About the day » Thursday September 18, 1958Calender converter

• levenloos geboren kind († 1958)
• Jeffrey W. Coombs, Boston Suffo, Massachusetts
• Douglas D Gerdes, Hampton Hospital, Hampton, Franklin, Iowa († 2004)
• Edward Jacob Salomon Timmermans, Bergen op Zoom († 1958)
• Johann Heinrich Emanuel Fieten († 2006)
• Theodora Johanna Maria Loos, Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Jeffrey Roy Geurkink, New Richmond, Wisconsin, VS († 2007)
• Jacob van Vuure, Ransdorp († 1959)
• TUTEIN NOLTHENIUS († 1958)
• Jacob van Vuure, Ransdorp († 1959)

• Christina Hendrika Koers (69), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Zijlsta (47), Dordtrecht
• Beertje Endendijk (71), Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Beertje Endendijk (71), Ermelo
• Anna Farney (77)
• Albertus Takken (64), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Carolus Ludovicus Marivoet (71), Merchtem
• Albertus Dedden (65), Meppel
• Cornelis Schot (56)
• Albertus Siebrandus Groenendal (73)

• 1956 » Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
• 1956 » Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player and politician
• 1958 » Derek Pringle, Kenyan-English cricketer and journalist
• 1958 » John Aldridge, English-Irish footballer and manager
• 1958 » Malcolm Press, English ecologist and academic
• 1958 » Winston Davis, Vincentian cricketer
• 1959 » Ian Arkwright, English footballer
• 1959 » Mark Romanek, American director and screenwriter
• 1959 » Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1960 » Stephen Flaherty, American composer

• 1951 » Gelett Burgess, American author and poet (b. 1866)
• 1952 » Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano and actress (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
• 1956 » Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
• 1959 » Benjamin Péret, French poet and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1961 » Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Therese Neumann, German mystic (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist (b. 1880)

• 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.
• January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
• March 17 » The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite.
• 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.
• September 15 » A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
• October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• December 5 » The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)

The temperature on September 18, 1958 was between 9.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.