WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1958
Find out what all happened September to December 1958

Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched. (18. December 1958)

The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys. (14. October 1958)

Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit. (12. September 1958)

The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union. (1. December 1958)

Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. (27. October 1958)

The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine. (23. October 1958)

The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.) (5. December 1958)

French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community. (25. November 1958)

The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74. (23. October 1958)

NASA is created to replace NACA. (1. October 1958)

Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). (11. October 1958)

Fifth Republic of France is established. (4. October 1958)

Guinea joins the United Nations. (12. December 1958)

The John Birch Society is founded in the United States. (9. December 1958)

A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48. (15. September 1958)

The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere. (14. September 1958)

Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower. (23. December 1958)

United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed. (2. September 1958)

John XXIII is elected Pope. (28. October 1958)

The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada. (14. October 1958)