WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO JULY 1958
Find out what all happened June to July 1958

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

Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed. (16. June 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)

Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins. (1. July 1958)

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

The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada opens. It is still open today. (17. June 1958)

The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. (25. 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)

Iraqi Revolution: in Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation's new leader. (14. July 1958)

Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. (26. July 1958)

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

Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom. (9. June 1958)

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

Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. (1. June 1958)