Willingboro - Levittown 50th Anniversary

FEBRUARY 2008
Note what happened in February 1958...what were You doing? (Anniversary events featured in white areas.)

1958:

Egypt and Syria announce plans to form the United Arab Republic.
Clinton Joseph Davisson, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, dies.

1958:

Groundhog's Day
The word Aerospace is coined, from the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space).
Fay Crocker win LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open.

1958:

Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3.

1958:

"Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances.
Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950.

1958:

Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km.
Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
Tybee Bomb a 7,600 pound (3,500 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb was lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia.

1958:

Ash Wednesday
Ruth Carol Taylor is the first African American woman hired as a flight attendant.
Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid.

1958:

Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced.

1958:

Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st Afr-American woman hired as flight attendant.

1958:

Lincoln's Birthday
Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101.

Valentine's Day
The Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan unites in the Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan with the Iraqi King Faisal II as head of state.

Father - Daughter Valentine Dance - JF Kennedy Center
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA.
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA

1958:

Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open.

1958:

Comic strip "BC" first appears.
Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television.

Washington's Birthday Observed

1958:

Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records.

50 th Anniversary Committe Meeting - Willingboro Library - 7:00 PM
Test rocket explodes in Cape Canaveral.
Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner.
Los Angeles Coliseum Committee approves 2-year pact allows Dodgers to use facility.

1958:

Peace symbol designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
"Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote)

1958:

Washington's Birthday
Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days.

1958:

USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio. They release him 28 hours later.
Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913).

1958:

Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

1958:

Susan Helms, American astronaut, born.

1958:

USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR.

1958:

West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket.

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