His book The World of Pooh won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.

He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.

The first Biathlon World Championships ( BWCH ) was held in 1958, with individual and team contests for men.

After 2 more years without a race the Dutch Grand Prix was back on the World Championship ( s ) calendar in 1958 and from then on remained a permanent fixture ( with the exception of 1972 ) until, when it was held for the last time.

Most notably, he wrote Poème Électronique for the Phillips pavilion at the Brussels World Fair in 1958.

( 1955 ), Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ) and Cleopatra ( 1963 ) plus many more.

* 1958 World first commercial food irradiation ( spices ) at Stuttgart, Germany

Category: 1958 FIFA World Cup players

) was a Scottish footballer who played for the Scotland national football team in both the 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cups.

The fellow whose nickname made up the title was played by Tom Ewell, and the female lead, Susan Oliver, won the Theatre World Award for her performance, while the Irwin Shaw adaptation opened at Henry Miller's Theatre on 28 October 1958 and closed on November 1.

The Arms Park was host to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958, and hosted four games in the 1991 Rugby World Cup, including the 3rd / 4th place play-off.

Earlier in England in 1958 the term " Pop Art " was used by Lawrence Alloway to describe paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post World War II era.

* 1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.

France adopted PR at the end of World War II, discarding it in 1958.

Upon Byers ' retirement in 1964, The Fabulous Moolah, who won a junior heavyweight version of the NWA World Women's Championship ( the predecessor to the WWE Women's Championship ) in a tournament back in 1958, was recognized by most NWA promoters as champion by default.

The 1954 World Series title would be their last appearance in the World Series as the New York Giants, as the team moved to San Francisco just prior to the 1958 season.

Except for his chapel, the church was largely destroyed in the Second World War and was rebuilt in 1958.

In 1958, Viktor Zhdanov, Deputy Minister of Health for the USSR, called on the World Health Assembly to undertake a global initiative to eradicate smallpox, resulting in Resolution WHA11. 54.

Carol Lawrence received the 1958 Theatre World Award.

In 1958, Andorra declared peace with Germany, having been forgotten on the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and, the conflict being extended by the lack of a peace treaty, remaining legally at war.

Winterbottom managed the England team ( and arranged travel, accommodation and meals ) for its first four World Cup competitions, in 1950, 1954, 1958 and 1962.

For the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, England qualified ahead of the Republic of Ireland and Denmark.

For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in The Shape of Things to Come a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years ; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only to rebuild the ruins on Earth but also engage in extensive space colonization of the Moon and several planets.

Soon after Liverpool lost 2 – 1 to non-league Worcester City in the 1958 – 59 FA Cup, Bill Shankly was appointed manager.

In recognition of the team's tragedy, UEFA invited the club to compete in the 1958 – 59 European Cup alongside eventual League champions Wolverhampton Wanderers.

The main competition for men's national teams is the UEFA European Football Championship, started in 1958, with the first finals in 1960, and known as the European Nations Cup until 1964.

* Columbia ( 1958 yacht ), the 1958 America's Cup winner

Walter received his last cap during the semi-final against Sweden in the 1958 World Cup, suffering an injury which ended his international career, and retired from football in 1959.

Category: 1958 FIFA World Cup players

The 1958 World Cup, played in Sweden, put Yashin on the map for his performances, with the Soviet Union advancing to the quarter-finals.

The 1958 FIFA World Cup, the sixth staging of the World Cup, was hosted by Sweden from 8 to 29 June.

The official 1958 FIFA World Cup poster.

It hosted European Cup finals in 1958, 1966, 1974, and 1985 and Cup Winners ' Cup finals in 1964, 1976 and 1980.

He was, however, selected for the 1958 World Cup squad, ahead of Nat Lofthouse and Stanley Matthews but returned from Sweden disappointed, as England were defeated by the Soviet Union in a group play-off match.

Following the 1958 World Cup, Robson became an established member of the England squad, enjoying considerable success in a period between October 1960 and March 1961 when he played in six England victories, including scoring a goal in the record 9 – 3 defeat of Scotland at Wembley Stadium.

In international football, playoffs were a feature of the 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cup final tournaments.

It also features scenes of the 1958 America's Cup yacht races.

* Football World Cup 1958

On August 24, 1958, Jan & Arnie played in a live show hosted by Dick Clark that featured Bobby Darin, the Champs, Sheb Wooley, The Blossoms, The Six Teens, Jerry Wallace, Jack Jones, Rod McKuen, and the Ernie Freeman Orchestra in front of nearly 12, 000 fans at the first rock-n-roll show ever held at the Hollywood Bowl.

The Arms Park hosted the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, which was used for the athletics events, but this event caused damage to the drainage system, so much so, that other rugby unions ( England, Scotland and Ireland ) complained after the Games about the state of the pitch.

From 1956 to 1958, he hosted a show titled Top Tunes and New Talent, which aired on Monday nights.

Today, one, the former Granada cinema ( which once hosted Buddy Holly in 1958, and later Roy Orbison and The Beatles in 1963 ), is a bingo hall ; another, the former ABC ( previously Regal ) is a nightclub, while the former Odeon, later Coronet, is now a Pentecostal church.

The first popcorn day was held on April 12, 1958, hosted by the local popcorn company.

Haverford Township also holds the distinction of having hosted 2 different men's major golf championship's at 2 different golf clubs, Merion Golf Club hosted the 1934, 1950, 1971 and 1981 US Open and Llanerch Country Club hosted the 1958 PGA Championship

The last live programme was The Late Show on 14 June 1991 from studio D. A children's magazine style programme Studio E was broadcast live from the studio of the same name from 1955-ca. 1958 hosted by Vera McKechnie.

Henderson hosted the Australian version of Bandstand from 1958 until 1972.

The stadium was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then Ullevi has also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and the 2006 European Championships in Athletics, the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup finals in 1983 and 1990, the UEFA Euro 1992 final, the UEFA Cup final in 2004, and annually hosted the opening ceremony of the Gothia Cup — the world's largest football tournament.

It hosted the men's final in the 1958 World Cup and the women's final in the 1995 Women's World Cup.

This was hosted by Bruce Forsyth from 1958, and he took the idea with him when he went over to the BBC.

Egypt set a new record in the 2010 tournament that was hosted by Angola by winning their third consecutive title in an unprecedented achievement on the African level after defeating Ghana 1 – 0 in the final, retaining the gold-plated cup indefinitely and extending their record to 7 continental titles ( including when Egypt was known as the United Arab Republic between 1958 and 1971 ).

Between 1958 and 1960, Levant hosted a television talk show on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, The Oscar Levant Show, which later became syndicated.

Early in his career, Hall hosted game shows such as Bingo at Home on WABD-TV and guest-hosted more established game shows such as Strike It Rich on CBS, before hosting the first show of his own, Keep Talking in 1958.

Ebbw Vale hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1958.

The Netherlands has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest four times: in 1958, 1970, 1976 and 1980.

The original cricket ground, which hosted two first-class matches ( Scotland vs. Ireland in 1958 and 1974 ), was developed on the grounds of the former Cambusdoon Estate, once owned by 19th Century Iron and Coal magnate James Baird.

The hockey portion of Williams hosted the Frozen Four in 1958 and 1966.