Editing 1958 (section)

=== 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>