Today in History for March 1958

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 57 of 57

1st - Gary Sobers 365* v Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara
1st - Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
1st - West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl v Pakistan
1st - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
2nd - 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
2nd - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
2nd - Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
3rd - KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
3rd - Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
5th - Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
5th - KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
7th - Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
8th - Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
8th - William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
9th - George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
11th - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
11th - Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
12th - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
13th - Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner 14th - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
14th - Recording Industry Association of American created
14th - South Africa government disallows ANC
14th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
14th - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
15th - "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
15th - KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
15th - Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts
15th - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
15th - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
16th - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
17th - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
18th - Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
19th - Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London
19th - Sobers completes a century in each innings v Pakistan
NBA Player Oscar Robertson 20th - 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
20th - Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
20th - Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
21st - 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
21st - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
22nd - 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
22nd - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
22nd - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
22nd - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
24th - Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
25th - Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
25th - West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
26th - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward & Guinness win
26th - Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
26th - US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
Middle/welterweight championship boxer Sugar Ray Robinson 26th - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.
27th - CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
27th - Havana Hilton opens
27th - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
29th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
29th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
31st - US Navy forms atomic sub division
31st - USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 66 of 66

1st - Nik Kershaw, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good)
1st - Wayne B Phillips, cricket wicket-keeper (Australia)
1st - Bertrand Piccard, Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
1st - Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor
2nd - Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer
2nd - Kevin Curren, South Africa, tennis star
2nd - Peter Arnold, American architect
3rd - Bob Bradley, Montclair NJ, soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96)
3rd - Miranda Richardson, Southport England, actress (Damage, Crying Game)
3rd - Marc Silvestri, American comic book artist and publisher (Top Cow Productions)
4th - Patricia Heaton, Cleve OH, actress (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond)
4th - Lennie Lee, British artist
5th - Andy Gibb, Manchester England, singer/TV host (Solid Gold)
5th - Bill Timoney, TV commercial actor (Addicted to Love)
6th - Mike Gatting, English cricketer
6th - Eddie Deezen, American actor
7th - Rik Mayall, comedian (Drop Dead Fred, Bottom, Little Noises)
7th - Alan Hale, American astronomer
8th - Andreas Maurer, West Germany, tennis star
8th - Gary Numan, [Gary Webb], Hammersmith England, vocalist (Replicas)
8th - Nick Capra, American baseball player
9th - Martin Fry, English pop singer and rock vocalist (ABC-All of My Heart)
9th - Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer
10th - Sharon Stone, Meadville Pennsylvania, American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino)
11th - Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
11th - Jim Pinkerton, American pundit
11th - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
11th - Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, interim President of Iraq
12th - Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
13th - Debi Nicolle Johnson, Torrance California, playmate (October, 1984)
13th - Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-NY)
14th - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder (Oly-1988)
15th - Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
16th - Jorge Ramos, Mexican TV anchor
16th - Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)
17th - Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster
18th - Andreas Wenzel, Liechtenstein, skier (Olympic-silver-1980)
20th - Holly Hunter, Conyers Georgia, American actress (Broadcast News, The Piano)
20th - Rickey Jackson, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
20th - Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist
21st - Brad Hall, Santa Barbara California, comedian (SNL)
21st - Gary Oldman, actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace)
21st - Marlies Gohr, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
22nd - Joyce Lester, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
22nd - Pete Wylie, Liverpool, rocker (Sinful)
22nd - Laurie David, American political activist
23rd - Serena Grandi, [Fagioli], Bologna Itay, actress (Miranda)
23rd - Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
23rd - El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997)
25th - James McDaniel, Wash DC, actor (Arthur Fancy-NYPD Blue)
25th - Maria Caridad Colón, Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympic-gold-1980)
25th - Yograj Singh, cricketer (Indian pace bowler early 80's)
25th - Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator
25th - Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician
26th - Chris Codiroli, American baseballer
27th - Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)
27th - Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
28th - Bart Wayne Conner, Morton Grove Ill, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
28th - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
29th - Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England
29th - Victor Salva, American film director
30th - Joseph Paul Sindelar, Ft Knox KY, PGA golfer (BC Open-1985, 87)
30th - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
31st - Jay Feenan, Windham NH, rower (Olympics-1996)
31st - Pat McGlynn, Edinburgh, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
31st - Tony Cox, American actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

27th - Latin American and magic realism leading novelist and short story writer "One Hundred years of Solitude" Gabriel Garc

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

22nd - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 16 of 16

1st - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
4th - Albert Kuyle, [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54
8th - Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85
11th - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
12th - Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
14th - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
16th - Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65
19th - Vernon Ransford, cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
21st - Cyril M Kornbluth, US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34
22nd - Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
23rd - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
25th - Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
25th - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
26th - Phil Mead, cricketer (55061 1st-class runs 1905-36), dies
28th - Chuck Klein, Phila Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53
28th - William Christopher Handy, US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84 in New York