Using the
Trans Canada Microwave relay of 139 towers, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television network (CBC-TV) inaugurated telecasting from coast to coast for the first time since the network had gone on the air on September 6, 1952 in
Montreal. The first 90-minute program, "Memo to Champlain", began on Canada's
Dominion Day at 4:30 pm
Eastern Daylight Time (2030 UTC), 1:30 pm Pacific and 6:00 pm in Newfoundland.[4]
The first conference among scientists from the world's nuclear powers to address
nuclear weapons testing began in
Geneva as delegates from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and other nations working on a nuclear bomb, arrived in Switzerland. The meeting took place in the former conference room of the old League of Nations building.[5]
The Soviet Union's "new order for Soviet agriculture" went into effect, implementing
Nikita Khrushchev's reforms to provide a more equitable compensation for their production in collective farming.[7]
The world's largest hotel at the time, the 1,065-room
Stardust Resort and Casino, opened in the United States in
Las Vegas. It would close in 2006 after 48 years of operation.
The Phoenix of Hiroshima, a yacht commissioned by anti-nuclear protester
Earle L. Reynolds, his wife and two children, and several Japanese crew, was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard ship
USCGC Planetree after having sailed 65 miles (105 km) into
Enewetak nuclear test zone in use by the U.S. for its ongoing
Operation Hardtack I series of nuclear explosions. Mr. Reynolds was arrested and taken to
Honolulu, where he was convicted of trespassing, a finding later overturned on appeal.[8]
The Agreement for Cooperation on the uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes, a
mutual defense agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, was signed in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. assisting the UK financially in developing a ballistic missile program. U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles and British Embassy official
Samuel Hood signed on behalf of their respective nations.[12]
Martin Sommer, a former German S.S. sergeant and guard at the
Buchenwald concentration camp, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of murdering at least 25 inmates at Buchenwald. Sommer, who later lost an arm and a leg in battle and was confined to a wheelchair, was given the maximum penalty allowed under West German law.[13] After 13 years in prison, he would be transferred to a hospital and then to a nursing home, where he would be confined until his death in 1988.
The
St Ninian's Isle Treasure was found in Scotland by a local schoolboy, Douglas Coutts, who was assisting archaeologists in excavating a medieval chapel. The treasure had been buried under a slab more than 11 centuries earlier, between 750 and 825 AD.[15]
The first television transmission from an aircraft was made in
Los Angeles from a helicopter, the
KTLA "Telecopter", by the camera's inventor (and KTLA chief engineer),
John D. Silva, and broadcast on the KTLA Channel 5 News.[16]
The German-Swiss thriller film Es geschah am hellichten Tag ("It Happened in Broad Daylight") premiered in
West Berlin before going into general release on July 9 in West Germany and on July 12 in Switzerland.[17] Seven remakes of the film, originally written by
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, have been made in Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, the U.S. and India.
Chit Khae Tar A Mhan Par Pae, the first color film in
Burma (now Myanmar) was premiered in
Rangoon (now Yangon), although black-and-white films would continue to be the standard until the early 1990s.
Gasherbrum I, at 26,510 feet (8,080 m) the 11th highest mountain in the world, was first ascended.
Nicholas Clinch led the American team that scaled the mountain via the Roch ridge.
The
Delaware Nation (Èhëliwsikakw Lënapeyok) in the U.S. state of
Oklahoma, descendants of the
Lenape tribe that had been forced westward from the colonies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, received federal recognition as the "Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma", and would take on its current name as a self-governing unit in 1999.
The
Automobile Information Disclosure Act of 1958 was signed into law by President Eisenhower, to take effect on January 1, 1959. It required that the dealers of all new automobiles were required to post a sticker on the window showing the manufacturer's suggested retail price, standard equipment and warranty details, prices of all optional equipment and pricing and highway mileage ratings.
Dr.
Iosif Capotă, 46, Romanian anti-communist rebel, was executed by firing squad at
Gherla Prison seven months after his arrest by the
Securitate, Romania's secret police.[18]
The first
parking meters in Britain were installed, with 600 meters installed in the northern half of
London's fashionable
Mayfair area in the City of
Westminster around
Grosvenor Square. Parking for one hour required placement of a
sixpence coin into the meter.[21][22][23] Parking meters had been used in the U.S. since 1935.
In a joint statement by U.S. President Eisenhower and Canadian Prime Minister
Lester B. Pearson, the two North American leaders announced that they had agreed to crate the "Canada-United States Committee on Joint Defense", consisting of the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs and the U.S. Secretary of State; the Canadian Minister of Defence and the U.S. Secretary of Defense; and the Canadian Minister of Finance and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury."[24]
In
Geneva, Western and Soviet block scientists reached their first agreement, that any inspections to police a moratorium on nuclear weapons testing should be done by allowing each side to place acoustic detection devices in the other's territory.[25]
Count Michael Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, direct descendant of
Samuel Aba, King of Hungary, age 60, was murdered at his residence in
Olcsvar (now in Slovakia) in the course of the seizure of a few hectares of land by the Communist government of
Czechoslovakia in the course of its collectivization process.
