January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of death November 21, 1958
The temperature on November 21, 1958 was between 2.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 4 » The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
July 26 » Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
October 2 » Guinea declares its independence from France.
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.)
December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
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