May 1958

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U.S. Vice President's motorcade attacked by mob during visit to Venezuela
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May 13, 1958: French Army Generals Salan and Massu mutiny, seize control French Algeria from France
May 13, 1958: French Algeria (orange) declared separate from France (green) by mutinous French Army officers
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May 28, 1958: Prime Minister Pflimlin of France steps down in crisis to make way for return of General Charles de Gaulle

The following events occurred in May 1958:

May 1, 1958 (Thursday)

  • Television broadcasting began in the
    People's Republic of China as Peking Television at 7:00 in the evening local time with experimental two-hour broadcasts in Beijing. The station moved to three hours and 30 minutes of regular nightly programming on September 2, 1958, and would continue on that schedule for 20 years.[1]
  • The Nordic Passport Union came into force after an agreement signed on July 12, 1957, allowing residents of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to cross through specially approved districts within the member nations without needing to show a passport.
  • Arturo Frondizi became President of Argentina.[2][3]
  • U.S. space scientist
    manned space flight" and that spacecraft would need to be redesigned to protect against it. "The radiation is so intense," a reporter wrote, "that a space traveler could use up his weekly tolerance dose of radiation in one and a half hours."[5]
  • Died: Oscar Torp, Prime Minister of Norway from 1951 to 1955 and the incumbent president of Norway's parliament, the Storting.[6]

May 2, 1958 (Friday)

May 3, 1958 (Saturday)

May 4, 1958 (Sunday)

  • Voting was held for the 60-seat Sapha Haeng Xat, the lower house of the parliament of the southeast Asian kingdom of Laos. The chamber had been increased by 21 seats since the last election [15] and most of the new seats were won by the Neo Lao Sang Xat (Lao Patriotic Front), a Communist political party of the Pathet Lao and led by Prince Souphanouvong.[16] The moderate Phak Xat Kao Na (National Progressive Party) led by Souphanouvong's half-brother, Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma, lost its 22-of-39 seats majority but retained a plurality of 26 of 60 seats.
  • Voters in Colombia overwhelmingly approved the election of Alberto Lleras Camargo, the first president in the South American nation to be nominated by both major political parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals. Another member of the Conservatives, Jorge Leyva, had been put forward by members of the parliament who had not approved of Lleras as a bipartisan candidate. Out of slightly more than three million votes cast, Lleras won 80 percent.[17]
  • Real Madrid finished in first place on the final day of the 1957-58 season in Spain's premier soccer football league, La Liga with a record of 20 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses (45 points), three points ahead of Atlético Madrid (with 16 wins and 10 draws for 42 points). Going into the 30th and final game, Real Madrid had already clinched the title after a match the week before where it and Atletico Madrid had played to a 1 to 1 draw.[18]
  • Born: Keith Haring, American pop artist and LGBTQ activist; in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
  • Died: Elaine Sterne Carrington, 66, American writer and producer who in 1932 created the first soap opera, a radio drama series for the NBC Blue network. The program which would become the 15-minute afternoon show Pepper Young's Family, originated as a Sunday night show called Red Adams, before the Beech-Nut Gum manufacturer agreed to become a sponsor conditioned on the change in name to avoid association with a rival product, Adams Gum. Mrs. Carrington wrote the scripts for 12,000 episodes of three different soap operas.[19]

May 5, 1958 (Monday)

May 6, 1958 (Tuesday)

  • Millions of people in the United States, including U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, went to the fallout shelter nearest to them in a nationwide civil defense drill, Operation Alert 1958. The exercise was held in 46 of the 48 U.S. states, with Michigan and Indiana excused from participation because of pre-scheduled statewide events. At 10:30 Eastern time, sirens signaled that persons outside should look for the nearest shelter as an exercise for the time that a nuclear bomb might be dropped on their area. The drill ended after 10 minutes.[24][25][26][27]
  • The last execution in Wales took place at the Swansea Prison when Vivian Frederick Teed, a 24-year-old man, was hanged for the 1957 hammer murder of the manager of the branch post office of Fforestfach during a robbery.[28][29]
  • Died: Alfred M. Best, 81, American insurance industry executive who founded the A. M. Best service to evaluate and publish a rating of the financial stability of insurance companies.[30]

May 7, 1958 (Wednesday)

May 8, 1958 (Thursday)

