The temperature on May 18, 1958 was between 10.9 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
July 25 » The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
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 9 » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
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