WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1958
Find out what all happened January to October 1958

Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio. (23. February 1958)

Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He became first among 39 competitors. (18. August 1958)

Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. (26. April 1958)

The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London. (4. April 1958)

The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. (14. April 1958)

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave. (1. July 1958)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law. (7. July 1958)

The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74. (23. October 1958)

The United States Army launches Explorer 3. (26. March 1958)

Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster. (6. February 1958)

Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. (27. October 1958)

Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils. (22. May 1958)

The European Economic Community is established. (1. January 1958)

Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. (5. April 1958)

The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers. (23. June 1958)

The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. (21. February 1958)

The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others. (17. June 1958)

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. (27. March 1958)

The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap. (3. August 1958)

The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. (13. January 1958)