1958

Nikita Krushchev becomes Premier of the USSR
Castro overthrows Batista in Cuba
Common Market becomes effective
Charles de Gaulle elected president of France
NASA created in US
1st US earth satellite, Explorer I
Elvis Presley joins the Army
41 million TV sets in the US
The Hope Diamond donated to the Smithsonian Institution
"American Express" cards
Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
Hula Hoops
External pacemaker
Integrated circuits
Modems
Ultrasound examination of fetuses
Songs - "The Chipmunk Song", ""The Purple People Eater"
Film - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
TV - "Sea Hunt"
Scott Hamilton, Madonna, Mary Decker, Arsenio Hall, and Michael Jackson born