Willingboro - Levittown 50th Anniversary

OCTOBER 2008
Note what happened in October 1958...what were YOU doing? (Anniversary events featured in white areas.)

1958:

NASA created to replace NACA. Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA.
Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia.

1958:

Guinea declares itself independent from France (National Day).

1958:

Fifth Republic of France established.
BOAC uses new Comet jets to become the first airline to fly jet passenger services across the Atlantic.

1958:

Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court.
US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.

1958:

Yom Kippur
Pope Pius XII dies.NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series - NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series.

1958:

Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).

Columbus Day

1958:

The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.

50th Anniversary Committee Meeting - Willingboro Public Library - 7:00 PM.

National Boss Day

1958:

Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of comic strip characters The Smurfs.
Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam.

1958:

First commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York to Paris (Pan Am).

1958:

Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier

1958:

Thanksgiving Day
28/29/30 Annual Soccor Tournament
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.

Halloween