1958        Jan 1, Treaties establishing the European Economic Community went into effect.
    (AP, 1/1/98)
1958        Jan 1, Dr. Douglas Kelley (45), psychiatrist, committed suicide using potassium cyanide. He was one of the psychiatrist used by the US Army to interview Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg and authored the book “22 Cells in Nuremberg.”
    (SSFC, 2/6/05, p.A17)
1958        Jan 1, Photographer Edward Weston died. A 1973 biography was titled "Edward Weston: Fifty Years." In 1998 his model Charis Wilson published "Through Another Lens: My Years with Edward Weston."
    (SFEM, 6/30/96, p.23)(SFC, 5/18/98, p.D1)

1958        Jan 3, Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole (Antarctica) overland. Hillary was part of a joint New Zealand-British ice trek that drove farm tractors on the Skelton Glacier to the South Pole. He beat Vivian Fuchs to the South Pole by 17 days.
    (SFC, 1/14/99, p.C2)(MC, 1/3/02)
1958         Jan 3, The British created the West Indies Federation with Lord Hailes as governor general. The federation lasted to 1962. It included Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago and the Windward and Leeward Islands.
    (HN, 1/3/99)(WUD, 1994, p.1623)

1958        Jan 6, Moscow announced a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.
    (HN, 1/6/99)

1958        Jan 7, USSR shrank its army to 300,000.
    (MC, 1/7/02)
1958        Jan 7, Petru Groza (74), premier and president (Romania, 1945-58), died.
    (MC, 1/7/02)

1958        Jan 8, Bobby Fisher won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at 14 years of age.
    (MC, 1/8/02)

1958        Jan 10, Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reached #1.
    (MC, 1/10/02)

1958        Jan 13, 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petitioned the UN for a nuclear test ban.
    (MC, 1/13/02)

1958        Jan 21, The Soviet Union called for a ban on nuclear arms in Baghdad Pact countries.
    (HN, 1/21/99)

1958        Jan 23, Venezuela gained liberties with the overthrow of Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez, its last dictator. The social democrats' Democratic Action (AD) and the Christian Democrats (Copei) began alternating power and then entered into the power-sharing agreement called "Pacto de Punto Fijo."
    (WSJ, 2/26/99, p.A15)(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.T6)(AP, 1/23/04)

1958        Jan 24, After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms were bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in the 1st man-made nuclear fusion.
    (MC, 1/24/02)

1958        Jan 28, Dodger catcher Roy Campanella was paralyzed in an automobile wreck.
    (MC, 1/28/02)

1958        Jan 29, Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.
    (AP, 1/29/98)

1958          Jan 31, Explorer 1, the first successful US satellite, was launched by a Jupiter-C rocket and the United States entered the Space Age. It discovered the "Van Allen radiation belts" around Earth named after James Van Allen. Radio signals from the transmitter aboard the 30.8 pound satellite were picked up in California within a few minutes after the launch. Two months earlier, the first attempt to launch a satellite had failed.
     (SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)(AP, 1/31/98)(MC, 1/31/02)

1958        Feb 1, Syria and Egypt formed the United Arab Republic. Most Syrians resented the merger, which was led by the radical Baath (Arab Socialist Resurrection) party.
    (WUD, 1994, p.1555)(HNQ, 6/5/98)

1958        Feb 5, A B-47 accidentally dropped an unarmed thermonuclear bomb at the mouth of Georgia’s Savannah River. It was never found.
    (SFEC, 11/22/98, Par p.22)
1958        Feb 5, Gamel Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic. Egypt used the UAR name from 1961-1971.
    (AP, 2/5/97)(WUD, 1994, p.1555)

1958        Feb 7, Brooklyn Dodgers officially became the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
    (MC, 2/7/02)

1958        Feb 13, Georges Rouault (86), French painter (Christ aux outrages), died.
    (MC, 2/13/02)

1958        Feb 14, The Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan formed under Iraq’s Faisal II. King Hussein forged a federation with Iraq, which was led by his cousin, Faisal II. The federation failed when Faisal was killed during a revolution in Iraq.
    (HNQ, 8/20/00)(MC, 2/14/02)

1958        Feb 15, Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara formed the anti-government of Middle Sumatra.
    (MC, 2/15/02)

1958        Feb 17, Comic strip "BC" 1st appeared.
    (MC, 2/17/02)

1958        Feb 19, Rebecca ("Becky") Hoppe, founder of Soccer Moms of US, was born.
    (MC, 2/19/02)
1958        Feb 19, Hail the size of baseballs was reported with flash lightning over parts of Minneapolis.
    (MC, 2/19/02)

1958        Feb 21, Egypt-Syria as UAR elected Gamel Nasser president with a 99.9% vote.
    (MC, 2/21/02)

1958        Feb 26, Gerald Daniel Krug is born in Chula Vista California, San Diego County

1958        Feb 27, Harry Cohn, CEO of Columbia Pictures, died of a heart attack.
    (MC, 2/27/02)

1958         Mar 1, Doctors declared that President Eisenhower had fully recovered from his stroke.
    (HN, 3/1/98)

1958        Mar 2, Chart Toppers: Sweet Little Sixteen, Chuck Berry; At the Hop, Danny & the Juniors; Oh Julie, Crescendos; Don't, Elvis Presley.
    (HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1958        Mar 2, Sir Vivian Fuchs (d.1999 at 91) completed the 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent in 99-day transit.
    (SFC, 11/13/99, p.A22)(SC, 3/2/02)
1958        Mar 2, Yemen announced it will join the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria).
    (SC, 3/2/02)

1958        Mar 3, Nuri ash Said became premier of Iraq.
    (SC, 3/3/02)

1958        Mar 6, Form letters from Pres. Eisenhower to 6 civilians appointees provided for them to take office in the event of a national emergency. The group met in 1960 with the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to discuss staffing for their agencies. Pres. Kennedy relieved the group of its duties in 1961.
    (SSFC, 3/21/04, p.A2)

1958        Mar 8, William Faulkner said US schools had degenerated to become babysitters.
    (MC, 3/8/02)

1958        Mar 14, RIAA certified its 1st gold record: Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star.
    (MC, 3/14/02)

1958        Mar 17, The U.S. Navy launched the Vanguard 1 satellite.
    (AP, 3/17/02)

1958        Mar 21, Gary Oldman, actor (Sid and Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace), was born.
    (MC, 3/21/02)

1958        Mar 22, Michael Todd (56), producer (Around the World in 80 Days), died in plane crash.
    (MC, 3/22/02)

1958        Mar 24, Rock ‘n’ roll singer Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn. Elvis traded in his guitar for a gun and Army fatigues.
    (AP, 3/23/97)(HN, 3/24/98)

1958        Mar 25, Canada’s era of supersonic flight began when pilot Jan Zurakowski took off from Malton Airport near Toronto in an Avro CF-105 Arrow for a 35-minute maiden flight. Less than a month later, Zurakowski flew the Arrow at Mach 1.5 at an altitude of 50,000 feet. In spite of the aircraft’s early promise, the Canadian government scrapped the project before the Arrow could be put into production.
    (HN, 3/21/99)