  • telescoped together. Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek dismissed three officials of the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil
    for negligence.
  • U.S. Vice President
    Richard M. Nixon was threatened by a hostile crowd of 2,000 leftist rioters while he was visiting Lima, the capital of Peru, as part of an official tour of South America. Nixon got out of his automobile to confront demonstrators who had massed outside of the University of San Marcos and "was spat upon, grazed on the neck by a stone, shoved and booed". A reporter at the scene wrote, "Pale with anger but keeping a tight smile on his lips, Mr. Nixon stood his ground for four minutes though engulfed by screaming demonstrators. He challenged them to face him in a debate." [33]
  • King Mohammed V of Morocco promulgated a royal charter to guide the North African nation to a constitutional monarchy, providing for an elected legislature and delegating more power to his cabinet of ministers. The King requested Ahmed Balafrej to form a new government as prime minister under the new system.[34] Balafrej accepted and formed a cabinet five days later.[35]
  • The collapse of a wall, in a mine tunnel beneath the seabed near the Japanese city of Sasebo, drowned 29 coal miners.[36]
  • Maronite Christian) broke out, beginning a civil war
    that would later be put ended by U.S. intervention.
  • U.S. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose district encompassed Harlem in New York City, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of income tax evasion.[38]
  • Horror of Dracula, released by Britain's Hammer Film Productions, was premiered with Christopher Lee making the first of nine appearances as the vampire from the Bram Stoker 1897 novel, and Peter Cushing in the first of five films as Count Dracula's nemesis, Dr. Van Helsing. Despite being produced in the United Kingdom, the film premiered in the United States before being premiered as Dracula two weeks later, on May 22 in London [39][40] (the title had been altered in the U.S. to avoid conflict with the 1931 Universal Pictures film. The British version embellished Count Dracula with fangs, red contact lenses, and more blood.[41]
  • Died: Norman Bel Geddes, 65, American industrial designer and theatrical producer, died of a heart attack while having lunch with a friend at New York City's University Club.[42]

May 9, 1958 (Friday)

May 10, 1958 (Saturday)

May 11, 1958 (Sunday)

May 12, 1958 (Monday)

  • A formal agreement establishing the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was signed between the United States and Canada.[55] The next day, the governments of the U.S. and Canada agreed jointly to authorize their air defense forces "to retaliate without government consultation in the event of an enemy attack on the North American continent." The U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) was not part of the agreement, and President Eisenhower alone could make the decision to allow the SAC to use its nuclear weapons.[56]
  • Born: Dries van Noten, Belgian fashion designer; in Antwerp
  • Died: Dr. Corydon M. Wassell, 73, U.S. Navy physician and World War II hero profiled in the 1944 Cecil B. DeMille film The Story of Dr. Wassell [57]

May 13, 1958 (Tuesday)

  • A hostile crowd in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, carried out a violent attack meant to injure the Vice President of the United States, Richard Nixon, along with Venezuela's Foreign Minister Óscar García Velutini.[58] Because of violence at an earlier visit to Peru, Vice President Nixon and his wife traveled in a closed-top car rather than in a convertible when the motorcade was slowed down by heavy traffic. While Caracas police stood by, the crowd cracked the bulletproof glass windows of the car with rocks and with their fists, and tried to overturn the car. Twelve U.S. Secret Service agents were traveling with Nixon and drew weapons, preparing to fire into the crowd, and Nixon ordered the agent-in-charge, Jack Sherwood, to hold fire unless Nixon gave the order to shoot. Nixon had earlier received intelligence briefing that indicated that he might be the target of an assassination attempt in Caracas.[59]
  • seized government offices in Algiers in an attempt to prevent the North African colony from going from an overseas department (département d'outre-mer) to a republic under the rule of the majority Arab Algerian population (at the time, there were one million European residents and nine million Algerian Muslims). French Army Brigadier General Jacques Massu headed an 11-member junta made up of four French Army officers and seven European Algerian civilians, the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety), to rule Algeria.[60] At the same time, rebel officers and troops demanded that General Charles de Gaulle return to office as Prime Minister of France and to cease further action in turning Algeria over to the native Arab Algerians.[61] At the same time, a mob of French nationalists, opposed to the loss of Algeria as three overseas départements of France, marched on the National Assembly but were halted by Paris gendarmes before they were able to reach the building.[62] The uprising would lead to the downfall of the French government and the end of the French Fourth Republic
    system of government by October 4.
  • In Lebanon, an armed insurrection against the government of President Camille Chamoun began, with rebels cutting off one of the major oil pipelines that supplied the Middle Eastern nation (and tankers bound for Western Europe) with petroleum from the Kirkuk oil field in Iraq.[63]
  • Ben Carlin of Canada became the first person to drive around the world, arriving back at Halifax, Nova Scotia, almost eight years after his departure in an amphibious jeep on July 19, 1950.[64]
  • Baseball player Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals reached a major league mark held by only seven other people up to that time, getting his 3,000th major league hit that proved key to victory over the host Chicago Cubs. Originally, the plan was for "Stan the Man" to stay on the bench during the game so that he could have reach the milestone before the hometown fans in St. Louis, but with the Cards down 3—1 after five innings, he was called up as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning and, with two strikes in his at-bat, hit a double to drive in one run, the first of a four-run rally that won the game.[65]
  • Born:
    • Juan Ángel Napout, Paraguayan sports administrator who served as president of the governing body of South American soccer football, CONMEBOL, for 16 months before being arrested on bribery charges; in Asunción
    • Ceylon
      (now Sri Lanka)

May 14, 1958 (Wednesday)

