* 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.

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.

DARPA ’ s original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signaled that the Soviets had beaten the U. S. into space.

The socialist rule was violently ended in 1958 by the U. S .- backed military ruler General Ayub Khan who disbanded the political parties and took tough actions against the communist mass in both East and West Pakistan.

Kelly in rehearsal with Sugar Ray Robinson and assistant Jeanne Coyne in the NBC Omnibus ( U. S. TV series ) | Omnibus television special Dancing is a Man's Game ( 1958 )

* 1958 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.

* 1958 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ).

In the case of Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U. S. 1 ( 1958 ), the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Arkansas ' effort to use nullification and interposition.

From 1946 to 1958, as the site of the Pacific Proving Grounds, the U. S. tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, including the largest nuclear test the U. S. ever conducted, Castle Bravo.

* 1958 – Rock ' N ' Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U. S. Army.

* 1958 – The U. S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.

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

After various mergers with automotive suppliers, it comprised about 10-20 factories in the Upper Midwestern U. S. and southern Ontario, and in 1958 renamed itself Rockwell-Standard Corporation.

On July 29, 1955, the White House announced that the U. S. intended to launch satellites by the spring of 1958.

The launch of Sputnik 1 inspired U. S. writer Herb Caen to coin the term " beatnik " in an article about the Beat Generation in the San Francisco Chronicle on 2 April 1958.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

For his service to his country, Lawrence received the Enrico Fermi Award from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1957, and was the first recipient of the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy in 1958.

Additionally, the U. S. would also make its way through two grinding recessions ; one in 1953 and another in 1958.

The U. S. Weather Bureau kept weather records in downtown Oakland from October 4, 1894, to July 31, 1958.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Baksa, Robert: Aria da Capo ( 1968 ); Bilotta, John George: Aria da Capo ( 1980 ); Blank, Allan: Aria da Capo ( 1958 – 60 ); Smith, Larry Alan: Aria da Capo ( 1980 )— all libretti by Edna St. Vincent Millay ( see above under Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues ).

Having lived primarily in the United States since departing Montreal to attend MIT in 1958, Altman became a U. S. citizen in 1984, maintaining dual citizenship as a Canadian citizen as well.

From 1958 to 1973 the U. S government exploded 28 nuclear test-shots in a project called the Operation Plowshare.

On November 10, 1958, Winston donated the diamond to the Smithsonian Institution, where it became Specimen # 217868, sending it through U. S. Mail in a box wrapped in brown paper, insured via registered mail at a cost of $ 145. 29.

The Brazilian version retained the 1958 – 1964 body style ( Europe and U. S. version ) with the thick door pillars and smaller side windows.

When he added to his Pittsburgh commitments the directorship of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1958, he conducted one hundred fifty concerts within nine months, `` commuting '' between the two cities.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

To this must be added the 90 to 92 megatons of fission yield produced between the dawn of the atomic age in 1945 and the informal three-power test moratorium that began in November, 1958.

He has been in prison since May, 1958, when his aircraft was shot down over Moluccas.

In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.

Until 1958 the state was also entitled to a special type of manufacturers' discount through the dealers.

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

From 1 July 1958 to 30 June 1960, 24 numbers of the Journal and nine of the Bulletin were published.

On May 9, 1958, the Commissioner announced his rulings.

Du Pont's counterproposal was filed on May 14, 1958.

On June 6, 1958, General Motors submitted its objections to the Government's proposal.

The decrees proposed by the amici curiae were filed in August of 1958.

The 1958 military pay act departed from this established formula by providing for a 6% increase rather than a proportionate increase for everyone retired prior to its effective date of June 1, 1958.

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.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

The first substantially complete stereo Giselle ( and the only one of its scope since Feyer's four-sided LP edition of 1958 for Angel ), this set is, I'm afraid, likely to provide more horrid fascination than enjoyment.

Says NRLDA's James Wright: `` Since 1958 carriers that move material from the yard to the job site have undergone more radical changes than any of the dealer's other equipment ''.

The results of present observations of the thermal radio emission of the moon are consistent with the very low thermal conductivity of the surface layer which was derived from the variation in the infrared emission during eclipses ( e.g., Garstung, 1958 ).

Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).

The antenna patterns and the power gain at the peak of the beam were both measured ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958 ), so that the absolute power sensitivity of the antenna beam over the solid angle of the moon was known.

This result is plotted along with the 8.6-mm observations of Gibson ( 1958 ) in figure 1, A.

The 10.3-cm observation of Sloanaker was made on May 20, 1958, using the 84-foot reflector at the Maryland Point Observatory of the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Statistically, the most significant data have been collected from the sensors on 1958 Alpha ( Explorer 1 ), 1958 Delta 2 ( Sputnik 3 ), and 1959 Eta ( Vanguard 3 ).