1958

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1958

Events

January

January 1
- The European Economic Community (EEC) is founded.
- The first Carrefour store opens, in Annecy.
January 3 – Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, and the first to use powered vehicles.
January 4 – Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit and burns up.
January 8 – 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
January 18
- Armed Lumbee Indians confront a handful of Klansmen in Maxton, North Carolina.
- The first of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic is telecast by CBS. The Emmy-winning series (one concert approximately every three months except for the summer) will run for more than fourteen years. It will make Bernstein's name a household word, and the most famous conductor in the U.S.
January 20 – Anne de Vries releases the fourth and final volume of Journey Through the Night.
January 28 – Hall of Fame baseball player Roy Campanella is involved in an automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed.
January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit.

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1958

1958 erlebt die Weltwirtschaft ihre erste Rezession der Nachkriegszeit. Die Bundesrepublik, mitten im Wirtschaftswunder, ist davon nur gering betroffen (BIP 469,2 Mrd. Euro, in Preisen von 1995, zu 449,2 im Vorjahr = +4,45 %), Nordamerika (= USA und Kanada) sowie Südamerika dagegen spürbar. 1958 (oder 1957) gilt als das Jahr, in dem in Westdeutschland eine lange Krise der Montanindustrie (Kohlekrise (= „Zechensterben“) und Krise in der Stahlindustrie) begann. Im Ruhrgebiet, mit über 10 Millionen Einwohnern die größte Agglomeration Deutschlands, werden diese Krisen besonders sichtbar (Näheres hier).