  • Pierre Pflimlin took office as Prime Minister of France after his nomination had been approved in the early hours of the morning by the National Assembly's 274 to 129 vote, the day after the outbreak of the rebellion by French Army officers in Algeria.[66] Pfimlin would serve for only 18 days before being forced to resign in the wake of the crisis. At the same time, the new junta in French Algeria by dissident French Army officers found that it had been unable to stop the approval of Pfimlin or to win the support of General de Gaulle. General Massu, the junta chairman, acknowledged his disappointment at a news conference and said that he had no intention of setting up an insurrectionist government, and said that he had accepted leadership in order to placate the 40,000 persons who had seized government offices.[67]
  • The Christmas Island Act was given royal assent in Britain to enable the transfer of the Indian Ocean island from the jurisdiction of Singapore to that of Australia.[68] The transfer would take place on October 1.[69]
  • U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon cut short their tour of South America after being summoned home by U.S. President Eisenhower. The Nixons flew from Caracas, scene of the mob action of the vice president, and landed in U.S. territory in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, a missiles cruiser, six destroyers and two companies of U.S. Marines had been sent to Venezuela to protect the Nixons and their entourage.
  • The purchase of a new "Air Force One" was approved by President Eisenhower and for the first time, a jet airplane would be used to transport the U.S. President. A fleet of three Boeing 707 jets was bought to transport the president and other top U.S. government officials.[70]
  • Born: Rudy Pérez, Cuban-born American producer of Latin music; in Pinar del Río
  • Died: Thomas L. Stokes, 59, American investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, from a brain tumor

May 15, 1958 (Thursday)

  • The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 3, at 2,925 pounds (1,327 kg) the heaviest object put into orbit up to that time. Referring to Vanguard 1, the 3.25 pounds (1.47 kg) satellite sent up by the U.S. in March, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said, "They will need very many satellites the size of oranges in order to catch up with the Soviet Union."[71]
  • A spokesman for the Comité de salut public, the junta led by French Army General
    Constantine.[72]
  • French Army General Charles de Gaulle declared that he would be willing to assume leadership of France again if necessary.[73]
  • The crash of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 205 killed 21 of the 38 people on board.[74] The Convair CV-240 took off from Delhi in India toward Karachi in Pakistan in dusty conditions, then descended back to the ground when the pilot was confused by the flight instruments and apparently had a "head up" illusion in which the perception of tilting too far upward is compensated by tilting the plane downward. Two people on the ground were killed as well.

May 16, 1958 (Friday)

May 17, 1958 (Saturday)

May 18, 1958 (Sunday)

  • The crash of a Sabena Airlines Douglas DC-7 killed 65 of the 69 people on board when the airliner crashed through an airport building while attempting to make an emergency landing in Casablanca in Morocco.[86] The flight had originated in Brussels and most of the passengers were Belgians who had visited the 1958 World's Fair and were on their way back to their homes in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[87] After a stop in Lisbon, the flight was on its way to Léopoldville (now Kinshasa]) when it encountered engine trouble, then crashed at the airport. An alert passenger opened the passenger door and three others followed him out before the plane exploded.
  • The involvement of the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA in a covert action against the government of Indonesia was revealed when CIA pilot Allen Pope was captured alive after his B-26 bomber was shot down while he was attacking Indonesian Army transport ships.[88][89] Pope would subsequently be found guilty of killing 17 Indonesian servicemen and six civilians, and sentenced to death, but the U.S. would negotiate his release in exchange for 10 C-130 Hercules military transport planes. Pope would be freed on July 2, 1962.[90]
  • Coupe de France, 3 to 1, against second-place finisher Nîmes Olympique, before a crowd of 56,523 at the Stade Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes
    .
  • Died:

May 19, 1958 (Monday)

  • A cabinet of ministers composed of members from both Iraq and Jordan took office as the first ever for the new Arab Federation between the two kingdoms. King Faisal II of Iraq was the monarch of the Federation (with his cousin, King Hussein of Jordan as the Crown Prince). Nuri al-Said of Iraq was sworn in as the Premier, with Ibrahim Hashem of Jordan as the Deputy Premier. Iraqis were the ministers for the Treasury and Foreign Affairs, while a Jordanian was Minister of Defense. Ministers for domestic affairs remained separate for Iraq and Jordan.[92]
  • Died:
    • Ronald Colman, 67, British-American film actor and 1947 Academy Award winner [93]
    • Archie Scott Brown, 31, Scottish Formula One and sports car racer who won the 1957 British Empire Trophy race despite disabilities including having only one hand, died from injures sustained the day before in a crash while competing at the Spa Grand Prix at the Francorchamps racetrack in Belgium. He was in the lead when his Lister Jaguar car skidded off the road, overturned and caught fire.[94][95]

May 20, 1958 (Tuesday)

