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1958 Calendar

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•  February 5, 1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
•  February 18, 1958 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  February 21, 1958 – The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
•  March 3, 1958 – Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
•  March 27, 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
•  May 27, 1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
•  July 1, 1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
•  September 2, 1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
•  October 1, 1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
•  October 23, 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.

•  March 20, 1958 – Stephen Sommers, American film director
•  April 5, 1958 – Johan Kriek, South African/American tennis player
•  June 20, 1958 – Ron Hornaday, American racecar driver
•  August 17, 1958 – Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
•  September 6, 1958 – Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
•  October 13, 1958 – Maria Cantwell, American politician, junior senator of Washington
•  November 22, 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
•  November 30, 1958 – Iz the Wiz, NYC graffiti artist (d. 2009)
•  December 25, 1958 – Konstantin Kinchev, Russian singer (Alisa)
•  December 29, 1958 – Nancy J. Currie, American astronaut