Editing 1958 (section)

=== 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.