Editing 1958 (section)

=== 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]].