March 1958 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for second wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260.
• 02 Mar 1958 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open.
• 03 Mar 1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
• 05 Mar 1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
• 07 Mar 1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo, New York.
• 08 Mar 1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by three at Santa Anita.
• 09 Mar 1958 George Yardley (Detroit Pistons) is first NBA player to score 2,000 points in season.
• 11 Mar 1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show 21
• 12 Mar 1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day".
• 13 Mar 1958 Government troops land in Sumatra, Indonesia.
• 14 Mar 1958 Recording Industry Association of American created
• 15 Mar 1958 Body Beautiful closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
• 16 Mar 1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
• 17 Mar 1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (second US satellite), measures Earth shape.
• 18 Mar 1958 Dodgers announces mascot / clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
• 19 Mar 1958 Sobers completes a century in each inning versus Pakistan.
• 20 Mar 1958 50 snow across the Mason-Dixon line
• 21 Mar 1958 First presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award.
• 22 Mar 1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia.
• 24 Mar 1958 Elvis Presley joins the army
• 25 Mar 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons.
• 26 Mar 1958 30th Academy Awards - Bridge on the River Kwai, Alec Guinness, and Joanne Woodward win.
• 27 Mar 1958 Havana Hilton opens
• 28 Mar 1958 W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, US conductor/composer (Saint Louis Blues), dies at age 84.
• 31 Mar 1958 The Grand Canyon Diorama attraction opens in Disneyland, part of the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad. At 306 feet long, it is the world's longest seamless hand-woven canvas.

Famous Birthday

• Sharon Stone

  American actress, a dangerously sultry screen leading lady.

• Albert II Prince of Monaco
• Gary Oldman

  English actor, filmmaker and musician known for his "big" portrayals of often villainous characters.

• Thierry Cabot
• Laurence Chirac

  French noted family, the daughter of Bernadette and Jacques Chirac, born handicapped.

• Holly Hunter

  Movie Actress.

• Serena Grandi
• Andy Gibb

  British-American musician and youngest brother of the pop group "The Bee Gees.

• Linda Fiorentino

  American actress.

• Gary Numan

  British musician, a composer of electronic music.

• Rik Mayall

  British comedian and actor, a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s, appearing in TV shows like "The Young Ones", "Filthy Rich &...

• Patricia Heaton

  TV Actress.

• Bernard de la Villardiere
• Elio de Angelis

  Italian racing driver (d. 1986).

• Miranda Richardson

  Southport, England -- Actress (Damage, Crying Game).

• Xavier Deluc
• Bertrand Piccard

  Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist.

• Didier de Radiguès

  Belgian race car driver and motorcycle racer.

• Catherine Mégret

  French politician, the mayor of Vitrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône) from 1997 to 2002.

• Nik Kershaw

  English singer-songwriter guitarist and producer.

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Famous Deaths

• Mike Todd

  American movie producer of Broadway plays and TV and the owner of TV production companies.

• Ingeborg

  Princess of Sweden, dies at 79.

• Cyril M Kornbluth

  American sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at age 34.

• Emerson Whithorne

  Composer, dies at 73.

• William C Handy

  US conductor / Composer (St. Louis Blues), dies at 84.

• W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Eugeen Van de Velde

  Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at age 64.

• Leon J Cadore

  pitched the 26-inning game, dies at age 65.

• Florian Znaniecki

  Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at age 76.

• Chuck Klein

  Philadelphia Phillies' homerun hitter, dies at age 53.

• Ole Kirk Christiansen

  Danish inventor of Legos (Born 1891).

• Adegoke Adelabu

  Nigerian politician (Born 1915).

• William Christopher Handy

  American composer (Born 1873).

• Giacomo Balla

  Italian architect, builder, painter and interior designer.

• Michael Todd

  Producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56.

• Fred Merkle

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1958).

• Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich

  Actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85.

• Tom Brown

  American musician (Born 1888).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Silhouettes - Get A Job
2. Elvis Presley - Don't
3. The Champs - Tequila
4. Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
5. Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life
2. Perry Como - Magic Moments
3. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
4. The Crickets - Oh Boy
5. Elvis Presley - Don't