Editing 1958 (section)

== Events ==
[[File:PAFWorldRecordLoop1958.webm|thumb|right|150px|The [[World record loop]] is showcased towards the end of the video.]]

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1958}}
* [[January 1]] – The [[European Economic Community]] (EEC) comes into being.<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Pinder|author2=Simon Usherwood|title=The European Union: A Very Short Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYOuYAKTswEC&pg=PT33|date=25 July 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-150394-8|pages=33}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] – The [[West Indies Federation]] is formed.<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Board of Inland Revenue|title=Income Taxes Outside the United Kingdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiFQAQAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=247}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] 
** [[Edmund Hillary]]'s [[Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] completes the third overland journey to the [[South Pole]], the first to use powered vehicles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/dash-pole-tractors|title=Arrival at the Pole by tractor|website=New Zealand History|access-date=March 11, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Sputnik 1]] (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics|title=Communications Satellites: Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives...|year=1961|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=448}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Battle of Edchera]]: The [[Moroccan Army of Liberation]] ambushes a Spanish patrol.<ref>{{cite book|title=East Asian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEBuAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University|page=155}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "[[Lacy-Zarubin Agreement|Lacy–Zarubin Agreement]]", is signed in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kozovoi|first=Andrei|date=2016-01-02|title=A foot in the door: the Lacy–Zarubin agreement and Soviet-American film diplomacy during the Khrushchev era, 1953–1963|journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television|volume=36|issue=1|pages=21–39|doi=10.1080/01439685.2015.1134107|s2cid=155781953|issn=0143-9685}}</ref>

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1958}}
* [[February 1]] – [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]] unite to form the [[United Arab Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division|author2=British Information Services|title=Middle East Background|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghsuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30|year=1959|publisher=British Information Services|pages=30}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] – The ''Falcons'' aerobatic team of the [[Pakistan Air Force]] led by Wg Cdr [[Zafar Masud (air commodore)|Mitty Masud]] set a [[World record loop|world record]] performing a 16 aircraft diamond loop in [[F-86 Sabres]]. 30,000 people àre in attendance including [[President Iskandar Ali Mirza]], [[General Ayub Khan]], [[Air Marshal Asghar Khan]], Air Commodore [[Nur Khan]], [[List of commanders of the Turkish Air Force|C-in-C Turkish Air Force]] Hamdullah Suphi Göker, Chief of the [[Iraqi Air Force]] Abdul Kadhim Abaddi, [[Air force history of Iran#Imperial era|Chief of the Imperial Iranian Air Force]] and Chief Guest [[King Zahir Shah]] in whose honor the performance has been organized.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mitty Masud folds his wings|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1065137|website=www.dawn.com|date=13 October 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=AM Asghar Khan: father of PAF, doyen of Pakistan's politics|date=5 January 2023|website=Brecorder|url=https://www.brecorder.com/news/40218377}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision]]: A U.S. [[B-47]] bomber jettisons a [[hydrogen bomb]] into [[Wassaw Sound]] off [[Tybee Island, Georgia]]; it is never recovered.<ref>{{cite news|title=B-47 in Crash Drops Atom Device in Sea|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 13, 1958|page=13}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] – Seven [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] footballers are among the 21 people killed in the [[Munich air disaster]] in West Germany, on the return flight from a [[European Cup]] game in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]. 23 people survive; manager [[Matt Busby]] and players [[Johnny Berry]] and [[Duncan Edwards]] are in a serious condition. Berry will never play again and Edwards dies a fortnight later, as does the co-pilot.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/6/newsid_2535000/2535961.stm |work=BBC News |title=1958: United players killed in air disaster |date=February 6, 1958 |access-date=October 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917140201/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/6/newsid_2535000/2535961.stm |archive-date=September 17, 2010 |url-status=live  }}</ref>
* [[February 11]] – Marshal [[Chen Yi (communist)|Chen Yi]] succeeds [[Zhou Enlai]] as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs.
