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Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Events January February - February 1 Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic.
- February 2 The word Aerospace is coined, from the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space), taking into consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a single realm.
- February 5
- February 6 Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in West Germany on the return flight from a European Cup game in Yugoslavia. 23 people survive, but four of them, including manager Matt Busby and players Johnny Berry and Duncan Edwards, are in a serious condition.[1]
- February 11
- February 14 The Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan unite in the Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan with Iraqi King Faisal II as head of state.
- February 17 Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television.
- February 20 A test rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral.
- February 21 A peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
- February 23
- February 24 In Cuba, Fidel Castro's Radio Rebelde begins broadcasting from Sierra Maestra.
- February 25 Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
- February 28 One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurs at Prestonburg, Kentucky; 29 are killed.
March April - April Unemployment in Detroit reaches 20%, marking the height of the Recession of 1958 in the United States.
- April 1 The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is established.
- April 3 Castro's revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana.
- April 4 April 7 In the first protest march for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from Hyde Park, London to Aldermaston, Berkshire, demonstrators demand the banning of nuclear weapons.
- April 4 Cheryl Crane, daughter of actress Lana Turner, fatally stabs her mother's gangster lover Johnny Stompanato (the stabbing is eventually ruled as self-defense).
- April 6 Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari divorces the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after she is unable to produce any children.
- April 14
- April 15 The San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8 0 at San Francisco's Seals Stadium, in the first Major League Baseball regular season game ever played in California.
- April 17 King Baudouin of Belgium officially opens the World Fair in Brussels, also known as Expo '58. The Atomium forms the centrepiece.
- April 21 - United Airlines Flight 736 is involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force F-100F-5-NA Super Sabre jet fighter near Las Vegas, Nevada. All 49 persons in both aircraft are killed.
May - May 1
- May 9 Actor-singer Paul Robeson, whose passport has been reinstated, sings in a sold-out one-man recital at Carnegie Hall. The recital is such a success that Robeson gives another one at Carnegie Hall a few days later; but, after this, Robeson is seldom seen in public in the United States again. His Carnegie Hall concerts are later released on records and on CD.
- May 10 Interviewed in the Chave d'Ouro caf , when asked about his rival Ant nio de Oliveira Salazar, Humberto Delgado utters one of the most famous comments in Portuguese political history: "Obviamente, demito-o! (Obviously, I'll sack him!)".
- May 12 A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
- May 13
- May 15 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
- MGM's Gigi opens in New York City, beginning its run in the U.S. after being shown at the Cannes film festival. The last of the great MGM musicals, it will become a huge critical and box office success and win nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. Gigi is Lerner and Loewe's first musical written especially for film, and is deliberately written in a style evoking the team's My Fair Lady, which was still playing on Broadway at the time and could not be filmed yet.
- May 18 An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of .
- May 20 Fulgencio Batista's government launches a counteroffensive against Castro's rebels.
- May 21 United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.[3]
- May 23 Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
- May 30 The bodies of unidentified United States soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
June July - July 5 Gasherbrum I, the 11th highest mountain in the world, is first ascended.
- July 7
- July 9 A 7.5 Richter scale earthquake in Lituya Bay, Alaska, causes a landslide that produces a huge 520-meter high wave.
- July 10 The first parking meters are installed in Britain.
- July 11 Count Michael Rh dey von Kis-Rh de, direct descendant of Samuel Aba, King of Hungary, at the age of 60 is pistol-whipped and murdered over a few hectares of land by Czechoslovak Communists during the collectivization process at his residence in Olcsvar, Slovakia.
- July 12 - Henri Cornelis becomes Governor-General of the Belgian Congo. He was the last Belgian governor of the Congo prior to independence.
- July 15 In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there.
- July 17 British paratroopers arrive in Jordan; King Hussein has asked help against pressure from Iraq.
- July 19 - The Beatles, then The Quarrymen, pay 17 shillings and 6 pence to have their first recording session where they record That'll Be The Day by Buddy Holly and In Spite Of All The Danger by Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
- July 20 Various rebel groups in Cuba join forces but the communists do not join them.
- July 24 The first life peerage under the Life Peerages Act 1958 is created in the United Kingdom.
- July 26
- July 29 The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- July 31 Tibetan resistance movement against rule by China receives support from the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
August September October November December - December 1
- December 5
- December 6 The 3rd launch of a Thor-Able rocket, carrying Pioneer 2, is unsuccessful due to a 3rd stage ignition failure.
- December 9 The right-wing John Birch Society is founded in the USA by Robert Welch, a retired candy manufacturer.
- December 14 The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.
- December 15 Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes of Bell Laboratories publish a paper in Physical Review Letters setting out the principles of the optical laser.
- December 16 - A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in Bogota, Colombia and kills 84 persons.
