Editing 1958 (section)

=== 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]].