* [[February 14]] – The [[Hashemites|Hashemite]] Kingdoms of [[Iraq]] and [[Jordan]] unite in the [[Arab Federation]], with King [[Faisal II of Iraq]] as head of state.
* [[February 23]]
** [[Cuba]]n rebels kidnap five-time world driving champion [[Juan Manuel Fangio]], releasing him 28 hours later.<ref>{{cite book|author=Cuban Information Service|title=Cuban Information Service, Issues 110–144|year=1963|pages= 1–8}}</ref>
** [[Arturo Frondizi]] is elected president of [[Argentina]].
* [[February 24]] – In [[Cuba]], [[Fidel Castro]]'s ''[[Radio Rebelde]]'' begins broadcasting from [[Sierra Maestra]].
* [[February 25]] – [[Bertrand Russell]] launches the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] in the United Kingdom, initiated at a meeting called by [[Canon John Collins]] on January 15.<ref name=Marr>{{cite book|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Marr|last=Marr|title=A History of Modern Britain|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4050-0538-8}}</ref> The campaign [[peace symbol]] has been launched on 21 February by [[Gerald Holtom]]. Protests will focus on the [[Atomic Weapons Research Establishment]] at Aldermaston.
* [[February 28]] – [[Prestonsburg bus disaster]]: One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurs in Kentucky when a school bus hits a truck and falls into a river, resulting in 27 deaths, 26 of them schoolchildren. Twenty-two others are rescued.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Beneath the Big Sandy |journal=TIME Magazine |date=10 March 1958 |volume=71 |issue=10 |page=17 |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1958}}
* [[March 1]] – Turkish passenger ship {{SS|Üsküdar||2}} capsizes and sinks in a sudden gale while crossing the [[Gulf of İzmit]], Turkey; many of the 272 who die are teenage students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.denizgazete.com/yazar/100248/28/-denizhaber-yazar-denizcilik-yazarlari |publisher=Deniz Gazete |title=S/S Üsküdar 1927-1958 |author=Bozoğlu, Ali |language=Turkish |accessdate=2012-08-22 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029121006/http://www.denizgazete.com/yazar/100248/28/-denizhaber-yazar-denizcilik-yazarlari |archivedate=2014-10-29 }}</ref>
* [[March 2]] – A British [[Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] team, led by Sir [[Vivian Fuchs]], completes the first overland crossing of the Antarctic, using [[snowcat]] caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams, in 99 days, via the [[South Pole]].
* [[March 8]] – The {{USS|Wisconsin|BB-64|6}} is decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active [[battleship]] for the first time since [[1896]] (she is recommissioned October 22, 1988).
* [[March 11]] – [[1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident]]: A U.S. [[B-47]] bomber accidentally drops an [[atom bomb]] on [[Mars Bluff, South Carolina]]. Without a fissile warhead, its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure six people.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323778 |title=Air Force accidentally dropped nuclear bomb on S. Carolina, 1958 |date=27 April 2012 |access-date=25 August 2014 |first=Johnthomas |last=Didymus }}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – The United States launches the [[Vanguard 1]] [[satellite]].
* [[March 19]] – The [[Monarch Underwear Company fire]] occurs in New York, United States, killing 24 people.
* [[March 26]] – The [[30th Academy Awards]] Ceremony takes place in Hollywood; ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' wins 7 awards, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture]].
* [[March 27]] – [[Nikita Khrushchev]] becomes [[Premier of the Soviet Union]].

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1958}}
* [[April 1]] – The [[Treaty of Angra de Cintra]] is signed by [[Spain]] and [[Morocco]], ending the [[Spanish protectorate in Morocco]].<ref name=Schwinghammer>{{Cite book|last=Schwinghammer|first=Torsten|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpRXDwAAQBAJ&dq=ifni+war+casualties&pg=PT260|title=Warfare Since the Second World War|date=2018-04-24|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-28970-2|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – In Cuba, [[Fidel Castro|Castro]]'s revolutionary army begins its attacks on [[Havana]].
