Noah Webster 4-cent United States Postal Service | United States stamp, 1958

Thus the " Geophysical Year " stamp of 1958 is considered to feature the work of Michelangelo because it shows two hands from his Creation of Adam.

1958 commemorative postage stamp of the U. S. S. R.

* 1958 23 April-members of West Indies Federation make a joint stamp issue.

A 1958 U. S. S. R. postage stamp depicting Guan Hanqing.

The same imprinted stamp with the propeller plane was used until updated with a jet airliner image in 1958.

Mikhail Chigorin on a 1958 Soviet Union | Soviet postage stamp.

Australia has had joint stamp issues with New Zealand ( 1958, 1963 and 1988 ), the United Kingdom ( 1963, 1988 and 2005 ), some of its external territories ( 1965 ), the United States of America ( 1988 ), the U. S. S. R. ( 1990 ), People ’ s Republic of China ( 1995 ), Indonesia ( 1996 ), Singapore ( 1998 ), Greece ( 2000 ), Hong Kong ( 2001 ), Sweden ( 2001 ), France ( 2002 ) and Thailand ( 2002 ).

In May 1958, the flag of the People's Republic of China at a postage stamp convention was pulled down and damaged, but as Japan did not recognize the PRC at the time, the law was not applied.

In 1958, the post office issued a postage stamp with a face value of 15 f., consisting of Ultramarine, gray, brown and green representing the Château de Foix which is referenced YT 11759.

In 1958, a French postage stamp was issued with his name and portrait on it.

Nevertheless, Hungary used the fable to promote a savings campaign on a 60 forint stamp in 1958.

* 1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.

On 31 October 1958, the Union of Soviet Writers held a trial behind closed doors.

It is possible that the 1958 Nobel Prize prevented Pasternak's imprisonment due to the Soviet State's fear of international protests.

In 1958, the USSR also started the development of the " Altai " national civil mobile phone service for cars, based on the Soviet MRT-1327 standard.

* 1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.

DARPA was established during 1958 ( as ARPA ) in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik during 1957, with the mission of keeping U. S. military technology more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies.

In The Doctor of Stalingrad ( 1958 ) dealing with German POWs in the Soviet Union, Germans are portrayed as more civilized, humane and intelligent than the Soviets, who are showed for the most part as Mongol savages who brutalized the German POWs.

* Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis ( 1958 ) ISBN 978-1-153-55449-7

* 1958 – Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter

An accomplished career saw him making 55 further appearances ( the last 22 as captain ) for the national side, with perhaps his best game being 1958 at Wembley Stadium when he scored a hat-trick against the Soviet Union in a 5-0 win.

Soviet rocket engineers had long intended a canine orbit before attempting human spaceflight ; since 1951, they had lofted 12 dogs into sub-orbital space on ballistic flights, working gradually toward an orbital mission possibly some time in 1958.

* 1958 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.

When the first scientific satellites were launched in the first half of 1958 — Explorers 1 and 3 by the US, Sputnik 3 by the Soviet Union — they observed an intense ( and unexpected ) radiation belt around Earth, held by its magnetic field.

* 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

The leader of Romania from 1948 to his death in 1965 was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the First Secretary of the Romanian Workers ' Party, who first sowed the seeds of greater independence from the Soviet Union by persuading Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to withdraw troops from Romania in April 1958.

* 1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission.

In 1958 the National Defense Education Act was passed with the encouragement of many legislators who feared the United States education system was falling behind that of the Soviet Union.

Kekkonen sided with the Soviet Union, working behind the scenes against the cabinet, and indeed, Fagerholm's cabinet resigned in December 1958.

The Soviet and Communist Chinese Aid Missions established in 1958 and 1959 were the first important non-Muslim presence in North Yemen.

It was built in 1958 by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and was a Moscow landmark during Soviet times.

The Soviet occupation of Romania lasted until 1958.

In July 1958, President Eisenhower requested that Lawrence travel to Geneva, Switzerland, to help negotiate a proposed treaty with the Soviet Union to ban nuclear weapons testing.

Brandt was outspoken against the Soviet repression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and against Nikita Khrushchev's 1958 proposal that Berlin receive the status of a " free city ".

He continued a trend first established by his predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who had tactfully coaxed the Soviet Union into withdrawing its troops from Romania in 1958.

Such arrangements are not to be confused with supranational entities which are not states and are not defined by a common monarchy but may ( or not ) have a symbolic, essentially protocollary, titled highest office, e. g. Head of the Commonwealth ( held by the British crown, but not legally reserved for it ) or ' Head of the Arab Union ' ( 14 February-14 July 1958, held by the Hashemite King of Iraq, during its short-lived Federation with Jordan, its Hashemite sister-realm ).

The defection of Georges Yambot from the African Socialist Movement ( MSA ) to Youlou's Union Démocratique pour la Défense d ' Intérêts Africains ( UDDIA ) helped Youlou become Prime Minister in 1958.

From 1958, the Union Castle shipping line gradually reduced their service calls to the island.

In February 1958, following announcement of the merger of Syria and Egypt into the United Arab Republic, Iraq and Jordan announced the Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan, also known as the Arab Union.

The Union was dissolved in August 1958.

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

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.

Written between 1958 and 1968 ( dates given at the end of the book ), it was published in the West in 1973, thereafter circulating in samizdat ( underground publication ) form in the Soviet Union until its official publication in 1989.

The Soviet Union also heavily supplied Sukarno with military supplies and advisors from the time of the Guided Democracy in Indonesia, especially during and after the 1958 civil war in Sumatra.

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes ( constructed in numerous locations across the US, e. g., Virginia Beach, VA ), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

In January 1958 nuclear armed Honest John missiles and 280mm atomic cannons were deployed to South Korea, a year later adding nuclear armed Matador cruise missiles with the range to reach China and the Soviet Union.

The Christian, United Presbyterian and Methodist churches united to become the Denison Union Church in 1958, and later became the Denison Bible Church.

* the 1958 election, in which John Diefenbaker rode the backing of the right-leaning Union Nationale provincial government in Quebec to 50 of the province's 75 seats ; and

Feeling that in the current political climate they could do more for social justice outside the Party, and disillusioned by the development of communism in the Soviet Union, Mitford and Treuhaft resigned from it in late 1958.