1958 Calendar
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1958 Historical Event(s)
- January 18, 1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
- February 18, 1958 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dog in Chinese astrology.
- April 5, 1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
- May 24, 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
- July 9, 1958 – Lituya Bay is hit by a mega-tsunami. The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, the largest in recorded history.
- August 18, 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
- October 11, 1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
- November 25, 1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
- December 1, 1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
- December 11, 1958 – French Upper Volta gains self-government from France, becomes the Republic of Upper Volta, and joins the French Community.
Who Were Born On 1958?
- February 28, 1958 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and writer (d. 2010)
- March 11, 1958 – Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
- March 30, 1958 – Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
- April 21, 1958 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
- August 4, 1958 – Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer
- August 15, 1958 – Victor Shenderovich, Russian satirist
- September 8, 1958 – Michael Lardie, American musician
- November 30, 1958 – Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
- December 19, 1958 – Steven Isserlis, English cellist
- December 30, 1958 – Steven L. Smith, American astronaut