In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.

18, No. 2 ( Jun., 1958 ), pp. 176 – 192 in JSTOR

* April 18 – Georges Boulanger, Romanian violinist ( d. 1958 )

* July 18 – Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave ( d. 1979 )

At the age of 18, Lee returned to the United States with $ 100 in his pocket and the titles of 1957 High School Boxing Champion and 1958 Crown colony Cha Cha Champion of Hong Kong.

He was first married to Maxine Caroll Lawrence in 1956 at age 18, with whom he had four children: Terry Vance Jennings ( born January 21, 1957 ), Julie Rae Jennings ( born August 12, 1958 ), Buddy Dean Jennings ( born March 21, 1960 ), and Deana Jennings.

They had three children together: John Philip, Jr. ( April 1, 1881 – May 18, 1937 ), Jane Priscilla ( August 7, 1882 – October 28, 1958 ), and Helen ( January 21, 1887 – October 14, 1975 ).

James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude ( Strom ) ( July 18, 1870 – January 10, 1958 ) and John William Thurmond ( May 1, 1862 – June 17, 1934 ), a lawyer.

* January 31, 1958: orbited Explorer 1 weighing 30. 66 lb ( 13. 91 kg ) with 18. 35 lb ( 8. 32 kg ) of payload, perigee 224 mi ( 360 km ), apogee 1, 575 mi ( 2, 535 km ).

* March 5, 1958: attempted orbit of Explorer 2, weighing 31. 36 lb ( 14. 22 kg ) with 18. 83 lb ( 8. 54 kg ) of payload, failed because fourth stage did not ignite.

* March 26, 1958: orbited Explorer 3, weighing 31. 0 lb ( 14. 0 kg ) with 18. 53 lb ( 8. 41 kg ) of payload, perigee 119 mi ( 192 km ), apogee 1, 740 mi ( 2, 800 km ).

* October 23, 1958: attempted orbit of 12 ft ( 3. 7 m ) inflatable Beacon satellite 31. 5 lb ( 14. 3 kg ) with 18. 3 lb ( 8. 3 kg ) of payload.

Due to the high cost of the Regulus II ( approx one million dollars each ), budgetary pressure, and the emergence of the UGM-27 Polaris SLBM ( submarine launched ballistic missile ), the Regulus II program was canceled on 18 December 1958.

Pioneer 0 was launched on Thor missile number 127 at 12: 18: 00 UTC on August 17, 1958 by the United States Air Force, only 4 minutes after the scheduled launch time.

Friedrich Robert Donat ( 18 March 19059 June 1958 ) was an English film and stage actor.

On January 18, 1958, armed Lumbee Native Americans chased off an estimated 50 Klansmen and supporters led by grand wizard James W. " Catfish " Cole at the town of Maxton in the Battle of Hayes Pond.

November 18, 1958, Charlevoix City Hall served as a makeshift morgue for the bodies of crewmen of the SS Carl D. Bradley after the lake freighter foundered in Lake Michigan during a severe storm.

The freighter,, home port at Rogers City, sank in Lake Michigan on November 18, 1958.

Thomas " Tommy " Hearns ( born October 18, 1958 ) is a retired American professional boxer.

Born in Grand Junction, Tennessee on October 18, 1958, Hearns was the youngest of three children in his mother's first marriage.

** Time: 03: 18 August 30, 1958 ( GMT )

On that New Year's Eve of 1958, while Batista was preparing to flee to the Dominican Republic and then on to Spain ( where he died in exile in 1973 ), Lansky was celebrating the $ 3 million he made in the first year of operations at his 440-room, $ 18 million palace, the Habana Riviera.

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* On 18 May 1958, a Douglas DC-7 ( registered OO-SFA ) suffered a problem with its leftmost engine, whilst on a flight from Lisbon to Leopoldville with 56 passengers and nine crew members.

" The other study, published in 1958, was conducted on six people: the same subject as the Science paper ; an 18 year old male with statural and sexual retardation and a skeletal age of between 13 and 14 years ; a 15 year old female with well documented hypopituitarism secondary to a craniopharyngioma ; a 53 year old female with carcinoma of the breast and widespread skeletal metastases ; a 68 year old female with advanced postmenopausal osteoporosis ; and a healthy 24 year old medical student without any clinical or laboratory evidence of systemic disease.

* 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter ( 10, 000 Maniacs ) ( d. 2000 )

Despite the recession of the late 1950s, the company sold $ 94, 000 worth of these modules during 1958 alone, turning a profit at the end of its first year.

In 1958 he sent 15, 000 US troops to Lebanon to prevent the pro-Western government from falling to a Nasser-inspired revolution.

More dramatically, in July 1958, he sent 15, 000 Marines and soldiers to Lebanon as part of Operation Blue Bat, a non-combat peace-keeping mission to stabilize the pro-Western government and to prevent a radical revolution from sweeping over that country.

Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 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.

In 1958, during the last months of President Camille Chamoun's term, an insurrection broke out, and 5, 000 United States Marines were briefly dispatched to Beirut on July 15 in response to an appeal by the government.

Current environmental issues include deforestation ( Paraguay lost an estimated 20, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of forest land between 1958 and 1985 ) and water pollution ( inadequate means for waste disposal present health risks for many urban residents ).

Since its founding in 1958 VSO has placed over 50, 000 volunteers in over 140 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

* June 16 – A crowd of 250, 000 gathers at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister who had been executed in 1958.

In 1958, Laker announced his decision to sell both ATL and Air Charter to Airwork for £ 600, 000 cash plus a further £ 200, 000, subject to the valuation of stock.

After losing mainland China, a group of approximately 12, 000 KMT soldiers escaped to Burma and continued launching guerrilla attacks into south China during the Kuomintang Islamic Insurgency in China ( 1950 – 1958 ).

In the decades after independence, the population of Conakry exploded, from 50, 000 inhabitants in 1958 to 600, 000 in 1980, to over two million today.

The highest attendance at a European game was over 66, 000 in 1958.

Matrices for some 700 characters were available as part of Times Roman Series 569 when it was released in 1958, with new characters constantly being added for over a decade afterwards ( thus, in 1971, 8, 000 characters were included, and new ones were being added at a rate of about 5 per week ).

The international Pétanque federation Fédération Internationale de Pétanque et Jeu Provençal was founded in 1958 in Marseille and has about 600, 000 members in 52 countries ( 2002 ).

* 1958 Stikhotvoreniya ( Poems ) ( 25, 000 copies )

Tolkien said that he thought the time between the end of the Third Age and the 20th century AD was about 6, 000 years, and that in 1958 it should have been around the end of the Fifth Age if the Fourth and Fifth Ages were about the same length as the Second and Third Ages.

The 1958 Gilbert High Panthers finished 12-0, winning the Florida Interscholastic Athletic Association black school state championship with a 14-7 victory over Dillard High School of Fort Lauderdale before more than 11, 000 spectators.

The temporary Hockey Hall of Fame opened as an exhibit within the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in August 1958, and 350, 000 people visited it during the 1958 CNE fair.

This plant closed in 1958, leaving 5, 000 workers unemployed.

The total labour force of both aviation companies reached 15, 000 in 1958.