The temperature on October 18, 1958 was between 5.4 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
May 9 » Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
July 25 » The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
December 11 » French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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