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Nov 21, 2009

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Year by Year: 1900-2008	View a 1958 calendar

World Events

• European Economic Community (Common Market) becomes effective (Jan. 1).
  
  
• Egypt and Syria merge into United Arab Republic (Feb. 1).
  
  
• Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union as Bulganin resigns (Mar. 27). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
  
  
• Gen. Charles de Gaulle becomes French premier (June 1), remaining in power until 1969.
  
  
• Eisenhower orders US Marines into Lebanon at request of President Chamoun, who fears overthrow (July 15).
  
  
• New French constitution adopted (Sept. 28), de Gaulle elected president of 5th Republic (Dec. 21).
  
  

U.S. Events

• The US Supreme Court rules unanimously that Little Rock, Ark., schools must integrate (Sept. 29). Background: Civil Rights
  
  
• Army's Jupiter-C rocket fires first US satellite, Explorer I, into orbit (Jan. 31).
  
  

Economics

Sports

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

World Cup

Entertainment

Events

• Billboard debuts its Hot 100 chart. Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" boasts the first No. 1 record.
• Alvin Ailey establishes the American Dance Theatre.
• Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army (March 24).

Movies

• Vertigo, Gigi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones

Books

• Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double
• Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
• John Cheever, The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
• Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums
• Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems, 1928—1958
• Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology
• Leon Uris, Exodus

Science

• First transatlantic jet passenger service started by BOAC, with a New York to London route (Oct. 4). Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation
• The existence of the Van Allen Belt, a radiation belt surrounding the Earth, is confirmed by the Explorer I satellite. Background: Astronomy
• NASA initiates Project Mercury, aimed at putting a man in space within two years. Background: US Staffed Space Flights

Deaths

• Robert Donat
  
  
• Norman Bel Geddes
  
  
• Alfred Noyes
  
  

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