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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in April 1958.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Macmillan (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on April 1958: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of April 1958?


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.

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Music charts

Which were the top hits in April 1958?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - Tequila
  2. - Twilight Time
  3. - Witch Doctor
  4. - Lollipop
  5. - Sweet Little Sixteen

Top #5 songs in the UK

  1. - Magic Moments
  2. - Whole Lotta Woman
  3. - The Story Of My Life
  4. - Jailhouse Rock
  5. - Swingin' Shepherd Blues

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
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Vertigo

Vertigo

Release year: 1958

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore

Country: United States of America

Horror of Dracula

Horror of Dracula

Release year: 1958

Directed by: Terence Fisher

Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling

Country: United States of America

Fort Dobbs

Fort Dobbs

Release year: 1958

Directed by: Gordon Douglas

Starring: Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Brian Keith, Richard Eyer

The Sheepman

The Sheepman

Release year: 1958

Directed by: George Marshall

Starring: Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Shaughnessy

Gigi

Gigi

Release year: 1958

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold

Country: United States of America

Books

Which were the most popular books released in April 1958?
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The Great Democracies by Winston S. Churchill

The Great Democracies

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Churchill's ambitious fourth volume, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, is the fourth. It begins with the end of the Napoleonic Wars and ends with the Boer War of 19.

Voltaire In Love by Nancy Mitford

Voltaire In Love

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Nancy Mitford, the inimitable Nancy Mitford, recounts Voltaire's 15-year-old relationship with the Marquise du Chatelet. This Marquise was the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new Physics to France. It is a lively romp in company

By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens

By Love Possessed

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In a series flashbacks, a highly respected middle-aged lawyer reveals his involvement with love.

Attorney For The Damned by Arthur Weinberg

Attorney For The Damned

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"Clarence Darrow [was] possibly the most effective courtroom opponent to cant, bigotry and special privilege that this country has produced." Here are all of Darrow's most famous pleas in defense of Leopold

To Live Again by Catherine Marshall

To Live Again

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To Live Again has been treasured for more than 40 years by readers as a true tale of divine comfort, human love and spiritual adventure.