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561 relations: Aarre Merikanto, Abd al-Ilah, Abdul-Karim Qasim, Academy Award for Best Picture, Adolfo López Mateos, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Alannah Myles, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Alcibíades Arosemena, Alec Baldwin, Algeria, Algiers, An Evening with Fred Astaire, Andie MacDowell, André Bazin, Andrea Bocelli, Andriy Bal, Andy Gibb, Angela Bassett, Anita Baker, Annette Bening, Anti-Americanism, Arab Federation, Arab League, Arlington National Cemetery, Arthur Calwell, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Artur Rodziński, Arturo Frondizi, Association football, Ataúlfo Argenta, Atomic Weapons Establishment, Atomium, Augustus Owsley Stanley, Australian Labor Party, Azumah Nelson, Barbara Bennett, Barque, Bart Conner, Battle of Santa Clara, Baudouin of Belgium, Bebe Neuwirth, Beirut, Belgian Congo, Belinda Carlisle, Bell Labs, Bell XV-3, Bengalis, Benjamin Zephaniah, Bertrand Russell, ... Expand index (511 more) »
Aarre Merikanto
Aarre Merikanto (29 June 1893 – 28 September 1958) was a Finnish composer.
Abd al-Ilah
Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz, (عبد الإله; also written Abdul Ilah or Abdullah; 14 November 1913 – 14 July 1958) was a cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and was regent for his nephew King Faisal II, from 4 April 1939 to 23 May 1953, when Faisal came of age.
Abdul-Karim Qasim
Abdul-Karim Qasim Muhammad Bakr al-Fadhli al-Zubaidi (عبد الكريمقاسم; 21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi military officer and nationalist who came to power in 1958 when the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown during the 14 July Revolution.
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Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
See 1958 and Academy Award for Best Picture
Adolfo López Mateos
Adolfo López Mateos (26 May 1909 – 22 September 1969) was a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964.
See 1958 and Adolfo López Mateos
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
Sayyid Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi (أحمد عبدالله محمد سامبي, born 5 June 1958) is a Comorian Islamic leader and politician, and former President of Comoros.
See 1958 and Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
Alannah Myles
Alannah Myles (née Byles; born December 25, 1958) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who has won both a Grammy and a Juno Award for the song "Black Velvet".
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Albert II (Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi; born 14 March 1958) is Prince of Monaco, reigning since 2005.
See 1958 and Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Alcibíades Arosemena
Alcibíades Arosemena Quinzada (20 November 1883 – 8 April 1958) was a Panamanian politician, who served 15th President of Panama.
See 1958 and Alcibíades Arosemena
Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor.
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
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Algiers
Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.
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An Evening with Fred Astaire
An Evening with Fred Astaire is a one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958.
See 1958 and An Evening with Fred Astaire
Andie MacDowell
Rosalie Anderson MacDowell (born April 21, 1958) is an American actress and former fashion model.
André Bazin
André Bazin (18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli (born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor.
Andriy Bal
Andriy Mykhaylovych Bal (Андрій Михайлович Баль; 16 February 1958 – 9 August 2014) was a Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a midfielder and football manager.
Andy Gibb
Andrew Roy Gibb (5 March 1958 – 10 March 1988) was an English-Australian singer and songwriter.
Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress.
Anita Baker
Anita Denise Baker (born January 26, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter.
Annette Bening
Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress.
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism (also called anti-American sentiment and Americanophobia) is a term that can describe several sentiments and positions including opposition to, fear of, distrust of, prejudice against or hatred toward the United States, its government, its foreign policy, or Americans in general.
Arab Federation
The Hashemite Arab Federation was a short-lived confederation that lasted from 14 February to 2 August 1958, between the Hashemite kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan.
Arab League
The Arab League (الجامعة العربية), formally the League of Arab States (جامعة الدول العربية), is a regional organization in the Arab world.
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is one of two cemeteries in the United States National Cemetery System that are maintained by the United States Army.
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Arthur Calwell
Arthur Augustus Calwell KC*SG (28 August 1896 – 8 July 1973) was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Labor Party from 1960 to 1967.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science.
See 1958 and Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Artur Rodziński
Artur Rodziński (2 January 1892 – 27 November 1958) was a Polish-American conductor of orchestral music and opera.
Arturo Frondizi
Arturo Frondizi Ércoli (October 28, 1908 – April 18, 1995) was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher and politician, who was elected President of Argentina and ruled between May 1, 1958, and March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown by a military coup.
Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Ataúlfo Argenta
Ataúlfo Exuperio Martín de Argenta Maza (19 November 1913 – 21 January 1958) was a Spanish conductor and pianist.
Atomic Weapons Establishment
The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence research facility responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons. It is the successor to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) with its main site on the former RAF Aldermaston and has major facilities at Burghfield, Blacknest and RNAD Coulport.
See 1958 and Atomic Weapons Establishment
Atomium
The Atomium is a landmark modernist building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58).
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Augustus Owsley Stanley
Augustus Owsley Stanley I (May 21, 1867 – August 12, 1958) was an American politician from Kentucky.
See 1958 and Augustus Owsley Stanley
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.
See 1958 and Australian Labor Party
Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson (born 19 July 1958, affectionately known as the Professor) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2008.
Barbara Bennett
Barbara Jane Bennett (August 13, 1906 – August 8, 1958) was an American stage and film actress and dancer.
Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft.
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Bart Conner
Barthold Wayne Conner (born March 28, 1958) is a retired American Olympic gymnast.
Battle of Santa Clara
The Battle of Santa Clara was a series of events in late December 1958 that led to the capture of the Cuban city of Santa Clara by revolutionaries under the command of Che Guevara.
See 1958 and Battle of Santa Clara
Baudouin of Belgium
Baudouin (7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993) was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993.
See 1958 and Baudouin of Belgium
Bebe Neuwirth
Beatrice "Bebe" Jane Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer, and dancer.
Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
See 1958 and Beirut
Belgian Congo
The Belgian Congo (Congo belge,; Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Jo Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter.
Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
Bell XV-3
The Bell XV-3 (Bell 200) is an American tiltrotor aircraft developed by Bell Helicopter for a joint research program between the United States Air Force and the United States Army in order to explore convertiplane technologies.
Bengalis
Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (15 April 1958 – 7 December 2023) was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public intellectual.
Betsy DeVos
Elisabeth Dee DeVos (Prince; born January 8, 1958) is an American politician, philanthropist, and former government official who served as the 11th United States secretary of education from 2017 to 2021.
Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1893 or 1903August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Bill Watterson
William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
Billy Mays
William Darrell Mays Jr. (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson.
Billy Meredith
William Henry Meredith (30 July 1874 – 19 April 1958) was a Welsh professional footballer.
Billy Whelan
William Augustine Whelan (1 April 1935 – 6 February 1958), known as Billy Whelan or Liam Whelan, was an Irish footballer who played as an inside-forward.
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Boeing B-47 Stratojet
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft.
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Bogotá
Bogotá (also), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world.
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Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (p; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
Boris Tadić
Boris Tadić (Борис Тадић,; born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012.
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston.
Brazil national football team
The Brazil national football team (Seleção Brasileira de Futebol), nicknamed Seleção Canarinho ("Canary Squad", after their bright yellow jersey), represents Brazil in men's international football and is administered by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the governing body for football in Brazil.
See 1958 and Brazil national football team
Brendan Nelson
Brendan John Nelson (born 19 August 1958) is an Australian business leader and former politician.
Bristol Britannia
The Bristol Type 175 Britannia is a retired British medium-to-long-range airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1952 to meet British civilian aviation needs.
See 1958 and Bristol Britannia
Brojen Das
Brojen Das (Bengali: ব্রজেন দাস; 9 December 1927 – 1 June 1998) was a Bangladeshi (East Pakistan) swimmer, who was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it six times.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island, a hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven.
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Bruce Campbell
Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor and filmmaker.
Bruce Dickinson
Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Callao
Callao is a Peruvian seaside city and region on the Pacific Ocean in the Lima metropolitan area.
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Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995.
See 1958 and Calvin and Hobbes
Camilo Cienfuegos
Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán (6 February 1932 – 28 October 1959) was a Cuban revolutionary.
See 1958 and Camilo Cienfuegos
Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17
Space Launch Complex 17 (SLC-17), previously designated Launch Complex 17 (LC-17), was a launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida used for Thor and Delta launch vehicles launches between 1958 and 2011.
See 1958 and Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17
Caracas
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas).
See 1958 and Caracas
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Cazuza
Agenor de Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza (April 4, 1958 – July 7, 1990), was a Brazilian singer and songwriter, born in Rio de Janeiro.
See 1958 and Cazuza
Cândido Rondon
Marshal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (5 May 1865 – 19 January 1958) was a Brazilian military officer most famous for his telegraph commission and exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, as well as his lifelong support for indigenous Brazilians.
Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini
Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini (剛恆毅，3 April 1876 – 17 October 1958) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and the founder of the Disciples of the Lord who served as the head of the Apostolic Chancery from 1954 until his death.
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Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.
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Charlene Tilton
Charlene L. Tilton (born December 1, 1958) is an American actress and singer.
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.
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Charles H. Townes
Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist.
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Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on was 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted by Jon Lee Anderson), asserts that he was actually born on 14 May of that year. Constenla alleges that she was told by Che's mother, Celia de la Serna, that she was already pregnant when she and Ernesto Guevara Lynch were married and that the date on the birth certificate of their son was forged to make it appear that he was born a month later than the actual date to avoid scandal.
Chen Yi (marshal)
Chen Yi (August 26, 1901 – January 6, 1972) was a Chinese communist military commander and politician.
See 1958 and Chen Yi (marshal)
China Central Television
China Central Television (CCTV) is the national television broadcaster of China, established in 1958.
See 1958 and China Central Television
Chris Columbus (filmmaker)
Chris Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker.
See 1958 and Chris Columbus (filmmaker)
Christabel Pankhurst
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England.
See 1958 and Christabel Pankhurst
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Maria Heideh AmanpourStated on Finding Your Roots, 22 January 2019 (Kristiane Amānpur; born 12 January 1958) is a British-Iranian journalist and television host.
See 1958 and Christiane Amanpour
Christopher Dean
Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958) is a British ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill.
Claire Lee Chennault
Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II.
See 1958 and Claire Lee Chennault
Clinton Davisson
Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment.
Coalition (Australia)
The Liberal–National Coalition, commonly known simply as the Coalition or the LNP, is an alliance of centre-right to right-wing political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics.
See 1958 and Coalition (Australia)
Cod Wars
The Cod Wars (Þorskastríðin; also known as Landhelgisstríðin,; Kabeljaukriege) were a series of 20th-century confrontations between the United Kingdom (with aid from West Germany) and Iceland about fishing rights in the North Atlantic.
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Colm Feore
Colm Joseph Feore (born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian actor.
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole.
See 1958 and Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Communications satellite
A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.
See 1958 and Communications satellite
Communist Party of Chile
The Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile, italics) is a communist party in Chile.
See 1958 and Communist Party of Chile
Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator)
Constantin Cantacuzino (nicknamed Bâzu; 11 November 1905 – 26 May 1958) was a Romanian aviator, the leading World War II fighter ace of his country, as well as a member of the Cantacuzino family.
See 1958 and Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator)
Constitution of France
The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958.
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Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Maria Funke (born 10 December 1958) is a German author of children's fiction.
Crayon Shin-chan
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshito Usui.
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
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Curt Hennig
Curtis Michael Hennig (March 28, 1958 – February 10, 2003), better known by the ring name Mr.
Cyrille Regis
Cyrille Regis (9 February 1958 – 14 January 2018) was a professional footballer who played as a forward.
Daniel Brailovsky
Daniel Alberto Brailovsky Poliak (אלברטו דניאל בריילובסקי, sometimes spelled Brailovski, born November 18, 1958) is an Argentine-born Israeli former professional footballer and manager.
See 1958 and Daniel Brailovsky
David Pegg
David Pegg (20 September 1935 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as an outside-left and one of the eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958.
De Havilland Comet
The de Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner.
See 1958 and De Havilland Comet
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Denatonium
Denatonium, usually available as denatonium benzoate (under trade names such as Denatrol, BITTERANT-b, BITTER+PLUS, Bitrex, Bitrix, and Aversion) and as denatonium saccharide (BITTERANT-s), is the most bitter chemical compound known, with bitterness thresholds of 0.05 ppm for the benzoate and 0.01 ppm for the saccharide.
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy.
See 1958 and Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Dietmar Bartsch
Dietmar Gerhard Bartsch (born 31 March 1958) is a German politician who has served as co-chair of The Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2015.