1958        Mar 26, In the 30th Academy Awards "Bridge on the River Kwai" with Alec Guinness and Joanne Woodward won.
    (SS, 3/26/02)
1958        Mar 26, The U.S. Army launched America’s third successful satellite, Explorer 3.
    (AP, 3/26/97)

1958        Mar 27, The U.S. announced a plan to explore space near the moon.
    (HN, 3/27/98)
1958        Mar 27, CBS Labs announced new stereophonic records.
    (MC, 3/27/02)
1958        Mar 27, The Havana Hilton opened.
    (MC, 3/27/02)
1958        Mar 27, Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.
    (AP, 3/27/97)(HN, 3/27/98)

1958        Mar 28, W.C. Handy (William Christopher, 84), US conductor, composer (St Louis Blues), died.
    (MC, 3/28/02)

1958        Mar 29, Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn died. He and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr. complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean in 1931.
    (HN, 10/2/99)(ON, 1/03, p.10)

1958        Mar 31, US Navy formed the atomic sub division.
    (MC, 3/31/02)
1958        Mar 31, Moscow declared a halt on all atomic tests and asked other nations to follow.
    (HN, 3/31/98)

1958        Mar, A gas analyzer was installed on the slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii. It gave a reading of 314 ppm for carbon dioxide. It was part of the International Geophysical Year project and the carbon dioxide research was under Charles Keeling. After one year of gathering data it was clear that the whole planet has an annual cycle for photosynthesis and respiration that is visible by measuring carbon dioxide concentration. [See 1988].
    (NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.33-34)

1958        Apr 2, National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.
    (HN, 4/2/98)

1958        Apr 3, "Say, Darling" opened at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances.
    (MC, 4/3/02)
1958        Apr 3, Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana.
    (MC, 4/3/02)

1958        Apr 4, 1st march against nuclear weapons was at Aldermaston, England.
    (MC, 4/4/02)

1958        Apr 9, A Cuban general strike was called but failed. Urban militias in Havana and Santiago were put down by the police.
    (WSJ, 7/10/02, p.D8)

1958        Apr 13, In the 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man won.
    (MC, 4/13/02)
1958        Apr 13, Van Cliburn became the first American to win the Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow. Lev Vlasenko (1929-1996) took 2nd place. Liu Chi Kung came in 2nd. [see China 1959]
    (SFC, 7/6/96, p.E3)(TMC, 1994, p.1958)(SFC, 8/27/96, p.A17)(AP, 4/13/97)(SFEC, 10/22/00, Z1 p.1)

1958        Apr 14, Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burned up in the atmosphere.
    (MC, 4/14/02)

1958        Apr 15, In the 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young and Jane Wyatt won.
    (MC, 4/15/02)

1958        Apr 16, Arnold Palmer won his first Masters golf tournament.
    (HN, 4/16/98)

1958        Apr 17, A World Fair opened in Brussels, Belgium. The 335-foot Atomium, representing a large-scale metal molecule, was built to celebrate the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. It became one of Belgium's most famous landmarks and in 2005 was restored to its shiny splendor, the faded aluminum sheets on the nine balls fully replaced with hardy stainless steel.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_'58)(AP, 9/16/05)

1958        Apr 28, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, began a goodwill tour of Latin America that was marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.
    (AP, 4/28/99)

1958        Apr 29, Daniel Day-Lewis, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot), was born in England.
    (MC, 4/29/02)
1958        Apr 29, Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, was born in Midway City, Calif.
    (MC, 4/29/02)

1958        May 5, A Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family).
    (MC, 5/5/02)

1958        May 7, Howard Johnson set an aircraft altitude record in F-104.
    (HN, 5/7/98)

1958        May 8, President Eisenhower ordered National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
    (HN, 5/8/99)
1958        May 8, Vice President Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru. Vice President Richard Nixon’s eight-nation South America goodwill tour in May 1958 encountered violent demonstrations, particularly in Peru and Venezuela, spurring President Dwight Eisenhower to order the movement of U.S. forces into Caribbean bases.
    (AP, 5/8/97)(HNQ, 6/14/99)

1958        May 13, Stan Musial made hit # 3000.
    (SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1958        May 13, Vice President Nixon’s limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
    (AP, 5/13/97)(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1958        May 13, French troops took control of Algiers as French settlers rioted against the French army.
    (HN, 5/13/98)(MC, 5/13/02)

1958        May 15, Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.
    (HN, 5/15/99)

1958        May 16, A man endured a record 82.6 G for .04 seconds on a water-braked rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base. He was hospitalized for 3 days for recovery.
    (SFEC, 7/2/00, Z1 p.2)

1958        May 19, The United States and Canada formally established the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
    (AP, 5/19/97)(Econ, 3/5/05, p.38)

1958        May 23, Mao Tse Tung started his "Great leap forward" movement in China. China tried to modernize its economy in "The Great Leap Forward" and urged factories and farms to meet impossible production targets.  Farmers were forced to pool their possessions and devote all land to grain cultivation. Rather than concede failure, local officials misled central planners about output. The result: a famine that may have killed as many as 30 million people by the end of 1960. The story is told by Jasper Becker in his 1997 book "Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine."
    (WSJ 12/10/93)(SFEC, 10/7/96, A12)(WSJ, 2/7/97, p.A14)(MC, 5/23/02)

1958        May 24, United Press International (UPI) was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
    (AP, 5/24/97)
1958        May 24, Pres Batista opened an offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion.
    (MC, 5/24/02)

1958        May 25, Paul Weller, guitar (Jam-This is the Modern World, Style Council), was born.
    (SC, 5/25/02)

1958        May 26, Janice Kulsar was born in Manhattan, N.Y. She later established renown as a denizen of the Cafe Babar in SF, and went on to sail the world as an adventuress and healer.
    (CB, 12/28/97)
1958        May 26, Union Square in San Francisco became a state historical landmark.
    (HN, 5/26/98)

1958        May 27, Ernest Green and 600 whites graduated from Little Rock's Central High School.
    (MC, 5/27/02)

1958        May 28, Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky (77), composer, died.
    (MC, 5/28/02)

1958        May 29, Annette Bening, actress (American Beauty, Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont), was born in Topeka, KS.
    (SC, 5/29/02)
1958        May 29, Juan Ramón Jimenez (76), Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), died.
    (SC, 5/29/02)

1958        May 30, Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
    (AP, 5/30/97)

1958        Jun 1, "Youth Wants To Know", TV Public Affairs; last aired on NBC. Apparently, they didn’t want to know.
    (DT, 6/1/97)
1958         Jun 1, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France. France, on the verge of civil war over Algeria, called DeGaulle out of retirement.
    (TMC, 1994, p.1958)(DT, 6/1/97)(AP, 6/1/98)

1958        Jun 4, French premier De Gaulle arrived in Algiers.
    (MC, 6/4/02)

1958        Jun 6, Premier Charles de Gaulle said Algeria will always be French.
    (MC, 6/6/02)

1958        Jun 7, Prince Rogers Nelson, rock star later known as Prince, was born in Minneapolis, Minn.
    (WSJ, 3/30/04, p.B1)

1958        Jun 15, Greece severed military ties to Turkey because of the Cyprus issue.
    (HN, 6/15/98)

1958        Jun 16, Imre Nagy, a former Hungarian premier and symbol of the nation's 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, was hanged by Communist occupiers.
    (MC, 6/16/02)

