About the day » Thursday November 6, 1958Calender converter

• Patrick Jerome Buffel, Torhout,8820,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2015)
• Doug F Kaelbli († 1999)
• Ruth de Vries, Utrecht
• Petronella Catharina Albertina Maria Cleijsen, Alphen (Noord-Brabant) († 2005)
• Robert Joseph Belviy, Indiana († 1958)
• Louis Skoreiko, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada († 2013)
• Sheila Kaye Padgett, Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States of America († 2021)
• Marie Henriëtte Jacobs, Haarlemmermeer (Noord-Holland, NLD) († 2022)
• Christiaan Machiel Mettrop, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Els Cleijsen, Riel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)

• Antoon Damen (77), Best
• arie HARTMAN (84), zevenbergen
• Cornelia Adriana de Man (74), Maassluis, Nederland
• Arie Lambertus BAX (85), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Veen (67), Meppel
• Antonia Maria Beldman (89), Wijhe
• Adam Zegers (59), Roermond, Limburg, Nederland
• Camille De Putter (81), Ninove
• Cornelia Vreugdenhil (68), Rotterdam
• Catharina Schilling (51), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1950 » Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan educator and politician († 2000)
• 1952 » Michael Cunningham, American novelist and screenwriter
• 1953 » Brian McKechnie, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player
• 1953 » Frank Hanisch, German footballer
• 1955 » Maria Shriver, American journalist and author
• 1955 » Mark Donaldson, New Zealand rugby player
• 1956 » Graeme Wood, Australian cricketer and footballer
• 1962 » Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya, Russian pilot and former cosmonaut
• 1963 » Rozz Williams, American singer, musician and artist († 1998)
• 1964 » Mike Brewer, New Zealand rugby player

• 1918 » Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
• 1965 » Clarence Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1938)
• 1991 » Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2000 » L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (b. 1907)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
• April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
• April 14 » The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
• April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• October 26 » Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
• December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.

The temperature on November 6, 1958 was between 5.1 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.