January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
Day of death February 26, 1958
The temperature on February 26, 1958 was between -6.6 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
September 1 » Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
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 11 » French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
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