31 January 1958Explorer I First American SatelliteDwight David Eisenhower
The United States launches Explorer I, its first successful artificial satellite.
Historical records for United States of America in 1958, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The United States launches Explorer I, its first successful artificial satellite.
The Department of Defense establishes ARPA as the administration accelerates advanced research after Sputnik.
Lee's unit departed Corregidor aboard the USS Wexford County on March 7, 1958, returning to Atsugi eleven days later.
Restricts arms shipments to Batista's government.
Oswald faced a court-martial on April 11, 1958, for possessing an unregistered privately owned weapon in violation of orders.
Lee received a sentence including reduction to private and financial forfeitures following his first Marine court-martial.
A dispute with a Marine sergeant at the Bluebird Cafe led to charges that produced Lee's second court-martial.
Oswald was court-martialed a second time on June 27, 1958, after an altercation with a noncommissioned officer.
Signs the Alaska Statehood Act authorizing admission of Alaska to the Union.
McCone became the fourth Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, succeeding Lewis Strauss and beginning a term that lasted until January 1961.
Orders United States Marines into Lebanon at the request of President Camille Chamoun during the Middle East crisis.
Signs legislation creating NASA, the agency that later runs Apollo.
McCone discussed a proposal with Secretary John Foster Dulles for limiting nuclear tests while preserving carefully controlled underground development work.
Signs legislation strengthening the authority of the Secretary of Defense and improving unified military command arrangements.
Lee remained confined following his second court-martial until August 13, 1958, after earlier suspended confinement was reinstated.
The shelling of Quemoy and Matsu begins a new Taiwan Strait crisis requiring major American military and diplomatic attention.
Signs the National Defense Education Act to expand federal support for science, mathematics, languages and higher education.
Accepts a mobile isotope laboratory presented to the IAEA by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
NASA begins operations, absorbing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and becoming the civilian space agency.
The final United States forces leave Lebanon after the political crisis stabilizes.
As AEC chairman, McCone oversaw Commission responsibilities when the United States suspended nuclear weapons testing as Geneva negotiations opened.
The United States joins a voluntary nuclear testing moratorium while negotiations for a comprehensive test ban continue.
"Colonialism...brought the great ideas which provided the great ideas for progress"
The Agency issues Safety Series No. 1, Safe Handling of Radioisotopes, its first formal publication.
Founded in 1958 by Robert W. Welch Jr. in Indianapolis, Indiana, named after John Birch, a United States military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary in World War II who was killed in 1945 by supporters of the Communist Party of China
One of the founder members of the John Birch Society
Founded in 1958 by Robert W. Welch Jr. in Indianapolis, Indiana, named after John Birch, a United States military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary in World War II who was killed in 1945 by supporters of the Communist Party of China
McCone argued that any nuclear test suspension should rest on a bilateral or multilateral agreement containing effective inspection and verification safeguards.
Oswald was assigned to Marine Air Control Squadron 9 at El Toro on December 22, 1958, and worked with a radar crew.
The IAEA establishes a standing Scientific Advisory Committee to guide its early scientific and technical programmes.
Sturgis opens a training camp in the Sierra Maestra mountains, where he teaches Che Guevara and other 26th of July Movement rebel soldiers guerrilla warfare
Appears in Ambush at Cimarron Pass, one of his final films before Rawhide made him prominent.
Stars in "Some Like It Hot", wins BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor
Directs, The Big Country
National Defence Education Act pumps $2B PA into education to win the "brain race"
Publication of "Breakfast At Tiffanys"
Stars in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Paul Newman appeares with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the feature films "The Long, Hot Summer" & "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!"
While deployed in the Philippines, Lee's Marine unit participated in exercises at Corregidor before returning to Japan.
Makes early home recordings as a teenager before beginning his professional music career.
Shows that disorder can localize electron wavefunctions and suppress electrical conduction, now called Anderson localization.
David Finkelstein identifies the Schwarzschild surface r = 2m [in geometrized units, i.e. 2Gm/c2, where r is the radius of the surface and m is the mass of the black hole] as an event horizon
The IAEA sends its first technical assistance equipment to Pakistan, Thailand and the United Arab Republic.
Stars in "Some Like It Hot", wins Golden Globe Award for Best Actor
Monroes performance in Some Like it Hot earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and prompted Variety to call her "a comedienne with that combination of sex appeal and timing that just cant be beat"
Announces a nuclear test ban for 1 year
Appointed Governor of New York
The Quiet American, an adaptation of Graham Greenes 1955 novel about the seed of American military involvement in what would become the Vietnam War
Appointed Director of the Harvard Defence Studies Program from 1958 to 1971
Appears in Lafayette Escadrille, a war film released before his Rawhide breakthrough.
Cast in his first lead role in Roger Cormans Machine-Gun Kelly, a low-budget, though well received, gangster film
Publication of "Masters of Deceit"
Writes "Stride Toward Freedom", about the bus boycott
Publication of "No More War!", part of a peace campaign against war
Publication of "No More War!", part of a peace campaign against war
Naval reactors create demand for enriched uranium fuel.
Billboard magazine begins Hot 100 chart listing popular songs. Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" is the first No. 1 record
Publication of "Power & Diplomacy"
Publication of "Power & Diplomacy"
Accounts of Sturgis's Cuban period describe military and training contacts with forces supporting Castro before the revolution succeeded.
Billboard magazine begins Hot 100 chart listing popular songs. Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" is the first No. 1 record
Sturgis became involved in military training connected with Castro's rebel forces in Cuba before later turning against the Castro government.
Stars in "Some Like It Hot"
Stars opposite Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in Billy Wilders comedy Some Like It Hot. Monroes performance in Some Like it Hot earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and prompted Variety to call her "a comedienne with that combination of sex appeal and timing that just cant be beat"
Moves increasingly from drums to guitar, which becomes his principal performing instrument.
Develops principles for high-resolution synthetic aperture radar imaging.
Paul Newman appeares with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the feature films "The Long, Hot Summer" & "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!"
Plays a Mexican police officer named Ramon Miguel Vargas in Orson Welless widely acclaimed film noir Touch of Evil
Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles
Stas in Vertigo
Stars in, "Vertigo"
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