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April – Unemployment in Detroit reaches 20%, marking the height of the Recession of 1958 in the United States. April 15 – The San Francisco Giants (who until this season were the New York Giants ) beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8–0 at San Francisco 's Seals Stadium , in the first Major League Baseball regular-season game ever played in ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 December 2024. This article is about the year 1958. For other uses, see 1958 (disambiguation). 1958 January February March April May June July August September October November December Calendar year Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s ...
The 1958 United States elections were held on November 4, 1958, and elected members of the 86th United States Congress. The election took place in the middle of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term. Eisenhower's party suffered large losses.
The recession of 1958, also known as the Eisenhower Recession, was a sharp worldwide economic downturn in 1958. [1] The effect of the recession spread beyond the United States to Europe and Canada, causing many businesses to shut down. [2] Officially, recessionary circumstances lasted from the middle of 1957 to April 1958. [3]
1958 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) * 1958 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1958 disestablishments in the United States (33 C, 9 P)
Here’s what happened. AP . ... Ill., can be made, April 27, 1958. ... which initially caught a wave of attention across the United States, even being mentioned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1945 to 1989 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989.Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.