Historical Events In 1958

Mar 14 South Africa government disallows ANC

Mar 15 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled

Mar 07 Commissioning of USS Grayback, first submarine built from keel up with guided missile capability, to fire Regulus II missile.

Mar 01 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260

Mar 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 22 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia

Mar 05 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit

Mar 11 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"

Mar 02 Yemen announces it will join the United Arab Republic

Mar 14 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

Mar 02 Antartic crossed for the first time by Dr Vivian Fuchs

Mar 26 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"

Mar 01 Gary Sobers 365 vs Pakistan, 614 minutes, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara

Mar 16 On this day in 1958 the Ford Motor Company produced its 50,000,000th car, a Thunderbird

Mar 19 Britain's first planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London

Mar 12 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"

Mar 27 Havana Hilton opens

Mar 21 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

Mar 15 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

Mar 01 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 declare vs Pakistan

Mar 22 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)

Mar 07 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters

Mar 13 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia

Mar 17 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape

Mar 31 US Navy forms atomic sub division

Mar 03 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq

Mar 25 Sugar Ray Robinson is first boxing champion to win 5 times

Mar 03 The birth of Miranda Richardson, English actress

Mar 26 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness &Joanne Woodward win

Mar 27 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records

Mar 14 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies first gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)

Mar 25 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons

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