1958

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes

Events

\n* January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented. \n* January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957)\n* January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship\n* January 28 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister \n* January 29 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming. \n* January 31 - The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.\n* January 31 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt\n* February 1 - Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic.\n* February 5 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. \n* February 6 - Munich Air Disaster\n* February 11 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.\n* February 11 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African American woman hired as a flight attendant\n* February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio. \n* March 17 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. \n* March 22 - Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia \n* March 26 - The United States Army launches Explorer III. \n* March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union\n* April 6 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari divorces Muhammad Reza Shah after she is unable to produce any children.\n* May 12 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. \n* May 13 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. \n* May 15 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. \n* May 18 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph. \n* May 23 - Explorer I ceased transmission\n* May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.\n* June 1 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. \n* July 5 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest\n* July 7 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. \n* July 14 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Qassim becomes the nation's new leader. \n* July 15 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there. \n* July 26 - Explorer program: Explorer IV is launched. \n* July 29 - The United States Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).\n* August 23 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.\n* October 1 - Tunisia and Morocco join the Arab League\n* October 1 - NASA starts operations and replaces the NACA\n* October 2 - Guinea declares itself independent from France. \n* October 11 - Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). \n* October 28 - Angleo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII. \n* November 23 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio. \n* November 25 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community. \n* November 28 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community. \n* December 1 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.

• BBC Radiophonic Workshop created\n* During the International Geophysical Year, Earth's magnetosphere is discovered\n* The United States conducts Operation Argus during August and September\n* Foundation of Amirkabir University of Technology

Year in topic

\n* 1958 in film\n**Gigi\n**Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\n**The Defiant Ones\n**Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, starring Jimmy Stewart\n* 1958 in literature\n**August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published. \n**Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything becomes a bestseller.\n* 1958 in music\n**January 20 - Elvis Presley receives his draft notice\n* 1958 in sports\n* 1958 in television\n**Ampex demonstrates their design for a color Video Tape Recorder

Births

\n* January 20 - Lorenzo Lamas, actor\n* January 24 - Jools Holland, musician\n* January 26 - Ellen DeGeneres, actress, comedienne\n* February 11 - Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.\n* February 11 - Regina Marsikova, Czechoslovakian tennis player.\n* February 13 - Pernilla August, actress\n* February 16 - Ice-T, singer, songwriter, actor (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)\n* February 21 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, singer\n* February 24 - Sammy Kershaw, musician\n* March 3 - Miranda Richardson, actress\n* March 4 - Patricia Heaton, actress (Everybody Loves Raymond)\n* March 5 - Andy Gibb, singer (d. 1988)\n* March 8 - Gary Numan, singer\n* March 10 - Sharon Stone, actress\n* March 14 - Prince Albert of Monaco\n* March 20 - Holly Hunter, actress\n* March 21 - Gary Oldman, actor\n* April 3 - Alec Baldwin, actor\n* April 10 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, R&B producer and musician\n* April 21 - Andie MacDowell, actress\n* April 28 - Hal Sutton, American golfer\n* April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer, actress\n* April 29 - Eve Plumb, actress (The Brady Bunch)\n* May 16 - Amp Fiddler, musician (P Funk)\n* May 20 - Ron Reagan, dancer, talk show host, son of former President Ronald Reagan\n* May 23 - Drew Carey, comedian, actor (The Drew Carey Show, Whose Line is it Anyway)\n* May 26 - Wayne Hussey, British rocker The Mission\n* May 27 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter\n* May 27 - Wayne Williams, murderer in Atlanta\n* May 28 - Annette Bening, actress\n* June 8 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian, actor, director\n* July 28 - Terry Fox, cancer activist (d. 1981)\n* July 31 - Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner\n* August 7 - Bruce Dickinson, English heavy metal musician\n* August 16 - Madonna, musician, songwriter, actress\n* August 29 - Michael Jackson, musician\n* September 10 - Dan Castellaneta, voice actor (The Simpsons)\n* September 16 - Orel Hershiser, baseball pitcher\n* September 22 - Andrea Bocelli, singer\n* October 5 - Bernie Mac, actor, comedian\n* October 14 - Thomas Dolby, English rock musician\n* October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor\n* November 18 - Laura Miller, mayor of Dallas, Texas\n* November 25 - Kim Ashfield, British model\n* November 28 - Dave Righetti, baseball pitcher\n* December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator\n* December 25 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player\n* December 31 - Bebe Neuwirth, actress

Deaths

\n* January 1 - Edward Weston, photographer\n* January 8 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete\n* January 11 - Edna Purviance, actress\n* January 30 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist\n* February 4 - Henry Kuttner, science fiction author\n* February 13 - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette \n* March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer\n* March 22 - Michael Todd, Academy Award winning film producer\n* March 25 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (b. 1888)\n* March 28 - W.C. Handy, blues composer\n* May 19 - Ronald Colman, actor\n* June 26 - George Orton, Canadian athlete\n* July 14 - King Faisal II of Iraq and most of his family\n* August 14 - Frédéric Joliot, scientist\n* October 9 - Pope Pius XII\n* December 8 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1888)\n* December 15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, physicist

Nobel Prizes

\n* Physics - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm\n* Chemistry - Frederick Sanger\n* Medicine - George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg\n* Literature - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak\n* Peace - Georges Pire \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n