WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JULY 1958
Find out what all happened February to July 1958

Explorer 1 ceases transmission. (23. May 1958)

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

The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London. (4. April 1958)

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

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

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

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)

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

The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. (21. February 1958)

The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured. (19. March 1958)

Lituya Bay is hit by a megatsunami. The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, the largest in recorded history. (9. July 1958)

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

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)

The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. (25. July 1958)