July 12, 1958 (Saturday)
The
Royal Malaysian Navy received independent ownership of its own fleet as Britain transferred ownership of
Royal Navy vessels that had been on loan. The ships that became RMN vessels were the minesweeper HMS Sri Johore landing ships HMS Pelandok and HMS Sri Perlis, and eight patrol boats (Panglima, Sri Kedah, Sri Selangor, Sri Perak, Sri Pahang, Sri Kelantan and Sri Trengganu).
In Malaysia,
Abdul Halim ibni Almarhum became the new
Sultan of Kedah upon the death of his father,
Sultan Badlishah. Abdul Halim would rule Kedah, one of the constituent sultanates of Malaysia, for 59 years before his death in 2017, and would twice serve as Malaysia's head of state, the
Yang di-Pertuan Agong, from 1970 to 1975 and again from 2011 to 2016.
July 14, 1958 (Monday)
King
Faisal II of Iraq was killed in a
coup d'etat, led by Brigadier General
Abd al-Karim Qasim, who abolished the monarchy and declared Iraq to be a republic. Colonel
Abdul Salam Arif, who led troops of the 19th and 20th Brigades of the Iraqi Army's 3rd Division, ordered a regiment to invade al-Rahab, the royal palace in Baghdad. By order of Crown Prince
'Abd al-Ilah, the palace guard offered no resistance. Once in, Captain Abdus Sattar As Sab ordered the family rounded up, ordered them to face the wall, and shot them to death, including the Crown Prince, his mother Princess Nafeesa and sister Princess Abadiya, other members of the royal family and several servants, as well as the King and Jordan's Prime Minister
Ibrahim Hashem, who was a guest at the palace.
The first Japanese
anime and first color television show, Mogura no Abanchūru ("Mole's Adventure"), was telecast on
Nippon TV (NTV).
The
Queen's Baton Relay was introduced as a tradition in advance of the quadrennial
British Empire and Commonwealth Games, held in
Wales for the first time in the city of
Cardiff. A runner started from the forecourt of
Buckingham Palace in
London after being handed the baton by Queen Elizabeth II, and successive runners carried the baton through multiple English counties and all 13 Welsh counties before the baton was handed back to the Queen at the July 14 opening ceremony for the Games. The relay was repeated every four years afterward, with the 1962 relay starting in London and ending at Perth in Australia.
Born: Luan Jujie, Chinese-born fencer and Olympic gold medalist who later competed for Canada; in
Nanjing
July 15, 1958 (Tuesday)
After having escaped a rebel attack on his home the day before, but unable to get out of Baghdad, Iraq's Prime Minister
Nuri al-Said was captured while trying to get past a patrol while disguised as a woman.
In the
first intervention of U.S. combat troops in the Middle East,
Lebanon was invaded by the first of 5,000
United States Marines who landed in
Beirut to preserve order and to support the pro-Western government. Operation Blue Bat was the first application of the "Eisenhower Doctrine" to use the U.S. military to protect any regime considered to be threatened by Communism.[26][27]
Cook Electric Company submitted a proposal to the
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation as a part of a preliminary study and design effort by McDonnell for a "manned satellite", a spacecraft that could safely carry at least one human being into space. McDonnell, prior to being awarded the
Mercury prime development contract in
February 1959, spent 11 months under a company research budget working on a crewed orbital spacecraft concept.[19]
Born:
Bergen (stage name for Belgin Sarılmışer), popular Turkish singer; in
Mersin (murdered 1989)
Two battalions of British paratroopers landed in
Jordan to defend
King Hussein's regime from the possibility of a spreading of the recent revolt in
Iraq, while the United States sent more than 50 patrolling jets from carriers on the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet.[30]
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 241 to 155, to approve a bill that would have limited the U.S. Supreme Court from using federal laws to nullify laws passed by individual U.S. states.[31]
Died: Henri Farman, 84, British-French bicyclist, aviator and aircraft designer
July 18, 1958 (Friday)
In a memorandum to Dr.
James R. Killian, Jr., Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr.
Hugh L. Dryden, Director of NACA, pointed out that
NASA would inherit from NACA a rich technical background, competence, and leadership for putting human beings into space. NACA groups had researched stabilization of ultra-high speed vehicles, provision of suitable controls, high-temperature structural designs, and
reentry problems, including the design of a satellite with a crew, and the
X-15 program had provided experience for humans to apply to
orbital flight.[19]
The first U.S. test of a three-engined intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) failed when a
rate gyroscope failed on the new
SM-65 Atlas rocket.[33]
The government of
Amintore Fanfani narrowly received approval in Italy's Chamber of Deputies by a margin of only seven votes, 295 to 287 with nine deputies abstaining rather than voting no. On July 12, the Italian Senate had approved the Fanfani government, 128 to 111.
