WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MARCH 1958
Find out what all happened February to March 1958

A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. (28. February 1958)

The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. (26. March 1958)

The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. (17. March 1958)

A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. (5. February 1958)

Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia. (1. March 1958)

Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army. (24. March 1958)

Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight. (25. March 1958)

Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. (22. February 1958)

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

The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. (21. February 1958)

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

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

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. (27. March 1958)

The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding. (16. March 1958)

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

In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. (31. March 1958)

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

Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio. (23. February 1958)

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