WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1958
Find out what all happened January to June 1958

Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. (3. February 1958)

Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit. (4. January 1958)

The United States Army launches Explorer 3. (26. March 1958)

The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada opens. It is still open today. (17. June 1958)

The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. (14. April 1958)

The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers. (23. June 1958)

The West Indies Federation is formed. (3. January 1958)

The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured. (19. March 1958)

The trade mark Velcro is registered. (13. May 1958)

Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the eighth time. (3. March 1958)

Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey (13. May 1958)

Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. (5. February 1958)

A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum. (18. April 1958)

The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London. (4. April 1958)

James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt. (31. January 1958)

Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. (18. January 1958)

Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. (1. June 1958)

Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster. (6. February 1958)

Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed. (16. June 1958)

A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. (12. May 1958)