July 1958 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
• 03 Jul 1958 Andy Williams Show premieres on ABC
• 04 Jul 1958 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser
• 05 Jul 1958 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer
• 06 Jul 1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico
• 07 Jul 1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York
• 08 Jul 1958 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Baltimore
• 09 Jul 1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
• 10 Jul 1958 Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed Premier of Cambodia
• 11 Jul 1958 Count Michael Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, direct descendant of Samuel Aba, King of Hungary, at the age of 60 is pistol-whipped and murdered over a few hectares of land by Czechoslovak Communists during the collectivization process at his residence in Olcsvar, Slovakia.
• 12 Jul 1958 Henri Cornelis becomes Governor-General of the Belgian Congo. He was the last Belgian governor of the Congo prior to independence.
• 13 Jul 1958 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
• 14 Jul 1958 Colonel Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
• 15 Jul 1958 US marines deployed in Lebanon
• 17 Jul 1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan / Iraqi federation
• 19 Jul 1958 Oh, Captain! closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
• 20 Jul 1958 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch Country Club - Pennsylvania
• 24 Jul 1958 14 people named 1st life peers in the UK
• 25 Jul 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
• 26 Jul 1958 Army launches fourth US successful satellite, Explorer IV.
• 27 Jul 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
• 28 Jul 1958 Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship
• 29 Jul 1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
• 31 Jul 1958 Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet

Famous Birthday

• Kate Bush

  English singer-songwriter.

• Kevin Bacon

  Movie Actor.

• Jennifer Saunders
• Orlando Pizzolato

  Italian field and track star.

• Mark Cuban

  Entrepreneur.

• Terry Fox

  Canadian athlete, whose transcontinental run helped raise more than $24 million for cancer research.

• Michael Flatley

  Irish-American dancer who taps a magical 28 taps a second.

• Thurston Moore

  American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth.

• Bill Berry

  American musician and long-time drummer for R.E.

• Tzipi Livni

  Israeli politician.

• Kar-wai Wong
• Dominique Nicolas
• Christine Gozlan
• Thierry Gilardi

  French football/soccer commentator on French television.

• Jenny Seagrove

  British actress born in Malaysia, the daughter of an Indonesian businessman.

• Pierre Sled

  French journalist and television director, the host of "Stade 2" on France 2 and "L'été de tous les records" on France 3..

• Hugo Sánchez

  Mexican footballer coach and manager.

• Jean-François Cirelli
• Manuel Gélin
• Fiona Shaw

  Movie Actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Michail M Zosjtsjenko

  Russian author, dies at 62.

• Karl Erb

  German tenor, dies on 81st birthday.

• Nuries-Said

  Iraqi soldier / statesman, assassinated.

• Apie [Adrian P] Prince

  Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way).

• Harry Nicholls Holmes

  Dr (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78.

• Rudolf von Laban

  Czech / Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78.

• Adolf Herckenrath

  Flemish playwright / Poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79.

• Raymond Hackett

  Dies at 55.

• Karel Wellens

  Flemish painter, dies at 69.

• Abdoel Illah

  Crown Prince of Iraq, murdered.

• Emil Barth

  Writer, dies at 58.

• Franciscus J Feron

  Vicar-General of Roermond, dies at 62.

• Noeri el-Said

  Premier of Iraq, murdered.

• Alexander Albrecht

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Henry Farman

  French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84.

• John Gobau

  Flem / Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67.

• Mikhail Zoshchenko

  Russian writer (Born 1895).

• Robert Earl Hughes

  weighed 1,041 pounds (473kg), dies at age 32.

• Harry Warner

  American chemical engineer, business executive.

• Faisal II

  King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater
2. The Coasters - Yakety Yak
3. Perez Prado and His Orchestra - Patricia
4. Elvis Presley - Hard Headed Woman
5. Ricky Nelson - Poor Little Fool

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now
2. The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette
3. Vic Damone - On The Street Where You Live
4. Elias & His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes - Tom Hark
5. The Four Preps - Big Man