WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1958
Find out what all happened January to April 1958

Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. (3. February 1958)

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

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 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)

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)

James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt. (31. January 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 United States Army launches Explorer 3. (26. March 1958)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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