WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1958
Find out what all happened January to December 1958

The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding. (16. March 1958)

United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (29. August 1958)

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

Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed. (26. January 1958)

The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast. (28. January 1958)

The John Birch Society is founded in the United States. (9. December 1958)

The West Indies Federation is formed. (3. January 1958)

After Walter O'Malley orchestrated that both teams' move from New York City, Los Angeles Dodgers played the San Francisco Giants in the first Major League Baseball game on the US West Coast. (15. April 1958)

Lituya Bay is hit by a megatsunami. The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, the largest in recorded history. (9. July 1958)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). (29. July 1958)

The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns. (1. December 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)

Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. (18. January 1958)

Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait "A Great Day in Harlem" in front of a Brownstone in New York City. (12. August 1958)

Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit. (12. September 1958)

The trade mark Velcro is registered. (13. May 1958)

Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched. (18. December 1958)

Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country. (17. August 1958)

A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. (31. August 1958)

Herbert Hoover eclipses John Adams as having the longest retirement of any former U.S President. Hoover would live another ten years, his record 35-year retirement still holding the record as of 2013. (5. August 1958)