In
Yugoslavia, 23 people were killed and 10 critically injured in an explosion at the Kokin Brod hydroelectric power plant at
Nova Varoš in
SR Serbia.[34]
The
Dockum Drug Store sit-in began in the U.S. in
Wichita, Kansas to challenge the policy of the local Rexall Drugs' lunch counter, legal at the time, to allow only white customers to be served. Ten well-dressed black college students took up the seats of the counter and placed orders for soft drinks. The students continued to come daily for 23 days until the store owner, having lost revenue, gave up on August 11, 1958, and allowed persons of all races to be served equally. The Dockum chain, affected by the national publicity, issued an order desegregating lunch counters in all of its stores.[35]
Born:
Azumah Nelson,
Ghanaian professional boxer and holder of the world featherweight and super-featherweight titles during the 1980s and 1990s; in
Accra
For the first time in almost nine years, the South American nation of
Colombia convened its bicameral
congress under a new "national front" agreement that evenly split the membership of the Chamber of Representatives, and the Colombian Senate, between the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, a plan that applied to also provincial and municipal legislative bodies and cabinets.[36]
The
Kingdom of Jordan announced that it was severing all diplomatic and economic relations with the
United Arab Republic (UAR), which consisted of Egypt and Jordan's neighbor,
Syria, after the UAR recognized the military regime that had overthrown the monarchy in
Iraq six days earlier.[37]
U.S. Secretary of State Dulles and British Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd reached an agreement for joint action for defense of Western economic interests in the Middle East, after four days of meetings in Washington DC.[38]
The Indonesian Army, having captured the Permesta rebel capital at
Manado on June 24, was able to capture the city of
Tondano, and then to use it as a base to prepare to take
Tomohon.
Born: Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and manager for the Yomiuri Giants, Central League Rookie of the Year in 1981 and MVP in 1983; in
Sagamihara,
Kanagawa Prefecture
David Von Erich (ring name for David A. Adkisson), American professional wrestler; in
Dallas (d. 1984)
July 23, 1958 (Wednesday)
The
Divorce (Insanity and Desertion) Act 1958 took effect upon being given Royal Assent, and modified the law in the United Kingdom for grounds for divorce, providing that a divorce could be had if the spouse had been receiving treatment for mental illness for at least five years.
Born: Tomy Winata (Guo Shuo Feng), Indonesian multimillionaire businessman and philanthropist; in
Jakarta
July 24, 1958 (Thursday)
Jack Kilby, an electrical engineer for the
Texas Instruments Company, first recorded his inspiration for the
integrated circuit, an idea that all the components for a transistor circuit could be fabricated from the same material,
silicon. Kilby, alone in his laboratory while other TI employees were on vacation, wrote in his lab notebook, "The following circuit elements could be made on a single slice: resistors, capacitors, distributed capacitors, transistor," and made rough sketches of how each component could be made.[40][41] He would give the first demonstration of the working model on September 12, 1958.
Fourteen
life peerages (which did not pass through inheritance and which could include women for the
House of Lords), the first under the
Life Peerages Act 1958, were created in the United Kingdom. The act had been given Royal assent on April 30.[42] Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan proposed the initial titles for
10 men and four women, with
Ian Fraser of the BBC being the first to receive a life peerage, being named Baron Fraser of Lonsdale on August 1 by the Queen.[43] Sociologist
Barbara Wootton became the first woman to be made a life peer, becoming Baroness Wootton of Abinger on August 8.
The United States launched the
Explorer 4 satellite into orbit.[45] The Explorer satellite made the discovery that the Van Allen Radiation Belt varied in its intensity as it encountered an area 1,200 miles (1,900 km) above the Equator over South America, where the radiation was 10
roentgens in an hour, "167 times more intense than the mysterious rays thought to have been discovered by the earlier Explorer satellites" and "enough to inflict lethal damage on a space traveler in a fairly short time."[46]
Born:Jesús Barrero, Mexican voice-over actor on dubbed versions of U.S. films, and for television animation; in
Mexico City (died of
lung cancer, 2016)
Died:U.S. Air Force Captain
Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr., 30, American
test pilot who had been selected as an
astronaut, was killed after ejecting from a malfunctioning
F-104 fighter. Kincheloe's parachute deployed but failed to slow his descent to a safe rate.[47]
July 27, 1958 (Sunday)
USMC Private First Class Walter Richardson, from Brooklyn, became the first U.S. serviceman to be killed during the Lebanon intervention. While at first it appeared he had been killed by a sniper near the Beirut airport, it developed that Richardson was shot accidentally by a stray bullet from another Marine's .45 pistol while climbing over a wall in Beirut.[48]
Two American balloonists became the first persons to spend more than 24 hours in Earth's
stratosphere, staying inside an enclosed aluminum gondola for 34 1/2 hours after having taken off the day before from an open area near
Crosby, Minnesota. The two men, U.S. Navy Commander
Malcolm Ross and M. Lee Lewis, reached an altitude of 82,000 feet (25,000 m) the day before and then came down in a pasture on a farm near
Woodworth, North Dakota. Their gondola bounced along the ground for 1 mile (1.6 km) before coming to a halt.[49]
U.S. track and field athlete
Rafer Johnson broke the world's record for the
decathlon in the course of an event arranged in
Moscow as the first-ever dual meet between the men's and women's track teams of the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviets narrowly won the dual meet, 172 points to 170, based on the American men winning 126-109, and the Soviet women winning, 63-44. Johnson compiled 8,302 points in the ten decathlon events and surpassed the record of 8,013 set by the Soviet Union's
Vasily Kuznetsov, who finished in second place.[52]
Ouezzin Coulibaly, the Prime Minister of
French Upper Volta (now the Republic of
Burkina Faso) as president of its governing council and the colony's representative in France's
Assemblée Nationale and formerly the
Sénat, took a leave of absence for health treatment in France, and named
Maurice Yaméogo to govern in his place. Coulibaly died less than six weeks later and Yaméogo became the new head of the colony. Upon Upper Volta's independence in 1960, Yaméogo would become its first president.