  • In Cuba, the government of Fulgencio Batista launched a counteroffensive against Castro's rebels.
  • All 11 people aboard Capital Airlines Flight 300 were killed when the Vickers Viscount 745D was struck by a Maryland National Guard T-33 training jet at an altitude of 8,000 feet (2,400 m). Wreckage of the airliner fell onto a farm near Brunswick, Maryland. The plane, which had room for 48 passengers but was carrying only seven, was approaching Baltimore at the end of flight from Pittsburgh, where 27 of the people on board had departed after arriving from Chicago.[96] The flight instructor was able to eject before the crash and parachuted to safety.[97]
  • Robert C. Baumann became the first person to receive a U.S. patent for the invention of a satellite. He had filed the application for creating the solar-powered Vanguard 1, the fourth orbiting satellite (after Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2 and Explorer 1) on August 1, 1957.[98] The invention was awarded U.S. Patent 2,835,548.[99]
  • The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the U.S. Air Force signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning principles in the development and testing of the Air Force's Hypersonic Boost Glide Vehicle (Dyna Soar I).[100]
  • Born: Ron Reagan, American liberal political commentator and radio talk-show host; in Los Angeles, to actress Nancy Davis and film and TV actor Ronald Reagan, the future First Lady and President of the United States.[101]
  • Died:
    • Dole Food Company
    • Frédéric François-Marsal, 84, French politician who briefly served as the acting president and prime minister of France in 1924 after the resignation of Alexandre Millerand

May 21, 1958 (Wednesday)

May 22, 1958 (Thursday)

May 23, 1958 (Friday)

  • The first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1 ceased transmission as the batteries on the second of the two transmitters stopped working at 10:30 in the morning Eastern time.[109] Explorer had been launched on January 30 and circled the Earth every 115 minutes, or 25 times every two days. It would continue to orbit almost 12 more years after its batteries died, falling out of orbit on March 31, 1970 after 58,400 orbits.[110]
  • Four days after the collision between a U.S. Air Force training aircraft and the passenger airliner that killed everyone on Capital Airlines Flight 300, U.S. President Eisenhower issued an immediate order for a five-point safety program to ban non-tactical military flights below 20,000 feet (6,100 m) in a designated federal airway, including failure to use instruments. The new rules went into effect after midnight the next day.[111]
  • Alexey Dobrovolsky and several other members of the neo-Nazi Russian National Socialist Party (RNSP) were arrested after distributing leaflets "with anti-Soviet and anti-communist slogans" as well as advocating the overthrow of the Soviet government. After conviction, Dobrovolsky and his fellow RNSP members were sentenced to three years in prison camps. After his release in 1961, he would join another right-wing dissident group and be re-arrested in 1964 and sent for a year to a government psychiatric hospital for "delusions of reformism".
  • Al Ahly Sporting Club of Egypt won its eighth consecutive Egyptian Premier League title in soccer football, under a new system that divided the 16-team league in to two 8-team divisions and then had the first place finisher in each division face each other in a two game playoff. After a 1-1 draw against Zamalek SC, the perennial second place finisher, Al Ahly defeated Zamalek 3-1 in the second match, for an aggregate score of 4 to 2. Both teams were based in Cairo.
  • Born:

May 24, 1958 (Saturday)

May 25, 1958 (Sunday)

May 26, 1958 (Monday)

  • Located in the U.S. in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the first atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime use, was dedicated by U.S. President Eisenhower, although the reactor had been operational since December 18. The President remained at the White House and spoke to the assembled crowd by telephone and at the end of his brief speech, "the President waved a neutron wand above a neutron counter to start by remote control an electric motor," which "opened the main turbine throttle valve, raising power production to 60,000 kilowatts" in Shippingport.[122] Eisenhower had used the "neutron wand" (which generated mild radioactivity to test a Geiger counter) to remotely activate an unmanned power shovel for the groundbreaking ceremony on September 6, 1954.[123] The reactor would operate until October 1, 1982, and the plant decommissioned in 1989.
  • The new government of the island of Corsica, which had overthrown the French-appointed territorial administration and replaced it with a military junta, came under the administration of the military government of French Algeria. General Raoul Salan, the French leader of the new Algerian government, appointed and other French Army officer, Colonel Robert Thomazo, as the new military governor of Corsica.[124][125]
  • Soviet soccer football player Eduard "Edik" Streltsov, a forward for FC Torpedo Moscow and one of the stars of the Soviet national team, was arrested shortly before he was to appear in the 1958 World Cup, was arrested along with his comrades on the national team, Mikhail Ogonkov and Boris Tatushin of FC Spartak Moscow.[126] All three were charged with rape on questionable evidence, and Streltsov would be convicted and sentenced to 12 years in one of the Gulag forced labor camps. Released on February 4, 1963, after nearly five years incarceration, Streltsov would be allowed to return to professional soccer football in 1965 and again become a star.
  • The first Czechoslovakian Wolfdogs, a hybrid of a wolf and a dog, were born at a military base in Libějovice (now in the Czech Republic) from a Carpathian grey wolf named "Brita" after breeding with a German Shepherd named "Cézar".[127] The breed would eventually be recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI or International Canine Federation) in 1989.
  • Born: Margaret Colin, American TV actress known for As the World Turns and Gossip Girl; in Brooklyn
  • Died:
    • Constantin "Bazu" Cantacuzino, 52, Romania's greatest flying ace during World War II, with 43 confirmed shootdowns; he had previously been captain of the world champion Romanian ice hockey team
    • Cheong Yoke Choy, 84, Chinese-born Malayan philanthropist

