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What happened in 1958

9/12-1958 - Robert Redford got married. Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi patron saint of television. Her placement on the television set is said to guarantee good reception. 01/01/1958 - BOAC Britannia flies London to NY in a record 7 hours and 57 minutes 01/01/1958 - European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation 01/01/1958 - Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White 01/03/1958 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland 01/04/1958 - Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up 01/08/1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana 01/10/1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 01/12/1958 - NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring 01/24/1958 - 1st man-made nuclear fusion 01/26/1958 - Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It" 01/28/1958 - Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck 01/29/1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed 01/31/1958 - James van Allen discovers radiation belt 01/31/1958 - US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1 02/05/1958 - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km 02/06/1958 - Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid 02/07/1958 - Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc 02/11/1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st Afr-American woman hired as flight attendant 02/17/1958 - Comic strip "BC" 1st appears 02/23/1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 03/02/1958 - 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days 03/05/1958 - Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit 03/11/1958 - Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets 03/12/1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" 03/13/1958 - Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia 03/14/1958 - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star) 03/14/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 03/14/1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 03/17/1958 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape 03/22/1958 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd) 03/24/1958 - Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) 03/25/1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times 03/26/1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," wins 03/26/1958 - US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III" 03/27/1958 - CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records

03/27/1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party 04/02/1958 - Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens 04/02/1958 - National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA 04/02/1958 - Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record) 04/03/1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana 04/06/1958 - Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters 04/14/1958 - Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere 04/15/1958 - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt 04/17/1958 - Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens 04/20/1958 - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 04/20/1958 - Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops 04/23/1958 - Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game 04/28/1958 - Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) 04/28/1958 - Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America 04/30/1958 - Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits 05/07/1958 - Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m 05/08/1958 - Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock 05/08/1958 - VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru 05/12/1958 - "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40 05/13/1958 - Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuela 05/13/1958 - Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits 05/15/1958 - USSR launches Sputnik III 05/16/1958 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter  05/19/1958 - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks 05/19/1958 - US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) 05/21/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) 05/26/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) 05/27/1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) 05/30/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) 05/31/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) Catalina High School graduates 528 students June 1, 1958 I married my high school sweetheart, James A. Laubscher, Geri Bird  06/01/1958 - Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France 06/02/1958 - Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record 8/13/1958 - Jack Wojnowski joined the Navy. 11/15/1958 - Jack & Patricia (Frye) Wojnowski got married. For the rest of the story go here:: wikipedia.org/wiki/1958

Prices of 1958 House: $30,000 Average income: $4,650 Ford car: $1967-$3929 Milk: $1.01 Gas: $.24 Bread $.19 Postage stamp: $.04 Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti, 15 1/2 .oz can.: $ .19 Corned Beef: $.59 lb. Swiss Steak: $.75

Libby Tomato Juice, 5 (46 .oz) cans: $1.00 Kraft Carmels, 1 lb pkg: $.37 Milk: $.42 half gal. Uncle Ben’s Rice, 14 oz box - $.19 Sunkist Oranges, 5 lbs.: $.49 Cantaloupe: $.05 lb. Celery: $.04 lb. Tuition at Harvard: $1,250 yr. Nathan's Hot Dog: $.25 Roundtrip airfare London to New York: $453 lb.