1958        Jun 17, Radio Moscow reported the execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy by hanging.
    (MC, 6/17/02)

1958        Jun 19, "The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney", TV Variety; last aired on NBC.
    (DT, 6/19/97)
1958        Jun 19, In Washington, D.C. nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee’s questions on communism.
    (HN, 6/19/98)

1958        Jun 20, FBI headquarters learned of Ronald Reagan’s desire to star in the film "The FBI Story." The bureau rejected the idea because of Reagan’s association with Communist front organizations in the 1940s.
    (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F3)

1958        Jun 21, A federal judge allowed Little Rock Arkansas to delay school integration.
    (HN, 6/21/98)

1958        Jun 24, Victor M. Gerena, security guard who robbed $7 million (FBI wanted), was born in NYC.
    (MC, 6/24/02)

1958        Jun 27, Rebel forces kidnapped 29 US sailors and Marines and held them until Jul 18.
    (SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A7)

1958        Jun 28, Alfred Noyes (77), British poet, essayist (Robin Hood, The  Highwayman), died.
    (MC, 6/28/02)

1958        Jun 30, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Giro), was born in Helsinki, Finland.
    (MC, 6/30/02)
1958        Jun 30, Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union, the first new state since 1912.
    (HN, 6/30/98)

1958        Jun, In Japan Mount Aso erupted and left 12 people dead.
    (SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A17)

1958        Jul 7, President Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.
    (AP, 7/7/98)

1958        Jul 10, A largest tsunami on record was caused by the fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska, following a local earthquake. The wave washed 500 meters up a mountain on the opposite shore.
    (CW, Spring ‘99, p.30)

1958        Jul 11, Monument Valley, straddling the Arizona-Utah border, became the 1st Navajo Tribal Park.
    (SSFC, 10/6/02, p.C15)

1958        Jul 14, In Iraq Gen. Abdel Karim al-Kassem (Qassim) assassinated Faisal II with his son and premier. Karim proclaimed a republic. Jordan’s King Hussein succeeded Faisal. Faisal II, Hashemite King of Iraq (1939-58), was assassinated at Baghdad and Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, was murdered. Mohammed Hadid (d.1999 at 92) served as the first finance minister under the government of Abdel Karim Qassem.
    (PC, 1992 ed, p.963)(AP, 7/14/97)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)(SFC, 8/6/99, p.D4)

1958        Jul 15, President Eisenhower ordered 5,000 U.S. Marines to Lebanon, at the request of that country’s president, Camille Chamoun, in the face of a perceived threat by Muslim rebels; to help end a short-lived civil war.
    (SFEC, 4/13/97, p.T8)(AP, 7/15/98)(HN, 7/15/98)

1958        Jul 16, Michael Flatley, Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance), was born in Chicago, Ill.
    (MC, 7/16/02)

1958        Jul 20, King Hussein of Jordan broke off diplomatic relations with UAR.
    (MC, 7/20/02)

1958        Jul 23, Queen Elizabeth named four women to peerages, the 1st women to it in Britain's House of Lords.
    (AP, 7/23/97)

1958        Jul 24, Jack Kilby (1923-2005) of Texas Instruments came up with the idea for creating the 1st integrated circuit on a piece of silicon. By September 12 he made a working prototype.
    (SFC, 10/11/00, p.A6)(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A5)(Econ, 7/25/05, p.75)

1958        Jul 29, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.
    (AP, 7/29/97)

1958        Jul 31, There was an anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet.
    (MC, 7/31/02)

1958        Jul, Soviet fighter planes shot down an RB-50G US reconnaissance plane over the east coast of the USSR. In 2002 William E. Burrows authored "by Any Means Necessary: America’s Secret Air War in the Cold War."
    (AH, 6/02, p.70)

1958        Aug 1, US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dove under the North Pole.
    (MC, 8/1/02)
1958        Aug 1, Jordan’s King Hussein dissolved the Arab Federation of Jordan and Iraq.
    (PCh, 1992, p.963)

1958        Aug 3, The nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
    (PCh, 1992, p.965)(AP, 8/3/97)(HN, 8/3/98)

1958        Aug 4, Mary Decker Stanley, winner of seven track and field records, was born.
    (HN, 8/4/98)

1958        Aug 14, KLM Superconstellation crashed west of Ireland, killing 99.
    (MC, 8/14/02)
1958        Aug 14, Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), died.
    (MC, 8/14/02)

1958        Aug 16, Madonna [Ciccone], entertainer and singer whose biggest record was "Like a Virgin," was born.
    (HN, 8/16/98)

1958        Aug 17, Belinda Carlisle, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth), was born in Hollywood.
    (SC, 8/17/02)
1958        Aug 17, World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, exploded at T +77 sec.
    (SC, 8/17/02)

1958        Aug 18, The 1st US edition of the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov was published by Putnam. The 1st French edition was in 1955.
    (WSJ, 3/20/97, p.A14)(www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=9&section=notes)
1958        Aug 18, A TV game show scandal investigation started.
    (MC, 8/18/02)
1958        Aug 18, Fidel Castro made a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde.
    (MC, 8/18/02)

1958        Aug 21, Walter Schumann (44), choral director (Ford Show), died.
    (SC, 8/21/02)

1958        Aug 23, China resumed fire on Quemoi and Matsu.
    (MC, 8/23/02)

1958        Aug 24, Leo Blech (87), German conductor and composer, died.
    (MC, 8/24/02)

1958        Aug 26, Ralph Vaughan Williams (85), English composer (Fantasia on Themes of Thomas Tallis), died.
    (MC, 8/26/02)

1958        Aug 27, USSR launched Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard.
    (MC, 8/27/01)

1958        Aug 28, Ernest Orlando Lawrence (b.1901), US physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1939), died.
    (RTH, 8/28/99)

1958        Aug 29, Michael Jackson, pop singer, entertainer, was born in Gary, Ind, the 7th of nine children.
    (SFC, 6/14/05, p.D6)
1958        Aug 29, Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colo.
    (MC, 8/29/01)

1958        Aug 31, Edwin Moses, track star, was born. Olympic Gold Medalist [1976, 1984] & Hall of Famer: 400-meter hurdles: the first athlete to use 13 strides between hurdles; 1983 winner of Sullivan Award: the U.S. outstanding amateur athlete.
    (MC, 8/31/01)

1958        Sep 5, The novel "Doctor Zhivago" by Russian author Boris Pasternak was published in the United States for the first time.
    (AP, 9/5/98)
1958        Sep 5, Martin Luther King was arrested in an Alabama protest for loitering and fined $14 for refusing to obey police.
    (HN, 9/5/98)
1958        Sep 5, The 1st color video recording on magnetic tape was presented in Charlotte, NC.
    (MC, 9/5/01)

1958        Sep 12, US Supreme Court ordered the Arkansas Little Rock high school to integrate.
    (MC, 9/12/01)

1958        Sep 15, A commuter train crashed through a drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, NJ.
    (http://www.emergency-management.net/traincrash.htm)
    
