When the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company reached its 125th year as a going industrial concern during 1958, it became an almost unique institution in the mechanical world.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

IBM introduced these on the IBM 709 in 1958, and they became a common feature of their platforms.

The symbol adopted by CND was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom and in the following decade became an international peace symbol.

* Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958.

In 1947, he claims to have become the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play, and in 1958 became a radio DJ at Radio Luxembourg.

In 1958, Dahomey became an autonomous republic, and gained full independence in 1960.

It became independent from France in 1958 following the rejection of Charles de Gaulle's Constitution of 1958.

In 1833, Grenada became part of the British Windward Islands Administration and remained so until 1958.

Guinea became the first French African colony to gain independence, on 2 October 1958, at the cost of the immediate cessation of all French assistance.

In 1958, Arne Larsson in Sweden became the first patient to depend on an artificial cardiac pacemaker.

Cambodia became a member in 1958, withdrew its membership in 2003, and rejoined 2009.

The skyscraper, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York ( 1956 – 1958 ), became the archetypal modernist building.

In 1958, he became the rabbi of the Howard Beach Jewish Center in Queens, New York City.

Manama was declared a free port in 1958, and in 1971 it became the capital of independent Bahrain.

In 1949, Fadden became Treasurer in the second Menzies government and remained so until his retirement in 1958.

He became a naturalized U. S. citizen while serving in the United States Army in 1958.

On 25 December 1958, he became the first pope since 1870 to make pastoral visits in his Diocese of Rome, when he visited children infected with polio at the Bambino Gesù Hospital and then visited Santo Spirito Hospital.

In 1958, he became a professor at Montana State University in Bozeman, and taught creative writing courses for two years.

In 1958 he became Australia's Test captain until his retirement in 1964.

Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

* 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

* 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

* 1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.

The first of these weapons entered United States Navy service in 1958.

Born in Ashington, Northumberland, Charlton made his debut for the Manchester United first-team in 1956, and over the next two seasons gained a regular place in the team, during which time he survived the Munich air disaster of 1958 after being rescued by Harry Gregg.

Category: 1958 establishments in the United Kingdom

In 1958 he moved from England to the United States, living and teaching in Berkeley, California from 1963.

* 1958 – The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.

Muhomatsu no Issho, released as the Rickshaw Man 1958 remake in the United States, to recreate the honesty and integrity seen in the film.

For example, the United States has established the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958, which requires that an animal be stunned before killing.

* Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 – 1958, one example in United States Army Aviation Museum.

* 1958 – Egypt and Syria merge to form the United Arab Republic, which lasts until 1961.

* 1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

* 1958 – Eight Manchester United F. C.

* 1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.

He made his debut for the first team at home in November 1958 against Colchester United in the newly formed Third Division.

Billy Whelan, one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster of 6 February 1958, was born locally on 1 April 1935.

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

* 1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, ( LGW ) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

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.

St-Laurent was succeeded as Liberal Party leader by his former Secretary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, Lester B. Pearson, at the party's leadership convention in 1958.

In July 1958, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda returned to the country after a long absence in the United States ( where he had obtained his medical degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 ), the United Kingdom ( where he practised medicine ), and Ghana.

Her parents immigrated to the United States from China in 1949 and settled in Ohio in 1958, one year before Maya Lin was born.