June 1958 in History

Events in History

Jun 1 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France

Jun 4 French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers
Jun 6 French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
Jun 6 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
Jun 7 Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out

Jun 9 HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

Jun 17 "Things Fall Apart" by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published by Heinemann - considered most widely read book in African literature

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 New Zealand all out 47 v England in 2nd Test at Lord's; Jim Laker 4-13, Tony Lock 5-17; England wins by an innings & 148 runs
Jun 21 French franc devalues
Jun 23 Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
Jun 23 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
Jun 23 US Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock, Arkansas

Jun 26 Leading a minority government, Gaston Eyskens is selected Prime Minister of Belgium for the second time

Jun 1 Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
Jun 3 Ibrahim Hussein, Kenyan marathoner, (Boston Marathon-1988, 91, 92), born in Kapsabet, Kenya
Jun 5 Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros, born in Mutsamudu, Comoros
Jun 5 Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman, sports team owner (Leicester City FC), born in Bangkok, Thailand (d. 2018)
Jun 7 Francesca Thyssen, Swiss art collector, born in Lausanne, Switzerland
Jun 7 Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
Jun 12 Fernando "Frank" Caldeiro, Argentine-American astronaut, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jun 17 Sam Hamad, Syrian-born Canadian politician, born in Damascus, Syria
Jun 20 Droupadi Murmu, Indian tribal politician (President of India 2022-), born in Mayurbhanj district, India
Jun 20 Mark Milley, American general (Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff 2019-), born in Winchester, Massachusetts
Jun 21 Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major and cosmonaut (SK: Soyuz TM-28)
Jun 24 Victor M Gerena, American security guard robbed $7 million (FBI wanted), born in NYC, New York
Jun 26 Glen Stewart Godwin, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted), born in Miami, Florida

Jun 8 Author and a pioneer in the semiconductor industry Andrew Grove (21) weds Eva Kastan

Jun 4 Mechtilde Lichnowsky, German writer, dies at 79
Jun 10 Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist, teacher and playwright (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 78
Jun 12 Marinus van Meel, Dutch aviator and aircraft manufacturer, dies at 77
Jun 13 Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (Built in Jerusalem’s Wall: A Book in praise of Jerusalem), dies at 70
Jun 15 François de Vries, Dutch economist, dies at 74

Jun 16 Hungarian communist and Prime Minister of Hungary (1953-56), hanged at 62

Jun 20 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 55
Jun 24 Bonifacius Cornelius de Jonge, Dutch politician (Governor General of the Dutch East Indies 1931-6), dies at 83
Jun 26 Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
Jun 26 Martinus Ballings, Belguan Jesuit author (Vocation), dies at 93
Jun 28 Alfred Noyes, British poet and essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
Jun 29 Charles Spencelayh, English painter (Why War), dies at 92