WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1958
Find out what all happened January to May 1958

May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria. (13. May 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)

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

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

A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum. (18. April 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 West Indies Federation is formed. (3. 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)

Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. (30. May 1958)

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

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

Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero. (28. May 1958)

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

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

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

The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. (26. March 1958)

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

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

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