WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1958
Find out what all happened February to April 1958

Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. (3. February 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)

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

Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. (13. April 1958)

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

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

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

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

Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia. (1. March 1958)

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

Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight. (25. March 1958)

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

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

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

A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum. (18. April 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 United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. (17. March 1958)