* [[April 13]] – The Soviet satellite [[Sputnik 2]] (launched November 3, 1957) disintegrates during reentry from orbit.<ref>{{cite book|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQo7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA35-PA63|year=1959|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=35}}</ref>
* [[April 14]] – [[Van Cliburn]] wins the [[International Tchaikovsky Competition]] for [[piano|pianists]] in Moscow, easing [[Cold War]] tensions.<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwZaAAAAYAAJ|year=1958|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=95}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] – King [[Baudouin of Belgium]] officially opens the [[world's fair]] in [[Brussels]], also known as [[Expo 58]]. The [[Atomium]] forms the centrepiece.
* [[April 20]] – The [[Montreal Canadiens]] win the [[Stanley Cup]] in [[ice hockey]], after [[1958 Stanley Cup Finals|defeating]] the U.S. [[Boston Bruins]] in 6 games.
* [[April 21]] – [[United Airlines Flight 736]] is involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force [[North American F-100 Super. Sabre|F-100F]] jet fighter over what becomes [[Enterprise, Nevada]]; all 49 persons in both aircraft are killed.
* [[April 28]] – A bomber flown by a U.S. [[Central Intelligence Agency]] operative in support of Indonesian [[Permesta]] rebels bombs the harbor at [[Balikpapan]], [[Borneo]], [[Indonesia]], hitting an Indonesian naval corvette and two British [[oil tanker]]s. In June, the Indonesian and British governments both claim that Indonesian rebels are responsible for such attacks, concealing the C.I.A.'s involvement.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1958}}
* [[May 1]]
** [[Arturo Frondizi]] becomes [[President of Argentina]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960: American republics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srpzvn1OqHUC&pg=PA18|year=1986|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=18}}</ref>
** U.S. space scientist [[James van Allen]] announces the discovery of Earth's [[magnetosphere]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John M. Logsdon|title=Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program|publisher=NASA|year=2004|page=158}}</ref>
** The [[Nordic Passport Union]] comes into force.
* [[May 10]] – Interviewed in the Chave d'Ouro café, when asked about his rival [[António de Oliveira Salazar]], [[Humberto Delgado]] utters one of the most famous comments in Portuguese political history: "Obviamente, demito-o! (Obviously, I'll sack him!)".
* [[May 12]] – A formal [[North American Aerospace Defense Command]] agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
* [[May 13]]
** [[May 1958 crisis in France|Crisis in France]]: [[Pied-Noir|French Algerian]] protesters seize government offices in [[Algiers]], leading to a military coup.
** During a visit to [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]], [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]]'s car is attacked by [[Anti-Americanism|anti-American]] demonstrators.
* [[May 15]] – The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Sputnik 3]].
* [[May 18]] – A U.S. [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter]] sets a world speed record of {{Convert|1404.19|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}.
* [[May 20]] – The [[Cuba]]n government of [[Fulgencio Batista]] launches a counteroffensive against Castro's rebels.
* [[May 22]] – U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] becomes the first American elected official to appear on color television. 
* [[May 28]] – [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid]] beats [[A.C. Milan]] 3–2 at [[Heysel Stadium]], [[Brussels]], and wins the [[1957–58 European Cup]] in Association football.
* [[May 30]] – The bodies of unidentified United States soldiers killed in action during World War II and the [[Korean War]] are buried at the [[Tomb of the Unknowns]], in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1958}}
* [[June 1]]
** [[Charles de Gaulle]] is brought out of retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to lead France by decree for 6 months.
** [[Iceland]] extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (22.2&nbsp;km).
* [[June 4]] – French Prime Minister [[Charles de Gaulle]] visits [[Algeria]].
