Willingboro - Levittown 50th Anniversary

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

1958:

New Year's Day
European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation.
BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7hours 57minutes.
Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented.
Grandmaster Flash, hip-hop/rap DJ, born.

1958:

Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland.
The West Indies Federation is formed.

1958:

Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up

1958:

Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar.
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to EE Cummings.

1958:

USSR shrinks army to 300,000.

1958:

14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

1958:

In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati OH) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54.

1958:

Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart .

1958:

NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring.
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open.
NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 26-7.

1958:

9235 scientists of 43 nations publish a plea to UN to stop nuclear bomb tests.

1958:

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday.
New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV.

1958:

William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw" premieres in New York City NY.

1958:

1st black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins).

1958:

Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League.

1958:

Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, born.

1958:

Martin Luther King, Jr birthday observed.
Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City NY (doesn't happen).

1958:

"Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 60 performances
Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies.

1958:

After warming to 100,000,000º, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion.

1958:

Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It."
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian born.

1958:

Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck.
Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor.

1958:

Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed.

1958:

Meeting - 50th Anniversary Committee - Willingboro Public Library - 7:00 PM
1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX
House of Lords passes bill allowing women in.
Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars.

1958:

US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1.
James van Allen discovers radiation belt.
"Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host