About the day » Thursday May 8, 1958Calender converter

• Nn Valk, Hardenberg († 1958)
• NN van Vilsteren, Zwolle († 1958)
• Venechuk, Waseca, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1958)
• Kevin Salter, Seattle, King, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1958)
• Johannes Henricus Maria de Vet, Gilze en Rijen
• Hillechien Boelen, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2002)
• Arie van Die, Zwijndrecht († 1996)
• Cees Schenk († 2013)
• Christa (Chris) VOET, Ieper († 2021)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1958)

• Bertha Meyer (68), Wellsburg, Grundy County, Ìowa
• Clara Helena Dijkstra (82), Wolvega (WSW), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Almeloo (73), Dalen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Adriana Meet, van der (60), Zierikzee gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Christian Jacobus Terhoven (67), South Africa
• Christina Twisk (39)
• Abraham Bijster (78), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Cornelia Pietertje Cornelia de Leeuw (75), Harenkaspel
• Anna Cornelia Kroonen (36), Dinteloord, N-Br, NL
• August Vanneste (71), Ruien Oost-Vlaanderen

• 1957 » Bill Cowher, American football player and coach
• 1957 » Gary Lunn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 6th Canadian Minister of Natural Resources
• 1957 » Rino Katase, Japanese actress
• 1958 » Brooks Newmark, American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury
• 1958 » Lovie Smith, American football player and coach
• 1958 » Roddy Doyle, Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Simone Kleinsma, Dutch actress and singer
• 1959 » David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland, English politician
• 1959 » Ikue Sakakibara, Japanese actress and singer
• 1959 » Ronnie Lott, American football player and sportscaster

• 1945 » Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Rediess, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (b. 1858)
• 1948 » U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician and immunologist (b. 1865)
• 1952 » William Fox, Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (b. 1879)
• 1959 » John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
• 1960 » J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Wally Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Hendrik
6. Robert
7. Pieter
8. Gerrit
9. Willem
10. Petrus
11. Ronald
12. John
13. Johan
14. David
15. Michael
16. Jacobus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Petronella
10. Yvonne
11. Margaretha
12. Jacoba
13. Ingrid
14. Linda
15. Elizabeth
16. Hendrika

• 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 4 » The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
• April 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
• July 9 » A 7.8 M_w  strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525m (1,722ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
• September 2 » United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
• 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.
• December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

The temperature on May 8, 1958 was between 14.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.