The temperature on March 27, 1958 was between 8.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
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 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
May 24 » United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
Day of death December 21, 1958
The temperature on December 21, 1958 was between 4.0 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
August 3 » The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
October 11 » NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
December 9 » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
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.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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