1958 in the United States - wikipedia 1958 in the United States This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. 1958 in the United States Years 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 Flag 48 stars ( 1912 -- 59 ) Timeline of United States history History of the United States ( 1945 -- 64 ) Events from the year 1958 in the United States. Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Federal Government 1.2 Governors 1.3 Lieutenant Governors 2 Events 2.1 January -- March 2.2 April -- June 2.3 July -- September 2.4 October -- December 2.5 Undated 2.6 Ongoing 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 External links Incumbents Federal Government President : Dwight D. Eisenhower ( R - Kansas / New York ) Vice President : Richard Nixon ( R - California ) Chief Justice : Earl Warren ( California ) Speaker of the House of Representatives : Sam Rayburn ( D - Texas ) Senate Majority Leader : Lyndon B. Johnson ( D - Texas ) Congress : 85th Governors and Lieutenant Governors Governors Governor of Alabama : Jim Folsom ( Democratic ) Governor of Arizona : Ernest McFarland ( Democratic ) Governor of Arkansas : Orval Faubus ( Democratic ) Governor of California : Goodwin Knight ( Republican ) Governor of Colorado : Stephen L.R. McNichols ( Democratic ) Governor of Connecticut : Abraham A. Ribicoff ( Democratic ) Governor of Delaware : J. Caleb Boggs ( Republican ) Governor of Florida : LeRoy Collins ( Democratic ) Governor of Georgia : Marvin Griffin ( Democratic ) Governor of Idaho : Robert E. Smylie ( Republican ) Governor of Illinois : William G. Stratton ( Democratic ) Governor of Indiana : Harold W. Handley ( Republican ) Governor of Iowa : Herschel C. Loveless ( Democratic ) Governor of Kansas : George Docking ( Democratic ) Governor of Kentucky : Happy Chandler ( Democratic ) Governor of Louisiana : Earl K. Long ( Democratic ) Governor of Maine : Edmund Muskie ( Democratic ) Governor of Maryland : Theodore R. McKeldin ( Republican ) Governor of Massachusetts : Foster Furcolo ( Democratic ) Governor of Michigan : G. Mennen Williams ( Democratic ) Governor of Minnesota : Orville L. Freeman ( Democratic ) Governor of Mississippi : James P. Coleman ( Democratic ) Governor of Missouri : James T. Blair, Jr. ( Democratic ) Governor of Montana : J. Hugo Aronson ( Republican ) Governor of Nebraska : Victor E. Anderson ( Republican ) Governor of Nevada : Charles H. Russell ( Republican ) Governor of New Hampshire : Lane Dwinell ( Republican ) Governor of New Jersey : Robert B. Meyner ( Democratic ) Governor of New Mexico : Edwin L. Mechem ( Republican ) Governor of New York : W. Averell Harriman ( Democratic ) ( until end of December 31 ) Governor of North Carolina : Luther H. Hodges ( Democratic ) Governor of North Dakota : John E. Davis ( Republican ) Governor of Ohio : C. William O'Neill ( Republican ) Governor of Oklahoma : Raymond D. Gary ( Democratic ) Governor of Oregon : Robert D. Holmes ( Democratic ) Governor of Pennsylvania : George M. Leader ( Democratic ) Governor of Rhode Island : Dennis J. Roberts ( Democratic ) Governor of South Carolina : George Bell Timmerman, Jr. ( Democratic ) Governor of South Dakota : Joe Foss ( Republican ) Governor of Tennessee : Frank G. Clement ( Democratic ) Governor of Texas : Price Daniel ( Democratic ) Governor of Utah : George Dewey Clyde ( Republican ) Governor of Vermont : Joseph B. Johnson ( Republican ) Governor of Virginia : Thomas Bahnson Stanley ( Democratic ) ( until January 11 ), James Lindsay Almond, Jr. ( Democratic ) ( starting January 11 ) Governor of Washington : Albert D. Rosellini ( Democratic ) Governor of West Virginia : Cecil H. Underwood ( Republican ) Governor of Wisconsin : Vernon W. Thomson ( Republican ) Governor of Wyoming : Milward L. Simpson ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : William G. Hardwick ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : Nathan Green Gordon ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of California : Harold J. Powers ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Frank L. Hays ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Charles W. Jewett ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : David P. Buckson ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : S. Ernest Vandiver ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : J. Berkeley Larsen ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : John William Chapman ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Crawford F. Parker ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : William H. Nicholas ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Joseph W. Henkle, Sr. ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Harry Lee Waterfield ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Lether Frazar ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Robert F. Murphy ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Philip A. Hart ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Karl Rolvaag ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Carroll Gartin ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Edward V. Long ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Paul Cannon ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Dwight W. Burney ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Rex Bell ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : vacant Lieutenant Governor of New York : George DeLuca ( Democratic ) ( until end of December 31 ) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Luther E. Barnhardt ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Francis Clyde Duffy ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Paul M. Herbert ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : Cowboy Pink Williams ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Roy E. Furman ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Armand H. Cote ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Ernest Hollings ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : L. Roy Houck ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Jared Maddux ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Ben