The temperature on August 24, 1958 was between 12.2 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 5 » A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
March 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
October 4 » The current constitution of France is adopted.
October 11 » NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
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