In 1950, the company announced the DB2, followed by the DB2 / 4 in 1953, the DB2 / 4 MkII in 1955, the DB Mark III in 1957 and the Italian-styled 3. 7 L DB4 in 1958.

In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio ( the first to be fully transistorized ), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony ( sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression ).

* 1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish carpenter and toy maker, founder of the Lego Group toy company ( d. 1958 )

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.

By December 1958, the game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company had particularly captured Gygax's attention.

* Rodgers was founded in 1958 as an organ company and survives today as a subsidiary of Roland, still manufacturing high-quality electric, electronic, and pipe organs.

Braun ( company ) | Braun HF 1 television receiver, Germany, 1958

The company's name was changed to Blackburn Aircraft Limited in 1939, and the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Limited in 1949 as Blackburn and General Aircraft Limited, reverting to Blackburn Aircraft Limited by 1958.

After losing their special forces title, the T ' zanhanim company formed its own SF unit — the Sayeret T ' zanhanim in October 1958.

The first kart manufacturer was an American company, Go Kart Manufacturing Co. ( 1958 ).

The company began selling cars in the United States in 1958, and in 1960 introduced the Peugeot 404, which used a version of the 403 engine, tilted 45 °.

In 1958, the company introduced the first diet cola, Diet Rite, and in 1980, a caffeine-free cola, RC 100.

The company was an early sponsor ( from 1958 ) of Captain Kangaroo.

In 1956 the division was renamed Bristol Aero Engines, and then merged with Armstrong Siddeley in 1958 to form Bristol Siddeley as a counterpart of the airframe-producing company mergers that formed BAC.

British television company ABC-TV produced its own adaptation for the Armchair Theatre series which was transmitted on 30 March 1958.

She remained a member of the company for four seasons, 1957 – 1961, her roles including Katherine in Henry V in 1958 ( which was also her New York debut ), and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in October 1960, directed and designed by Franco Zeffirelli.

On December 30, 1958, Jack Jr. was informed, by Jack Sr .' s lawyer Arnold Grant, that the elder Warner had released him from the company.

In 1958 Resnais undertook a commission from the Pechiney company to make short film, in colour and wide-screen, extolling the merits of plastics, Le Chant du styrène.

He retired from the company in 1958, and spent the final months of his life as a resident of Litchfield Park at his home on Fairway Drive.

The first popcorn day was held on April 12, 1958, hosted by the local popcorn company.

In 1958, a poultry processing company was opened by Austin Farms.

The Dutch company Gatsometer BV, which was founded in 1958 by rally driver Maurice Gatsonides, produced the ' Gatsometer '.

Other sponsors, whose products appeared during the original openings, were Procter & Gamble for Cheer and Lilt Home Permanent ( 1954 – 57 ), General Foods for Sanka ( 1955 – 57 ), Ford Motor Company ( 1957 – 58 ), and Westinghouse company ( 1958 – 60 ).

The company also ventured briefly into railway rolling stock business, building five four-wheel railbuses for British Rail in 1958.

Returning to London in January 1958 he appeared as Philip Lester in A Touch of the Sun ( N. C. Hunter ) at the Saville Theatre — Best Actor in the Evening Standard Awards 1958 — before rejoining the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company in June 1958, to play Hamlet and Benedick, also playing Hamlet with the company in Leningrad and Moscow in December 1958 ( while his wife Rachel Kempson played Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet ).

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.

Voting preparations began in the fall of 1959, although the actual demarcation and planning for the rural communes was completed in 1958.

Beginning in 1958, the Canadian government began to orchestrate Dominion Day celebrations, usually consisting of Trooping the Colour ceremonies on Parliament Hill in the afternoon and evening, followed by a mass band concert and fireworks display.

Increasingly, after the calibration in 1958 of the cesium atomic clock by reference to ephemeris time, cesium atomic clocks running on the basis of ephemeris seconds began to be used and kept in step with ephemeris time.

Upon independence in 1958, France cut all ties and immediately began to repatriate Guinean soldiers serving in the French Army.

Off-Off-Broadway began in Greenwich Village in 1958 as a reaction to Off Broadway, and a " complete rejection of commercial theatre ".

In 1952 he began a teaching career as a political theorist, first at Columbia University, then at Harvard University, then at Brandeis University from 1958 to 1965, where he taught philosophy and politics, and finally ( by then he was past the usual retirement age ), at the University of California, San Diego.

In late 1958, Brabham rekindled his interest in flying and began taking lessons.

The new colonial constitution of 1958 increased African representation, but African nationalists began to demand a democratic franchise on the principle of " one man, one vote.

With this revamped formation, Davis began a year during which the sextet performed and toured extensively and produced a record ( 1958 Miles, also known as 58 Sessions ).

Nepal Army's long association with UN Peace Support Operations began with the deployment of five Military Observers in the Middle East, Lebanon ( UNOGIL / United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon ) in 1958.

He began his NASCAR career on July 19, 1958, 16 days after his 21st birthday.

In 1958 production began of the original Trabant, the P50.

In 1958, considering her marriage to be over, Leigh began a relationship with the actor Jack Merivale, who knew of Leigh's medical condition and assured Olivier he would care for her.

The series began with Carry On Sergeant in 1958.

The series began with Carry On Sergeant ( 1958 ), about a group of recruits on National Service, and was sufficiently successful that others followed.

in 1958, the ABMA began development of the class of ballistic missile.

It began in 1958 and ended in 1965, after the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 banned nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere and in space.

His career began in the theatre ; he made his first appearance on the London stage in 1958 in Jane Arden's The Party, directed by Charles Laughton, who starred in the production along with his wife, Elsa Lanchester.

The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union.

Pro-Nasser factions in the country, mostly comprising Muslims and Druze, began clashing with the Maronite population who generally supported Chamoun, culminating in a civil war by May 1958.

He also began developing bluescreen techniques: one of the first films to use them was the 1958 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novella, The Old Man and the Sea, starring Spencer Tracy.

By 1958, Jansson began to become directly involved in theater as Lilla Teater produced Troll i kulisserna ( Troll in the wings ), a play with lyrics by Jansson and music composed by Erna Tauro.

In 1958 in China, Mao Zedong's Communist Government began the Great Leap Forward campaign, aimed at rapidly industrializing the country.

Pro-Nasser factions in the country began clashing with supporters of Chamoun, culminating in a civil strife by May 1958.