The temperature on August 19, 1958 was between 16.0 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 18.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
May 9 » Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
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.
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