WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1958
Find out what all happened January to July 1958

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

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

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

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

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

Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. (1. June 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 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. (15. 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)

A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum. (18. April 1958)

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

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

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)

United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. (24. May 1958)

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

A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. (12. May 1958)