Oct 11 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back

Oct 14 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community

Oct 23 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam

Oct 26 Pan Am flies its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in eight hours, 41 minutes.

Jul 15 Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months

Jul 03 "The Andy Williams Show" premiers on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)

Jul 25 "Sensational" Sherri Martel wins wrestling's WWF woman's title

Jul 14 Iraqi monarchy overthrown by Arab nationalists

Jul 14 Iraq becomes a republic after the assassination of King Faisal

Jul 07 Pres Eisenhower signs Alaska statehood bill

Jul 06 Alaska becomes the 49th state

Jul 14 Iraqi army overthrows monarchy; republic replaces Hashemite dynasty

Jul 29 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958

Jul 23 The first 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords

Jul 29 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running

Jul 14 King Faisal II PM of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad

Jul 09 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain

Jul 26 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV

Jul 10 In the Lituya Bay, Alaska an 8.3 event caused amassive rockslide at the head of Lituya Bay caused water to surge about 530 meters, generating a "gravity wave" that swept out of the bay. A fishing boat anchored in Anchorage Cove was carried in front of the largest wave crest, and those onboard estimated they cleared La Chaussee Spit (at the mouth of Lituya Bay) by 30 meters or more. Two people on another fishing boat disappeared after being caught in the huge wave

Jul 15 Julia Lennon mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident

Jul 23 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) departs Pearl Harbor for first submerged transit of North Pole.

Mar 31 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges US and Britain to do same

Mar 27 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & first Secretary of Communist Party

Mar 02 The first surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days

Mar 20 Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist), Voice of Truth first transmission

Mar 20 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line

Mar 19 Sobers completes a century in each innings vs Pakistan

Mar 23 First launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA.

Mar 08 William Faulkner says US schools degenerated to become babysitters

Mar 17 The shape of the Earth is measured for the first time by satellite

Mar 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Mar 29 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by David Jenkins

Mar 29 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Carol Heiss

Mar 16 In Beirut, Lebanon, Islamic militants kidnap American journalist Terry Anderson, and take him to the southern suburbs of the war-torn city where other Western hostages are being held in scattered dungeons under ruined building

Mar 24 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

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