Frank Marugg, a violinist with the
Denver Symphony Orchestra, was awarded U.S. patent #2,844,354 for the
auto immobilizer, commonly called the "Denver boot", "tire boot" or "wheel clamp", designed at the request of the Denver law enforcement to be locked around the tire of a motor vehicle to prevent anyone from driving until the device was unlocked, for the purpose of compelling persons to pay outstanding traffic tickets.[53]
Terry Fox, Canadian distance runner who raised millions for cancer research during his attempted run across Canada in 1980; in
Winnipeg,
Manitoba (died of cancer, 1981)
Died:
Dr.
J. E. Walker, 79, African-American physician and businessman who founded the Universal Life Insurance Company and the Tri-State Bank & Trust Company to serve the black community, was shot to death by a former friend to whom he had loaned money.[54]
Herb Narvo, 45, Australian rugby league star and one-time national heavyweight boxing champion, died of cancer
July 29, 1958 (Tuesday)
Lebanon's Prime Minister
Sami es-Solh narrowly escaped an assassination attempt that killed six other people. Solh was being driven to
Beirut from his summer home in
Brummana, preparing to meet an emissary sent by U.S. president Eisenhower, and was approaching the village of Mekaleff and a seemingly abandoned car on the side of the road. As he drew alongside, explosives inside the car were detonated, killing a policeman escorting the car and five people who had been in a private automobile that had been passing in the opposite direction. Solh and the people in his limousine were uninjured.[55]
The
Battle of Las Mercedes began as part of the Cuban Army's
Operation Verano, as the troops of General
Eulogio Cantillo surrounded the 300 guerrillas of
Fidel Castro's
26th of July Movement. Rather than using the opportunity to annihilate the guerrillas and put an end to Castro's
Cuban Revolution, General Castillo agreed three days later to Castro's request for a one-week ceasefire to negotiate a surrender, during which the trapped guerrillas escaped to safety. The Cuban Army's lost opportunity to capture Castro would be followed five months later by Castro's victory.[56]
Haiti's President
Francois Duvalier personally led his palace guard to put down a rebellion and coup attempt led by former Haitian Army captains Alix Pasquet and Philippe Dominique, both of whom were killed in the counterattack.[57]
NASA, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, came into existence upon the signing of the
National Aeronautics and Space Act into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.[58][59] The U.S. House of Representatives had approved the creation of NASA on June 2,[60] followed by a slightly different bill approved by the U.S. Senate on June 16,[61] and the compromise bill was passed by both houses of Congress on July 16.[62]
July 30, 1958 (Wednesday)
An explosion of fireworks killed 11 employees of the Marutamaya Kokatsu Fireworks Company in
Tokyo.[63]
In a mass
baptism that a spokesman for the
Jehovah's Witnesses described as "the largest such ceremony in the history of
Christendom",[64] a group of 7,136 men and women were immersed in the waters of
Long Island Sound in New York after gathering at
Orchard Beach in the
Bronx borough of New York City. The spokesman stated that the group was of 4,199 men and 2,937 women who split into two groups, then were "fanned out into thirty lanes flanked by T-shirted volunteers who guided them to the baptizers, about seventy-five feet offshore in waist-deep water."[65]
Using the model of the Mercury contour couch designed by
Maxime A. Faget and associates, volunteer Carter C. Collins withstood a 20g load on
the "human centrifuge" at
Johnsville, Pennsylvania. This test proved that humans could withstand the reentry accelerations of a returning satellite.[19]
The leaders of the two most powerful Communist nations in the world met in
Beijing as Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied by Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky, Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov and Central Committee member Boris N. Ponomarev, was the guest of
Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, for a secret four-day conference. The Soviet group returned to Moscow after Khrushchev and Mao signed a joint communique revealing that the two had met and demanding that the United States and the United Kingdom withdraw all troops from Lebanon and Jordan, respectively.[66]
Fouad Chehab was elected to a six-year term as the new
President of Lebanon in a 48 to 7 vote, with one abstention, by the
Lebanese Parliament. The other candidate, Raymond Edde, pledged his support for Chehab to succeed President
Camille Chamoun, whose term was scheduled to expire on September 23. Prime Minister
Sami es-Solh, who had narrowly escaped assassination the day before, stayed away from the session along with 10 other deputies of the 66-member parliament.[67]
Republic Aviation representatives briefed NACA on its man-in-space developed in 1958. Republic officials envisioned a four-stage solid launch vehicle system and a lifting reentry vehicle, the "sled". The vehicle would have atriangular shape with a 75-degree leading-edge sweep. Aerodynamic and reaction controls would be available to the pilot. For the launch vehicle, Republic proposed a
Minuteman first stage, a
Polaris first stage, a Minuteman upper stage, and a Jumbo rocket fourth stage. .[19]
Born: Mark Cuban, American computer software entrepreneur and billionaire, owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks; in
Pittsburgh
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Using the
Trans Canada Microwave relay of 139 towers, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television network (CBC-TV) inaugurated telecasting from coast to coast for the first time since the network had gone on the air on September 6, 1952 in
Montreal. The first 90-minute program, "Memo to Champlain", began on Canada's
Dominion Day at 4:30 pm
Eastern Daylight Time (2030 UTC), 1:30 pm Pacific and 6:00 pm in Newfoundland.[4]
The first conference among scientists from the world's nuclear powers to address
nuclear weapons testing began in
Geneva as delegates from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and other nations working on a nuclear bomb, arrived in Switzerland. The meeting took place in the former conference room of the old League of Nations building.[5]
The Soviet Union's "new order for Soviet agriculture" went into effect, implementing
Nikita Khrushchev's reforms to provide a more equitable compensation for their production in collective farming.[7]
The world's largest hotel at the time, the 1,065-room
Stardust Resort and Casino, opened in the United States in
Las Vegas. It would close in 2006 after 48 years of operation.