* [[June 16]] – [[Imre Nagy]] and other leaders of the failed [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]] are hanged for treason, following secret trials.
* [[June 20]] – The iron [[barque]] ''Omega'' of [[Callao]], [[Peru]] (built in Liverpool, 1887), the world's last [[full-rigged ship]] trading under sail alone, sinks on passage carrying [[guano]] from the Pachacamac Islands for [[Huacho]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Drumcliff|url=http://www.sjohistoriskasamfundet.se/LB/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Drumcliff(1887).html|publisher=Sjöhistoriska Samfundet|year=1999|access-date=2011-02-15|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113175003/http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Drumcliff(1887).html|archive-date=2013-01-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 29]] – [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] beats [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] 5–2 in the [[1958 FIFA World Cup Final|final game]] to win the [[Association football|football]] [[1958 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] in [[Sweden]].
* [[June 30]] – The 1957–58 [[Ifni War]] ends in [[Spanish Sahara]].<ref name=Schwinghammer/>

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1958}}
* [[July 9]] – [[1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami]]: A 7.8 {{M|w}} strike-slip earthquake in [[Southeast Alaska]] causes a [[landslide]] that produces a [[megatsunami]]. The runup from the waves reaches {{convert|525|m|abbr=on}} on the rim of [[Lituya Bay]].
* [[July 12]] – [[Henri Cornelis]] becomes Governor-General of the [[Belgian Congo]], the last Belgian governor prior to independence.
* [[July 14]] – [[July 14 Revolution]] in Iraq: [[Faisal II of Iraq|King Faisal II]] and several family members are executed. [[Abd al-Karim Qasim]] assumes power.<ref>{{cite book|last=Al Hayah|first=Dar|title=Majzarat Al Rihab: A Journalistic Investigation on the Death of the Hashemite Royal Family on 14 July 1958 in Baghdad|publisher=Dar Al Hayah|year=1960|location=Beirut|pages=42|language=Arabic}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] – [[1958 Lebanon crisis]]: 5,000 [[United States Marines]] land in the Lebanese capital [[Beirut]] in support of the pro-Western government.<ref>{{cite book |author=Dwight D. Eisenhower |title=Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1958 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGoTTqSXe2oC&pg=PR25 |year=1960 |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]] |page=25}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] – Fourteen [[life peerage]]s, the first under the [[Life Peerages Act 1958]], are created in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Erika Rackley|author2=Rosemary Auchmuty|title=Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating the history of women and law in the UK and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mn17DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA253|date=27 December 2018|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-78225-979-4|pages=253}}</ref>
* [[July 26]]
** [[Explorer program]]: [[Explorer 4]] is launched in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Department of the Army. Office, Chief of Research and Development|title=USSR: Missiles, Rockets and Space Effort: A Bibliographic Record, 1956–1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igE7kL_mt3gC&pg=PA40|year=1960|publisher=Department of The Army|pages=40}}</ref>
** Queen [[Elizabeth II]] of the United Kingdom announces that she is giving her son [[Charles III|Prince Charles]] the customary title for the [[heir apparent]] of [[Prince of Wales]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Clements|title=The United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, a Directory of Governments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BSYkAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Political Research|page=17}}</ref> The announcement is made at the end of the [[1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]], held in Cardiff.
* [[July 29]] – The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] formally creates the [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA).<ref>{{cite book|author=United States|title=United States Code Service, Lawyers Edition: All Federal Laws of a General and Permanent Nature Arranged in Accordance with the Section Numbering of the United States Code and the Supplements Thereto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KasoAQAAMAAJ|year=1936|publisher=Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company|page=443}}</ref>

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1958}}
* [[August 3]] – The nuclear-powered submarine {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}} becomes the first vessel to cross the [[North Pole]] under water.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/nautilus-ssn-571-iv.html |title=Nautilus IV (SSN-571) |work=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] |year=1970 |publisher=[[Naval History & Heritage Command]]}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] 
** Australian athlete [[Herb Elliott]] clips almost 3 seconds off the [[Mile run world record progression|world record]] for the [[mile run]] at [[Santry Stadium]], [[Dublin]], recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.
