| January 1 | BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7h57m |
| January 1 | European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation |
| January 1 | Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Loray White |
| January 1 | WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY |
| January 3 | Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland |
| January 3 | Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town |
| January 4 | Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up |
| January 6 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings |
| January 6 | Gibson patents Flying V Guitar |
| January 6 | WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 7 | U.S.S.R. shrinks army to 300,000 |
| January 8 | Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana |
| January 9 | In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54 |
| January 10 | Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 |
| January 12 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
| January 12 | NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring |
| January 12 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-7 |
| January 12 | Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points |
| January 13 | 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition United Nations for nuclear test ban |
| January 13 | U.S. newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication |
| January 15 | New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV |
| January 16 | William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw," premieres in New York City |
| January 18 | 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins) |
| January 19 | Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League |
| January 20 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| January 20 | KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 21 | KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| January 21 | Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City (doesn't happen) |
| January 22 | KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| January 23 | "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 60 performances |
| January 23 | Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power |
| January 23 | Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs. West Indies |
| January 24 | After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion |
| January 26 | H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense |
| January 26 | Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It" |
| January 26 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational |
| January 27 | Ferenc Munnich follows Kadar as premier of Hungary |
| January 28 | Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor |
| January 28 | Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck |
| January 29 | Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming |
| January 29 | Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward wed |
| January 30 | 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx |
| January 30 | Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars |
| January 30 | Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in New York City |
| January 30 | House of Lords passes bill allowing women in |
| January 31 | "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host |
| January 31 | James van Allen discovers radiation belt |
| January 31 | U.S. launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1 |
| February 1 | 1st U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched |
| February 1 | Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic |
| February 1 | WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| February 2 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open |
| February 2 | Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic |
| February 2 | WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, Puerto Rico (PTC) begins broadcasting |
| February 3 | Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart and peaks at #3 |
| February 4 | Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950 |
| February 4 | "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 192 performances |
| February 5 | Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania) |
| February 5 | Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic |
| February 5 | Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI vs. Pakistan, Port-of-Spain |
| February 5 | Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km |
| February 6 | 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash |
| February 6 | Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid |
| February 7 | 1st showing of DAF 600 auto |
| February 7 | Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc |
| February 7 | Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced |
| February 8 | Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia |
| February 8 | French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die |
| February 8 | KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 11 | 1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York |
| February 11 | Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs |
| February 11 | WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| February 12 | Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101 |
| February 12 | General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala |
| February 14 | Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms |
| February 15 | Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB |
| February 15 | Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN |
| February 15 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA |
| February 15 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA |
| February 15 | Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra |
| February 16 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| February 17 | Comic strip "BC" 1st appears |
| February 17 | WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 19 | Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records |
| February 20 | Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner |
| February 20 | Los Angeles Coliseum Commission approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility |
| February 21 | Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president with 99.9 percent of the vote |
| February 21 | "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| February 22 | Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days |
| February 22 | Egypt and Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR) |
| February 22 | Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes |
| February 22 | "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| February 23 | 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels |
| February 23 | Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina |
| February 23 | Last Municipal arc light, Mission and 25th removed (installed in 1913) |
| February 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| February 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| February 28 | West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket |
| March 1 | Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara |
| March 1 | Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260 |
| March 1 | West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl vs. Pakistan |
| March 2 | 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days |
| March 2 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| March 2 | Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic |
| March 3 | KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast |
| March 3 | Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq |
| March 5 | Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit |
| March 5 | KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| March 7 | Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo |
| March 8 | Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita |
| March 8 | William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters |
| March 9 | George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season |
| March 11 | Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" |
| March 11 | Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets |
| March 12 | British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" |
| March 13 | Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia |
| March 14 | Recording Industry Association of American created |
| March 14 | RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star) |
| March 14 | South Africa government disallows ANC |
| March 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 14 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| March 15 | "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 60 performances |
| March 15 | KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, Montana (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 15 | Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts |
| March 15 | Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled |
| March 15 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| March 16 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 17 | Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape |
| March 18 | Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958 |
| March 19 | Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London |
| March 19 | Sobers completes a century in each innings vs. Pakistan |
| March 20 | 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line |
| March 20 | Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting |
| March 20 | Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission |
| March 21 | 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award |
| March 21 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| March 22 | 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72 |
| March 22 | Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia |
| March 22 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| March 24 | Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) |
| March 25 | Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times |
| March 25 | West German parliament desires German atomic weapons |
| March 26 | 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward and Guinness win |
| March 26 | U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III" |
| March 27 | CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records |
| March 27 | Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party |
| March 29 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
| March 29 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
| March 31 | U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division |
| March 31 | U.S.S.R. suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges U.S. and Britain to do same |
| April 1 | KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, California (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 1 | Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank |
| April 2 | Antillean Brewery, maker of Amstel beer, opens |
| April 2 | National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA |
| April 2 | Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record) |
| April 3 | "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 332 performances |
| April 4 | 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England) |
| April 4 | Eugene Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt |
| April 6 | Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters |
| April 7 | Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line |
| April 10 | Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco |
| April 11 | Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco |
| April 12 | 12th NBA Championship: St. Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2 |
| April 12 | Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk |
| April 13 | 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win |
| April 14 | Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere |
| April 15 | 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young and Jane Wyatt |
| April 15 | 1st baseball game in California, San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-0 |
| April 16 | 22nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284 |
| April 16 | French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis |
| April 17 | Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens |
| April 18 | Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia |
| April 18 | NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles |
| April 19 | 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54 |
| April 20 | Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM |
| April 20 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| April 20 | Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup |
| April 20 | Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops |
| April 23 | Gil Hodges hits his 300th home run and Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game |
| April 24 | Lee Walls hits 3 home runs, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2 |
| April 28 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| April 28 | Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
| April 28 | Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America |
| April 30 | Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits |
| May 1 | Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai |
| May 1 | Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina |
| May 2 | Yankees threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into New York City |
| May 3 | 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05 |
| May 3 | WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits |
| May 4 | Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia |
| May 5 | KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 5 | Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) |
| May 5 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| May 7 | Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m |
| May 8 | President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock |
| May 8 | Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru |
| May 9 | Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship |
| May 11 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
| May 11 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| May 11 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| May 12 | "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo and The Dont's hits #40 |
| May 12 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| May 13 | French settlers riot against French army in Algeria |
| May 13 | Jordan and Iraq form Arab Federation |
| May 13 | New York Giants Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each hit 2 home runs and a triple |
| May 13 | Pierre Pflimlin forms French government |
| May 13 | Rioters attack U.S. Vice President Nixon in Venezuela |
| May 13 | Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits |
| May 15 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik III |
| May 16 | Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico |
| May 16 | Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter |
| May 17 | 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2 |
| May 17 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria |
| May 18 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| May 19 | Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London |
| May 19 | South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks |
| May 19 | U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) |
| May 20 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| May 21 | Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island |
| May 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) |
| May 23 | Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China |
| May 24 | "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 432 performances |
| May 24 | President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion |
| May 24 | UP and International News Service merge into United Press International |
| May 26 | Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed |
| May 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| May 26 | Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark |
| May 27 | Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS |
| May 27 | Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
| May 28 | French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle |
| May 28 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open |
| May 29 | Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels |
| May 30 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| May 30 | Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington |
| May 31 | Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin" |
| May 31 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) |
| June 1 | Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election |
| June 1 | Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France |
| June 1 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open |
| June 2 | Alan Freed joins WABC (New York City) radio |
| June 2 | Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays |
| June 2 | Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record |
| June 3 | Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers |
| June 4 | French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
| June 4 | San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| June 6 | Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger |
| June 6 | Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French |
| June 7 | 90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2 |
| June 7 | Battles between Turkish and Greeks Cypriots break out |
| June 8 | 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| June 9 | "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1 |
| June 11 | U.N. Security council sends observers to Lebanon |
| June 12 | "Make Me Laugh," TV Game Show; last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979 |
| June 13 | Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California |
| June 14 | 58th U.S. Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa |
| June 14 | British parachutists lands on Cyprus |
| June 14 | Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela |
| June 15 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| June 16 | "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo and The Don'ts hits #46 |
| June 16 | Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia |
| June 17 | Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy |
| June 20 | New Zealand all out 47 vs. England at Lord's Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17 |
| June 22 | Game in Kansas City between A's and Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado |
| June 22 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| June 23 | Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers |
| June 23 | Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2 years in Little Rock |
| June 23 | Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established |
| June 26 | Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium |
| June 26 | Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated |
| June 26 | Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
| June 27 | Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th |
| June 27 | Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) New York to London |
| June 28 | Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden |
| June 28 | Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6) |
| June 29 | Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm |
| June 30 | Dutch Government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers |
| June 30 | "No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24 |
| July 2 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| July 3 | "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS and NBC) |
| July 4 | 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11) |
| July 5 | 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62) |
| July 5 | J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname |
| July 6 | Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico |
| July 7 | C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England vs. New Zealand Headingley |
| July 7 | President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood |
| July 7 | William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows New York |
| July 8 | 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt |
| July 9 | Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain |
| July 10 | 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed) |
| July 10 | Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia |
| July 12 | "Li'l Abner" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 693 performances |
| July 12 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| July 13 | 13th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| July 13 | 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham |
| July 13 | Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
| July 14 | General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq |
| July 14 | Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th and last encyclical Meminisse juvat |
| July 14 | Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy |
| July 15 | President Eisenhower sends U.S. troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months |
| July 17 | King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation |
| July 17 | Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise," premieres in London |
| July 17 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak |
| July 19 | Charly Gaul wins Tour de France |
| July 19 | "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 192 performances |
| July 20 | 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA |
| July 20 | Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
| July 20 | King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR |
| July 22 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
| July 23 | 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords |
| July 24 | 14 people named 1st life peers in U.K. |
| July 24 | Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again |
| July 24 | Test Cricket debuts against New Zealand for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row |
| July 26 | Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV |
| July 27 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open |
| July 29 | President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958 |
| July 29 | Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running |
| July 31 | Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet |
| August 1 | 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years) |
| August 1 | U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole |
| August 2 | Jordan and Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months |
| August 3 | USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap |
| August 4 | Dumont TV Network crumbles |
| August 5 | Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole |
| August 5 | Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi |
| August 6 | Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles |
| August 6 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| August 10 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open |
| August 13 | Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2 |
| August 14 | Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21) |
| August 14 | KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99 |
| August 15 | 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000) |
| August 15 | Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago |
| August 15 | Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank |
| August 15 | Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank |
| August 17 | Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open |
| August 17 | World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec |
| August 18 | Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel |
| August 18 | Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| August 18 | Great Britain issues regional stamps for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales |
| August 18 | "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published |
| August 18 | Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records |
| August 18 | TV game show scandal investigation starts |
| August 18 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| August 18 | Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| August 19 | NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters |
| August 20 | Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years |
| August 20 | Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0 |
| August 21 | KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions |
| August 22 | Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return |
| August 22 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| August 23 | China resumes fire on Quemoi and Matsoe |
| August 23 | Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours |
| August 24 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| August 24 | Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR) |
| August 27 | Calvin Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn |
| August 27 | U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
| August 27 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard |
| August 28 | Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98) |
| August 29 | Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo |
| August 29 | George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe) |
| August 30 | U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
| September 1 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open |
| September 1 | St. Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout |
| September 2 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| September 2 | Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa |
| September 2 | KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 2 | Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium |
| September 2 | National Defense Education Act was signed |
| September 5 | 1st color video recording on magnetic tape |
| September 5 | "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US |
| September 5 | WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 6 | Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959 |
| September 6 | U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
| September 7 | 72nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62) |
| September 7 | 78th U.S. Mens Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86) |
| September 8 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
| September 8 | Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan |
| September 8 | Paul Anka opens Asian tour in Tokyo |
| September 9 | Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game |
| September 9 | Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London |
| September 10 | WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| September 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 12 | U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate |
| September 13 | Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times |
| September 13 | Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam |
| September 14 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open |
| September 14 | WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 14 | Yankees win 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel |
| September 15 | 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport, New Jersey |
| September 15 | Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, New Jersey |
| September 17 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 19 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 20 | Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits New York Yankees 1-0 |
| September 20 | Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo) |
| September 20 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 21 | 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas, Texas |
| September 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 22 | KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, Arizona (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 22 | U.S. nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) |
| September 23 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| September 23 | Stravinsky's "Thieni," premieres in Venetie |
| September 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 24 | 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia |
| September 26 | Columbia (U.S.) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup |
| September 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 28 | France adopts constitution |
| September 28 | Guinea votes for independence from France |
| September 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 28 | USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's |
| September 29 | "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8 |
| September 29 | "Texan," debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 30 | French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea |
| September 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 1 | Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia |
| October 1 | Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA |
| October 2 | Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) |
| October 2 | Musical show "Valmouth," 1st produced in London |
| October 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 4 | 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal |
| October 4 | 5th French republic forms |
| October 5 | KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, Montana (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 5 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 6 | U.S. nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole |
| October 7 | Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court |
| October 7 | U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury |
| October 8 | Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time |
| October 8 | Dr. Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker in Stockholm |
| October 8 | KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 9 | Israeli Navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine |
| October 9 | New York Yankees appear in 9 and win 7 of last 10 World Series |
| October 9 | New York Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series |
| October 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 10 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 11 | 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back |
| October 11 | "Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 161 performances |
| October 12 | CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium |
| October 12 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 12 | WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 14 | Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premieres in London |
| October 14 | Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
| October 14 | Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong," premieres in New York City |
| October 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 15 | Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
| October 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 16 | Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne," premieres |
| October 16 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 19 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 21 | 1st women in English House of Lords |
| October 23 | De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave" |
| October 23 | Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| October 23 | U.S.S.R. lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam |
| October 24 | U.S.S.R. lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam |
| October 26 | PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris |
| October 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 27 | General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan |
| October 27 | WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 28 | Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII |
| October 28 | Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322) |
| October 29 | Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature |
| October 29 | Dr. F. Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram |
| October 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 1 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| November 3 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| November 4 | Angelo G. Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII |
| November 4 | Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns |
| November 4 | Democrats win U.S. congressional election |
| November 5 | KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| November 5 | "Maria Golovin" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| November 6 | AL announces that Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959 |
| November 6 | Belgium government of Eyskens and Lilar forms |
| November 6 | Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| November 8 | "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| November 10 | Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui," premieres |
| November 10 | WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 11 | AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959 |
| November 11 | "La Plume de Ma Tante" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 835 performances |
| November 12 | Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award |
| November 13 | New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League |
| November 17 | KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| November 18 | 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens |
| November 18 | Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay |
| November 19 | First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus |
| November 24 | Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community |
| November 25 | Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community |
| November 27 | U.S.S.R. abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany |
| November 28 | AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9 |
| November 28 | Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community |
| November 28 | Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community |
| November 28 | George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs |
| November 28 | KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 28 | Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, vs. India at Bombay |
| November 28 | U.S. reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM |
| November 29 | 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28 |
| November 30 | 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me |
| November 30 | WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 1 | Central African Republic made autonomous member of French Community (National Day) |
| December 1 | "Flower Drum Song" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 602 performances |
| December 1 | Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic) |
| December 2 | 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB) |
| December 2 | Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg |
| December 2 | KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 3 | Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses |
| December 4 | Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community |
| December 4 | Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns |
| December 5 | Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yankees threat to do same in Philadelphia |
| December 5 | WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 6 | U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back |
| December 7 | Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela |
| December 9 | Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society |
| December 10 | 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 |
| December 10 | University of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates |
| December 11 | 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls |
| December 11 | Archibald MacLeish's "JB," premieres in New York City |
| December 11 | Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France |
| December 12 | Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed |
| December 12 | Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs. West Indies at Kanpur |
| December 16 | Bogota warehouse fire kills 82 |
| December 18 | 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip |
| December 18 | 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower |
| December 18 | Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) |
| December 19 | 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere") |
| December 21 | Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France |
| December 22 | 2nd Dutch Beel government forms |
| December 22 | "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1 |
| December 22 | "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| December 23 | Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco |
| December 23 | "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 38 performances |
| December 25 | Alan Freed's Christmas Rock and Roll Spectacular opens |
| December 28 | Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship |
| December 28 | Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon and Theodore with David Seville) hit #1 |
| December 28 | What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17 |
| December 29 | Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game |
| December 29 | TV soap "Young Dr. Malone" debuts |
| December 30 | French franc devalued |
| December 31 | 47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2) |
| December 31 | Cubans dictator Batista flees |
| December 31 | International Geophyscial Year ends |
| December 31 | Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X |
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