The Phoenix of Hiroshima, a yacht commissioned by anti-nuclear protester
Earle L. Reynolds, his wife and two children, and several Japanese crew, was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard ship
USCGC Planetree after having sailed 65 miles (105 km) into
Enewetak nuclear test zone in use by the U.S. for its ongoing
Operation Hardtack I series of nuclear explosions. Mr. Reynolds was arrested and taken to
Honolulu, where he was convicted of trespassing, a finding later overturned on appeal.[8]
The Agreement for Cooperation on the uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes, a
mutual defense agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, was signed in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. assisting the UK financially in developing a ballistic missile program. U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles and British Embassy official
Samuel Hood signed on behalf of their respective nations.[12]
Martin Sommer, a former German S.S. sergeant and guard at the
Buchenwald concentration camp, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of murdering at least 25 inmates at Buchenwald. Sommer, who later lost an arm and a leg in battle and was confined to a wheelchair, was given the maximum penalty allowed under West German law.[13] After 13 years in prison, he would be transferred to a hospital and then to a nursing home, where he would be confined until his death in 1988.
The
St Ninian's Isle Treasure was found in Scotland by a local schoolboy, Douglas Coutts, who was assisting archaeologists in excavating a medieval chapel. The treasure had been buried under a slab more than 11 centuries earlier, between 750 and 825 AD.[15]
The first television transmission from an aircraft was made in
Los Angeles from a helicopter, the
KTLA "Telecopter", by the camera's inventor (and KTLA chief engineer),
John D. Silva, and broadcast on the KTLA Channel 5 News.[16]
The German-Swiss thriller film Es geschah am hellichten Tag ("It Happened in Broad Daylight") premiered in
West Berlin before going into general release on July 9 in West Germany and on July 12 in Switzerland.[17] Seven remakes of the film, originally written by
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, have been made in Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, the U.S. and India.
Chit Khae Tar A Mhan Par Pae, the first color film in
Burma (now Myanmar) was premiered in
Rangoon (now Yangon), although black-and-white films would continue to be the standard until the early 1990s.
Gasherbrum I, at 26,510 feet (8,080 m) the 11th highest mountain in the world, was first ascended.
Nicholas Clinch led the American team that scaled the mountain via the Roch ridge.
The
Delaware Nation (Èhëliwsikakw Lënapeyok) in the U.S. state of
Oklahoma, descendants of the
Lenape tribe that had been forced westward from the colonies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, received federal recognition as the "Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma", and would take on its current name as a self-governing unit in 1999.
The
Automobile Information Disclosure Act of 1958 was signed into law by President Eisenhower, to take effect on January 1, 1959. It required that the dealers of all new automobiles were required to post a sticker on the window showing the manufacturer's suggested retail price, standard equipment and warranty details, prices of all optional equipment and pricing and highway mileage ratings.
Dr.
Iosif Capotă, 46, Romanian anti-communist rebel, was executed by firing squad at
Gherla Prison seven months after his arrest by the
Securitate, Romania's secret police.[18]
The first
parking meters in Britain were installed, with 600 meters installed in the northern half of
London's fashionable
Mayfair area in the City of
Westminster around
Grosvenor Square. Parking for one hour required placement of a
sixpence coin into the meter.[21][22][23] Parking meters had been used in the U.S. since 1935.
In a joint statement by U.S. President Eisenhower and Canadian Prime Minister
Lester B. Pearson, the two North American leaders announced that they had agreed to crate the "Canada-United States Committee on Joint Defense", consisting of the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs and the U.S. Secretary of State; the Canadian Minister of Defence and the U.S. Secretary of Defense; and the Canadian Minister of Finance and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury."[24]
In
Geneva, Western and Soviet block scientists reached their first agreement, that any inspections to police a moratorium on nuclear weapons testing should be done by allowing each side to place acoustic detection devices in the other's territory.[25]
Count Michael Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, direct descendant of
Samuel Aba, King of Hungary, age 60, was murdered at his residence in
Olcsvar (now in Slovakia) in the course of the seizure of a few hectares of land by the Communist government of
Czechoslovakia in the course of its collectivization process.