** The [[Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy]], which outlawed the [[Communist Party of Chile]] and banned 26,650 persons from the electoral lists,<ref>Adam Feinstein, ''Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=cakCaq8pKCsC url]</ref> is repealed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcn.cl/leychile|title=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional &#124; Ley Chile |website=www.bcn.cl}}</ref>
* [[August 7]]   – 1958 East Pakistan-India border skirmishes, a skirmish between [[East Pakistan]] and the [[Indian Army]] in Laxmipur.
* [[August 14]] – [[KLM Flight 607-E]], a [[Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation]], crashes into the Atlantic with 99 people aboard, all of whom are killed.<ref name=indo>[https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/city-remembers-memorial-for-99-plane-crash-victims-26468903.html City remembers memorial for 99 plane crash victims]{{snd}} [[Irish Independent]], 13 August 2008</ref>
* [[August 17]] – The first [[Thor-Able]] rocket is launched, carrying [[Pioneer 0]], from [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17]]. The launch fails due to a first stage malfunction.
* [[August 18]] – [[Brojen Das]] from [[East Pakistan]] swims across the [[English Channel]] in a competition, the first [[Bangali]] as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He is first among 39 competitors.
* [[August 21]]–[[October 15]] – [[Illinois]] observes the centennial of the [[Lincoln–Douglas debates]].
* [[August 23]] – The [[Second Taiwan Strait Crisis]] begins with the [[People's Republic of China]]'s [[People's Liberation Army]] shelling the island of [[Kinmen]] (Quemoy) which is controlled by the [[Republic of China]] (Taiwan)'s [[Kuomintang]] forces.
* [[August 26]] – A [[1958 Paraguayan general strike|general strike]] is called in [[Paraguay]].
* [[August 30]]–[[September 1]] – [[1958 Notting Hill race riots|Notting Hill race riots]]: Riots occur between blacks and whites in [[Notting Hill]], London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819205024|title="Notting Hill Riot Special", newsfilm online|access-date=2008-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001717/http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819205024|archive-date=June 18, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1958}}
* [[September 1]] – The [[first Cod War]] begins between the United Kingdom and [[Iceland]].
* [[September 2]]
** [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] becomes the 6th [[Prime Minister of South Africa]].
** China's first television broadcasts start at Beijing Television Station, a predecessor of [[China Central Television]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Huang|first=Yu|title=Chinese Television in Mao's Era (1958–1976): A Historical Survey|journal=Chinese Television in Mao's Era|url=http://140.119.187.76/word/382310222014.pdf|access-date=February 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202012709/http://140.119.187.76/word/382310222014.pdf|archive-date=February 2, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>　
* [[September 4]] – [[Jorge Alessandri]] is the winner of [[1958 Chilean presidential election|Chile's presidential election]].
* [[September 12]] – [[Jack Kilby]] invents the first [[integrated circuit]], while working at [[Texas Instruments]].
* [[September 14]] – Two [[Mohr Rocket|rockets]] designed by German engineer [[Ernst Mohr]] (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere.
* [[September 18]] – [[BankAmericard]], the first [[credit card]] to be widely offered, is launched in [[Fresno, California]] in what becomes known as the "Fresno Drop".<ref>{{cite book|last=Stearns|first=David L.|title=Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the Visa Electronic Payment System|date=2011|publisher=Springer|location=London|isbn=978-1-84996-138-7|page=1}}</ref>
* [[September 27]]
** [[Typhoon Ida (1958)|Typhoon Ida]] kills at least 1,269 people in [[Honshū]], Japan.
** [[Hurricane Helene (1958)|Hurricane Helene]], the worst storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season, reaches category 4 status.