May 27, 1958 (Tuesday)

  • The F-4 Phantom fighter jet, created by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation made its first flight, with test pilot Robert C. Little as its first pilot.
  • France's Prime Minister Pierre Pflimlin and his government won a vote of confidence for proposed constitutional reforms, 408 to 165 in the French National Assembly, despite being opposed by an increasing number of military officers who wanted Charles de Gaulle to return to power. Despite the victory, Pflimlin tendered his resignation early the next morning.[128]
  • U.S. President Eisenhower signed into law a rule raising the price of a stamp by 33 percent, from 3 cents to 4 cents, effective August 1. Eisenhower had sought to raise the postage rate for letter going out of town by two-thirds, from 3 cents to five cents.[129]
  • Ernest Green, one of the nine African-Americans who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became the first-ever black graduate of the formerly all-white school.[130]
  • Born:
  • Died:
    • Cardinal Samuel Stritch, 70, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, died in Rome[131] a month after having arrived on April 26 to become the new Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Hours after arriving to begin his new job,[132] Stritch suffered a thrombosis in his right arm,[133] and had his arm amputated two days later.[134] and suffered a stroke on May 19 while still hospitalized.[135]
    • Lionel Shapiro, 50, Canadian journalist and novelist known for his romantic novel The Sixth of June which was adapted to a popular film.

May 28, 1958 (Wednesday)

May 29, 1958 (Thursday)

May 30, 1958 (Friday)

  • The bodies of two unidentified United States soldiers, one killed in action during World War II and one killed in action in the
    Tomb of the Unknowns, in Arlington National Cemetery.[143]
  • On the first lap of the annual Indianapolis 500 race, a chain reaction pileup of 13 race cars killed driver Pat O'Connor, a favorite of the crowd.[144] Only 13 drivers out of the starting field of 33 were on the track by race's end, first of whom was winner Jimmy Bryan.
  • The Douglas DC-8 narrow body airliner, designed to compete with the Boeing 707, made its first test flight.
  • The late
    Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 1 was given its first performance, 50 years after he had written it, premiering in Basel in Switzerland. Mason, Colin (1958).[145]
  • Born: Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-born U.S. astronaut known for three Space Shuttle missions launched from the U.S., one mission to the International Space Station launched from Russia, and for Axiom-1, the first all-private space tourist mission; in Madrid
  • Died:
    • British Army Major Jocelyn Lee Hardy, 63, military officer known for his courage on the battlefield and multiple escapes from German POW camps
    • Maximilian Pilzer, 68, American symphony conductor, died of a concussion of the brain after collapsing during a concert in front of an audience of thousands. According to The New York Times "Mr. Pilzer was conducting Johann Strauss's gay overture to Die Fledermaus when he fell backward. His head struck the edge of the stage, where there is a strip of concrete." Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful, and Pilzer was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.[146]

May 31, 1958 (Saturday)

  • President Coty formally appointed Charles de Gaulle as the new Premier of France after negotiations between de Gaulle and the leaders of several political parties at de Gaulle's headquarters at the Hotel la Perouse in Paris.[147] De Gaulle then proceeded to the president's offices at the Élysée Palace for the widely-anticipated meeting with Coty, and de Gaulle and Coty then made the announcement to reporters at 7:10 in the evening.[148] France's Socialist Party was split on the issue of supporting de Gaulle, with 44 of the 95 Socialist deputies agreeing to vote with other pro-de Gaulle legislators.[149]
  • Portugal's Council of State permitted General Humberto Delgado, an opponent of Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, to run for President of Portugal, despite Salazar's domination of the Council by autocratic rule and Delgado's own statement about Salazar (in a May 10 interview) that if elected president on June 8, "Obviously, I'll fire him!"[150] The Council accepted the candidacy of Salazar's choice for president, Américo Tomás, who would win the controversial election.
  • The first Pizza Hut restaurant opened, as brothers Dan and Frank Carney began operating at a location in Wichita, Kansas, at 503 South Bluff Street. Within a year, they had six restaurants, and more than 60 years later, almost 19,000 worldwide.[151]
  • Public buses in the
    Judge J. Skelly Wright eliminating the practice of requiring African-Americans to sit at the back of the bus, separate from white passengers sitting in the front.[152]
  • Died: Mary Welch, 35, American stage actress and wife of actor David White, died of complications of pregnancy. Welch had taken leave from performing the role of Marguerite LeHand on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning play Sunrise at Campobello.[153]