- December 19 President Dwight D. Eisenhower broadcasts a message from a Project SCORE satellite.
- December 21 General Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes.
- December 24 A BOAC Bristol Britannia (312 G-AOVD) crashes near Winkton, England during a test flight.
- December 25 Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (the George Balanchine version) is shown on prime-time television in color for the first time, as an episode of the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90.
- December 28 The Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants 23 17 to win the NFL Championship Game, the first to go into sudden death overtime and "The Greatest Game Ever Played".[9].
- December 29 Rebel troops under Che Guevara begin to invade Santa Clara, Cuba. Fulgencio Batista resigns two days later, on the night of the 31st.
- December 31 Tallies reveal that, for the first time, the total of passengers carried by air this year exceeds the total carried by sea in transatlantic service.
Date unknown Births January - January 1 Grandmaster Flash, African-American hip-hop/rap DJ
- January 2 Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
- January 4 Matt Frewer, Canadian/American actor (Max Headroom)
- January 4 James J. Greco, American businessman
- January 9 Mehmet Ali A ca, Turkish militant, would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II
- January 11 Vicki Peterson, American rock musician
- January 13 Ricardo Acu a, Chilean tennis player
- January 15 Boris Tadi , Serbian president
- January 20 Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, martial artist and reality show participant
- January 21 Hussein Saeed Mohammed, Iraqi football player
- January 24 Jools Holland, British musician
- January 25 Dinah Manoff, American Tony-winning actress
- January 26 Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian
- January 27 Kadri M lk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
- January 28 - Lagaf', French singer, humorist, animator TV and actor
- January 29 - Stephen Lerner, American labor and community activist
February - February 1 Ryo Horikawa, Japanese voice actor
- February 4 Tomasz Pacy ski, Polish writer (d. 2005)
- February 8 Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- February 11
- February 13 Pernilla August, Swedish actress
- February 14
- February 16 Ice-T, African-American rapper, songwriter, and actor
- February 19 Steve Nieve, English musician
- February 21
- February 25 Kurt Rambis, American basketball player
- February 26 Susan Helms, American astronaut
- February 27 – Max Crivello, Itallian artist
- February 28 Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (d. 2009)
March - March 1 Nik Kershaw, English singer
- March 3 Miranda Richardson, English actress
- March 5 Andy Gibb, English-born singer (d. 1988)
- March 7
- March 8 Gary Numan, British singer
- March 9 Linda Fiorentino, American actress
- March 10
- March 13 Linda Robson, English actress
- March 14 Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- March 18
- March 20 Holly Hunter, American actress
- March 21 Gary Oldman, English actor and filmmaker
- March 25 James McDaniel, American actor
- March 26 Todd Joseph Miles Holden, American-born social scientist, author, basketball coach
- March 27 Jessica Soho, Philippine television celebrity and reporter
- March 28
April May - May 4 Keith Haring, American artist
- May 10 Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator
- May 11 Christian Brando, American actor and eldest child of Marlon Brando (d. 2008)
- May 12
- May 15 Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler
- May 18 Toyah Willcox, English actress & singer
- May 20 Ron Reagan, political pundit and son of U.S. president Ronald Reagan
- May 21 Tom Feeney, American Republican politician from the state of Florida
- May 23
- May 25
- May 26 Margaret Colin, American actress
- May 26 Moinul Ahsan Saber, Bangladeshi writer, editor.
- May 27 Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
- May 29
- May 30 Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter
June - June 2 Lex Luger, former American professional wrestler
- June 3 Margot K mann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
- June 4 – Gordon P. Robertson, American televangelist and son of Pat Robertson
- June 7 Prince, American musician
- June 8
- June 12
- June 14
- June 15 Wade Boggs, American baseball player
- June 17 Jello Biafra, American punk musician and activist (Dead Kennedys)
- June 20 Chuck Wagner, American actor
- June 22 Bruce Campbell, American actor, producer, writer and director
- June 24
- June 27 Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
- June 28 F lix Gray, French singer and songwriter
- June 29
- June 30 Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
July - July 2 Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
- July 3 Didier Mouron, Swiss artist.
