* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1958 – " Greatest Game Ever Played " – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

While in Baltimore the team advanced to the postseason ten times and won three NFL Championship games in 1958, 1959 and 1968.

The Baltimore Colts had won the 1958 and 1959 NFL championships under Coach Weeb Ewbank.

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

General manager Frank Lane, alarmed at the large number of passed balls, allowed the Baltimore Orioles to select Wilhelm off waivers on August 23, 1958.

On October 15, 1958, the residency having ended and en route to a week-long engagement for the quartet at the Comedy Club in Baltimore, Maryland, Monk and de Koenigswarter were detained by police in Wilmington, Delaware.

* Weeb Ewbank, coach of the 1958 and 1959 NFL champion Baltimore Colts and the Super Bowl III champion New York Jets

Moosup's claim to fame is that it is the boyhood hometown of Walt Dropo, During a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, he played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1949 – 1952 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1952 – 1954 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1955 – 1958 ), Cincinnati Redlegs ( 1958 – 1959 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1959-1961 ).

Public transportation between Sparrows Point, Dundalk and Baltimore City was operated by the United Railways and Electric Company's ( later the Baltimore Transit Company ) # 26 streetcar line which ran down the middle of Dundalk Avenue until August 1958.

The Giants beat the Chicago Bears 47 – 7 in 1956, but lost to the Baltimore Colts in 1958 and 1959.

Monument Records was an American record label, Washington, D. C. named for the Washington Monument, founded in 1958, by Fred Foster and Buddy Deane ( a prominent Baltimore disc jockey at WTTG ).

He received his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1916 and took a professorship there in 1927, remaining as W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages from 1930 to his retirement in 1958.

He was part of a December 3, 1957, multi-player trade between the White Sox and Baltimore Orioles but was traded before the 1958 season began and returned to Cleveland, along with Don Ferrarese, on April 1, 1958 for Gene Woodling, Bud Daley, and Dick Williams.

HQ Air Research and Development Command ( later, Air Force Systems Command ) moved to Andrews from Baltimore, 24 June 1958.

* Baltimore Bullets ( EPBL ), a Eastern Professional Basketball League franchise founded in 1958

Lefschetz came out of retirement in 1958, because of the launch of Sputnik, to augment the mathematical component of Glenn L. Martin Company ’ s Research Institute for Advanced Studies ( RIAS ) in Baltimore, Maryland.

Kálmán worked as a Research Mathematician at the Research Institute for Advanced Studies in Baltimore, Maryland from 1958 until 1964.

He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Chicago White Sox ( 1950 – 1955 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1956 – 1958 ), Kansas City Athletics ( 1958 ) and the Baltimore Orioles ( 1959 ).

He also managed to score in every British Home Championship tournament he played in except 1963 in an association with the tournament which lasted from 1958 to 1970 and included 16 goals and ten tournament victories ( five shared ).

West Germany played a central role in the creation of European cooperation ; it joined NATO in 1955 and was a founding member of the European Economic Community 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.

Sartre and his lifelong companion, de Beauvoir, existed, in her words, where " the world about us was a mere backdrop against which our private lives were played out " ( de Beauvoir 1958: 339 ).

) 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.

From 1958 to 1963, the Giants played in the NFL Championship Game five times, but failed to win.

Most significantly, the Giants played the Colts in the 1958 NFL Championship Game that is considered a watershed event in the history of the NFL.

His most enduring relationship, however, was with the music of Thelonious Monk: he recorded the first album to feature only Monk compositions ( Reflections, Prestige, 1958 ) and briefly played in Monk's band in 1960 and later on Monk's Big Band / Quartet album ( Columbia, 1963 ).

* In The Vikings, a film of 1958, Ragnar, played by Ernest Borgnine, is captured by King Aella of Northumbria and cast into a pit of ferocious dogs.

In 1958 he played the sergeant in the first Carry On film comedy, Carry On Sergeant, and in 1963 he appeared as a town councillor in the Boulting brothers ' film Heavens Above!

In 1958, Marsden played the role of the Fairy Godmother, in the production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the London Coliseum with Tommy Steele, Kenneth Williams, Yana and Jimmy Edwards.

He played an Army sergeant in the 1954 science fiction thriller, Them !, a professor in the 1958 science fiction movie The Brain Eaters, and had a role in The Balcony ( 1963 ), a film adaptation of the Jean Genet play.

He also played in three World Cups, in 1958, 1962 and 1966.

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

Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson ( born December 25, 1958 ) is an American former baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four stints with his original team, the Oakland Athletics.

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 1958 she was officially designated delegate to the United Nations, a formalization of her role as " goodwill ambassadress " of the U. S. which she had played earlier.

The 1958 – 59 and 1959 – 60 seasons saw Richard battling injuries that reduced his games played to 42 and 51.

In 1958, the band played at some of the local cinemas, and Morrison took the lead, contributing most of the singing and arranging.

Scott had played a small role in the very first of the Carry On series of films, Carry On Sergeant in 1958.

The first game played at the stadium was on October 4, 1958.

The film also features Herb Voland, who played General Clayton in seven episodes of the first two seasons of M * A * S * H. Farr and Christopher also had bit parts ( co-pilot and radio operator respectively ) in the 1958 Andy Griffith movie, No Time For Sergeants.

Also in 1958 St Kilda won the Consolation Night Series competition, a competition that was played between clubs that had failed to qualify for the premiership season finals series.