April 1958 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC / ABC / CBS) begins broadcasting
• 02 Apr 1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens.
• 03 Apr 1958 Say, Darling opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
• 04 Apr 1958 The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.
• 05 Apr 1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• 06 Apr 1958 Arnold Palmer wins first major golf tournament-the Masters.
• 10 Apr 1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco.
• 11 Apr 1958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated
• 12 Apr 1958 Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
• 13 Apr 1958 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win.
• 14 Apr 1958 Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
• 15 Apr 1958 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young and Jane Wyatt
• 16 Apr 1958 22nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284.
• 18 Apr 1958 NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles
• 19 Apr 1958 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54.
• 20 Apr 1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
• 21 Apr 1958 United Airlines Flight 736 is involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force F-100F-5-NA Super Sabre jet fighter near Las Vegas, Nevada. All 49 persons in both aircraft are killed.
• 23 Apr 1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th homerun and Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game.
• 24 Apr 1958 Lee Walls hits three homeruns, as Chicago Cubs beat Los Angeles Dodgers 15-2.
• 26 Apr 1958 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 28 Apr 1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
• 30 Apr 1958 Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits.

Famous Birthday

• Michelle Pfeiffer

  American actress seen in five consecutive critical, if not commercial hits, "The Witches of Eastwick," "Married To The Mob," "Tequila...

• Alec Baldwin

  TV Actor.

• Laurent Baffie

  French humorist, author, and short-film director.

• Andie Macdowell
• Bernard Campan

  French actor and film director, he was nominated for best actor for his role in "Se souvenir des belles choses".

• Charles Berling

  French actor, director and screenwriter.

• Fish (chanteur)
• Doreen Virtue

  American author and a "folk psychology motivational speaker".

• Peter Capaldi

  Scottish actor, film director, and screenwriter.

• Cazuza (musician)
• Eric Besson
• Brynn Hartman

  American noted family, the wife of TV star Phil Hartman, who shot her husband to death as he slept the night of May 28, 1998, approximately...

• James Hewitt
• Stuart Adamson

  English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Skids Big Country) (d. 2001).

• Lokua Kanza
• Giancarlo Esposito

  Actor (Bob Roberts, School Daze, King of NY).

• Jean-Louis Calderon
• François Berland
• John Crichton-Stuart 7th Marquess of Bute
• Daniel Schneidermann

  French journalist, who focuses on the analysis of televised media.

• See more

Famous Deaths

• Rosalind Franklin

  English biophysicist chemist and academic (d. 1958).

• Chuck Willis

  American singer and songwriter (Born 1928).

• Judge Jackson

  Composer, dies at 75.

• W C Handy

  Composer / musician, dies at 84 in New York.

• Estelle Taylor

  Dies at 64.

• Hendrik Heyman

  Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at age 78.

• Jozef Brems

  Flemish apostole vicar of Denmark, dies at age 87.

• Richard B Goldschmidt

  German zoologist (butterflies), dies.

• Theodor Kramer

  Writer.

• Josei Toda

  Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (Born 1900).

• Ethel Turner

  Australian author (Born 1872).

• Maurice Gamelin

  French army commander in chief at the beginning of World War II who proved unable to stop the German assault on France (May 1940) that led...

• Johnny Stompanato

  American homicide victim.

• Konstantin Yuon

  Russian painter and set designer (d. 1958).

• Tudor Davies

  Welsh operatic tenor (Born 1892).

• Maurice-Gustave Gamelin

  French Generalissmo (WWI, WWII), dies at age 85.

• Johan N C "Joan" Collette

  Painter, dies at 68.

• See more

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Champs - Tequila
2. The Platters - Twilight Time
3. David Seville - Witch Doctor
4. The Chordettes - Lollipop
5. Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Perry Como - Magic Moments
2. Marvin Rainwater - Whole Lotta Woman
3. Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life
4. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
5. Ted Heath & His Music - Swingin' Shepherd Blues