WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1958
Find out what all happened February to October 1958

Explorer 1 ceases transmission. (23. May 1958)

In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. (31. March 1958)

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

Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He became first among 39 competitors. (18. August 1958)

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

John XXIII is elected Pope. (28. October 1958)

Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed. (16. June 1958)

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

Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. (5. February 1958)

Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. (27. October 1958)

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

Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). (11. October 1958)

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

During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. (13. May 1958)

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

Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait "A Great Day in Harlem" in front of a Brownstone in New York City. (12. August 1958)

The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight. (27. May 1958)

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