Dimi Mint Abba
Dimi Mint Abba (ديمي منت آبا‎; 25 December 1958 – June 2011) was one of Mauritania's most famous musicians.
Dmitry Kozak
Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak (p, Дмитро Миколайович Козак; born 7 November 1958) is a Russian politician who has served as the Deputy Kremlin Chief of Staff since 24 January 2020.
Dominique Pire
Dominique Pire, O.P. (born Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire; 10 February 1910 – 30 January 1969) was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe saw him receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958.
Doris Humphrey
Doris Batcheller Humphrey (October 17, 1895 – December 29, 1958) was an American dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century.
Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic.
Dries van Noten
Dries Van Noten (born 12 May 1958 in Antwerp), titled as Baron Van Noten since 2017, is a Belgian fashion designer and an eponymous fashion brand, which he co-founded with CEO and business partner Christine Mathys.
Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
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Duncan Edwards
Duncan Edwards (1 October 1936 – 21 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national team.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
See 1958 and Dwight D. Eisenhower
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, covering the territory of the modern country Bangladesh.
Eddie Colman
Edward Colman (1 November 1936 – 6 February 1958) was an English football player who played as an wing-half and one of the eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster.
Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.
Edna Purviance
Olga Edna Purviance (October 21, 1895 – January 13, 1958) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Edward Tatum
Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist.
Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was an American photographer.
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
See 1958 and Egypt
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.
Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center.
English Channel
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
Enterprise, Nevada
Enterprise is an unincorporated town in the Las Vegas Valley in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.
See 1958 and Entertainment Weekly
Eric Heiden
Eric Arthur Heiden (born June 14, 1958) is an American physician and a former long track speed skater, road cyclist and track cyclist.
Ernest Jones
Alfred Ernest Jones (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst.
Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron.
Ernst Heinkel
Dr.
Ernst Mohr
Ernst Mohr was a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wuppertal.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen (born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish conductor and composer.
See 1958 and Esa-Pekka Salonen
Estelle Taylor
Ida Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894 – April 15, 1958) was an American actress who was the second of world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey's four wives.
European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
See 1958 and European Economic Community
Explorer 4
Explorer 4 was an American satellite launched on 26 July 1958.
Explorers Program
The Explorers program is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space.
See 1958 and Explorers Program
Expo 58
Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium, from 17 April to 19 October 1958.
See 1958 and Expo 58
February 14
It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.
Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
A Federal Minister for Special Affairs (Bundesminister für besondere Aufgaben) is a member of the German government without portfolio.
See 1958 and Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress.
Florian Znaniecki
Florian Witold Znaniecki (15 January 1882 – 23 March 1958) was a Polish and American philosopher and sociologist who taught and wrote in Poland and in the United States.
See 1958 and Florian Znaniecki
Flying Tigers
The First American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Republic of China Air Force, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China.
Frank Swift
Frank Victor Swift (26 December 1913 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for Manchester City and England.
Frankie Ruiz
José Antonio Torresola Ruiz better known as Frankie Ruiz (March 10, 1958 – August 9, 1998) was a Puerto Rican singer.
Frédéric François-Marsal
Frédéric François-Marsal (16 March 1874 – 20 May 1958) was a French Politician of the Third Republic, who served briefly as Prime Minister in 1924.
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of induced radioactivity.
See 1958 and Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger (13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
French Community
The French Community (Communauté française) was the constitutional organization set up in October 1958 between France and its remaining African colonies, then in the process of decolonization.
French Fifth Republic
The Fifth Republic (Cinquième République) is France's current republican system of government.
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French Sudan
French Sudan (Soudan français; السودان الفرنسي) was a French colonial territory in the Federation of French West Africa from around 1880 until 1959, when it joined the Mali Federation, and then in 1960, when it became the independent state of Mali.
Fresno, California
Fresno is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States.
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Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
See 1958 and Fulgencio Batista
Full-rigged ship
A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged.
G. E. Moore
George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy.
Gabon
Gabon (Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.
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Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician.
Gary Oldman
Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker.
Gaullism
Gaullism (Gaullisme) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic.
Geoff Bent
Geoffrey Bent (27 September 1932 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a left back for Manchester United from 1948 until 1958.
George Beadle
George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American geneticist.
George Orton
George Washington F. Orton (January 10, 1873 – June 24, 1958) was a Canadian middle and long-distance runner.
Georges Rouault
Georges-Henri Rouault (27 May 1871, Paris – 13 February 1958, Paris) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism.
Georgi Damyanov
Georgi Purvanov Damyanov (Георги Първанов Дамянов; 23 September 1892 – 27 November 1958) was a Bulgarian communist politician.
Gerald Holtom
Gerald Herbert Holtom (20 January 1914 – 18 September 1985Westcott, Kathryn (20 March 2008) BBC.co.uk (News) (Retrieved: 21 February 2010)) was an English artist and designer.
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism.
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American actor.
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Ginka Zagorcheva
Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva, Гинка Загорчева-Бойчева (born 12 April 1958) is a former hurdling athlete from Bulgaria.
GoldStar
GoldStar was a South Korean electronics company established in 1958.
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (Великая Княгиня Мария Павловна; – 13 December 1958), known as Maria Pavlovna the Younger, was a granddaughter of Alexander II of Russia.
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Guano
Guano (Spanish from wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats.
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Guatemalan Air Force
The Guatemalan Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Guatemalteca or FAG) is the aerial warefare service branch of the Armed Forces of Guatemala.
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Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.
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Gulf of İzmit
Gulf of İzmit (İzmit Körfezi), also referred to as Izmit Bay, is a bay at the easternmost edge of the Sea of Marmara, in Kocaeli Province, Turkey.
H. B. Warner
Henry Byron Warner (born Henry Byron Lickfold; 26 October 1876 – 21 December 1958) was an English film and theatre actor.
H. V. Evatt
Herbert Vere "Doc" Evatt, (30 April 1894 – 2 November 1965) was an Australian politician and judge.
Hans Grundig
Hans Grundig (February 19, 1901 – September 11, 1958) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement.
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (5 May 1898 – 19 November 1958) was a German film actor.
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Harry Cohn
Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was a co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Harry Warner
Harry Morris Warner (born Hirsz Mojżesz Wonsal; December 12, 1881 – July 25, 1958) was an American studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry.
Harry Winston
Harry Winston (March 1, 1896December 8, 1978) was an American jeweler.