* [[September 28]]
** In the [[1958 French constitutional referendum]], a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the [[French Fifth Republic|Fifth Republic]].
** [[Killing of Fernando Rios|Fernando Rios]], a Mexican tour guide in [[New Orleans]], dies from injuries suffered in an incident of [[gay bashing]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Satchu |first=Alya |date=March 6, 2024 |title=Author discusses 1950s killing of gay man by Tulane students |url=https://tulanehullabaloo.com/65506/news/author-discusses-1950s-killing-of-gay-man-by-tulane-students/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724000422/https://tulanehullabaloo.com/65506/news/author-discusses-1950s-killing-of-gay-man-by-tulane-students/ |archive-date=July 24, 2024 |access-date=January 2, 2025 |website=[[Tulane Hullabaloo]]}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] – The [[U.S.S.R.]] performs a [[nuclear test]] at [[Novaya Zemlya]].

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1958}}
* October – [[GoldStar]], predecessor of [[LG Electronics]], is founded in South Korea.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Meenakshi|first1=Arun Kumar|author2=N.|title=Marketing Management|edition=2nd|year=2011|publisher=Vikas Publishing House|isbn=978-81-259-4259-7|page=909|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mDlDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA909|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 1]]
** [[Tunisia]] and [[Morocco]] join the [[Arab League]].
** The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty of [[Christmas Island]] from Singapore to Australia.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
** [[NASA]] starts operations and replaces the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]] in the United States.
* [[October 2]] – [[Guinea]] declares itself independent from France, rejecting that nation's new constitution.
* [[October 4]]
** The new [[Constitution of France]] is signed into law, establishing the [[French Fifth Republic]].
** The [[British Overseas Airways Corporation]] (BOAC) uses one of its new [[de Havilland Comet]] 4s, ''G-APDB'', to make the first commercial [[transatlantic flight]] by a [[jet airliner]], from [[Heathrow Airport|London]] to [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|New York International Airport, Anderson Field]] via [[Gander International Airport|Gander]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Atlantic Jet Era Begins; British Span Ocean Twice – Six-Hour Record Is Set|first=Robert|last=Alden|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1958-10-05|page=1}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] – ''[[Pioneer 1]]'', the second and most successful of the 3 project [[Pioneer program|Able space probes]], becomes the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed [[NASA]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1958-007A|title = NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] – ''[[An Evening with Fred Astaire]]'', the first television show recorded on color videotape, is broadcast on [[NBC]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last=Slide|first=Anthony|title=Nitrate won't wait: a history of film preservation in the United States|publisher=McFarland & Co|location=Jefferson, N.C|year=1992|isbn=9780899506944| page=117}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – ''[[Tennis for Two]]'', a game invented by [[William Higinbotham]] and considered to be the first pure entertainment computer game,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/tennis-anyone/ |title=Tennis Anyone? |work=They Create Worlds |last=Smith |first=Alexander |date=2014-01-28 |access-date=2016-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225121214/https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/tennis-anyone/ |archive-date=2015-12-25 |url-status=live}}</ref> is introduced at the [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]] Visitors' Day Exhibit in the United States. 
* [[October 26]] –  A [[Pan American World Airways]] [[Boeing 707]] makes its first transatlantic flight.
* [[October 28]] – [[Pope John XXIII]] succeeds [[Pope Pius XII]], as the 261st pope.

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1958}}
* [[November 3]]
** The new [[UNESCO]] building, [[World Heritage Centre]], is inaugurated in Paris.
** [[Jorge Alessandri]]  is sworn in as [[President of Chile]].
* [[November 10]] – [[Harry Winston]] donates the [[Hope Diamond]] to the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in Washington, D.C.
* [[November 18]] – En route to [[Rogers City, Michigan]], United States, the [[Lake freighter]] {{SS|Carl D. Bradley}} breaks up and sinks in a storm on [[Lake Michigan]]; 33 of the 35 crewmen on board perish.