1958        Sep 20, Rev. Martin Luther King was stabbed by a deranged woman during a book signing on 125th St. in Harlem. Dr. Aubre De Lambert Maynard (d.1999 at 97) performed a successful operation on King who had a knife embedded in his sternum.
    (SFC, 3/25/99, p.C3)(AP, 9/20/05)

1958        Sep 22, Sherman Adams, assistant to President Eisenhower, resigned amid charges of improperly using his influence to help an industrialist. Critics of the Eisenhower Administration called Chief Presidential Adviser Sherman Adams the "Assistant President" because they considered him to be too powerful. Adams was the former governor of New Hampshire. Adams resigned after it was revealed that a Boston industrialist had given him gifts in exchange for preferential treatment before the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
    (AP, 9/22/97)(HNQ, 6/13/98)
1958        Sep 22, The nuclear submarine USS Skate remained a record 31 days under the North Pole.
    (MC, 9/22/01)

1958        Sep 25, John B Watson, US psychologist and behaviorist, died.
    (MC, 9/25/01)

1958        Sep, A Navy plane crashed during a training mission in Washington’s Puget Sound. The plane carried an unarmed nuclear weapon that was never found.
    (SFEC, 11/22/98, Par p.22)

1958        Oct 1, Inauguration of NASA. [See Apr 2, Jul 29]
    (MC, 10/1/01)
1958        Oct 1, Britain transferred Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia.
    (MC, 10/1/01)

1958        Oct 2, Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, died.
    (MC, 10/2/01)
1958        Oct 2, The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence from France under the leadership of Sekou Toure.
    (WP, 6/29/96, p.A15)(AP, 10/2/97)

1958        Oct 4, The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York.
    (AP, 10/4/97)
1958        Oct 4, In Minnesota a single engine military Cessna L-19 crashed into Green Lake and took the life of Captain Richard P. Carey, 36, who was returning to the Willmar airfield from Rochester. The pane was recovered in 2005.
    (AP, 8/14/05)

1958        Oct 6, The US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remained a record 60 days under pole.
    (MC, 10/6/01)

1958        Oct 8, Dr. Ake Senning installed the 1st pacemaker in Stockholm.
    (MC, 10/8/01)

1958        Oct 9, Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy. He was succeeded by Pope John the 23rd. In 1999 John Cornwell published "Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII."
    (WSJ, 4/25/97, p.A18)(AP, 10/9/00)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A4)

1958        Oct 11, The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the atmosphere.
    (AP, 10/11/97)

1958        Oct 14, Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong," premiered in NYC.
    (MC, 10/14/01)
1958        Oct 14, Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premiered in London.
    (MC, 10/14/01)

1958        Oct 16, Tim Robbins, West Covina, Ca., actor (Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption), was born.
    (MC, 10/16/01)

1958        Oct 19, John Bloom, [Joe Bob Briggs], drive-in movie critic, was born.
    (MC, 10/19/01)

1958        Oct 23, Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize in literature. However, Soviet authorities pressured Pasternak into relinquishing the award.
    (SFC,11/27/97, p.B3)(AP, 10/23/99)
1958        Oct 23, De Gaulle offered Algerian defiance "peace of the brave."
    (MC, 10/23/01)
1958        Oct 23, USSR lent money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam.
    (MC, 10/23/01)

1958        Oct 25, The last U.S. troops left Beirut
    (HN, 10/25/98)

1958        Oct 26, Pan American Airways pilot Samuel H. Miller (d.2001 at 84) flew the first Boeing 707 passenger service jetliner from New York’s Idlewild Airport (later JFK) to Paris; the trip took eight hours and 41 minutes. 111 passengers flew aboard the Clipper America and a ticket cost $489.60. The plane was christened a week earlier by Mamie Eisenhower. The first New York London transatlantic jet passenger service was inaugurated by BOAC. [see Oct 4]
    (AP, 10/26/97)(WSJ, 10/23/98, p.W6)(HN, 10/26/98)(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A21)

1958        Oct 28, The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII.
    (AP, 10/28/97)

1958        Oct 29, Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel prize for literature. Pasternak's novel "Dr. Zhivago" was on the best seller list in the west.
    (WSJ, 10/10/95, p.A-14)(MC, 10/29/01)
1958        Oct 29, Dr. F. Mason Sones became the 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram.
    (MC, 10/29/01)

1958        Oct, The Kingston Trio released the "Ballad of Tom Dooley."
    (SFC, 7/10/96, p.E5)(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.52)

1958        Nov 4, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown was elected as democratic governor of California.
    (SSFC, 1/30/05, p.C1)
1958        Nov 4, Angelo G. Roncalli was crowned as Pope John XXIII.
    (MC, 11/4/01)

1958        Nov 12, Warren Harding (d.2002 at 77) scaled the "nose" of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. In 1970 he and Dean Caldwell spent 27 days climbing another route up El Capitan. Harding later authored "Downward Bound."
    (SFC, 3/9/02, p.A24)

1958        Nov 15, Tyrone Power (44), actor (Mark of Zorro), died of a heart attack.
    (MC, 11/15/01)

1958        Nov 18, The 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opened.
    (MC, 11/18/01)

1958        Nov 21, A Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to discuss the transfer to East German control of Soviet functions and end its occupation status in Berlin.
    (AP, 11/21/02)

1958        Nov 25, Charles F. Kettering (82), inventor of the auto self-starter, died.
    (MC, 11/25/01)

1958        Nov 27, Artur Rodzinski (66), Polish conductor and composer, died.
    (MC, 11/27/01)

1958        Nov 28, The U.S. reported the first full-range firing of an ICBM
    (DT, 11/28/97)

1958        Nov 28, The Middle Congo province of French Equatorial Africa voted to proclaim itself independent as the Congo Republic (Brazzaville). French Equatorial Africa, was a federation of French territories in Central Africa that included Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo and Ubanga-Shari. Each became autonomous in 1958.
    (WUD, 1994, p.567)(DT, 11/28/97)
1958        Nov 28, The African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.
    (AP, 11/28/97)

1958        Nov 30, Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins (70) died. In 1959 the USS Skate became the 1st submarine to surface at the North Pole and the ships crew held a funeral service and scattered the ashes of Wilkins (d.1958), who had attempted the feat in 1931.
    (ON, 1/02, p.9)

1958        Dec 1, The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Flower Drum Song" opened on Broadway.
    (AP, 12/1/97)
1958        Dec 1, In Chicago Our Lady of Angels School burned. 92 students and 3 nuns were killed.
    (MC, 12/1/01)

1958        Dec 9, Robert H.W. Welch Jr. and 11 other men met in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society.
    (AP, 12/9/97)

1958        Dec 10, The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers from New York City to Miami.
    (AP, 12/10/97)

1958        Dec 13, Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, was executed along with Burhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign Affairs and Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond.
    (MC, 12/13/01)

1958        Dec 14, The United States, Britain and France rejected Soviet demands that they withdraw their troops from West Berlin and agreed to liquidate the Allied occupation in West Berlin.
    (AP, 12/14/02)

1958        Dec 19, An Eisenhower White House memo gave authority to senior military commanders to retaliate with nuclear weapons if the president could not be reached or was unable to respond to a nuclear attack against the US in a policy known as "pre-delegation authority."
    (SFC, 3/21/98, p.A2)(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A5)