July 12, 1958 (Saturday)
The
Royal Malaysian Navy received independent ownership of its own fleet as Britain transferred ownership of
Royal Navy vessels that had been on loan. The ships that became RMN vessels were the minesweeper HMS Sri Johore landing ships HMS Pelandok and HMS Sri Perlis, and eight patrol boats (Panglima, Sri Kedah, Sri Selangor, Sri Perak, Sri Pahang, Sri Kelantan and Sri Trengganu).
In Malaysia,
Abdul Halim ibni Almarhum became the new
Sultan of Kedah upon the death of his father,
Sultan Badlishah. Abdul Halim would rule Kedah, one of the constituent sultanates of Malaysia, for 59 years before his death in 2017, and would twice serve as Malaysia's head of state, the
Yang di-Pertuan Agong, from 1970 to 1975 and again from 2011 to 2016.
July 14, 1958 (Monday)
King
Faisal II of Iraq was killed in a
coup d'etat, led by Brigadier General
Abd al-Karim Qasim, who abolished the monarchy and declared Iraq to be a republic. Colonel
Abdul Salam Arif, who led troops of the 19th and 20th Brigades of the Iraqi Army's 3rd Division, ordered a regiment to invade al-Rahab, the royal palace in Baghdad. By order of Crown Prince
'Abd al-Ilah, the palace guard offered no resistance. Once in, Captain Abdus Sattar As Sab ordered the family rounded up, ordered them to face the wall, and shot them to death, including the Crown Prince, his mother Princess Nafeesa and sister Princess Abadiya, other members of the royal family and several servants, as well as the King and Jordan's Prime Minister
Ibrahim Hashem, who was a guest at the palace.
The first Japanese
anime and first color television show, Mogura no Abanchūru ("Mole's Adventure"), was telecast on
Nippon TV (NTV).
The
Queen's Baton Relay was introduced as a tradition in advance of the quadrennial
British Empire and Commonwealth Games, held in
Wales for the first time in the city of
Cardiff. A runner started from the forecourt of
Buckingham Palace in
London after being handed the baton by Queen Elizabeth II, and successive runners carried the baton through multiple English counties and all 13 Welsh counties before the baton was handed back to the Queen at the July 14 opening ceremony for the Games. The relay was repeated every four years afterward, with the 1962 relay starting in London and ending at Perth in Australia.
Born: Luan Jujie, Chinese-born fencer and Olympic gold medalist who later competed for Canada; in
Nanjing
July 15, 1958 (Tuesday)
After having escaped a rebel attack on his home the day before, but unable to get out of Baghdad, Iraq's Prime Minister
Nuri al-Said was captured while trying to get past a patrol while disguised as a woman.
In the
first intervention of U.S. combat troops in the Middle East,
Lebanon was invaded by the first of 5,000
United States Marines who landed in
Beirut to preserve order and to support the pro-Western government. Operation Blue Bat was the first application of the "Eisenhower Doctrine" to use the U.S. military to protect any regime considered to be threatened by Communism.[26][27]
Cook Electric Company submitted a proposal to the
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation as a part of a preliminary study and design effort by McDonnell for a "manned satellite", a spacecraft that could safely carry at least one human being into space. McDonnell, prior to being awarded the
Mercury prime development contract in
February 1959, spent 11 months under a company research budget working on a crewed orbital spacecraft concept.[19]
Born:
Bergen (stage name for Belgin Sarılmışer), popular Turkish singer; in
Mersin (murdered 1989)
Two battalions of British paratroopers landed in
Jordan to defend
King Hussein's regime from the possibility of a spreading of the recent revolt in
Iraq, while the United States sent more than 50 patrolling jets from carriers on the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet.[30]
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 241 to 155, to approve a bill that would have limited the U.S. Supreme Court from using federal laws to nullify laws passed by individual U.S. states.[31]
Died: Henri Farman, 84, British-French bicyclist, aviator and aircraft designer
July 18, 1958 (Friday)
In a memorandum to Dr.
James R. Killian, Jr., Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr.
Hugh L. Dryden, Director of NACA, pointed out that
NASA would inherit from NACA a rich technical background, competence, and leadership for putting human beings into space. NACA groups had researched stabilization of ultra-high speed vehicles, provision of suitable controls, high-temperature structural designs, and
reentry problems, including the design of a satellite with a crew, and the
X-15 program had provided experience for humans to apply to
orbital flight.[19]
The first U.S. test of a three-engined intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) failed when a
rate gyroscope failed on the new
SM-65 Atlas rocket.[33]
The government of
Amintore Fanfani narrowly received approval in Italy's Chamber of Deputies by a margin of only seven votes, 295 to 287 with nine deputies abstaining rather than voting no. On July 12, the Italian Senate had approved the Fanfani government, 128 to 111.
