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1958 (MCMLVIII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1958th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 958th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1950s decade.
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.[1]
- January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.[2]
- January 4
- Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles.[3]
- Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up.[4]
- January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol.[5]
- January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C.[6]
February
[edit]- February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic.[7]
- February 2 – The Falcons aerobatic team of the Pakistan Air Force led by Wg Cdr Mitty Masud set a world record performing a 16 aircraft diamond loop in F-86 Sabres. 30,000 people àre in attendance including President Iskandar Ali Mirza, General Ayub Khan, Air Marshal Asghar Khan, Air Commodore Nur Khan, C-in-C Turkish Air Force Hamdullah Suphi Göker, Chief of the Iraqi Air Force Abdul Kadhim Abaddi, Chief of the Imperial Iranian Air Force and Chief Guest King Zahir Shah in whose honor the performance has been organized.[8][9]
- February 5 – 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision: A U.S. B-47 bomber jettisons a hydrogen bomb into Wassaw Sound off Tybee Island, Georgia; it is never recovered.[10]
- 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; manager Matt Busby and players Johnny Berry and Duncan Edwards are in a serious condition. Berry will never play again and Edwards dies a fortnight later, as does the co-pilot.[11]
- February 11 – Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- February 14 – The Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan unite in the Arab Federation, with King Faisal II of Iraq as head of state.
Predicted and Scheduled Events
[edit]- ^ John Pinder; Simon Usherwood (July 25, 2013). The European Union: A Very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-19-150394-8.
- ^ Great Britain. Board of Inland Revenue (1966). Income Taxes Outside the United Kingdom. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 247.
- ^ "Arrival at the Pole by tractor". New Zealand History. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics (1961). Communications Satellites: Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives... U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 448.
- ^ East Asian History. Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. 2000. p. 155.
- ^ Kozovoi, Andrei (January 2, 2016). "A foot in the door: the Lacy–Zarubin agreement and Soviet-American film diplomacy during the Khrushchev era, 1953–1963". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 36 (1): 21–39. doi:10.1080/01439685.2015.1134107. ISSN 0143-9685. S2CID 155781953.
- ^ Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division; British Information Services (1959). Middle East Background. British Information Services. p. 30.
- ^ "Mitty Masud folds his wings". www.dawn.com. October 13, 2003.
- ^ "AM Asghar Khan: father of PAF, doyen of Pakistan's politics". Brecorder. January 5, 2023.
- ^ "B-47 in Crash Drops Atom Device in Sea". The New York Times. February 13, 1958. p. 13.
- ^ "1958: United players killed in air disaster". BBC News. February 6, 1958. Archived from the original on September 17, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2010.