The temperature on December 18, 1958 was between 3.8 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
May 24 » United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
July 26 » Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
Day of death December 19, 1958
The temperature on December 19, 1958 was between 4.8 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
May 22 » The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
May 24 » United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
September 12 » Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
October 4 » The current constitution of France is adopted.
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.
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