What Happened In April 1958 In History

Historical Events for April, 1958

• 4th » The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
• 5th » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• 13th » Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
• 14th » The Soviet Union known as Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
• 18th » A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1958

• 1st » D. Boon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Minutemen (band) known as Minutemen and The Reactionaries (band) e.g The Reactionaries) (d. 1985)
• 2nd » Stefano Bettarello, Italian rugby player
• 2nd » Larry Drew, American basketball player and coach
• 2nd » Amelia Marshall, American actress
• 3rd » Alec Baldwin, American actor and producer
• 3rd » Francesca Woodman, American photographer (d. 1981)
• 4th » Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Barão Vermelho) (d. 1990)
• 4th » Mary-Margaret Humes, American actress
• 4th » Peter Baltes, German bass player (Accept (band) known as Accept)
• 5th » Johan Kriek, South African-American tennis player
• 5th » Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan lawyer and journalist (d. 2009)
• 6th » Graeme Base, Australian author and illustrator
• 7th » Brian Haner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 7th » Hindrek Kesler, Estonian architect
• 8th » Detlef Bruckhoff, German footballer
• 8th » Maarten Ducrot, Dutch cyclist and journalist
• 9th » Tony Sibson, English boxer
• 9th » Nigel Slater, English journalist and author
• 10th » Bob Bell (motorsport) named Bob Bell, Irish engineer
• 10th » Yefim Bronfman, Uzbek-American pianist
• 11th » Stuart Adamson, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Skids, Big Country, and The Raphaels) (d. 2001)
• 12th » J. Alexander (model) known as J. Alexander, American-French model
• 12th » Will Sergeant, English guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen and Electrafixion)
• 14th » Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 15th » Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 15th » Abu Hamza al-Masri, Egyptian-English criminal
• 15th » Noni Ioannidou, Greek model and actress
• 15th » Memos Ioannou, Greek basketball player and coach
• 15th » Sir Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet, Scottish politician
• 15th » Benjamin Zephaniah, English actor, author, poet, and playwright
• 16th » Tim Flach, English photographer, artist and director
• 17th » Laslo Babits, Canadian javelin thrower (d. 2013)
• 18th » Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
• 18th » Thomas Simaku, Albanian-English composer
• 18th » Tarmo Teder, Estonian poet and critic
• 19th » Steve Antin, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 20th » Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 21st » Andie MacDowell, American actress
• 21st » Yoshito Usui, Japanese illustrator (d. 2009)
• 21st » Michael Zarnock, American author
• 22nd » Ken Olandt, American actor and producer
• 23rd » Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic composer and producer
• 23rd » Gene Scheer, American songwriter
• 23rd » Ryan Walter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 24th » Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer
• 24th » Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick, English police officer and politician
• 25th » Fish (singer) known as Fish, Scottish singer-songwriter and actor (Marillion)
• 26th » John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish race car driver
• 26th » Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer
• 26th » Jeffrey Guterman, American psychotherapist, author, and educator
• 26th » Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer, coach, and manager
• 28th » Nancy Lee Grahn, American actress
• 28th » Hal Sutton, American golfer
• 29th » Gary Cohen, American sportscaster
• 29th » Kevin Moore (footballer born 1958) named Kevin Moore, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 29th » Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress and singer
• 29th » Eve Plumb, American actress and singer
• 29th » Rosanna Scotto, American journalist
• 29th » Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 29th » Martin Whitmarsh, English businessman
• 30th » Charles Berling, French actor, director, and screenwriter

Famous Deaths for April 1958

• 2nd » Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor (b. 1892)
• 2nd » Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist (b. 1900)
• 3rd » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (b. 1891)
• 4th » Johnny Stompanato, American soldier and bodyguard (b. 1925)
• 8th » Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
• 10th » Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
• 11th » Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
• 16th » Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (b. 1920)
• 16th » Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian-American instructor of the French language (b. 1958)
• 18th » Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
• 19th » Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (b. 1899)

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