Willingboro - Levittown 50th Anniversary

SEPTEMBER 2008
Note what happened in September 1958...what were YOU doing? (Anniversary events featured in white area.)

1958:

Labor Day
St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout

1958:

In Greece, police start shaving the hair of youths called "teddy boys" to the skin.

1958:

"Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US.
1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC.

Grandparent's Day
Jazz Festival in the Park

1958:

Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game.

Patriot's Day

1958:

Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.

1958:

A New Jersey commuter train crashes through a drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark).
48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ

RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)

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

1958:

Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0.
Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged woman in NYC.

1958:

1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas Tx.

Autumn Begins

1958:

1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia.

1958:

Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup.

1958:

Anniversary Banquet - The Marrion
France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.

Rosh Hashanah