The temperature on August 7, 1958 was between 7.4 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 19 » The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
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