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In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared May 1 to be Law Day in the United States. The first day of May has been celebrated since before that time in parts of the world as May Day or International Workers' Day: a day to remember the struggles of workers for better wages and working conditions, including the eight-hour workday movement.
July 3 – 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement signed in Washington, D.C. July 7 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. July 9 – 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami: A 7.8 M w strike-slip earthquake in Southeast Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami.
Gideon's Day (U.S. title: Gideon of Scotland Yard) is a 1958 police procedural crime film directed by John Ford and starring Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster and Cyril Cusack. [1] The screenplay was by T.E.B. Clarke , adapted from John Creasey 's 1955 novel of the same title .
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub. L. 85–568) is the United States federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Act, which followed close on the heels of the Soviet Union 's launch of Sputnik , was drafted by the United States House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space ...
In Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress, London: John Murray, 1958 a chapter is devoted to the basic question of what he called comitology: how committees, government cabinets, and other such bodies are created and eventually grow irrelevant (or are initially designed as such).
Pages in category "1958 in law" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
On July 29, 1958, the U.S. Congress officially passed legislation that established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- a civilian agency that is responsible for ...
Ted Stevens was instrumental in passing the law through the executive branch. The Alaska Statehood Act (Pub. L. 85–508, 72 Stat. 339, enacted July 7, 1958) was a legislative act introduced by Delegate E. L. "Bob" Bartlett and signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 7, 1958.