The temperature on February 6, 1958 was between -1.4 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 3 » Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
March 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
Day of death February 9, 1958
The temperature on February 9, 1958 was between 1.0 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » European Economic Community is established.
March 24 » Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
September 12 » Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
December 5 » The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
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