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  33. ^ "Nixon Is Stoned by Peru Rioters Headed by Reds; Braves 'Student' Violence but Is Forced to Abandon Debate on U. S. Policy", by Tad Szulc, The New York Times, May 9, 1958, p. 1
  34. ^ "Morocco's King Grants Rights To Cabinet and New Assembly", by Thomas F. Brady, The New York Times, May 9, 1958, p. 3
  35. ^ "Morocco Inducts Rightist Cabinet", by Thomas F. Brady, The New York Times, May 13, 1958, p. 3
  36. ^ "29 Japanese Miners Trapped", The New York Times, May 9, 1958, p. 2
  37. ^ "Pro-Nasser Lebanese Slain", The New York Times, May 9, 1958, p. 2
  38. ^ "Powell Indicted in U.S. Tax Inquiry; Tammany to Act", by Edward Ranzal, The New York Times, May 9, 1958, p. 1
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  40. ^ "Mr. Lee Is Making His Mark In The Monster Business", Liverpool Echo, May 24, 1958, p. 6
  41. ^ "Hallowe'en: Why Dracula just won't die", by Christopher Frayling, The Telegraph (London), October 31, 2007
  42. ^ "Norman Bel Geddes Dies at 65; Stage and Industrial Designer— Creator of Futurama at '39 World's Fair Did Setting for 'Miracle' in 1923", The New York Times, May 9, 1958, p. 23
  43. ^ "Pakistan Leader, 76, Is Slain by Assassin", The New York Times, May 10, 1958, p. 1
  44. ^ "Paul Robeson Sings, Lectures In First City Recital in 11 Years", by Harold C. Schonberg, The New York Times, May 10, 1958, p. 19
  45. ^ Dan Auiler, Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic (Macmillan, 2000) p. 174
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  47. ^ "Botvinnik Regains World Chess Title Without Resuming Play in 23d Game; Smyslov's Offer of Draw Decides", The New York Times, May 10, 1958, p. 25
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  49. ^ "Joseph E. Davies, Diplomat, Is Dead", The New York Times, May 10, 1958, p. 21
  50. ^ "Bill Goodwin, 47, Announcer on Radio, Dies", Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1958
  51. ^ "Red Skelton's Son Dies Thinking of Mother; Writer Tells How Comedian and Wife Spent Grief-Filled Hours After Death", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 12, 1958, p. 1
  52. ^ "Karmanalis Tops Voting in Greece; Pro-Western Ex-Premier Is Near a Clear Majority", by A. C. Sedgwick, The New York Times, May 12, 1958, p. 1
  53. ^ "Wexford Takes Final; Tops Limerick in Hurling at Dublin, 22 Points to 20", The New York Times, May 12, 1958, p. 34
  54. ^ "Iran Executes Top Red— Party Chief Tried in Secret by the Army", The New York Times, May 12, 1958, p. 2
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  56. ^ "Swift Reprisal Set For Arctic Attack", The New York Times, May 17, 1958, p. 1
  57. ^ "Dr. Wassell Dies; Navy Hero in War— Medical Missionary Hailed in Book and Movie for Saving Sailors on Java", The New York Times, May 13, 1958, p. 29
  58. ^ "U.S. Flies Troops to Caribbean as Mobs Attack Nixon in Caracas; Eisenhower Demands His Safety— Vice President Unhurt As Furious Crowds Halt Reception", by Tad Szulc, The New York Times, May 13, 1958, p. 1
  59. ^ "U.S. Aides Report Anti-Nixon Plot; Officials Say Attempt May Be Made in Caracas on Vice President's Life", by Tad Szulc, The New York Times, May 13, 1958, p. 13
  60. ^ "Junta Taxes Algiers Rule; France Fears Civil War", The New York Times, May 14, 1958, p. 1
  61. ^ "Army Group in Algeria Asks Power for de Gaulle", The New York Times, May 14, 1958, p. 1
  62. ^ "Rioters in Paris Halted by Police— Right-Wing Mob, Bitter Over Algeria, Is Blocked in March on Assembly", by W. Granger Blair, The New York Times, May 14, 1958, p. 1
  63. ^ "Armed Rebellion Erupts in Beirut", by Foster Hailey, The New York Times, May 13, 1958, p. 1
  64. ^ "Amphibian Traveler Home After 10 Years", Montreal Gazette, May 13, 1958, p. 3
  65. ^ "Musial's 3,000th Major League Hit Helps Cards Top Cubs", The New York Times, May 14, 1958, p. 39
  66. ^ "Pfimlin Is New Premier", The New York Times, May 14, 1958, p. 1
  67. ^ "Massu Disavows Attempt at Coup; Algiers Paratroop General Defers to Commander — Says He Acted for Calm", The New York Times, May 15, 1958, p. 1
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  70. ^ "White House to Buy Three Jet Airliners", The New York Times, May 15, 1958, p. 1
  71. ^ "Soviet Satellite Weighing 1.5 Tons Fired into Orbit— Premier Rejoices; Khrushchev Gibes at American 'Oranges' Circling the Earth", by William J. Jorden, The New York Times, May 16, 1958, p. 1
  72. ^ "Junta Organizing Council To Govern All of Algeria", by Thomas F. Brady, The New York Times, May 16, 1958, p. 1
