Events in History in 1958 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 361 of 361

• 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 submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st transit of North Pole "Operation Sunshine"
• Aug 2 American pilots Jim Heth and Bill Burkhart take off from Dallas, Texas in "The Old Scotchman", their modified Cessna 172 in an effort to break airplane flight endurance record; they fly forslightly over 50 days, eclipsing existing record by more than 3 days
• Aug 2 Jordan and Iraq dissolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
• Aug 3 USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole
• Aug 5 Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi
• Aug 6 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• Aug 14 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
• Aug 14 Cleveland Indian Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
• Aug 14 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
• Aug 15 Marshal Nikolai Bulganin resigns as Chairman of the Board of the State Bank of the USSR
• Aug 17 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec

• Aug 18 Perez Prado "Mambo King" receives one of the 1st gold records
• Aug 18 United Kingdom issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
• Aug 18 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
• Aug 18 Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
• Aug 19 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-in at "whites-only" lunch counter at Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma [1]
• Aug 21 KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
• Aug 22 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
• Aug 22 Toronto's Boyd Carter (15 yards) and Dave Mann (116 yards) combine for CFL record for the longest punt return in 15-14 win over Montreal Alouettes in Toronto
• Aug 23 People's Republic of China resumes bombardment of the Quemoy and Matsu islands in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

• Aug 27 Clark Griffith says Senators will probably accept offer to move to Minnesota
• Aug 27 US performs nuclear test at South Atlantic Ocean
• Aug 27 USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard
• Aug 29 US Air Force Academy's permanent site opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Aug 30 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
• Sep 2 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
• Sep 2 Hendrik Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa
• 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 6 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
• Sep 8 Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan
• Sep 9 Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
• Sep 11 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

• Sep 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Sep 13 Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
• Sep 14 Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
• Sep 15 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Elizabethport, New Jersey
• Sep 17 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 18 The Fresno Drop: Bank of America mails out 60,000 BankAmericards in Fresco, California, the first credit card (later renamed VISA)
• Sep 20 Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
• Sep 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 21 American pilots Jim Heth and Bill Burkhart complete 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours (50 days, 16 minutes), landing "The Old Scotchman", their modified Cessna 172 in Dallas, Texas; record broken 123 days later [1]
• Sep 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 22 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under the 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 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Iowa
• Sep 24 Donna Reed Show premieres on ABC
• 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 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 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 4 French Fifth Republic is established
• Oct 4 Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service began (BOAC)
• 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 a record 60 days under the north pole
• Oct 7 Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
• Oct 7 US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
• Oct 8 Dr Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm)
• Oct 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 9 Israeli navy inaugrates its first submarine
• Oct 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 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 14 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community
• Oct 14 Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong" premieres in NYC
• Oct 14 The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
• Oct 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 15 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
• Oct 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
• 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 The Springhill Mine Bump - underground earthquake traps 174 miners in No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, deepest coal mine in North America. By 1st November rescuers had dug out 100 victims, with death toll at 74.
• Oct 23 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
• Oct 24 USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
• Oct 26 PanAm flies first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris
• Oct 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 27 General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as President of Pakistan

• Oct 28 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)
• Oct 29 Boris Pasternak refuses the 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 Giuseppe Roncalli crowned as Pope John XXIII

• Nov 4 Democrats win US congressional election
• Nov 6 AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
• Nov 6 Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms

• Nov 11 AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
• 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 US reports 1st full-range firing of an Intercontinental ballistic missile
• Nov 30 1st US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine
• Dec 1 Central African Republic made autonomous member of the French Community (National Day)
• Dec 1 Our Lady of Angels School fire kills 92 students & 3 nuns in Chicago, Illinois
• Dec 2 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
• Dec 3 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
• Dec 4 American pilots Bob Timm and John Cook take off from Las Vegas, Nevada in "The Hacienda", their modified Cessna 172, in an attempt to break recently set airplane flight endurance record; effort succeeds almost 65 days later [1]
• Dec 4 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community
• Dec 4 Finnish government of Fagerholm resigns

• 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 President of Venezuela
• Dec 9 Robert W. Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the conservative and 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 Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) gains autonomy from France
• Dec 12 Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
• Dec 12 Indian leg spin bowler Subhash "Fergie" Gupte takes 9-102 v W Indies at Kanpur
• Dec 16 Bogota warehouse fire kills 82
• Dec 18 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
• Dec 18 Project SCORE, world’s 1st communications satellite launched from Cape Canaveral
• Dec 19 1st radio broadcast from space, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower Christmas message "to all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth and goodwill to men everywhere"

• Dec 22 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
• Dec 23 Abdallah Ibrahim forms government in Morocco
• Dec 29 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
• Dec 30 French franc devalued

• Dec 31 International Geophyscial Year ends

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