* [[November 20]] – [[The Jim Henson Company]] is founded as [[The Muppets|Muppets, Inc.]] in the United States.
* [[November 22]] – [[1958 Australian federal election]]: [[Robert Menzies]]' [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Menzies Government (1949-66)|Government]] is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[H.V. Evatt]]. This is the first election where television is used as a medium for communicating with voters. Evatt will eventually resign as Labor leader and will be [[1960 Australian Labor Party leadership election|replaced]] by his deputy [[Arthur Calwell]].
* [[November 25]] – [[French Sudan]] gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the [[French Community|French colonial empire]].
* [[November 28]] – [[Chad]], the [[Republic of the Congo]] and [[Gabon]] become autonomous republics within the French colonial empire.
* [[November 30]] – [[Gaullism|Gaullists]] win the [[1958 French legislative election|French parliamentary election]].

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1958}}
* [[December 1]]
** [[Our Lady of the Angels School fire]]: 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire in Chicago.
** [[Adolfo López Mateos]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
* [[December 14]] – The [[3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition]] becomes the first ever to reach the Southern [[Pole of Inaccessibility]].
* [[December 15]] – [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow|Arthur L. Schawlow]] and [[Charles Hard Townes|Charles H. Townes]] of [[Bell Laboratories]] publish a paper in ''[[Physical Review|Physical Review Letters]]'' setting out the principles of the [[optical laser]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Research Frontier|journal=Air University Quarterly Review|publisher=U.S. Air University|issue=October|year=1961|page=113}}</ref>
* [[December 16]]
** A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in [[Bogotá, Colombia]] and kills 84 persons.
** [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] polar pilot V. M. Perov on [[Li-2]] rescues four Belgian polar explorers, led by [[Gaston de Gerlache]], who have survived a plane crash in [[Antarctica]] 250&nbsp;km from their base five days earlier.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015019278947;view=1up;seq=456 Rescue of Belgian Plane Crew in Antarctic], Soviet Bloc International Geophysical Year Information, January 16, 1959, U. S. Department of Commerce, pp. 18–19</ref>
* [[December 18]]
** The United States launches [[SCORE (satellite)|SCORE]], the world's first [[communications satellite]].
** The [[Bell XV-3]] [[Tiltrotor]] makes the first true mid-air transition from vertical helicopter-type flight to fully level fixed-wing flight.
* [[December 19]] – A message from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is broadcast from the [[SCORE (satellite)|SCORE satellite]].
* [[December 21]] – General [[Charles de Gaulle]] is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes.
* [[December 24]] – [[1958 BOAC Bristol Britannia crash]]: A [[BOAC]] [[Bristol Britannia]] (312 [[G-AOVD]]) crashes near Winkton, England, during a test flight, killing nine people. Three crew members survive.<ref>{{ASN accident|id=19581224-1}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Battle of Santa Clara]]: Rebel troops under [[Camilo Cienfuegos]] and [[Che Guevara]] begin to invade [[Santa Clara, Cuba]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Calder | first = Simon | title = Cuba | publisher = Vacation Work | location = Oxford | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781854582218 | page=263}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] – The [[Guatemalan Air Force]] fires on Mexican fishing boats which had strayed into [[Guatemala]]n territory, triggering the [[Mexico–Guatemala conflict]].
* [[December 31]] – After the fall of Santa Clara, Cuban President [[Fulgencio Batista]] flees the country.

=== Undated ===
* For the first time, the total of transatlantic passengers carried by air this year exceeds the total carried by sea.
* [[Denatonium]], the [[Bitter (taste)|bitterest]] substance known, is discovered. It is used as an [[aversive agent]] in products such as bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Holvoet|first1=Jean-Patrick|title=Denatonium|url=http://www.sentinalco.com/page/denatonium/f1.html|publisher=Sentinalco|access-date=2 October 2015}}</ref>