June 1958 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1958 Belgian Christian-democrats win parliamentary election
• 02 Jun 1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
• 03 Jun 1958 Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers
• 04 Jun 1958 French Premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
• 06 Jun 1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
• 07 Jun 1958 90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2
• 08 Jun 1958 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
• 09 Jun 1958 Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley hits #1
• 11 Jun 1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
• 12 Jun 1958 Make Me Laugh, TV Game Show
• 13 Jun 1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California
• 14 Jun 1958 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
• 15 Jun 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
• 16 Jun 1958 Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
• 17 Jun 1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
• 20 Jun 1958 The iron barque ''Omega'' of Callao, Peru (built in Scotland, 1887), sinks on passage carrying guano from the Pachacamac Islands for Huacho, the world’s last full rigged ship trading under sail alone.
• 21 Jun 1958 French franc devalues
• 22 Jun 1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
• 23 Jun 1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
• 26 Jun 1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes Premier of Belgium
• 27 Jun 1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) New York to London
• 28 Jun 1958 Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden
• 30 Jun 1958 No Chemise, Please by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24

Famous Birthday

• Prince (musician)
• Eric Heiden

  American champion skater with his sister Beth, winning international titles by the time they were in their teens.

• Suresh Gopi
• Bruce Campbell

  American actor.

• Jean Charest

  Canadian politician, at his peak in government when Brian Mulroney resigned.

• Jello Biafra

  American singer-songwriter and producer (Dead Kennedys The No WTO Combo and Lard).

• Tom Lister Jr
• Félix Gray

  Tunisian-French singer-songwriter.

• Jacques Bonnaffé

  French actor.

• Brooklyn (New York)
• Lex Luger

  American wrestler and football player.

• Victor Manuel Gerena
• Meredith Brooks

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

• Wade Boggs

  American sports figure, a baseball star with the Boston Red Sox.

• Olivier Weber
• Richard Descoings

  French civil servant.

• Eric Douglas

  American minor actor and model; noted family, the son of Kirk Douglas and his second wife.

• Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Finnish conductor and composer.

• Nambaryn Enkhbayar

  Mongolian lawyer and politician 3rd President of Mongolia.

• Avigdor Lieberman

  Israeli politician who has been Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2013.

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Famous Deaths

• Robert Donat

  Actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 53.

• Lily Theresa Strickland

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Francois de Vries

  Economist, dies at 74.

• Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia

  Composer, dies at 45.

• Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt

  Composer, dies at 88.

• Martinus Ballings

  Flemish Jesuit / Author (Vocation), dies at 93.

• Robert Greig

  Actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78.

• M Lichnowsky

  Writer, dies at 79.

• Andrija Stampar

  Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (Born 1888).

• George Orton

  Canadian runner and hurdler (d. 1958).

• Kurt Alder

  German chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958).

• Alfred Noyes

  British Poet / essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77.

• Charles Spencelayh

  English painter and academic (d. 1958).

• Edwin Keppel Bennett

  British writer (Born 1887).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
2. Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater
3. David Seville - Witch Doctor
4. Elvis Presley - Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
5. The Coasters - Yakety Yak

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now
2. Marvin Rainwater - Whole Lotta Woman
3. Vic Damone - On The Street Where You Live
4. Pat Boone - A Wonderful Time Up There
5. Elias & His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes - Tom Hark