Ramsey ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Robert T. Stafford ( Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Allie Edward Stokes Stephens ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Washington : John Cherberg ( Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Warren P. Knowles ( Republican ) Events January -- march January 31 : Explorer 1, the first American satellite January 8 -- 14 - year - old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship. January 13 -- In One, Inc. v. Olesen, the Supreme Court affirms that homosexual writing is not per se obscene. January 18 -- Battle of Hayes Pond : Armed Lumbee Indians confront Klansmen in Maxton, North Carolina. January 28 -- Hall of Fame baseball player Roy Campanella is involved in an automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed. January 31 -- The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February 5 -- The Tybee Bomb, a 7,600 pound ( 3,500 kg ) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia. February 11 -- Ruth Carol Taylor is the first African American woman hired as a flight attendant. Hired by Mohawk Airlines, her career lasts only six months, due to another discriminatory barrier -- the airline 's ban on married flight attendants. February 20 -- A test rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral. February 28 -- Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster : One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurs at Prestonsburg, Kentucky ; 27 are killed. March 8 -- The USS Wisconsin is decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896 ( it is recommissioned October 22, 1988 ). March 11 -- 1958 Mars Bluff B - 47 nuclear weapon loss incident : A U.S. B - 47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no nuclear fission occurs. March 17 -- The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. March 19 -- Monarch Underwear Company fire in New York. March 24 -- The U.S. Army inducts Elvis Presley, transforming The King Of Rock & Roll into U.S. private # 53310761. March 26 The United States Army launches Explorer 3. The 30th Academy Awards ceremony took place ; The Bridge on the River Kwai wins 7 Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture. April -- june April -- Unemployment in Detroit reaches 20 %, marking the height of the Recession of 1958 in the United States. April 15 -- The San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8 -- 0 at San Francisco 's Seals Stadium, in the first Major League Baseball regular - season game ever played in California. April 21 -- A United Airlines DC - 7 and U.S. Air Force F - 100 Super Sabre fighter jet collide near Las Vegas, Nevada, killing all 49 aboard the two aircraft. May 9 -- Actor - singer Paul Robeson, whose passport has been reinstated, sings in a sold - out one - man recital at Carnegie Hall. The recital is such a success that Robeson gives another one at Carnegie Hall a few days later. But after these two concerts, Robeson is seldom seen in public in the United States again. His Carnegie Hall concerts are later released on records and on CD. May 12 -- A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. May 13 -- During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon 's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. May 20 -- A Capital Airlines airliner and Air National Guard jet collide near Brunswick, Maryland, killing 12. ( 1 ) May 23 -- Explorer 1 ceases transmission. May 30 -- The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. June 2 -- In San Simeon, California, Hearst Castle opens to the public for guided tours. June 17 -- The US slams the execution of Imre Nagy as a `` shocking act of cruelty ''. July -- september July 29 : NASA established July -- The plastic hula hoop is first marketed. July 7 -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. July 9 -- 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami : A 7.8 M strike - slip earthquake in Southeast Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m ( 1,722 ft ) on the rim of Lituya Bay. July 15 -- During the 1958 Lebanon crisis, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there. July 29 -- The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ). August 3 -- The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus becomes the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water. August 17 -- The first Thor - Able rocket is launched, carrying Pioneer 0, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17. The launch fails due to a first stage malfunction. August 18 -- Vladimir Nabokov 's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States. August 23 -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the USA signs the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, transferring all authority over aviation in the USA to the newly created Federal Aviation Agency ( FAA, later renamed Federal Aviation Administration ). August 27 -- Operation Argus : The United States begins nuclear tests over the South Atlantic. October -- december October 1 -- NASA starts operations and replaces the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. October 11 -- Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of the three - project Able space probes, becomes the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA. November 23 -- Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on American radio. December 1 -- Our Lady of the Angels School fire : At least 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago. December 6 -- A third Thor - Able rocket launch, carrying the Pioneer 2 probe, is unsuccessful due to a third - stage ignition failure. December 9 -- The right - wing John Birch Society is founded in the U.S. by Robert W. Welch, Jr., a retired candy manufacturer. December 19 -- A message from President Dwight D. Eisenhower is broadcast from SCORE, the world 's first communications satellite, launched by the U.S. the previous day. December 25 -- Tchaikovsky 's ballet The Nutcracker ( the George Balanchine version ) is shown on prime - time television in color for the first time, as an episode of