The temperature on January 9, 1958 was between 5.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
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.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
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 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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