Hashemites
The Hashemites (al-Hāshimiyyūn), also House of Hashim, are the royal family of Jordan, which they have ruled since 1921, and were the royal family of the kingdoms of Hejaz (1916–1925), Syria (1920), and Iraq (1921–1958).
Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.
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Heir apparent
An heir apparent (heiress apparent) or simply heir is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person.
Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, scholar, and newspaper editor who was Prime Minister of South Africa and is commonly regarded as the architect of apartheid and nicknamed the "father of apartheid".
Henri Farman
Henri Farman (26 May 1874 – 17 July 1958) was a British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman.
Henryk Arctowski
Henryk Arctowski (15 July 1871 – 21 February 1958), born Henryk Artzt, was a Polish scientist and explorer.
Herb Elliott
Herbert James Elliott (born 25 February 1938) is a former Australian athlete and arguably the world's greatest middle distance runner of his era.
Honshu
, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.
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Hope Diamond
The Hope Diamond is a diamond that has been famed for its great size since the 18th century.
Huacho
Huacho is a city in Peru, capital of the Huaura Province and capital of the Lima Region.
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Hubert Wilkins
Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar (31 October 188830 November 1958), commonly referred to as Captain Wilkins, was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer.
Hugo Sánchez
Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born 11 July 1958) is a Mexican former professional footballer and manager, who played as a forward.
Humberto Delgado
Humberto da Silva Delgado (Portuguese pronunciation:; 15 May 1906 – 13 February 1965) was a General of the Portuguese Air Force, diplomat and politician.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR).
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Hurricane Helene (1958)
Hurricane Helene was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season.
See 1958 and Hurricane Helene (1958)
Hussein Saeed
Hussein Saeed Mohammed (حسين سعيد محمد, born 21 January 1958) is an Iraqi former footballer who played as a forward and is a former president of the Iraq Football Association.
Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor
Sultan Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar (italic; born 22 November 1958) is the seventeenth and current Yang di-Pertuan Agong (king of Malaysia).
See 1958 and Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor
Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
Ice-T
Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T (or Ice T), is an American rapper and actor.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
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Ifni War
The Ifni War, sometimes called the Forgotten War in Spain (la Guerra Olvidada), was a series of armed incursions into Spanish West Africa by Moroccan insurgents that began in October 1957 and culminated with the abortive siege of Sidi Ifni.
Igor Tamm
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (a; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov radiation.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Ilya Frank
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union.
Imre Nagy
Imre Nagy (7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (de facto Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955.
Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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International Tchaikovsky Competition
The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age and singers between 19 and 32 years of age.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
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Irina Vorobieva
Irina Nikolayevna Vorobieva (Ирина Николаевна Воробьёва; 30 June 1958 – 12 April 2022) was a Russian pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union.
Irish Independent
The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.
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Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist and short story writer.
J. G. Strijdom
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom (also spelled Strydom in accordance with Afrikaans spelling; 14 July 1893 – 24 August 1958), also known as Hans Strijdom and nicknamed the Lion of the North or the Lion of Waterberg, was the fifth prime minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to his death on 24 August 1958.
Jack Coleman (actor)
John MacDonald Coleman (born February 21, 1958) is an American actor who has played the role of Steven Carrington in the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty (1982–1988), Noah Bennet in the NBC science-fiction drama series Heroes (2006–2010), State Senator Robert Lipton on The Office (2010–2013), and United States Senator William Bracken on the ABC series Castle (2012–2015).
See 1958 and Jack Coleman (actor)
Jack Kilby
Jack St.
Jackson Anthony
Conganige Joseph Malsi Jackson Anthony (as ජැක්සන් ඇන්තනී; 8 July 1958 – 9 October 2023), commonly known as Jackson Anthony, was a Sri Lankan actor in film, theatre and television.
Jadunath Sarkar
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, (যদুনাথ সরকার; 10 December 1870 – 19 May 1958) was a prominent Indian historian and a specialist on the Mughal dynasty.
Jamal Khashoggi
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (Jamāl ʾAḥmad Ḵāšuqjī,; 13 October 1958 – 2 October 2018) was a Saudi journalist, dissident, author, columnist for Middle East Eye and The Washington Post, and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres.
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James Van Allen
James Alfred Van Allen (September 7, 1914August 9, 2006) was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress, producer, and children's author.
Jane Wiedlin
Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin (born May 20, 1958) is an American musician, singer and actress, best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of the new wave band The Go-Go's.
Janez Janša
Ivan Janša (born 17 September 1958), baptized and best known as Janez Janša, is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022.
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
Javier Aguirre
Javier Aguirre Onaindía (born 1 December 1958), nicknamed El Vasco (The Basque), is a Mexican football manager and former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Jörg Kachelmann
Jörg Andreas Kachelmann (born 15 July 1958 in Lörrach, Germany) is a Swiss presenter, journalist and entrepreneur in the meteorological field.
Jōsei Toda
was a teacher, peace activist and second president of Soka Gakkai from 1951 to 1958.
Jeannie Longo
Jeannie Longo (born 31 October 1958) is a French racing cyclist, 60-time French champion and 13-time world champion.
Jeff Foxworthy
Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, author, radio and television host, and writer.
Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English actress, comedian, singer, and screenwriter.
See 1958 and Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly (born Jennifer Ellen Chan; September 16, 1958) is an American–Canadian actress and professional poker player.
Jesse L. Lasky
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
Joan Jett
Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin; September 22, 1958) is an American rock singer, guitarist, songwriter, record producer, and actress.
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school.
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.
John Mahama
John Dramani Mahama (born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017.
Johnny Berry
Reginald John Berry (1 June 1926 – 16 September 1994), also listed as John James Berry, was an English footballer.
Jools Holland
Julian Miles Holland (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter.
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
See 1958 and Jordan
Jorge Alessandri
Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez (19 May 1896 – 31 August 1986) was the 26th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970, which he lost to Salvador Allende.
José Domingues dos Santos
José Domingues dos Santos (5 August 1885 – 16 August 1958) was a Portuguese politician, jurist, professor and journalist who, among other positions, served as President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of one of the many governments of the Portuguese First Republic (1924-1925).
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José María Caro Rodríguez
José María Caro Rodríguez (June 23, 1866 – December 4, 1958) was a Chilean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program.
Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio (24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995), was an Argentine racing driver.
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity".
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Julia Lennon
Julia Lennon (née Stanley; 12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon.
July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
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Kate Bush
Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer.
