January 1958 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1958 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
• 03 Jan 1958 The West Indies Federation is formed.
• 04 Jan 1958 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957).
• 06 Jan 1958 WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 07 Jan 1958 USSR shrinks army to 300,000.
• 08 Jan 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana.
• 09 Jan 1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
• 12 Jan 1958 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open.
• 13 Jan 1958 US newspaper Daily Worker ceases publication.
• 15 Jan 1958 New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV.
• 19 Jan 1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League.
• 20 Jan 1958 KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 21 Jan 1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 22 Jan 1958 KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
• 23 Jan 1958 Body Beautiful opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 60 performances
• 26 Jan 1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli Minister of Defense
• 28 Jan 1958 Construction begins on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor.
• 29 Jan 1958 Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward wed
• 30 Jan 1958 Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars.
• 31 Jan 1958 Jackpot Bowling premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host

Famous Birthday

• Ellen DeGeneres

  Comedian.

• Christophe Dechavanne

  French radio-TV host, TV actor, and program producer: director of Coyote Prods.

• Lorenzo Lamas

  American actor, TV soap star and sex symbol, best known for his role as Lance on TV's "Falcon Crest" series that ran from 1981-1990, and for...

• Maitê Proença
• Boris Tadic

  President of Serbia.

• Laurent Boyer

  French radio and TV host, formerly literature teacher, he presented programs such as "Graines de star" and "Frequenstar" on M6 channel.

• Julian Sands

  English actor.

• Linda Kozlowski

  American actress.

• Smaïn (humorist)
• Anita Baker

  R&B Singer.

• Lyudmila Putina
• Brett Butler

  American comedienne who moved into massive popularity with her TV series, "Grace Under Fire," 1994, which hit the top-ten list.

• Jean-Aimé Toupane
• Christiane Amanpour

  English-born Iranian-American journalist.

• Mehmet Ali Agca

  Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II.

• Jools Holland

  English singer-songwriter and pianist (Squeeze and Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra).

• Susanna Thompson

  American actress.

• Norman Hassan
• Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez

  Colombian organized crime figure.

• Donna Rice

  American news figure, a pharmaceutical company sales representative and part-time actress in Miami in May, 1987 when the news story broke...

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Famous Deaths

• Josephine CMA

  Princess of Belgium / nun, dies at 85.

• Petru Groza

  Premier / President (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74.

• Charles de Trooz

  Belgian writer, dies at 52.

• Arthur Shepherd

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Alec Rowley

  English composer (Born 1892).

• Edna Purviance

  Actress (Charlie Chaplin, Sunnyside), dies at 61.

• David Broekman

  musician ("Think Fast"), dies at age 55.

• Waverley John Anderson of Scotland

  Viscount/Governor of Bengal, dies at age 75.

• John Lindeboom Dutch vicar/church historian

  dies at age 75.

• Earnest H Heinkel

  German airplane builder (WWII), dies at age 70.

• Charles Mallory Hatfield

  U.

• Jesse L Lasky

  American film producer (Born 1880).

• Ernst Heinkel

  German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführer in the Third Reich, and member of the Nazi party.

• Nikolaos Georgantas

  Greek discus thrower (Born 1880).

• Edward Weston

  American photographer (Born 1886).

• Jean Crotti

  Swiss-French painter (d. 1958).

• Edna Purviance

  American actress (Born 1895).

• Paul Pilgrim

  American athlete (Born 1883).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
2. Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
3. Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
4. Pat Boone - April Love
5. Bill Justis - Raunchy

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
2. Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
3. Lord Rockingham's XI - Hoots Mon
4. Johnny Otis & His Orchestra With Marie Adams - Ma He's Making Eyes At Me
5. The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie