WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MARCH 1958
Find out what all happened January to March 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)

A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. (5. February 1958)

The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured. (19. March 1958)

Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. (31. January 1958)

The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today. (28. January 1958)

A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. (28. February 1958)

Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. (22. February 1958)

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

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

Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit. (4. January 1958)

Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. (5. February 1958)

The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. (17. March 1958)

After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela. (23. January 1958)

The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator. (21. January 1958)

James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt. (31. January 1958)

Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army. (24. March 1958)

Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the eighth time. (3. March 1958)

The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. (26. March 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)

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