Keith Haring
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s.
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor.
Kevin Sorbo
Kevin David Sorbo (born September 24, 1958) is an American actor and producer.
King Baudouin Stadium
The King Baudouin Stadium (Stade Roi Baudouin, Koning Boudewijnstadion) is a sports ground in Brussels, Belgium.
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Kinmen
Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), only east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which they are separated by Xiamen Bay.
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KLM Flight 607-E
KLM Flight 607-E was an international scheduled flight that crashed on 14 August 1958, on takeoff from Shannon Airport, Ireland.
Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
Kornelia Ender
Kornelia Ender (later Matthes now Grummt, born 25 October 1958) is a former East German swimmer who at the 1976 Summer Olympics became the first woman swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games, all in world record times.
Koshirō Oikawa
was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and Naval Minister during World War II.
Kurt Alder
Kurt Alder (10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
Kurt Neumann (director)
Kurt Neumann (5 April 1908 – 21 August 1958) was a German-born film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career.
See 1958 and Kurt Neumann (director)
Lake freighter
Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carrier vessels operating on the Great Lakes of North America.
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.
Lakhdar Belloumi
Lakhdar Belloumi (لخضر بلومي; born on 29 December 1958) is an Algerian former football player and manager.
Lambert Wilson
Lambert Nicolas Wilson (born Willson, 3 August 1958) is a French actor.
Landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.
Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
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Lea DeLaria
Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer.
Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
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Lenny Henry
Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is a British comedian, actor and writer.
Leslie David Baker
Leslie David Baker (born February 19, 1958) is an American actor.
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Lex Luger
Lawrence Wendell Pfohl (born June 2, 1958), better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and football player.
LG Electronics
LG Electronics Inc. is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia.
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Life peer
In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.
Life Peerages Act 1958
The Life Peerages Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 21) established the modern standards for the creation of life peers by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
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Lincoln–Douglas debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
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Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright.
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List of heads of state of Panama
This article lists the heads of state of Panama since the short-lived first independence from the Republic of New Granada in 1840 and the final separation from Colombia in 1903.
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List of heads of state of the Comoros
This article lists the heads of state of the Comoros, since the country gained independence from France in 1975.
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Lisunov Li-2
The Lisunov Li-2 (NATO reporting name: Cab), originally designated PS-84, was a license-built Soviet-version of the Douglas DC-3.
Lita Ford
Lita Rossana Ford (born September 19, 1958) is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.
Lituya Bay
Lituya Bay (Tlingit: Ltu.aa,. Spelled L'tua in translation of Tebenkov's log. meaning 'lake within the point') is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War.
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Lorenzo Lamas
Lorenzo Fernando Lamas (born January 20, 1958) is an American actor.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Luan Jujie
Luan Jujie (born 14 July 1958) is a Chinese-born Canadian fencer, born in Nanjing, China.
Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Marie Stowe Mora (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress.
Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Magnetosphere
In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field.
Magnus Lindberg
Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist.
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.
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Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (in Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, FPMR) was a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organisation officially founded on 14 December 1983 as the military wing of the Communist Party of Chile in the context of this party policy denominated as the "Política de Rebelión Popular de Masas", created with the goal of a violent overthrow of the civic-military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
See 1958 and Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
Marg Helgenberger
Marg Helgenberger (born November 16, 1958) is an American actress.
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Margaret Colin
Margaret Colin (born May 26, 1958) is an American actress.
Margot Käßmann
Margot Käßmann (born 3 June 1958) is a Lutheran theologian, who was Landesbischöfin (bishop) of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover in Germany.
Marie Fredriksson
Gun-Marie Fredriksson (30 May 1958 – 9 December 2019) was a Swedish singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of pop-rock duo Roxette, which she formed in 1986 with Per Gessle.
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Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman and television personality.
Mark Jones (footballer, born 1933)
Mark Jones (15 June 1933 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer and one of eight Manchester United players to lose their lives in the Munich air disaster.
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Mars Bluff, South Carolina
Mars Bluff is an unincorporated community in Florence County, South Carolina, United States that bears the distinction of having been inadvertently bombed with a nuclear weapon by the United States Air Force.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American country and folk music singer-songwriter.
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Mary Colter
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter (April 4, 1869 – January 8, 1958) was an American architect and designer.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (born November 17, 1958) is an American actress and singer.
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Matt Busby
Sir Alexander Matthew Busby (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager, who managed Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season.
Matt Frewer
Matthew George Frewer (born January 4, 1958) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian.
Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter.
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Maurice Gamelin
Maurice Gustave Gamelin (20 September 1872 – 18 April 1958) was a French general.
Maurice LaMarche
Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor and comedian.
May 1958 crisis in France
The May 1958 crisis, also known as the Algiers putsch or the coup of 13 May, was a political crisis in France during the turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) which led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic and its replacement by the Fifth Republic led by Charles de Gaulle who returned to power after a twelve-year absence.
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Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958) is an American actress.
Megatsunami
A megatsunami is a very large wave created by a large, sudden displacement of material into a body of water.
Mehmet Ali Ağca
Mehmet Ali Ağca (born 9 January 1958) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on 1 February 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on 13 May 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.
Michael Flatley
Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958) is an American dancer.
Michael Weiss (pianist)
Michael Weiss (born 1958), is a jazz pianist and composer best known for his fifteen-year association with saxophonist Johnny Griffin.
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Michala Petri
Michala Petri (born 7 July 1958) is a Danish recorder player.
Michele Navarra
Michele Navarra (5 January 1905 – 2 August 1958) was an Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress.
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Mike Todd
Michael Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen; June 22, 1907 – March 22, 1958) was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Mile run
The mile run (1,760 yards or exactly 1,609.344 metres) is a middle-distance foot race.
Mile run world record progression
The world record in the mile run is the fastest time set by a runner in the middle-distance track and field event.
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Milutin Milanković
Milutin Milanković (sometimes anglicised as Milutin Milankovitch; Милутин Миланковић,; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of science.
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Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress who has worked in film, television and theatre.
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Mohr Rocket
The Mohr Rocket was a sounding rocket developed by Ernst Mohr in Wuppertal, Germany.
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling Canadiens is always used instead of Canadians.
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Moroccan Army of Liberation
The Army of Liberation (translit; script) was an organization of various loosely united militias fighting for the independence of Morocco from the French-Spanish coalition.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Morton Stadium
Morton Stadium, or the National Athletics Stadium, is an athletics stadium in Santry Demesne, Santry in Ireland.
