April 1958 in History

Events in History

Apr 3 Fidel Castro's rebels attack Havana

Apr 4 1st march against nuclear weapons from London to Aldermaston, England, home of the Defence Ministry's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)
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 ever non-nuclear controlled explosions
Apr 10 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
Apr 11 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco, California
Apr 12 Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
Apr 13 Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Chaikovsky Compettion in Moscow.

Apr 14 Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard burns up during reentry into Earth's atmosphere

Apr 17 Brussels World Fair opens in Belgium, with a model by chemist Rosalind Franklin who had died of cancer the day before

Apr 18 A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.

Apr 28 US Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America

Apr 5 Cammie Lusko, Guinness' World Strongest Woman, born in Los Angeles, California
Apr 9 Nigel Slater, English cook and writer (The Observer), born in Wolverhampton, England
Apr 15 Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and dub poet, born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England
Apr 15 Dolores Gordon-Smith, British novelist (The Jack Haldean Murder Series), born in Glossop, Derbyshire
Apr 21 Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist
Apr 21 Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist
Apr 24 Brian Paddick, British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer, born in London
Apr 27 David Barnes, New Zealand sailor (470 world champion 1981, 83, 84), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2020)

Apr 2 Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
Apr 3 Theodor Kramer, Austrian poet and writer, dies at 61
Apr 4 Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78
Apr 5 Josef Brems, Flemish apostole (vicar of Denmark), dies at 87
Apr 8 Ethel Turner, Australian author (Seven Little Australians), dies at 88
Apr 8 George Jean Nathan, American editor, author and critic (American Mercury), dies at 76
Apr 11 Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter, dies at 82

Apr 16 English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies of ovarian cancer at 37

Apr 18 Maurice Gamelin, French Army officer (World War I - First Battle of the Marne; World War II - failure to stop German assault on France), dies at 85
Apr 18 Richard B. Goldschmidt, German-American zoologist (butterflies), dies at 80
Apr 26 Joan Collette, Dutch graphic artist and painter (New Church, Delft), dies at 68