June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Day of death August 10, 1958
The temperature on August 10, 1958 was between 12.5 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
March 19 » The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
September 12 » Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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