Munich air disaster
The Munich air disaster occurred on Thursday, 6 February 1958 when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany.
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Mustafa Merlika-Kruja
Mustafa Merlika-Kruja (March 15, 1887, Akçahisar, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Krujë, Albania) – December 27, 1958, Niagara Falls, New York) was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence.
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Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Nambaryn Enkhbayar (Намбарын Энхбаяр; born 1 June 1958) is a Mongolian politician.
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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research.
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National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is a centre-right, agrarian political party in Australia.
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Naval History and Heritage Command
The Naval History and Heritage Command, formerly the Naval Historical Center, is an Echelon II command responsible for the preservation, analysis, and dissemination of U.S. naval history and heritage located at the historic Washington Navy Yard.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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Neetu Singh
Neetu Kapoor (née Singh; born Harneet Kaur; 8 July 1958) is an Indian actress who is known for appearing in Hindi films throughout the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (or; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
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Neil Finn
Neil Mullane Finn (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician.
Nereu Ramos
Nereu de Oliveira Ramos (3 September 1888 – 16 June 1958) was a Brazilian political figure.
New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Nezihe Muhiddin
Nezihe Muhiddin Tepedelengil (1889 – 10 February 1958) was a Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader.
Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man.
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
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Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr.; December 11, 1958) is an American musician, best known as the co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, being the only member to remain throughout their entire history.
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
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NORAD
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), known until March 1981 as the North American Air Defense Command, is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Canada and the continental United States.
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Nordic Passport Union
The Nordic Passport Union allows citizens of the Nordic countriesIceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finlandto travel and reside in another Nordic country without any travel documentation (e.g. a passport or national identity card) or a residence permit.
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North American F-100 Super Sabre
The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation.
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North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
Nuclear weapons testing
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons and have resulted until 2020 in up to 2.4 million people dying from its global fallout.
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Nuri al-Said
Nuri Pasha al-Said CH (نوري السعيد; December 1888 – 15 July 1958) was an Iraqi politician during the Mandatory Iraq and the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq.
Olaf Scholz
Olaf Scholz (born) is a German politician who has been the chancellor of Germany since 8 December 2021.
Ole Kirk Christiansen
Ole Kirk Christiansen (born Ole Kirk Kristiansen; 7 April 1891 – 11 March 1958) was a Danish carpenter.
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Our Lady of the Angels School fire
On Monday, December 1, 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, shortly before classes were to be dismissed for the day.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pan Am
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century.
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Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.
Pascale Ogier
Pascale Marguerite Cécile Claude Colette Nicolas (26 October 1958 – 25 October 1984), better known as Pascale Ogier, was a French actress.
Patras Bokhari
Syed Ahmed Shah Bokhari (Urdu), commonly known as Patras Bokhari (October 1, 1898 – December 5, 1958), was a Pakistani humorist, writer, broadcaster and diplomat who served as a Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations.
Patricia Heaton
Patricia Helen Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an American actress, producer and comedienne.
Paul Panzer
Paul Wolfgang Panzerbeiter (November 3, 1872 – August 16, 1958), known professionally as Paul Panzer, was a German-American silent film actor.
Paul Pilgrim
Paul Henry Pilgrim (October 26, 1883 – January 8, 1958) was an American runner.
Paul Weller
Paul John Weller (born John William Weller; 25 May 1958) is an English singer-songwriter and musician.
Pavel Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Па́вел Алексе́евич Черенко́в; July 28, 1904 – January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.
Peace symbols
A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts.
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.
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Pernilla August
Pernilla August (born Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson; 13 February 1958) is a Swedish actress, director and screenwriter.
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
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Peter Capaldi
Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor and director.
Petru Groza
Petru Groza (7 December 1884 – 7 January 1958) was a Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly (nominal head of state of Romania) from 1952 until his death in 1958.
Physical Review
Physical Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1893 by Edward Nichols.
Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
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Pieds-noirs
The pieds-noirs (pied-noir) are an ethno-cultural group of people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962.
Pioneer 0
Pioneer 0 (also known as Able 1) was a failed United States space probe that was designed to go into orbit around the Moon, carrying a television camera, a micrometeorite detector and a magnetometer.
Pioneer 1
Pioneer 1 (also known as Able 2) was an American space probe, the first under the auspices of NASA, which was launched by a Thor-Able rocket on 11 October 1958.
Pioneer program
The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes exploration.
Playbill
Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.
Pole of inaccessibility
In geography, a pole of inaccessibility is the farthest (or most difficult to reach) location in a given landmass, sea, or other topographical feature, starting from a given boundary, relative to a given criterion.
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (Ioannes XXIII; Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli,; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 1963.
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli,; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958.
President of Argentina
The president of Argentina (Presidente de Argentina; officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation Presidente de la Nación Argentina.) is both head of state and head of government of Argentina.
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President of Brazil
The president of Brazil (presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil (presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the President of the Republic, is the head of state and head of government of Brazil.
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President of Chile
The President of Chile (Presidente de Chile), officially known as the President of the Republic of Chile (Presidente de la República de Chile), is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Chile.
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President of Costa Rica
The president of the Republic of Costa Rica is the head of state and head of government of Costa Rica.
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President of Kyrgyzstan
The president of Kyrgyzstan, officially the president of the Kyrgyz Republic (translit; translit), is the head of state and head of government of the Kyrgyz Republic.
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President of Mongolia
The president of Mongolia is the executive head of state of Mongolia.
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President of the European Commission
The president of the European Commission, also known as president of the College of Commissioners or prime commissioner, is the head of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU).
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Prestonsburg, Kentucky, bus crash
The collision and plunge into Big Sandy River involving a school bus near Prestonsburg, Kentucky, on February 28, 1958, resulted in the deaths of 26 students and the bus's driver.
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Prime Minister of Albania
The prime minister of Albania (Kryeministri i Shqipërisë), officially the prime minister of the Republic of Albania (Kryeministri i Republikës së Shqipërisë), is the head of government of Albania.
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Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
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Prime Minister of Hungary
The prime minister of Hungary (Magyarország miniszterelnöke) is the head of government of Hungary.
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Prime Minister of Iraq
The Prime Minister of Iraq is the head of government of Iraq and the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces.
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Prime Minister of Jordan
The prime minister of Jordan is the head of government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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Prime Minister of Portugal
The prime minister of Portugal (primeiro-ministro) is the head of government of Portugal.
