* 02/05/1958 - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
* 02/06/1958 - Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
* 02/07/1958 - Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
* 02/11/1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st Afr-American woman hired as flight attendant
* 02/17/1958 - Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
* 02/23/1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

* 03/02/1958 - 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
* 03/05/1958 - Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
* 03/11/1958 - Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
* 03/12/1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
* 03/13/1958 - Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
* 03/14/1958 - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
* 03/14/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 03/14/1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
* 03/17/1958 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
* 03/22/1958 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
* 03/24/1958 - Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
* 03/25/1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
* 03/26/1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," wins
* 03/26/1958 - US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
* 03/27/1958 - CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
* 03/27/1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party

* 04/02/1958 - Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
* 04/02/1958 - National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
* 04/02/1958 - Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)
* 04/03/1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
* 04/06/1958 - Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
* 04/14/1958 - Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
* 04/15/1958 - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt
* 04/17/1958 - Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens
* 04/20/1958 - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
* 04/20/1958 - Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
* 04/23/1958 - Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
* 04/28/1958 - Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
* 04/28/1958 - Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
* 04/30/1958 - Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits

* 05/07/1958 - Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
* 05/08/1958 - Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
* 05/08/1958 - VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
* 05/12/1958 - "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40
* 05/13/1958 - Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuela
* 05/13/1958 - Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
* 05/15/1958 - USSR launches Sputnik III
* 05/16/1958 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
* 05/19/1958 - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
* 05/19/1958 - US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
* 05/21/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
* 05/26/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
* 05/27/1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
* 05/30/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
* 05/31/1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)

* 06/01/1958 - Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
* 06/02/1958 - Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record

* 06/07/1958 - Cathedral High School Class of 1958 Graduates 145 Students