Jan 13 Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee

Jan 01 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-month year)

Jan 31 Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)

Feb 25 Buddy Holly &the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"

Feb 12 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed

Feb 15 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister

Feb 27 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until

Feb 21 Dodgers (Ft Worth) & Cubs (Los Angeles) "trade" minor league franchises

Feb 08 San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall

Feb 27 Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"

Feb 01 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam

Feb 01 The first black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline

Feb 02 UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt

Feb 04 Electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)

Feb 05 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert

Feb 13 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans

Feb 23 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances

Feb 02 Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd)

Feb 14 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites

Apr 20 John Kelley, the first American since 1945, wins the Boston Marathon

Apr 09 The Suez Canal, Egypt, is cleared and opens to shipping

Apr 11 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes first jet to take-off and land vertically

Apr 04 Herbert Norman 1909-1957 Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, jumps from the roof of his apartment building to his death after suspicions he was a possible Communist sympathizer

Apr 09 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping

Apr 29 The birth of Daniel Day Lewis, British actor

Apr 24 Asteroid #3648 discovered

Apr 19 In the Fox Islands, Alaska a 7.5quake was one of th elargest qukes in the U.S. (man they get a lot up in that area)

Apr 03 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

Apr 04 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris France

Apr 03 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame", premieres in London

Apr 02 In Toronto 22-year-old Elvis Presley plays two concerts before 23,000 people at Maple Leaf Gardens; his second concert, before 15,000 fans

Apr 25 The first experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated

Apr 16 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup

Apr 06 NYC ends trolley car service

Apr 13 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the US is halted

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