March 1958 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in March 1958.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Macmillan (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on March 1958: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of March 1958?
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.
- 17 Mar 1958 The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.
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Music charts
Which were the top hits in March 1958?
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Top #5 songs in the USA
- The Silhouettes - Get A Job
- Elvis Presley - Don't
- The Champs - Tequila
- Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
- Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen
Top #5 songs in the UK
- Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life
- Perry Como - Magic Moments
- Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
- The Crickets - Oh Boy
- Elvis Presley - Don't
Movies
Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
Books
Which were the most popular books released in March 1958?
They Came To Cordura
By: Glendon Swarthout
They Came to Cordura was Random House's Pulitzer Prize nomination for Fiction in 1958. Columbia Pictures bought the novel, which became a NY Times bestseller.
A Death In The Family
By: James Agee
This classic American novel is being republished to commemorate the 100th anniversary James Agee's birthday. Published in 1957, just two years after the death of its author, A Death in the Family was published.
To Live Again
By: Catherine Marshall
To Live Again has been treasured for more than 40 years by readers as a true tale of divine comfort, human love and spiritual adventure.
The Great Democracies
By: Winston S. Churchill
Churchill's ambitious fourth volume, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, is the fourth. It begins with the end of the Napoleonic Wars and ends with the Boer War of 19.