WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1958
Find out what all happened February to May 1958

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

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

Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army. (24. March 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 trade mark Velcro is registered. (13. May 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)

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)

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

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

Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils. (22. May 1958)

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

Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the eighth time. (3. March 1958)

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

An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h). (18. May 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)

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

The United States Army launches Explorer 3. (26. March 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 Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. (14. April 1958)