1958        Dec 21, Charles de Gaulle was elected to a seven-year term as the first president of the Fifth Republic of France.
    (AP, 12/21/98)

1958        Dec 28, A Chipmunks song (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1. "The Chipmunk Song" went on to win 3 statues in the Grammys.
    (SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.38)(SFC, 12/24/99, p.C3)(MC, 12/28/01)

1958        Dec 31, Cuba’s dictator Juan Batista fled as Rebels under Fidel Castro marched into Havana.
    (MC, 12/31/01)

1958        H.C. Westermann (1922-1981), sculptor, created "Memorial to the Idea of Man if He Was an Idea." His work was laced with dark humor.
    (WSJ, 4/18/02, p.D7)

1958        John Diebenkorn, California figurative painter, made his " Woman and Mirror."
    (SFEC, 3/16/97, DB p.33)

1958        Jasper Johns had his debut show at the Castelli Gallery in New York and became an overnight success. This year he painted his work "Tennyson."
    (WSJ, 10/17/96, p.A20)

1958        Georgia O'Keeffe created her oil on canvas painting "Ladder to the Moon."
    (SFEC, 8/10/97, p.T7)(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.C8)

1958        David Park, American artist, painted: "Man in a T-Shirt" and "Untitled".
    (SFEC, 12/1/96, DB p.21)(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A20)

1958        Picasso made his sketch "Femme Nue Assise."
    (SFC, 7/5/96, DB, p.36)

1958        Stanley Spencer, English artist, painted "The Crucifixion."
    (SFC, 10/14/97, p.B1)(SFC, 6/5/98, p.C1)

1958        Allan Kaprow, inventor of the events known as Happenings, wrote an influential article that described the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock as pivotal in the way the artist’s action was converted directly into art content.
    (SFC, 2/10/98, p.E4)

1958        Myra Cohn Livingston (1926-1996), children’s poet and anthologist, wrote her first book of poems "Whispers and Other Poems." She later wrote "The Child as Poet; Myth of Reality."
    (SFC, 8/27/96, p.A17)

1958        Jean Anouilh wrote his play "Becket."
    (SFC, 9/27/96, p.C6)

1958        The play "Krapp’s Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett was 1st performed in London.
    (SFEC, 10/15/00, DB p.50)

1958        Max Frisch, Swiss dramatist, wrote his expressionistic drama "The Firebugs." It was about a businessman lured into complicity with a band of terrorists.
    (SFC, 2/17/00, p.B3)

1958        "The Magic-Maker: E.E. Cummings" by Charles Norman, poet and biographer, was published.
    (SFC, 9/16/96, p.A15)

1958        Chinua Achebe of Nigeria authored the novel "Things Fall Apart." It was about the Igbo tribe's efforts to guard its way of life against English colonialism and was made into a theater production in 1997. It sold millions of copies worldwide and was voted Africa's best book of the century. In 2004 Achebe rejected a Nigerian national honors award, protesting conditions in the West African nation and saying renegades were trying to turn his home state into "a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom."
    (WSJ, 2/09/99, p.A20)(SFEC, 8/6/00, BR p.4)(P, 10/18/04)

1958        E. Digby Baltzell (1916-1996) published "Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class."
    (SFC, 8/20/96, p.A18)

1958        William Carrol Bark (1909-1996), professor emeritus of history at Stanford, published "Origins of the Medieval World."
    (SFC, 10/18/96, A23)

1958        Algis Budrys published his sci-fi novel "Who," in which was described an artificial heart, 5-years before a working version was developed.
    (SFEC, 11/24/96, Z1 p.2)

1958        New York papers reported that San Francisco writer and bon vivant Barnaby Conrad was dying due to a goring wound received in a Spanish bullfight. Conrad survived and later opened the Matador nightclub in SF.
    (SSFC, 11/16/03, p.E3)

1958        Cliffs Notes, created by Cliff Hillegass (d.2001 at age 83), began publishing condensed studies of literary works in Lincoln, Nebraska.
    (WSJ, 7/5/00, p.B1)(SSFC, 5/6/01, p.A27)

1958        Edwin Dale Jr. (d.1999 at 75), NY Times journalist, co-authored "Inflation and Recession?" with Richard E. Mooney.
    (SFC, 5/11/99, p.A19)

1958        Sirs Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary published "The Crossing of Antarctica."
    (SFC, 11/13/99, p.A22)

1958        Nora Johnson (b.1933) published her novel “The World of Henry Orient.” It was made into film in 1964. her father was filmmaker Nunally Johnson.
    (WSJ, 8/6/04, p.W8)

1958        Prince Lampedusa authored the novel "The Leopard" which portrayed a decadent Sicilian aristocracy that made changes only in order to ensure that everything remained the same.
    (WSJ, 2/26/99, p.A15)

1958        Robert Lewis wrote "Method—or Madness?," a book on his theories of acting that extended the system of acting developed by Konstantin Stanislovsky. It combined an emotional truth from the actor’s past that was relived in performance—with technique.
    (SFC,11/25/97, p.A22)

1958        Forrest McDonald, historian, authored “We the People,” an argument against Charles A. Beard’s 1913 book “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.”
    (WSJ, 8/12/04, p.D8)

1958        Sir Lawrence van der Post (1906-1996) wrote "The Lost World of the Kalahari."
    (SFC, 12/17/96, p.B4)

1958        C.Y. Lee wrote his novel "The Flower Drum Song." It was made into a Broadway musical and then a film in 1961.
    (SFC, 10/9/97, p.C3)

1958        William Manchester (d.2004), US historian and biographer, authored “The Arms of Krupp,” a history of the German steel and munitions makers.
    (SFC, 6/2/04, B7)

1958        James Michener (d.1997 at 90) wrote "The Hokusai Sketchbook."
    (SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)

1958        Boris Pasternak’s novel "Dr. Zhivago" was on the best seller list.
    (WSJ, 10/10/95, p.A-14)

1958        Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born Holocaust survivor, defected to West Germany. He was soon drawn into "Gruppe 47," the literary circle of Walter Jens and Heinrich Boll. In 1960 he joined Die Zeit as a literary critic.
    (SFC, 9/2/02, p.D5)

1958        Paul Robeson, singer and actor, wrote his autobiography "Here I Stand."
    (WSJ, 4/9/98, p.A21)

1958        Girodias published "Candy," authored by Terry Southern.
    (SSFC, 3/11/01, BR p.7)

1958        Telford Taylor published "The March of Conquest." He helped write the rules for Nuremberg Trials.
    (SFC, 5/26/98, p.B2)

1958        Leon Uris authored his best-seller "Exodus."
    (AP, 6/24/03)(SFC, 6/25/03, p.A25)

1958        The "Film Quarterly" began publishing from UC Berkeley under editor Ernest Callenbach. In 1999 Brian Henderson and Ann Martin edited "Film Quarterly: Forty Years A Selection."
    (SFEC, 3/7/99, BR p.3)(SFEC, 8/22/99, BR p.5)

1958        William Gibson's play "Two for the Seesaw," premiered in NYC with Anne Bancroft and Henry Fonda.
    (SFC, 5/23/02, p.D9)

1958        Ludmilla Chiriaeff (1924-1996), Latvian-born dance pioneer, founded the Les Grandes Ballets Canadiens.
    (SFC, 9/24/96, p.B2)