  73. ^ "De Gaulle Makes Bid For Power; U.S. Apprehensive But Thinks de Gaulle Will Not Succeed— NATO Tie Assayed", by Dana Adams Schmidt, The New York Times, May 16, 1958, p. 1
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  75. ^ "Wide Powers for Pflimlin Voted by Deputies, 461—114", by Robert C. Doty, The New York Times, May 17, 1958, p. 1
  76. ^ "U. S. Jet Averages 1,404 M.P.H. To Set an Official World Record", The New York Times, May 17, 1958, p. 1
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  79. ^ "Lion Kills a Child, 2, After Dragging Her Into Cage in Capital", The New York Times, May 17, 1958, p. 21
  80. ^ "Hawk Bats Silent in 2 Defeats", Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, May 18, 1958, p. 39
  81. ^ History of Keokuk Baseball Web Site
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  84. ^ "15 Killed in Paris in Gas Tank Blast", The New York Times, May 17, 1958, p. 2
  85. ^ "Tim Tam Is Victor in the Preakness", The New York Times, May 18, 1958, p. 1
  86. ^ "65 on Airliner Dead In Casablanca Crash", The New York Times, May 18, 1958, p. 1
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  88. ^ "U.S. Flier Faces Indonesian Trial— Action in Military Court Is Said to Be Planned for Pilot Accused of Aiding Rebels", The New York Times, May 29, 1958, p. 7
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  92. ^ "Cabinets Are Set in New Arab Unit; Iraq-Jordan Regime Will Be Sworn Today — Individual Governments Also Ready", The New York Times, May 19, 1958, p. 9
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  94. ^ "Jaguar Crashes in Grand Prix; Swerved Off Course", Manchester Guardian, May 19, 1958, p. 1
  95. ^ "British Race Driver Dies After Crash In Belgium", Tampa Tribune, May 20, 1958, p. 17
  96. ^ "Jet Trainer Rams Airliner; 12 of 13 Killed in Crash". The New York Times. May 21, 1958. p. 1.
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  99. ^ Patents
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  101. ^ "Ronald Reagan's Wife Has New Baby". Los Angeles Citizen-News. May 20, 1958. p. 2.
  102. ^ Yawnghwe Chao Tzang, The Shan of Burma: Memoirs of a Shan Exile (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010)
  103. ^ "On Patrol with the Shan State Army", by Michael Black and Roland Fields, The Irrawaddy (July 2006)
  104. ^ "1958: Trunk dialling heralds cheaper calls". BBC News. May 21, 1958.
  105. ^ "8 Nikes Explode at Jersey Base; 10 Killed, 3 Hurt— 24 Nonatomic Warheads Are Scattered for 3 Miles at Middletown Missile Site" , by Bill Becker, The New York Times, May 23, 1958, p. 1
  106. ^ "Les chromosomes humains en culture de tissus"([The human chromosomes in tissue culture), by Jérôme Lejeune, Marthe Gauthier, and Raymond Turpin, in Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences
  107. ^ "RCA-NBC Firsts in Color Television", Novia.net, preserved by the Wayback Machine web archive
  108. ^ of the May 22, 1958, broadcast, YouTube.com
  109. ^ "Both Radios Silent In Army Explorer I", Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, May 24, 1958, p. 11
  110. ^ Pedro E. Zadunaisky, "The Orbit of Satellite 456 Alpha (Explorer 1) during the First 10500 Revolutions", SAO Special Report #50 (October 1960)
  111. ^ "Curb Is Ordered for Jets Flying Below 20,000 Feet; Military Agrees Pilots on Non-Tactical Operations Will Use Instruments", The New York Times, May 24, 1958, p. 1
  112. ^ "United Press, INS Merge Wire Service", UPI report in Cincinnati Post, May 24, 1958, p. 1; the release said "This is the first dispatch of the new service, which will embrace the largest number of newspaper and radio clients served by an independently operated news and picture agency.
  113. ^ "U.P. and I.N.S. Agencies Merge; Antitrust Issue Raised by U. S.", by Russell Porter, The New York Times, May 25, 1958, p. 1
  114. ^ "French Rebels Take Over Corsica— Ajaccio Is Seized; Soldiers Put Gaullists in Office — Premier Fears a Civil War", by Henry Giniger, The New York Times, May 25, 1958, p. 1
  115. ^ "Indonesia Rebels Replace Cabinet", The New York Times, May 26, 1958, p. 7
  116. ^ "Hirohito Opens 3rd Asian Games", AP report in Oakland (CA) Tribune, May 24, 1958, p. B-15
  117. ^ "20 Million Italians Vote in Third Post-War Parliamentary Election", The New York Times, May 26, 1958, p. 1
  118. ^ "Center Triumphs in Italian Voting", by Arnaldo Cortesi, The New York Times, May 28, 1958, p. 1
  119. ^ "Paris Censoring All News Media", by Henry Giniger, The New York Times, May 26, 1958, p. 5
