February 1958 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1958 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
• 02 Feb 1958 WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
• 03 Feb 1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
• 04 Feb 1958 Oh, Captain! opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
• 05 Feb 1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black Foreign Minister
• 06 Feb 1958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
• 07 Feb 1958 1st showing of DAF 600 auto
• 08 Feb 1958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 11 Feb 1958 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca, New York
• 14 Feb 1958 Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms.
• 15 Feb 1958 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of the USA
• 16 Feb 1958 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
• 17 Feb 1958 Comic strip BC first appears.
• 19 Feb 1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
• 20 Feb 1958 LA Coliseum Comm approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility
• 21 Feb 1958 Portotino opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
• 22 Feb 1958 Portotino closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
• 23 Feb 1958 Last Municipal arc light, Mission and 25th removed
• 24 Feb 1958 In Cuba, Fidel Castro's ''Radio Rebelde'' begins broadcasting from Sierra Maestra.
• 25 Feb 1958 Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
• 28 Feb 1958 A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.

Famous Birthday

• Helen Fielding

  English author and screenwriter.

• Ice T

  Musician.

• Nancy Spungen

  American homicide victim 10/12/1978, by her boyfriend, heavy metal rocker Sid Vicious.

• Jérôme Anger
• Dominique de Lacoste
• Thierry Redler

  French actor in TV series and film director.

• Frédéric de Saint-Sernin
• Peter Kremer
• Mary Chapin Carpenter

  American singer.

• Kim Coates

  Movie Actor.

• Tony Leung Ka-Fai
• David Sylvian

  Vocal / guitar (Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex).

• Laura Diaz (TV anchor)
• Sílvia Pfeifer
• Voutch (artist)
• Jeff Fisher

  American football player, the head coach of the Tennessee Titans.

• Greg Germann

  American actor and director.

• David Newton
• Cecily Adams

  American actress and casting director (Born 1958).

• Jack Coleman (actor)
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Famous Deaths

• Mark Jones

  English footballer (Born 1933).

• Henry Kuttner

  Sci-fi Author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42.

• 7 soccer

  players of Manchester United die in an aircrash at Munich.

• Billy Vine

  Actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42.

• Walter Kingsford

  Actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76.

• Abdul Rab Nishtar

  veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (Born 1899).

• Johannes F Buziau

  Dutch cabaret performer, dies at age 81.

• Frederik de Merode

  Belgian prince, dies at age 46.

• Henry M Tomlinson

  British writer (Under red ensign), dies at age 84.

• Marcel Cachin

  first communist French senator, dies at age 88.

• Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne]

  French poet, dies at age 86.

• Roger Byrne

  English footballer (Born 1929).

• Walter Crickmer

  English football club secretary and manager.

• Ernest Jones

  British psychonanalyst (Born 1879).

• Dame Christabel Pankhurst

  English suffragette (Born 1880).

• Abul Kalam Azad

  Indian independence movement leader (Born 1888).

• Georges Rouault

  French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching.

• Tommy Taylor

  English footballer (Born 1932).

• Douglas Hartree

  English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958).

• Henry Kuttner

  American author (Born 1915).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
2. The Silhouettes - Get A Job
3. Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
4. Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
5. Royal Teens - Short Shorts

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
2. Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life
3. Johnny Otis & His Orchestra With Marie Adams - Ma He's Making Eyes At Me
4. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
5. Frank Sinatra - All The Way / Chicago