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* 1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, ( LGW ) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
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Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.
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* 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling ( STD ) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
In 1955 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to the Inspector-General of the Royal Netherlands Navy Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld and aide-de-camp to Queen Juliana, after which he returned to sea in 1958 as commander of the submarine chaser HNLMS Gelderland.
* 9 June 1958: Queen Elizabeth II flew into the new airport in a de Havilland Heron of the Queen's Flight to perform the opening.
The annual tradition began in 1958 and includes arts, crafts, music, food and a parade featuring the Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival Queen.
In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill ; its Royal Charter and Statutes were approved by the Queen, in August, 1960.
The fictional detective Ellery Queen is the author of the books in which he appears ( The Finishing Stroke, 1958 ) and the editor of the magazine that bears his name ( The Player On The Other Side, 1963 ).
George Nader played Queen in The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1958 – 1959 ), but he was replaced with Lee Philips in the final episodes.
The ill-will between the two groups reached a climax in 1958, when three editors from La Rotonde were expelled for an article criticizing Queen Elizabeth II.
Mark Anthony Pivarunas, CMRI ( born October 31, 1958 ) is a U. S. based sedevacantist and Traditionalist Catholic bishop and Superior General of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen.
A definitive series, with new designs, was issued in 1954 for Queen Elizabeth, and in 1958 a pair of commemoratives marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Great Lakes of Africa by Burton and Speke.
* the Bank of Toronto building, 1958 Queen Street East, now the " Lion on the Beach " bar, built in 1950 ;
The Champion Company of the Corps of Staff Cadets is named after the Sovereign's Company and it carries the Queen Elizabeth II's banner, which was first presented to the Corps of Staff Cadets by Her Majesty the Queen Mother on February 26, 1958.
He directed some more costume dramas, including Désirée ( 1954 ) with Marlon Brando, The Virgin Queen ( 1955 ) with Bette Davis and The Naked Maja ( 1958 ) with Ava Gardner then went back to family comedies and musicals, including Flower Drum Song for Universal in 1961.
In the UK, STD started on 5 December 1958 when the Queen, who was in Bristol, dialled a phone call to Edinburgh – the furthest distance a call could be directly dialled.
1.113 seconds.