About the day » Saturday March 8, 1958Calender converter

• Pieter Fokke Snoek, Hengelo († 1958)
• Sonja VAN WEYNSBERGHE, Assenede (Belgium) († 2003)
• Arjen de Pagter († 2020)
• Gerard Janssen, Venray, Limburg, Netherlands († 1958)
• Alphie Mae Cook, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States († 2011)
• Otto Visser, Dokkum, Friesland, Netherlands († 1971)
• henrica johanna maria christina (henriette) slaats, helden-grashoek
• John Herbert Roerink, Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2001)
• Paulus Harry Alphonsus de Rooij, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Dominic BEQUET († 2010)

• Adolf Mook (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Joannes Schaefer (81), Nijmegen
• Aaltje de Haan (86), Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Jacobus Swinkels (58), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catherine Brennan (93), Chicago, Cook, Illinois
• Bertha Dewaele (66), Veurne
• Adrianus Baas (75), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• antje dam (79), Grootebroek
• Christiaan UITTIEN (85), Engelbert, Noorddijk
• Basiel Balthazar (68), Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen

• 1956 » David Malpass, American economist and government official
• 1956 » Laurie Cunningham, English footballer († 1989)
• 1957 » Bob Stoddard, American baseball player
• 1957 » Clive Burr, English rock drummer († 2013)
• 1957 » William Edward Childs, American pianist and composer
• 1958 » Andy McDonald, English lawyer and politician
• 1958 » Gary Numan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1959 » Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor
• 1959 » Lester Holt, American journalist and news anchor
• 1960 » Jeffrey Eugenides, American author and academic

• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879)
• 1971 » Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1975 » George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)

• 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.
• March 1 » Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
• March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
• May 9 » Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
• May 30 » Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
• October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
• 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.

The temperature on March 8, 1958 was between -2.3 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.