1958        George Ballanchine premiered his ballet "Stars and Stripes."
    (SFC, 11/7/96, p.E3)

1958        Hans Werner Henze wrote his ballet "Undine."
    (SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.29)

1958        Vito Scotti (1918-1996) played Rama from India in "Gunga Ram" on Andy Devine’s TV show "Andy’s Gang."
    (SFC, 6/12/96, p.C2)

1958        The TV program "The Ann Sothern Show" starred Don Porter and Ann Sothern and ran to 1961.
    (SFC, 2/21/97, p.A26)

1958        The "Peter Gunn" detective show premiered with Craig Stevens (d.2000 at 81) as the private eye.
    (SFC, 5/13/00, p.A19)

1958        Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney recorded "Fancy Meeting You Here." It was reissued in 2001.
    (WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A16)

1958        Don Gibson wrote his songs "I Can't Stop Loving You," and "Oh, Lonesome Me." Both songs made No. 1.
    (SFC, 3/13/99, p.E6)

1958        Domenico Modugno made a hit with "Volare."
    (SFC, 11/30/02, p.D1)

1958        Johnny Otis, R&B writer and producer, wrote "Willie and the Hand Jive." In 2000 the 3-CD boxed set:  The Johnny Otis Rhythm and Blues Caravan: The Complete Savoy Recordings" was produced.
    (SFC, 4/4/00, p.B2)

1958        Sharon Sheeley (1950-2002) wrote the song "Poor Little Fool" and Ricky Nelson turned it into a hit.
    (SFC, 5/25/02, p.A27)

1958        Link Wray recorded "Rumble," and showed the way for the "power cord," and the conception of the electric guitar as a weapon.
    (SFC, 7/7/97, p.E1)

1958        Jimmy Lyons directed the first Monterey Jazz Festival and featured Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, Turk Murphy, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Dizzie Gillespie. Radio host Jimmy Lyons and Chronicle jazz critic Ralph Gleason came up with the idea. In 1997 William Minor and Bill Wishner wrote: "Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years."
    (SFC, 6/30/96, B9)(SFEM, 9/15/96, p.6)(SFEC,12/14/97, BR p.7)

1958        The first "greatest hits" album was produced: "Johnny’s Greatest Hits" featured the songs of Johnny Mathis. It was on Billboard’s Top 100 chart for 9 years.
    (SFC, 7/7/96, DB p.40)

1958        Ed Townsend (1929-2003) wrote his hit song "For Your Love."
    (SSFC, 8/17/03, p.A27)

1958        Sheb Wooley (d.2003 at 82) recorded the hit song "Purple People Eater." He starred in a movie of the same name in 1988.
    (SFC, 9/18/03, p.A21)

1958        Faron Young sang his country hit "Alone With You."
    (SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)

1958        Mercury Records released a recording of the 1812 Overture that featured the antique canon of West Point. It became a standard for testing stereo sound equipment.
    (WSJ, 2/3/97, p.A12)

1958        Benjamin Britten composed his Nocturne for Tenor and  Chamber Orchestra.
    (SFC, 3/5/99, p.C5)

1958        The Harry Simeone Chorale recorded the Fred Waring song: "Little Drummer Boy."
    (SFC, 12/24/99, p.C8)

1958        The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in Nashville.
    (SFEC,10/19/97, Par p.2)

1958        The renegade Whip Jones started the ski area Aspen Highlands.
    (Hem, Dec. 94, p.78)

1958        The Historic Charleston’s Revolving Fund was established to buy endangered buildings and hold them until a sensitive buyer could be found.
    (Hem. 1/95, p. 70)

1958        Harry Winston, a noted New York Jeweler, donated the blue Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institute.
    (Smith., 5/95, p.18-20)(THC, 12/3/97)

1958        Charles E. Dederich (d.1997 at 83), dentist, founded Synanon in northern California. It was a communitarian scheme to rehabilitate drug addicts based on the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program. It used an encounter session called "The Game" to work out problems with group pressure and venting.
    (SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A21)(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.32)

1958        The Achievement Rewards for College Students (ARCS) was co-founded in SF by Barbara Chisholm Cole (d.1998 at 82) to assist students with scholarships in the natural sciences, medicine and engineering.
    (SFC, 5/11/98, p.A20)

1958        Al Lapin Jr. (d.2004) and younger brother Jerry Lapin founded the Int’l. House of Pancakes (IHOP) with a single outlet at Toluca Lake in LA County. Lapin left IHOP in 1973.
    (SFC, 6/21/04, p.B4)

1958        Robert Welch, candy baron, founded the John Birch Society. The society was named after an Army intelligence officer killed by Chinese Communists a week after World War II ended. The organization is a conservative group that believes a powerful group of "insiders" is manipulating global events in an attempt to create a totalitarian, atheistic one-world government.
     (SFC, 8/5/96, p.A5)

1958        Pope Pius X11 died and Pope John XXIII was elected.
    (TMC, 1994, p.1958)

1958        Evangelist Billy Graham held a 3-day revival crusade at the Cow Palace in San Francisco that drew nearly 700,000 people.
    (SFC, 10/1/96, p.D1)

1958        Audrey Hepburn in the film "How to Steal a Million" wore a Hubert de Givenchy suit that was auctioned in 1997 for $10,350. The suit was part of Saint Laurent’s first collection as the successor to Christian Dior.
    (SFC,10/31/97, p.C2)

1958        Abram Games (1914-1996), master of graphic arts, received the Order of the British Empire for his WW II posters. His parents were Latvian immigrants from 1904.
    (SFC, 9/27/96, p.A24)

1958        Gregory Stout (d.1999 at 83) helped found the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
    (SFC, 3/16/99, p.A17)

1958        The American Association of Retire Persons (AARP) was founded.
    (SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.4)

1958        The Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team became the LA Dodgers.
    (SFEC, 9/15/96, Par p.14)

1958        Horace Stoneham brought the New York Giants to San Francisco.
    (SFC, 10/8/97, p.A20)

1958        Pavel Cerenkov, Russian physicist, was awarded the Nobel prize for his work in the 1930s showing when a charged particle travels through any medium at a speed exceeding the speed of light in the medium (but not the speed of light in a vacuum), it emits light in a cone. This is called Cerenkov radiation.
    (JST-TMC,1983, p.99)

1958        Pres. Eisenhower named John McCone head of the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1961 Kennedy named him head of the CIA.
    (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)

1958        The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was formed in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik.
    (SFC, 5/26/03, p.B1)

1958        A US B-47 bomber dropped a 7,600 pound, Mark-15 hydrogen bomb off the Georgia coast after it collided with a Navy fighter jet. It became one of “11 Broken Arrows,” nuclear bombs never found during air or sea accidents. Evidence of unusual radiation in the area turned up in 2004 prompting a renewed search.
    (SFC, 9/30/04, p.A7)

1958        A serious recession hit the US and unemployment went to 7.7 percent.
    (TMC, 1994, p.1958)

1958        A bond market crash occurred when falling interest rates caused bondholders to speculate.
    (WSJ, 11/12/96, p.A20)

