WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 1958
Find out what all happened September to October 1958

The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. (7. October 1958)

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

Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, makes his debut. (13. October 1958)

The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada. (14. October 1958)

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

President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959. (7. October 1958)

A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48. (15. September 1958)

The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys. (14. October 1958)

Fifth Republic of France is established. (4. October 1958)

United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed. (2. September 1958)

Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France. (26. October 1958)

The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74. (23. October 1958)

Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit. (12. September 1958)

The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine. (23. October 1958)

The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere. (14. September 1958)

Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars. (1. September 1958)

NASA is created to replace NACA. (1. October 1958)

Guinea declares its independence from France. (2. October 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)

France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead. (28. September 1958)