In
Yugoslavia, 23 people were killed and 10 critically injured in an explosion at the Kokin Brod hydroelectric power plant at
Nova Varoš in
SR Serbia.[34]
The
Dockum Drug Store sit-in began in the U.S. in
Wichita, Kansas to challenge the policy of the local Rexall Drugs' lunch counter, legal at the time, to allow only white customers to be served. Ten well-dressed black college students took up the seats of the counter and placed orders for soft drinks. The students continued to come daily for 23 days until the store owner, having lost revenue, gave up on August 11, 1958, and allowed persons of all races to be served equally. The Dockum chain, affected by the national publicity, issued an order desegregating lunch counters in all of its stores.[35]
Born:
Azumah Nelson,
Ghanaian professional boxer and holder of the world featherweight and super-featherweight titles during the 1980s and 1990s; in
Accra
For the first time in almost nine years, the South American nation of
Colombia convened its bicameral
congress under a new "national front" agreement that evenly split the membership of the Chamber of Representatives, and the Colombian Senate, between the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, a plan that applied to also provincial and municipal legislative bodies and cabinets.[36]
The
Kingdom of Jordan announced that it was severing all diplomatic and economic relations with the
United Arab Republic (UAR), which consisted of Egypt and Jordan's neighbor,
Syria, after the UAR recognized the military regime that had overthrown the monarchy in
Iraq six days earlier.[37]
U.S. Secretary of State Dulles and British Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd reached an agreement for joint action for defense of Western economic interests in the Middle East, after four days of meetings in Washington DC.[38]
The Indonesian Army, having captured the Permesta rebel capital at
Manado on June 24, was able to capture the city of
Tondano, and then to use it as a base to prepare to take
Tomohon.
Born: Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and manager for the Yomiuri Giants, Central League Rookie of the Year in 1981 and MVP in 1983; in
Sagamihara,
Kanagawa Prefecture
David Von Erich (ring name for David A. Adkisson), American professional wrestler; in
Dallas (d. 1984)
July 23, 1958 (Wednesday)
The
Divorce (Insanity and Desertion) Act 1958 took effect upon being given Royal Assent, and modified the law in the United Kingdom for grounds for divorce, providing that a divorce could be had if the spouse had been receiving treatment for mental illness for at least five years.
Born: Tomy Winata (Guo Shuo Feng), Indonesian multimillionaire businessman and philanthropist; in
Jakarta
July 24, 1958 (Thursday)
Jack Kilby, an electrical engineer for the
Texas Instruments Company, first recorded his inspiration for the
integrated circuit, an idea that all the components for a transistor circuit could be fabricated from the same material,
silicon. Kilby, alone in his laboratory while other TI employees were on vacation, wrote in his lab notebook, "The following circuit elements could be made on a single slice: resistors, capacitors, distributed capacitors, transistor," and made rough sketches of how each component could be made.[40][41] He would give the first demonstration of the working model on September 12, 1958.
Fourteen
life peerages (which did not pass through inheritance and which could include women for the
House of Lords), the first under the
Life Peerages Act 1958, were created in the United Kingdom. The act had been given Royal assent on April 30.[42] Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan proposed the initial titles for
10 men and four women, with
Ian Fraser of the BBC being the first to receive a life peerage, being named Baron Fraser of Lonsdale on August 1 by the Queen.[43] Sociologist
Barbara Wootton became the first woman to be made a life peer, becoming Baroness Wootton of Abinger on August 8.
The United States launched the
Explorer 4 satellite into orbit.[45] The Explorer satellite made the discovery that the Van Allen Radiation Belt varied in its intensity as it encountered an area 1,200 miles (1,900 km) above the Equator over South America, where the radiation was 10
roentgens in an hour, "167 times more intense than the mysterious rays thought to have been discovered by the earlier Explorer satellites" and "enough to inflict lethal damage on a space traveler in a fairly short time."[46]
Born:Jesús Barrero, Mexican voice-over actor on dubbed versions of U.S. films, and for television animation; in
Mexico City (died of
lung cancer, 2016)
Died:U.S. Air Force Captain
Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr., 30, American
test pilot who had been selected as an
astronaut, was killed after ejecting from a malfunctioning
F-104 fighter. Kincheloe's parachute deployed but failed to slow his descent to a safe rate.[47]
July 27, 1958 (Sunday)
USMC Private First Class Walter Richardson, from Brooklyn, became the first U.S. serviceman to be killed during the Lebanon intervention. While at first it appeared he had been killed by a sniper near the Beirut airport, it developed that Richardson was shot accidentally by a stray bullet from another Marine's .45 pistol while climbing over a wall in Beirut.[48]
Two American balloonists became the first persons to spend more than 24 hours in Earth's
stratosphere, staying inside an enclosed aluminum gondola for 34 1/2 hours after having taken off the day before from an open area near
Crosby, Minnesota. The two men, U.S. Navy Commander
Malcolm Ross and M. Lee Lewis, reached an altitude of 82,000 feet (25,000 m) the day before and then came down in a pasture on a farm near
Woodworth, North Dakota. Their gondola bounced along the ground for 1 mile (1.6 km) before coming to a halt.[49]
U.S. track and field athlete
Rafer Johnson broke the world's record for the
decathlon in the course of an event arranged in
Moscow as the first-ever dual meet between the men's and women's track teams of the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviets narrowly won the dual meet, 172 points to 170, based on the American men winning 126-109, and the Soviet women winning, 63-44. Johnson compiled 8,302 points in the ten decathlon events and surpassed the record of 8,013 set by the Soviet Union's
Vasily Kuznetsov, who finished in second place.[52]
Ouezzin Coulibaly, the Prime Minister of
French Upper Volta (now the Republic of
Burkina Faso) as president of its governing council and the colony's representative in France's
Assemblée Nationale and formerly the
Sénat, took a leave of absence for health treatment in France, and named
Maurice Yaméogo to govern in his place. Coulibaly died less than six weeks later and Yaméogo became the new head of the colony. Upon Upper Volta's independence in 1960, Yaméogo would become its first president.