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Prime Minister of Romania
The prime minister of Romania (Prim-ministrul României), officially the prime minister of the Government of Romania (Prim-ministrul Guvernului României), is the head of the Government of Romania.
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Prime Minister of South Africa
The prime minister of South Africa (Eerste Minister van Suid-Afrika) was the head of government in South Africa between 1910 and 1984.
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Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
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Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru,; Princeps Cambriae/Walliae) is a title traditionally given to the male heir apparent to the English, and later British, throne.
Prince Oskar of Prussia
Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia (27 July 1888 – 27 January 1958) was the fifth son of German Emperor Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.
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Princess Ingeborg of Denmark
Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (Ingeborg Charlotte Caroline Frederikke Louise; 2 August 1878 – 12 March 1958), was a Princess of Sweden by marriage to Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland.
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Rachid Taha
Rachid Taha (رشيد طه, Rashīd Ṭāhā,; 18 September 1958 – 12 September 2018) was an Algerian singer and activist based in France described as "sonically adventurous".
Radio Rebelde
Radio Rebelde (English: Rebel Radio) is a Cuban Spanish-language radio station.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.
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Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Reg E. Cathey
Reginald Eurias Cathey (August 18, 1958 – February 9, 2018) was an American character actor.
Renn Woods
Renn Woods (born Ren Woods; January 1, 1958) is an American film, television and stage actress, vocalist and songwriter.
Ricardo Gareca
Ricardo Alberto Gareca Nardi (born 10 February 1958), nicknamed el Tigre and el Flaco ("Tiger " and "Slim"), is an Argentine football manager and former player.
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
Rick Rude
Richard Erwin Rood (December 7, 1958 – April 20, 1999), better known by his ring name "Ravishing" Rick Rude, was an American professional wrestler who performed for many promotions, including World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).
Rik Mayall
Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014), known professionally as Rik Mayall, was an English comedian, actor and writer.
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923,As the younger son of a Marquess, Cecil held the courtesy title of "Lord".
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Robert Donat
Friedrich Robert Donat (March 18, 1905 – June 9, 1958) was an English actor.
Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966.
Robert Patrick
Robert Hammond Patrick (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor.
Roger Byrne
Roger William Byrne (8 September 1929 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a full-back and captain of Manchester United.
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Rogers City, Michigan
Rogers City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Roland Koch
Roland Koch (born 24 March 1958) is a German jurist and former conservative politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrating to the United States where he had a highly successful Hollywood film career.
Rosa Mota
Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM (born 29 June 1958) is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes, being the first sportswoman from Portugal to win Olympic gold.
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.
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Sam Zimbalist
Sam Zimbalist (March 31, 1901 – November 4, 1958) was a Ukrainian-born American film producer and film editor.
Samira Said
Samira Abdelrazak Bensaïd (Samīra ʿAbd ar-Razzāq ibn Saʿīd; born 10 January 1958), professionally known as Samira Said (Samīra Saʿīd), is a Moroccan-Egyptian singer who has lived in Egypt for more than 40 years and is known for her Egyptian Arabic genre.
Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Birgitte Toksvig (born 3 May 1958) is a Danish-British broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer on British radio, stage and television.
Santa Clara, Cuba
Santa Clara is the capital city of the Cuban province of Villa Clara.
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Satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.
SCORE (satellite)
SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite.
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Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American film, television and theatre producer.
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC).
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Serik Akhmetov
Serik Nyghmetuly Akhmetov (translit; born 25 June 1958) was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2014.
Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, painter and former model.
Shaun Toub
Shaun Toub (شان توب;; born February 15, 1958) is an American actor.
Sheree J. Wilson
Sheree Julienne Wilson (born December 12, 1958) is an American actress, producer, businesswoman, and model.
Sherri Martel
Sherry Schrull (née Russell; February 8, 1958 – June 15, 2007) was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri.
Shlomo Glickstein
Shlomo Glickstein (שלמה גליקשטיין; born 6 January 1958) is an Israeli former professional tennis player.
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Shukri al-Quwatli
Shukri al-Quwatli (Shukrī al-Quwwatlī; 6 May 189130 June 1967) was the first president of post-independence Syria, in 1943.
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Sierra Maestra
The Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast.
Simon Le Bon
Simon John Charles Le Bon (born 27 October 1958) is a British singer.
Slobodan Jovanović
Slobodan Jovanović (Слободан Јовановић; 3 December 1869 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer, historian, lawyer, philosopher, literary critic, diplomat, politician and one of the most prominent intellectuals of his time.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Snowcat
A snowcat (a portmanteau of snow and '''cat'''erpillar) is an enclosed-cab, truck-sized, fully tracked vehicle designed to travel over snow.
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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe.
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Southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon).
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara (Sahara Español; As-Sahrā'a Al-Isbānīyah), officially the Spanish Possessions in the Sahara from 1884 to 1958, then Province of the Sahara between 1958 and 1976, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was occupied and ruled by Spain between 1884 and 1976.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 (Спутник-1, Satellite 1) was the first artificial Earth satellite.
Sputnik 2
Sputnik 2 (Спутник-2, Satellite 2, or Prosteyshiy Sputnik 2 (PS-2, italic, Simplest Satellite 2, launched on 3 November 1957, was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, and the first to carry an animal into orbit, a Soviet space dog named Laika.
Sputnik 3
Sputnik 3 (Спутник-3, Satellite 3) was a Soviet satellite launched on 15 May 1958 from Baikonur Cosmodrome by a modified R-7/SS-6 ICBM.
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup (La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion.
Stevan Hristić
Stevan Hristić (Стеван Христић; 19 June 1885 – 21 August 1958) was Serbian composer, conductor, pedagogue, and music writer.
Steve Guttenberg
Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24, 1958) is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director.
Sultan of Johor
The Sultan of Johor (Malay: Sultan Johor; Jawi) is a hereditary seat and the sovereign ruler of the Malaysian state of Johor.
Susan Helms
Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut.
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
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Sweden men's national football team
The Sweden men's national football team (Sveriges herrlandslag i fotboll) represents Sweden in men's international football and it is controlled by the Swedish Football Association, the governing body of football in Sweden.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Tanya Tucker
Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13.
Tennis for Two
Tennis for Two (also known as Computer Tennis) is a sports video game that simulates a game of tennis, and was one of the first games developed in the early history of video games.
Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958 June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle.
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The Canadian Encyclopedia
The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE; L'Encyclopédie canadienne) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with the support of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.
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The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company (formerly known as Muppets, Inc., Henson Associates, Inc., and Jim Henson Productions, Inc.; commonly referred to as Henson) is an American entertainment company located in Los Angeles, California.
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The Lego Group
The Lego Group (formally Lego A/S) is a Danish construction toy production company based in Billund, Denmark.
The Muppets
The Muppets are an American ensemble cast of puppet characters known for an absurdist, surrealist, burlesque, and self-referential style of variety-sketch comedy.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thomas Dolby
Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, producer, composer, entrepreneur and teacher.
Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns (born October 18, 1958) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 2006.
Thomas Kinkade
William Thomas Kinkade III (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects.
Thor-Able
The Thor-Able was an American expendable launch system and sounding rocket used for a series of re-entry vehicle tests and satellite launches between 1958 and 1960.
Tiltrotor
A tiltrotor is an aircraft that generates lift and propulsion by way of one or more powered rotors (sometimes called proprotors) mounted on rotating shafts or nacelles usually at the ends of a fixed wing.
Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American director, producer, writer, animator, and illustrator.
Tim Moore (comedian)
Tim Moore (December 9, 1887 – December 13, 1958) was an American vaudevillian and comic actor of the first half of the 20th century.
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Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, director, and producer.
Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington National Cemetery)
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a historic funerary monument dedicated to deceased U.S. service members whose remains have not been identified.
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Tommy Lister Jr.
Tommy Debo "Tiny" Lister Jr. (born Thomas Duane Lister Jr.; June 30, 1958 – December 10, 2020) was an American character actor and occasional professional wrestler known for his roles as the neighborhood bully Deebo in the 1995 film Friday and its 2000 sequel, and as President Lindberg in The Fifth Element.
Tommy Taylor
Thomas Taylor (29 January 1932 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer, who played as a centre-forward and was known for his aerial ability.
Tris Speaker
Tristram Edgar Speaker (April 4, 1888 – December 8, 1958), nicknamed "the Gray Eagle", was an American professional baseball player and manager.
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
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TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news.
Tyrone Power
Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor.
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
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United Arab Republic
The United Arab Republic (UAR; translit) was a sovereign state in the Middle East from 1958 until 1961.
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Government Publishing Office
The United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO or GPO), formerly the United States Government Printing Office, is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States Federal government.
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Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (born 8 October 1958) is a German politician, serving as the 13th president of the European Commission since 2019.
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Van Cliburn
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist.
Vanguard 1
Vanguard 1 (Harvard designation: 1958-Beta 2, COSPAR ID: 1958-002B) is an American satellite that was the fourth artificial Earth-orbiting satellite to be successfully launched, following Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, and Explorer 1.
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.
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Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is an American actor, musician, and filmmaker.
Vikentije II, Serbian Patriarch
Vikentije (II) (Викентије, secular name Vitomir Prodanov, Витомир Проданов; 23 August 1890 – 5 July 1958) was the fourth partriach of the reunified Serbian Orthodox Church, from 1950 until his death.
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Visa Inc.
Visa Inc. is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Vittorio Ambrosio
Vittorio Ambrosio (28 July 1879 – 19 November 1958) was an Italian general who served in the Italo-Turkish War, World War I, and World War II.
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Vivian Fuchs
Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs (11 February 1908 – 11 November 1999) was an English scientist-explorer and expedition organizer.
W. C. Handy
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues.
Wade Boggs
Wade Anthony Boggs (born June 15, 1958) is an American former professional baseball third baseman.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
West Indies Federation
The West Indies Federation, also known as the West Indies, the Federation of the West Indies or the West Indian Federation, was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.
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William Higinbotham
William Alfred Higinbotham (October 22, 1910 – November 10, 1994) was an American physicist.
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Willie Applegarth
William Reuben Applegarth (11 May 1890 – 5 December 1958) was a British track and field athlete and winner of a gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
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Willie Maley
William Patrick Maley (25 April 1868 – 2 April 1958) was an Irish-born Scottish international football player and manager.
Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics.
Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1958) is a Hongkonger film director, screenwriter, and producer.
World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).
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World's fair
A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations.
Yasmin Ahmad
Yasmin binti Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009) was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter.
Yoshito Usui
was a Japanese manga artist known for the popular Crayon Shin-chan series.
Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 until his death in January 1976.
Zoe Akins
Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author.
1867
There were only 354 days this year in the newly purchased territory of Alaska.
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1872
In Japan, this leap year runs with only 354 days as the country dropped 12 days in the month of December.
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1892
In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated.
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1900
As of March 1 (O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 (O.S. February 15), 2100.
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1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland.
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1908
This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time.
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1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year.
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1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression.
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1957–58 European Cup
The 1957–58 European Cup was the third season of the European Cup, Europe's premier club football tournament.
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1958 Australian federal election
The 1958 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 22 November 1958.
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1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (Welsh: Gemau Ymerodraeth Prydain a'r Gymanwlad 1958) was held in Cardiff, Wales, from 18 to 26 July 1958.
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1958 Chilean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Chile on 4 September 1958.
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1958 FIFA World Cup
The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams.
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1958 French constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in France on 28 September 1958.
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1958 French legislative election
Legislative elections were held in France on 23 and 30 November 1958 to elect the first National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic.
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1958 Notting Hill race riots
The Notting Hill race riots were a series of racially motivated riots that took place in Notting Hill, a district of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom between 29 August and 5 September 1958.
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1958 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1958 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1957–58 season, and the culmination of the 1958 Stanley Cup playoffs.
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1988
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm.
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1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union during Perestroika.
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1993
1993 was designated as.
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1998
1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
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1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
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2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
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2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
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2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.
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2011
The year marked the start of a series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, and in some cases sparking civil wars such as the Syrian civil war and the first Libyan civil war, the former still ongoing while the latter gave way to the second Libyan civil war.
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2012
2012 was designated as.
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2014
2014 was designated as.
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2016
2016 was designated as.
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
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2020
The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns, and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
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2023
The year 2023 saw the decline in severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the WHO (World Health Organization) ending its global health emergency status in May.
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30th Academy Awards
The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957.
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3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1957–59) was led by Yevgeny Tolstikov on the continent and included Czech future astronomer Antonín Mrkos; the marine expedition on the Ob was led by I V Maksimov.
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