1958        The US minted its last Wheat Ear penny.
    (SFEC, 9/8/96, Par p.21)

1958        George Wallace ran for governor of Alabama but was defeated by John Patterson, a rabid racist with ties to the Klan. Patterson was the son of lawyer Albert Patterson, assassinated in 1954.
    (WSJ, 4/17/00, p.A30)(USAT, 6/29/04, p.7A)

1958        Bill Egan became Alaska’s 1st governor.
    (AH, 10/04, p.42)

1958        Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979) was elected governor of New York. He beat Averell Harriman. A biography by Cary Reich was written in 1996 titled: "The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer (1908-1958)."
    (SFC, 10/3/96, p.E2)

1958        Nuclear submarines began to home-port in San Diego.
    (SFC, 8/25/98, p.A20)

1958        Leonard Reiffel began a classified study on the benefits and effects of a nuclear explosion on the moon sponsored by a US Air Force special weapons center.
    (SFC, 5/16/00, p.A7)

1958        US marines landed in Lebanon to help put down an insurrection.
    (TMC, 1994, p.1958)

1958        Secretary John Foster Dulles firmly opposed a proposed U.S.  visit by Nikita Khrushchev, warning it would confer recognition on the "Kremlin gangsters" and dispirit the captive people of Eastern Europe. Dulles symbolized the hard line anti-Soviet position. Dulles died in 1959 and later in the year Khrushchev visited the U.S. and a spirit of coexistence between the U.S. and Soviet Union began to flower.
    (HNQ, 6/23/99)

1958        Frank Moss (1911-2003), liberal Utah Democratic was elected US Senator (1958-1976). He served until 1976 when he was defeated by Orrin Hatch.
    (SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)                   

1958        The Barbie doll was patented by Mattel, but not marketed until 1959. Ruth Handler invented the Barbie Doll, named after her daughter in 1959. The full Barbie name was Barbara Millicent Roberts.
    (SFC, 8/19/98, Z1 p.6)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(SFC, 8/7/99, p.D3)

1958        Best Foods Inc., merged with Corn Products Refining Co.
    (WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)

1958        Binney & Smith Inc., makers of Crayola crayons, introduced the 64-count Crayola crayon box that included the new "Indian red" color. The former "Prussian blue" was renamed "midnight blue."
    (SFC, 7/28/99, p.B12)

1958        The British investment firm S.G. Warburg initiated the first hostile takeover bid for British Aluminum on behalf of the American group Reynolds and Tube Investments.
    (SFC, 6/16/99, p.B4)

1958        The Hearst Corp. acquired Popular Mechanics magazine and launched WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh.
    (SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)

1958        McDonald’s hit the 100 million mark in this year.
    (WSJ, 11/13/98, p.B1)

1958        The aluminum can was introduced as a food container.
    (SFC, 8/4/05, p.C1)

1958        Ford Motor built the prototype car of the future called the Nucleon. It was powered by a nuclear reactor.
    (SFC, 1/13/99, Z1 p.3)

1958        The last Packard rolled off the assembly line.
    (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1958        Industry experts in 1996 picked the 1958 Packard as the number 6 worst American-made car.
    (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1958        Industry experts in 1996 picked the 1958 Edsel as the number 9 worst American-made car.
    (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1958        Thompson Products merged with Ramo-Wooldridge. It would become known as TRW in 1965.
    (F, 10/7/96, p.70)

1958        Toyota and Datsun introduced small cars into the US.
    (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1958        A Western Flyer peddle car in good shape would fetch $800 in 1997.
    (SFC, 7/9/97, Z1 p.3)

1958        Legos, the toy Lego building block kit with simple red bricks, was introduced with 8-stud bricks that could be combined 24 ways. The company was founded by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1947. Legos became a registered trademark in 1954.
    (SFC, 1/9/99, p.B8)(AARP, 5-6/04)

1958        Masudaya, a Japanese toy maker, introduced Radicon, a battery powered mechanical robot. Radicon was followed by Nonstop, Sonic, Target and Machine Man.
    (WSJ, 8/6/99, p.W12)

1958        An American scientist made a dwarf grow with human growth serum. In 1967 some patients began to display CJD disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, from hormone prepared with contaminated pituitary glands.
    (SFEC, 5/21/00, p.A1,14)

1958        Dr. Samuel L. Katz of Duke Univ. co-developed the Edmonston B vaccine against measles.
    (SFC, 11/16/00, p.A19)

1958        The virus that causes hemorrhagic fever was identified. A rare mouse that is both host and vector of the disease in Argentina rapidly multiplied when rangelands were converted to maize fields.
    (NH, 2/97, p.53)

1958        The vancomycin antibiotic was developed. It became the best weapon against bacteria that were no longer vulnerable to other drugs. In 1988 bacteria resistant to vancomycin began to be detected.
    (SFEC, 9/14/97, p.C1,4)

1958        An anti-trust court case forced AT&T to license its non-telephone related technology to anyone who asked.
    (Econ, 6/12/04, p.38)

1958        Mercedes-Benz brought the 1st diesel to the US market, the rounded, pokey 190D.
    (WSJ, 1/14/05, p.W10)
    
1958        The US launched its first satellite, a 31-lb device.
    (TMC, 1994, p.1958)

1958        Passenger service by air over the Atlantic exceeded passenger steamship crossings for the 1st time.
    (SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D2)

1958        Wham-O began selling the Hula Hoop following a demonstration of a rattan hoop imported from Australia. Teenagers in the US purchased 70 percent of all records and began the hula hoop craze.
    (TMC, 1994, p.1958)(SFC, 7/1/02, p.B5)

1958        Monta Bell, silent film director, died.
    (SFEC, 10/13/96, DB p.54)

1958        Harry Cohn, the tyrannical boss of Columbia Pictures, died.
    (SFC, 6/1/01, p.C11)

1958        Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) died. As president of Delco he introduced the electric-starter in 1912, one of many inventions that he pioneered.
    (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1958        Tyrone Power, film actor, died on a Madrid movie set.
    (SFC, 6/1/01, p.C11)

1958        Mobster Johnny Stompanato was stabbed to death by Cheryl Crane as her mother, Lana Turner, watched in horror. Stompanato and actress Lana Turner had been lovers.
    (SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.4)(USAT, 10/8/97, p.4D)

1958        Pierre Culliford (Peyo), Belgian cartoonist, created the gnomelike Smurfs for publisher Charles Dupuis (d.2002 at 84). Hanna-Barbera turned it into a US cartoon program in 1981.
    (SFC, 12/3/02, p.A24)

1958        In Britain the Notting Hill Riots were a series of violent demonstrations against non-whites in the ethnically diverse northwest London neighborhood of Notting Hill. This event first drew public attention to the growing problem of racial tension in Britain.
    (HNQ, 9/30/00)

1958        In Cuba Johnny Weissmuller played in a celebrity golf tournament and saved himself from Castro’s guerrillas by beating his chest and performing his famous yell thereby invoking requests for autographs.
    (SDUT, 6/6/97, p.E2)

1958        The French film "Le Beau Serge" starred Gerard Blain (d.2000) and was directed by Claude Chabrol.
    (SFC, 12/19/00, p.B5)
1958        Marcel Carne (1906-1990), French film director, made "The Cheaters" (Les Tricheurs) with Jean-Paul Belmondo.
    (SFC, 11/1/96, p.A28)
1958        France exited from Morocco.
    (G&M, 7/31/97, p.A18)
1958        Maurice Papon was named the police chief of Paris.
    (SFC, 4/3/98, p.B2)
1958        One in 5 French workers was engaged in farming. By 2004 this shrunk to just over 3%.
    (Econ, 5/29/04, p.51)