Frank Marugg, a violinist with the
Denver Symphony Orchestra, was awarded U.S. patent #2,844,354 for the
auto immobilizer, commonly called the "Denver boot", "tire boot" or "wheel clamp", designed at the request of the Denver law enforcement to be locked around the tire of a motor vehicle to prevent anyone from driving until the device was unlocked, for the purpose of compelling persons to pay outstanding traffic tickets.[53]
Terry Fox, Canadian distance runner who raised millions for cancer research during his attempted run across Canada in 1980; in
Winnipeg,
Manitoba (died of cancer, 1981)
Died:
Dr.
J. E. Walker, 79, African-American physician and businessman who founded the Universal Life Insurance Company and the Tri-State Bank & Trust Company to serve the black community, was shot to death by a former friend to whom he had loaned money.[54]
Herb Narvo, 45, Australian rugby league star and one-time national heavyweight boxing champion, died of cancer
July 29, 1958 (Tuesday)
Lebanon's Prime Minister
Sami es-Solh narrowly escaped an assassination attempt that killed six other people. Solh was being driven to
Beirut from his summer home in
Brummana, preparing to meet an emissary sent by U.S. president Eisenhower, and was approaching the village of Mekaleff and a seemingly abandoned car on the side of the road. As he drew alongside, explosives inside the car were detonated, killing a policeman escorting the car and five people who had been in a private automobile that had been passing in the opposite direction. Solh and the people in his limousine were uninjured.[55]
The
Battle of Las Mercedes began as part of the Cuban Army's
Operation Verano, as the troops of General
Eulogio Cantillo surrounded the 300 guerrillas of
Fidel Castro's
26th of July Movement. Rather than using the opportunity to annihilate the guerrillas and put an end to Castro's
Cuban Revolution, General Castillo agreed three days later to Castro's request for a one-week ceasefire to negotiate a surrender, during which the trapped guerrillas escaped to safety. The Cuban Army's lost opportunity to capture Castro would be followed five months later by Castro's victory.[56]
Haiti's President
Francois Duvalier personally led his palace guard to put down a rebellion and coup attempt led by former Haitian Army captains Alix Pasquet and Philippe Dominique, both of whom were killed in the counterattack.[57]
NASA, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, came into existence upon the signing of the
National Aeronautics and Space Act into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.[58][59] The U.S. House of Representatives had approved the creation of NASA on June 2,[60] followed by a slightly different bill approved by the U.S. Senate on June 16,[61] and the compromise bill was passed by both houses of Congress on July 16.[62]
July 30, 1958 (Wednesday)
An explosion of fireworks killed 11 employees of the Marutamaya Kokatsu Fireworks Company in
Tokyo.[63]
In a mass
baptism that a spokesman for the
Jehovah's Witnesses described as "the largest such ceremony in the history of
Christendom",[64] a group of 7,136 men and women were immersed in the waters of
Long Island Sound in New York after gathering at
Orchard Beach in the
Bronx borough of New York City. The spokesman stated that the group was of 4,199 men and 2,937 women who split into two groups, then were "fanned out into thirty lanes flanked by T-shirted volunteers who guided them to the baptizers, about seventy-five feet offshore in waist-deep water."[65]
Using the model of the Mercury contour couch designed by
Maxime A. Faget and associates, volunteer Carter C. Collins withstood a 20g load on
the "human centrifuge" at
Johnsville, Pennsylvania. This test proved that humans could withstand the reentry accelerations of a returning satellite.[19]
The leaders of the two most powerful Communist nations in the world met in
Beijing as Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied by Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky, Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov and Central Committee member Boris N. Ponomarev, was the guest of
Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, for a secret four-day conference. The Soviet group returned to Moscow after Khrushchev and Mao signed a joint communique revealing that the two had met and demanding that the United States and the United Kingdom withdraw all troops from Lebanon and Jordan, respectively.[66]
Fouad Chehab was elected to a six-year term as the new
President of Lebanon in a 48 to 7 vote, with one abstention, by the
Lebanese Parliament. The other candidate, Raymond Edde, pledged his support for Chehab to succeed President
Camille Chamoun, whose term was scheduled to expire on September 23. Prime Minister
Sami es-Solh, who had narrowly escaped assassination the day before, stayed away from the session along with 10 other deputies of the 66-member parliament.[67]
Republic Aviation representatives briefed NACA on its man-in-space developed in 1958. Republic officials envisioned a four-stage solid launch vehicle system and a lifting reentry vehicle, the "sled". The vehicle would have atriangular shape with a 75-degree leading-edge sweep. Aerodynamic and reaction controls would be available to the pilot. For the launch vehicle, Republic proposed a
Minuteman first stage, a
Polaris first stage, a Minuteman upper stage, and a Jumbo rocket fourth stage. .[19]
Born: Mark Cuban, American computer software entrepreneur and billionaire, owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks; in
Pittsburgh
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