Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh. |
Dec 5 |
The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways. |
Dec 6 |
US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back |
Dec 7 |
Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela |
Dec 9 |
Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society |
Dec 10 |
1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 |
Dec 10 |
U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates |
Dec 11 |
4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls |
Dec 11 |
Archibald MacLeish's "JB" premieres in NYC |
Dec 11 |
Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France |
Dec 12 |
Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed |
Dec 12 |
Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur |
Dec 14 |
Pat Summerall kicks game winning field goal for the New York Giants against the Cleveland Browns at Yankee Stadium |
Dec 16 |
Bogota warehouse fire kills 82 |
Dec 18 |
1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip |
Dec 18 |
1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower |
Dec 18 |
Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) |
Dec 19 |
1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere") |
Dec 21 |
Charles de Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France |
Dec 22 |
"Chipmunk Song" reaches #1 |
Dec 22 |
"Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances |
Dec 22 |
2nd Dutch Beel government forms |
Dec 23 |
"Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 38 perfs |
Dec 23 |
Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco |
Dec 25 |
Alan Freed's Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular opens |
Dec 28 |
Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1 |
Dec 28 |
"The Greatest Game Ever Played", Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 23-17 in the first every sudden-death overtime game in NFL history (17 future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were involved in the game) |
Dec 29 |
Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game |
Dec 29 |
TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts |
Dec 30 |
French franc devalued |
Dec 31 |
47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2) |
Dec 31 |
Cuban dictator Batista tells his Cabinet he is fleeing the country |
Dec 31 |
International Geophyscial Year ends |
Dec 31 |
Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X |
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