In history, year 1958 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1958.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 18 january | African Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey. |
| 28 january | The Danish toy company Lego Group patented their design of Lego bricks. |
| 31 january | Explorer 1 the United States' first satellite, waslaunched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and became the first spacecraftto detect the Van Allen radiation belt. |
| 05 february | A Mark 15 nuclear bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia, after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane. |
| 06 february | The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football club and some fans and journalists crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others. |
| 21 february | British artist Gerald Holtom designed a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that became more commonly known as the peace symbol. |
| 22 february | Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli signed a union pact to form the United Arab Republic. |
| 27 march | Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union following the death of Joseph Stalin. |
| 05 april | In one of the first live Canadian national televisionbroadcasts, Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in Discovery Passage,British Columbia, was destroyed in a planned explosion. |
| 13 april | In the midst of the Cold War, American pianist Van Cliburn won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. |
| 15 april | On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played in the first Major League Baseball game in the US West Coast. |
| 18 april | Controversial American poet Ezra Pound was released from St.Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he had been incarcerated for twelve years. |
| 12 may | Canada and the United States signed a formal agreementestablishing the North American Air Defense Command to provide aerospacewarning and defense for North America. |
| 13 may | Ben Carlin, an Australian adventurer, became the first and only person to circumnavigate the world on May 13, 1958 by amphibious vehicle. He had travelled over 17, 000 km by sea and 62, 000 km by land in the journey of ten year time period. |
| 13 may | Australian Ben Carlin became the only person to circumnavigatethe world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 80,000kilometres (50,000 mi) by land and sea. |
| 15 may | Gift Tax Act was introduced on May 15, 1958 as an Act of the Parliament of India to impose tax on the act of giving or receiving gifts as per the specification in Schedule I of the Act. |
| 22 may | Ethnic rioting broke out in Ceylon, targeted mostly at theminority Sri Lankan Tamils, resulting in up to 300 deaths over the nextfive days. |
| 23 may | The satellite Explorer 1 ceased transmission. Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States, launched as part of its participation in the International Geophysical Year. The mission followed the first two satellites the previous year; the Soviet Union, beginning the Cold War Space Race between the two nations. |
| 16 june | Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolutionof 1956 were executed following secret trials. |
| 09 july | A 516 m (1,693 ft) high megatsunami, the highest everrecorded, struck Lituya Bay, Alaska, US. |
| 29 july | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisen hower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-military space agency known as NASA. |
| 23 september | The United Nations general assembly is expected to call for a vote today regarding China's entry and a seat in the United Nations. |
| 04 october | The new constitution establishing the French Fifth Republic,France's current political regime, was introduced. |
| 07 october | Attempting to control the political instability in Pakistan,President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 constitution, imposedmartial law, and cancelled the elections scheduled for January 1959. |
| 13 october | The first book featuring the English children's literaturecharacter Paddington Bear 'from darkest Peru' was published. |
| 14 october | The first book featuring the English children's literaturecharacter Paddington Bear 'from darkest Peru' was published. |
| 27 october | General Ayub Khan deposed Iskander Mirza in a bloodless coupd'état to become the second President of Pakistan, less than threeweeks after Mirza had appointed him the enforcer of martial law. |
| 10 november | Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the 'mostfamous diamond in the world', to the Smithsonian Institution. |
| 01 december | A fire at Our Lady of Angels School grade school in Chicago led to the death of 90 children. This happened because the school was not prepared properly in case of fire with no sprinklers and no fire drills. |
| 09 december | The John Birch Society, named after John Birch, an American Missionary who was killed in China by communists, was founded to fight the perceived threat of communism in the United States. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 December | Gary Peters / Politician / United States of America |
| 02 October | Robbie Nevil / Writer / United States of America |
| 03 June | Cameron Sharp / Sprinter / Scotland |
| 03 July | Siân Lloyd / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 04 March | Patricia Heaton / Actress / United States of America |
| 05 November | Mo Gaffney / Actress / United States of America |
| 06 January | Mohsen Rastani / Journalist / Iran |
| 08 December | Rob Curling / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 11 November | Kathy Lette / Author / United Kingdom |
| 14 May | Christine Brennan / Author / United States of America |
| 15 April | Benjamin Zephaniah / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 16 June | Darrell Griffith / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| 17 January | Tony Kouzarides / Researcher / United Kingdom |
| 19 July | Robert Gibson / Wrestler / United States of America |
| 19 February | Steve Nieve / Composer / United Kingdom |
| 20 April | Viacheslav Fetisov / Ice Hockey Player / Russia |
| 26 April | Georgios Kostikos / Footballer / Greece |
| 27 August | Tom Lanoye / Poet / Belgium |
| 29 June | Rosa Mota / Runner / Portugal |
| 31 August | Julie Brown / Actress / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 05 August | H. S. Mahadeva Prasad / Politician / India |
| 02 August | Arshad Ayub / Cricketer / India |
| 28 October | Ashok Chavan / Politician / India |
| 18 October | Kajal Kiran / Actress / India |
| 11 January | Babulal Marandi / Politician / India |
| 15 August | Simple Kapadia / Actress / India |
| 21 June | Reema Lagoo / Actress / India |
| 02 July | Pawan Malhotra / Actor / India |
| 09 February | Amrita Singh / Actress / India |
| NA NA | Nikhat Kazmi / Journalist / India |
| 12 January | Arun Govil / Actor / India |
| 15 August | Simple Kapadia / Actress / India |
| 03 November | Swaroop Sampat / Actress / India |
| 28 October | Ashok Chavan / Politician / India |
| 23 June | Mukesh Khanna / Actor / India |
