1958 - online puzzles

1958 (MCMLVIII)

was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1958th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 958th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1950s decade.

Events

January

January 1

The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.

The first Carrefour store opens, in Annecy.

January 3

Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, and the first to use powered vehicles.

The West Indies Federation is formed.

January 4 – Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit and burns up.

January 8 – 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.

January 13 - The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

January 18

In the Battle of Hayes Pond, armed Lumbee Indians routed a gathering of Klansmen in Maxton, North Carolina.

The first of Leonard Bernstein's Young People 's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic is telecast by CBS. The Emmy-winning series (one concert approximately every three months except for the summer ) will run for more than fourteen years.