  120. ^ "City Chain in East Forming a System— Paris Analyst Calls Coastal 'Megalopolis' the World's 'Largest, Most Complex'", The New York Times, May 26, 1958, p. 32
  121. ^ "W. K. Hutchinson, Newsman, Dies; Chief of I.N.S. Bureau in Washington Since 1939 Was Author, Lawyer", The New York Times, May 26, 1958, p. 29
  122. ^ "Eisenhower Hails Atoms for Peace; He Dedicates Shippingport Unit, First for Commercial Use, by Remote Control", by William G. Weart, The New York Times, May 27, 1958, p. 16
  123. ^ "President Starts Atom Plant Work— Waves Radioactive Wand in Denver to Break Ground for Facility Near Pittsburgh" by William G. Weart, The New York Times, September 7, 1954, p. 1
  124. ^ "Algiers Assumes Rule of Corsica", The New York Times, May 27, 1958, p. 1
  125. ^ "Military Dictator From Algiers Controlled Corsica for a Week; Proud Island Accepted Junta Calmly, Visitor Found — Role of Deputy Is Described", The New York Times, June 6, 1958, p. 2
  126. ^ "Soviet Soccer Star's Misdeeds Get Some Fans in Trouble, Too", by Max Frankel, The New York Times, June 23, 1958, p. 1
  127. ^ "The Alpha of All Dogs: Czechoslovakian Wolfdog or Vlcak", Veterinarians.org, January 24, 2019
  128. ^ "Pflimlin Submits Resignation Despite Heavy Assembly Vote; Way Seen Clear for De Gaulle", by Robert C. Doty, The New York Times, May 28, 1958, p. 1
  129. ^ "Eisenhower Signs Mail Rate Increase", by Edwin A. Dale Jr., The New York Times, May 28, 1958, p. 1
  130. ^ "Negro Graduates at Central High — First Student of Race Gets Diploma With 601 White Classmates in Little Rock", The New York Times, May 28, 1958, p. 12
  131. ^ "Cardinal Stritch Dies in Rome— First American Named to Curia", The New York Times, May 27, 1958, p. 1
  132. ^ "Stritch Is in Rome as Missions Head", The New York Times, April 26, 1958, p. 23
  133. ^ "Stritch Stricken by Blood Clot in Arm", The New York Times, April 27, 1958, p. 1
  134. ^ "Arm Amputated, Stritch Resting", The New York Times, April 29, 1958, p. 2
  135. ^ "Stritch Has Stroke, Receives Last Rites", The New York Times, May 20, 1958, p. 1
  136. ^ "Tissemsilt: 559th Anniversary of the Bab El Bekkouche Battle" (in French). Algerian Press Service. 29 May 2013. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017.
  137. ^ Dugan, George (May 29, 1958). "Union Completed by Presbyterians— 2 Northern Groups March in Downpour to Join Hands in Pittsburgh Ceremony". The New York Times. p. 28.
  138. ^ Trussell, C. P. (May 29, 1958). "House Approves Alaska as a State; Votes 208-166 on Admission". The New York Times. p. 1.
  139. ^ "Submarine Sinks After Ramming; All 82 on Stickleback Are Saved — Escort Ship Damaged", The New York Times, May 31, 1958, p. 1
  140. ^ "Scots Doom Man as Murderer of 7; Peter Anthony Manuel, New York-Born Woodworker, Is Convicted and Will Hang", The New York Times, May 30, 1958, p. 7
  141. ^ "Power Executive Dies at Hearing; Frank M. Wilkes Collapses at House Inquiry -Headed Southwest Concern", The New York Times, May 30, 1958, p. 22
  142. ^ "Juan Ramon Jirnenez, 76, Dead; Spanish Poet Won Nobel Prize", The New York Times, May 30, 1958, p. 21
  143. ^ "Unknowns of World War II And Korea Are Enshrined", by Jack Raymond, The New York Times, May 31, 1958, p. 1
  144. ^ "13-Car Crash Kills Driver in Indianapolis Race", by Frank M. Blunk, The New York Times, May 31, 1958, p. 1
  145. ^ "Bartók's Early Violin Concerto", by Colin Mason, Tempo (Autumn 1958), pp. 11–16
  146. ^ "Conductor Dies At Park Concert— Pilzer Collapses on Podium on Mall and Hits Head as Thousands Watch", "Conductor Dies At Park Concert— Pilzer Collapses on Podium on Mall and Hits Head as Thousands Watch", The New York Times, May 31, 1958, p. 17
  147. ^ Doty, Robert C. (June 1, 1958). "De Gaulle Takes Office Today; Support Pledged; Majority of 100 Votes in Assembly Seen— Year's Rule Asked". The New York Times. p. 1.
  148. ^ Blair, W. Granger (June 1, 1958). "De Gaulle and Coty, In Midst of 'Riot,' Are Good-Natured". The New York Times. p. 1.
  149. ^ "Socialists' Unity Broken by Issue". The New York Times. June 1, 1958. p. 1.
  150. ^ "Lisbon Permits Delgado to Run; Council of State Rules That Candidacy of Salazar's Foe Is Acceptable". The New York Times. June 1, 1958. p. 21.
  151. ^ "Our Story". Pizza Hut.
  152. ^ "Buses Integrated by New Orleans". The New York Times. June 1, 1958. p. 41.
  153. ^ "Mary Welch, Broadway Actress, Dies". Los Angeles Times. June 2, 1958. p. 26.
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