- July 5 William Watterson, American cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)
- July 6 Jennifer Saunders, British comedienne and actress
- July 7 Michala Petri, Danish recorder player
- July 8
- July 15
- July 16 Michael Flatley, Irish-born dancer
- July 20 Billy Mays, American infomercial salesperson (d. 2009)
- July 22 Tatsunori Hara, Japanese professional-baseball coach and player
- July 28 Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981)
- July 30 Kate Bush, British singer and songwriter
- July 31 Mark Cuban, American entrepreneur and basketball team owner
August - August 1 Adrian Dunbar, Irish actor and director
- August 7
- August 10 Don Swayze, American actor
- August 15 Victor Shenderovich, Russian writer
- August 16
- August 17 Belinda Carlisle, American singer
- August 19 Anthony Mu oz, American football player
- August 20 Nicholas Bell, English actor based in Australia
- August 22 Colm Feore, American-born actor
- August 24 Steve Guttenberg, American actor
- August 25 Tim Burton, American film director
- August 27 Normand Brathwaite, African-Canadian comedian and television and radio host
- August 29
September October November - November 2 Willie McGee, African-American baseball player
- November 8 Jeff Speakman, American actor and martial artst
- November 10 Vicky Rosti, Finnish singer, former Eurovision contestant
- November 12 Megan Mullally, American actress, singer and media personality
- November 14 - Donna Wilkes, American film actress
- November 16
- November 17 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer
- November 18 Laura Miller, Mayor of Dallas, Texas
- November 19 Michael Wilbon, American sportswriter
- November 21 David Reivers, Jamaican actor
- November 22
- November 25 - Darlanne Fluegel, American actress
- November 27 Tetsuya Komuro, Japanese music producer and song writer
- November 28 Dave Righetti, American baseball player
- November 30 Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
December Date unknown Deaths January–March - January 1
- January 7 Margaret Anglin, stage actress (b. 1876)
- January 8 Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
- January 11 Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
- January 13 Jesse L. Lasky, American film produer (b. 1880)
- January 16 Aubrey Mather, English actor (b. 1885)
- January 19 C ndido Rondon, Brazilian military officer (b. 1865)
- January 30 Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- February 1 Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- February 2 Walter Kingsford, English actor (b. 1881)
- February 4
- February 6
- February 10 Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete (b. 1899)
- February 13
- February 17 Marguerite Snow, American actress (b. 1889)
- February 20 Thurston Hall, American actor (b. 1882)
- February 21 Duncan Edwards English footballer (b. 1936), injury in the Munich air disaster
- February 27 Harry Cohn, American film producer (b. 1891)
- March 11 Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (b. 1878)
- March 20 Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian politician (b. 1915) (car crash)
- March 21 Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
- March 22 (in plane crash)
- March 24 Herbert Fields, American librettist and screenwriter (b. 1897)
- March 25 Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
- March 26 Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
- March 28 W. C. Handy, African-American blues composer (b. 1873)
April–June - April 2 Willie Maley, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1868)
- April 8 George Jean Nathan, American drama critic (b. 1882)
- April 15 Estelle Taylor, American actress (b. 1894)
- April 16 Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (b. 1920)
- April 19 Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874)
- May 2 Henry Cornelius, South African-born director (b. 1913)
- May 3 Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- May 7 Mihkel L dig, Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor (b. 1880)
- May 18 Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and essayist (b. 1881)
- May 19 Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
- May 26 Constantin Cantacuzino, Romanian aviator (b. 1905)
- May 29 Juan Ram n Jim nez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- June 6
- June 9 Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
- June 13 Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
- June 16
- June 20 Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- June 21
- June 26 George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876)
- June 28 Alfred Noyes, English poet (b. 1880)
July–September - July 2 Martha Boswell, American singer (b. 1905)
- July 9 – James H. Flatley, American naval aviator and admiral (b. 1906)
- July 14 (killed during coup d' tat):
- July 15 Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
- July 18 Henry Farman, pioneer French aviator and aircraft company founder (b. 1874)
- July 20 Franklin Pangborn, American actor (b. 1889)
- July 24 Mabel Ballin, American actress (b. 1887)
- July 26 – Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr., American Korean War fighter ace and test pilot (b. 1928)
- July 27
- July 30 – William A. Glassford, American admiral (b. 1886)
- August 3 Peter Collins, Formula 1 driver (b. 1931)
- August 8 Barbara Bennett, American actress (b. 1906)
- August 14
- August 16 Paul Panzer, German actor (b. 1872)
- August 18 Bonar Colleano, American actor (b. 1924)
- August 22 Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- August 24 Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
- August 26 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
- August 27 Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- September 11
- September 16 Alma Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
- September 23 Alfred Piccaver, British-American operatic tenor (b. 1884)
October–December - October 9 Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
- October 17
- October 15 Jack Norton, American actor (b. 1882)
- October 24 G. E. Moore, British philosopher of (Principia Ethica) (b. 1873)
- October 27 Marshall Neilan, American actor and director (b. 1891)
- October 29 Zo Akins, American playwright, poet, and author (b. 1886)
- November 15
- November 19 Vittorio Ambrosio, Italian general (b. 1879)
- November 21 Mel Ott, American baseball player (b. 1909)
- November 24
- November 27 Artur Rodzi ski, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
- November 30 – Oscar C. Badger II, American admiral (b. 1890)
- December 1 Boots Mallory, American actress (b. 1913)
- December 8 Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
- December 12 Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1900)
- December 13 Tim Moore, American comedian (b. 1887)
- December 15 Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- December 21 H.B. Warner, English actor (b. 1875)
- December 29 Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1895)
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