1958        Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India, trekked for a month to make a treaty with Bhutan. He demanded to be met at the border by someone of equal rank. King Wangchuk balked at making the trip and quickly appointed his aide, Jigme Palden Dorji, as prime minister to meet Nehru 127 miles away by mule and foot.
    (WSJ, 3/6/97, p.A8)(Econ, 5/14/05, p.46)
1958        India began designing and buying equipment for a plutonium reprocessing plant at Trombay, which would provide it capability for atomic weapons.
    (SFC, 5/28/98, p.A9)

1958        Dhirubhai Ambani (d.2002) founded India's project-building Reliance Corp. In 2002 its sales reached $16.8 billion.
    (Econ, 12/20/03, p.98)(Econ, 11/27/04, p.69)

1958        In Indonesia Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution (d.2000 at 81) pushed through the adoption of a policy that allowed the military a direct role in national politics.
    (SFC, 9/6/00, p.D2)
1958        A secret war in Indonesia ended abruptly when Allen Pope, a CIA contract pilot, was downed in a dogfight. Pope was carrying a trove of documents that revealed the extent of US involvement. The CIA had been sending weapons and advisers to anti-government rebels on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island as mercenaries mounted combat sorties in a fleet of unmarked B-26 bombers.
    (AP, 4/24/05)

1958        Iraq’s Prime minister Fadhel al-Jamali (1903-1997) was sentenced to death after the military coup. He was freed after Morocco interceded and he later became an advisor to Pres. Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia who granted him citizenship.
    (SFC, 5/27/97, p.A22)
1958        Saddam Hussein was recruited by his uncle Khairalla Msallat, an army officer and fervent Arab nationalist, to assassinate a prominent communist in Tikrit. Saddam killed his victim, a distant cousin, with a single shot to the head. Hussein was arrested and imprisoned for six months, then released for lack of evidence.
    (www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hussein.html)    

1958        In Japan Sue Sumii published the first volume of her novel "The River With No Bridge." It was about the plight of the burakumin (the untouchables) of Japan. She died working on the 8th volume in 1997 at age 95.
    (SFC, 6/24/97, p.A19)
1958        In Japan the Tokyo Tower was erected in the capital city as a relay for radio and TV signals. In 1998 it faced replacement.
    (SFC, 12/11/98, p.D4)
1958        Japan’s Shimano Industrial Co. (bicycle part manufacturer) passed to the leadership of Shozo Shimano, age 30. He implemented a 4-point strategic plan that was: 1) to continue to manufacture components. 2) modernize the distribution system. 3) initiate an aggressive export program. 4) implement a new technical development program to make the best components.
    (Hem, 8/96, p.33)
1958        Japan’s Tokyo Telecommunications changed its name to Sony Corp.
    (WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A8)

1958          Jordan’s King Hussein forged a federation with Iraq, which was led by his cousin, Faisal II. The federation soon failed when Faisal was killed during a revolution in Iraq.
    (HNQ, 8/20/00)

1958        Christian Lebanese Pres. Camille Chamoun asked pres. Eisenhower to send US Marines to help end a short-lived civil war.
    (SFEC, 4/13/97, p.T8)

1958        Arequipa, Peru, was hit by an earthquake.
    (SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A16)

1958        In Sudan the 1st in a series of military coups overthrew the civilian-elected government.
    (WSJ, 10/22/03, p.A4)

1958-1960    Billy Higgins, drummer, played with Ornette Coleman’s quartet.
    (SFEM, 10/5/97, p.)

1958-1960    China underwent its Great Leap Forward. During the Great Leap the Communist Party began a massive 3-day campaign to exterminate sparrows, which were thought harmful because they ate the peasant's grain. Numerous other birds were killed in the process and insects soon became a problem. In 2001 Judith Shapiro, Donald Worster and Alfred W. Crosby authored “Mao's War Against Nature:  Politics & the Environment in Revolutionary China.” 
    (NOHY, 3/90, p.40)(WSJ, 1/20/00, p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/8gbhg)

1958-1962    The Federation of West Indies of the British islands in the Caribbean comprised Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, and the Windward and Leeward island colonies.
    (WUD, 1994, p.1623)

1958-1964    These are the years covered in the Beatles Anthology I CD released recently.
    (WSJ, 11/22/95, p.A-8)

1958-1966    Jay DeFeo (d.1989), SF artist, created her massive painting "The Rose." She was married to artist Wally Hedrick.
    (SFEC, 8/25/96, BR p.39)(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.E5)

1958-1969    Generals seized power in Pakistan. Field Marshal M. Ayub Khan announced that "our ultimate aim is to restore democracy but of the type that people can understand."
    (SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A22)

1958-1970     Japan achieves economic superpower status. Restrictions on foreign travel are removed and huge numbers of Japanese begin to travel abroad.
    (Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 216)

1958-1973    The TV game show "Concentration" was hosted by Art James (1929-2004). It was NBC's longest running game show.
    (SFC, 4/1/04, p.B7)

1958-1996    In 1997 David Platzker compiled a "Catalog Raisonne" of the graphic art produced during this time by Claes Oldenburg: "Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg."
    (SFEC, 10/5/97, BR p.4)

1958              Cats do indeed have nine lives, and it was not long before "Felix the Cat" adapted to the world of sound in a series of cartoons produced in Technicolor by Van Buren studios in 1936, and a 1958 series produced by Casper the Friendly Ghost creator Joe Oriolo.(Felix the Cat Productions/Trans-Lux Television 1958) http://www.toontracker.com/felix/felix.htm

1958 Theodore Puck, the biologist, won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1958.

Puck was a key player in making it possible to work with human cells in the laboratory and whos work laid the foundation for the human genome project

NASA has three main missions as defined by the Space Act of 1958: 1) Aeronautics; 2) Space Flight; and 3) Technology Transfer. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) transfers its technology, the knowledge, and other ideas gained while performing research and development in support of space flight to the private sector: including industry, academia, research organizations, and private entrepreneurs.

Crazy glue is discovered in 1958

"Teen Challenge" is started by Rev.David Wilkerson in N.Y.C. 1958

When Jack Kilby made his breakthrough with the integrated circuit in 1958, the industry reaction wasn't exactly overwhelming. The military showed some interest and the first computer using silicon chips and some missile components were produced. But it wasn't until nine years later when Jack, Van Tassel and Merryman invented the first electronic hand-held calculator that the integrated circuit first achieved commercial success. From calculators and wrist watches to cell phones and personal computers, the growth of the electronics industry now goes at the speed of light.

1958-1963 project "Blue Book"

In the case of the guitar, however, without exception, the instrument designs that captured the hearts and minds of players throughout the world were introduced between 1923 and 1958. Certainly there have been top-selling instrument models introduced after 1958; however, they were in effect ''copies" of earlier instruments.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame was created in 1958 by southern Californian artist Oliver Weismuller, who was hired by the city to give Hollywood a "face lift".