the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90. December 28 -- 1958 NFL Championship Game : The Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants 23 -- 17 in overtime to win the NFL Championship. Undated Based on birth rates ( per 1,000 population ), the post-war baby boom ends in the United States as an 11 - year decline in the birth rate begins ( the longest on record in that country ). Illinois observes the centennial of the Lincoln - Douglas Debates. USA, USSR and Great Britain agree to stop testing atomic bombs for 3 years. Robert Frank publishes his photographic essay The Americans ( in Paris ) Ongoing Cold War ( 1945 -- 1991 ) Space Race ( 1957 -- 1975 ) Births January 1 -- Grandmaster Flash, born Joseph Saddler, African American hip - hop / rap DJ January 4 Andy Borowitz, comedian and author Jim Powers, wrestler January 8 -- Betsy DeVos, 11th United States Secretary of Education January 26 Anita Baker, African American soul and R&B singer Ellen DeGeneres, screen actress and comedian February 16 -- Ice - T, born Tracy Marrow, rapper February 17 -- Alan Wiggins, baseball player ( died 1991 ) February 26 Susan J. Helms, astronaut Tim Kaine, U.S. Senator from Virginia from 2013 March 10 -- Sharon Stone, film actress March 20 -- Holly Hunter, film actress March 25 -- John Ensign, U.S. Senator from Nevada from 2001 to 2011 April 3 -- Alec Baldwin, actor, producer and comedian April 21 -- Andie MacDowell, screen actress April 29 -- Michelle Pfeiffer, film actress May 4 -- Keith Haring, mural artist and social activist ( died 1990 ) May 8 -- Lovie Smith, American football player and coach May 10 -- Rick Santorum, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 May 29 -- Annette Bening, actress June 7 -- Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson, African American rock musician ( died 2016 ) June 10 -- James F. Conant, philosopher June 22 -- Bruce Campbell, cult film and voice actor June 20 -- Ron Hornaday, Jr., race car driver July 2 -- Thomas Bickerton, Methodist bishop July 5 -- Bill Watterson, cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes July 8 -- Kevin Bacon, screen actor July 20 -- Billy Mays, salesman ( died 2009 ) August 16 Angela Bassett, African American screen actress and film director Madonna, born Madonna Louise Ciccone, pop singer and performer August 17 -- Belinda Carlisle, pop rock singer August 19 -- Rick Snyder, 48th Governor of Michigan August 20 -- Michael Silka, spree killer ( killed 1984 ) August 24 -- Steve Guttenberg, actor August 25 -- Tim Burton, film director August 28 -- Colm Feore, American - Canadian actor August 29 -- Michael Jackson, African American singer and pop icon ( died 2009 ) September 6 -- Jeff Foxworthy, comedian September 24 -- Kevin Sorbo, film actor October 5 -- Neil deGrasse Tyson, African American astrophysicist October 13 -- Maria Cantwell, U.S. Senator from Washington from 2001 October 16 -- Tim Robbins, film actor and director October 20 -- Viggo Mortensen, film actor and artist November 18 -- Karen Pence, educator, teacher, painter, wife of Mike Pence, Second Lady of the United States November 22 -- Jamie Lee Curtis, screen actress and author December 1 -- Charlene Tilton, screen actress December 25 Hanford Dixon, American football player Rickey Henderson, African American baseball player December 28 -- Twila Paris, Christian musician December 31 -- Bebe Neuwirth, screen actress Deaths January 1 Archie Alexander, designer ( born 1888 ) Edward Weston, photographer ( born 1886 ) January 6 -- Lois Irene Marshall, wife of Thomas R. Marshall, Second Lady of the United States ( born 1873 ) January 8 -- Mary Colter, architect and designer ( born 1869 ) January 11 -- Edna Purviance, silent film actress ( born 1895 ) January 13 -- Jesse L. Lasky, film producer ( born 1880 ) February 1 -- Clinton Davisson, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 ( born 1888 ) February 27 -- Harry Cohn, film producer ( born 1891 ) March 22 ( in plane crash ) Mike Todd, film producer ( born 1909 ) Art Cohn, screenwriter ( born 1909 ) March 28 W.C. Handy, African American blues composer ( born 1873 ) Chuck Klein, baseball player ( born 1904 ) May 5 -- James Branch Cabell, fantasy writer ( born 1879 ) June 10 -- Angelina Weld Grimke, African American lesbian journalist and poet ( born 1880 ) July 9 -- James H. Flatley, naval aviator and admiral ( born 1906 ) July 26 -- Eugene Millikin, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1941 to 1957 ( born 1891 ) August 14 or 15 -- Big Bill Broonzy, African American blues singer - songwriter ( born 1893 ) August 27 -- Ernest Lawrence, nuclear physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 ( born 1901 ) August 29 -- Marjorie Flack, artist, illustrator and writer ( born 1897 ) September 25 -- John B. Watson, psychologist ( born 1878 ) October 19 -- Mary F. Hoyt, first woman appointed to the U.S. federal civil service, in 1883 ( born 1858 ) October 29 -- Zoë Akins, playwright, poet and author ( born 1886 ) November 15 Samuel Hopkins Adams, writer ( born 1871 ) Tyrone Power, actor ( born 1914 ) November 21 : Mel Ott, baseball player ( born 1909 ) Lion Feuchtwanger, German - American novelist and playwright ( born 1884 ) December 29 -- Doris Humphrey, dancer and choreographer ( born 1895 ) See also List of American films of 1958 External links Media related to 1958 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons Years in the United States ( 1776 -- present ) 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1985 1986 1990 1991 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 1958 in North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1958_in_the_United_States&oldid=796541098 '' Categories : 1958 in the United States Hidden categories : Incomplete lists from July 2014 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from October 2010 M w Talk Contents About Wikipedia Bân - lâm - gú Français עברית Edit links This page was last edited on 21 August 2017, at 15 : 02. 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Question: who was president of the united states in 1958
Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower