stone-relics Wrote:
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> January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is
> implemented.
> January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its
> orbit (launched on October 4, 1957).
> January 18 - Armed Lumbee Indians confront a
> handful of Klansmen at the town of Maxton, North
> Carolina.
> The first successful American satellite, Explorer
> I, is launched into orbit.
> February 2 - The word Aerospace is coined, from
> the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space)
> taking into consideration that the Earth's
> atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a
> single realm.
> February 17 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare
> the patron saint of television
> February 25 - Bertrand Russell launches the
> Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
> March 8 - USS Wisconsin is decommissioned, leaving
> the United States Navy without an active
> battleship for the first time since 1896
> (recommissioned OMarch 11 - U.S. B-47 bomber
> accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff,
> South Carolina. Its conventional explosives
> destroy a house and injure several people, but no
> nuclear fission occursctober 22, 1988).
> March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of
> the Soviet Union. --My Birthday...1958
> April 3 - Castro's revolutionary army begins its
> attacks on Havana.
> April 4 - The daughter of the actress Lana Turner
> stabs her mother's gangster lover to death
> (eventually ruled self-defense).
> April 15 - The first Major League Baseball regular
> season game ever played in California as the San
> Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-0
> at San Francisco's Seals Stadium.
> May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers
> killed in action during World War II and the
> Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns
> in Arlington National Cemetery.
> President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska
> Statehood Act into United States law.
> July 10 - 7.5 Richter scale earthquake in Lituya
> Bay, Alaska, causes a landslide that produces a
> huge 520-meter high wave
> July 29 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the
> National Aeronautics and Space Administration
> (NASA).
> December 28 - The Baltimore Colts beat The New
> York Giants 23-17 in overtime to win The NFL
> Championship.
>
>
> JR 1958
All good news the year you were born, I see, John... I always knew you were trouble....