1958–1960: Хроника событий года

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April 6 – The 31st Academy Awards ceremony is held in Hollywood. Musical film Gigi receives a record 9 Oscars. April 8 – The Inter American Development Bank (IADB) is established. April 9 – NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first U. S. astronauts, later known as the 'Mercury Seven'. April 10 – Crown Prince Akihito of Japan marries Shōda Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Imperial House of Japan. April 25 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping. April 27 – National People's Congress elects Liu Shaoqi as Chairman of the People's Republic of China, as a successor of Mao Zedong.

July 2 – Prince Albert of Belgium marries Italian Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria. July 4 – With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U. S. state earlier in the year, the 49 star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia. July 7 – At 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. The rare event (which will next occur on October 1, 2044) is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of Venus' atmosphere. July 9 – Wing Commander Michael Beetham flying a Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant sets a record of 11 hours 27 minutes for a non stop London Cape Town flight. July 14 – Groups of Kurdish and communist militias rebel in Kirkuk, Iraq against the central government. July 17 – The first skull of Australopithecus is discovered by Louis Leakey and his wife Mary in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania. July 22 – A Kumamoto University medical research group studying Minamata disease concludes that it is caused by mercury. July 24 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage in the "Kitchen Debate". July 25 – The SR. N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours, on the 50th anniversary of Louis Blériot's first crossing by heavier than air craft.

November 1 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction. November 2 – At a ceremony near Toddington, British Minister of Transport Ernest Marples opens the first section of the M1 Motorway, between Watford and Crick, along with two spur motorways, the M45 and M10. Three decades of large scale motorway construction follow, leading to the rapid expansion of the UK motorway network. November 15 – The brutal Clutter family murders are committed in Holcomb, Kansas, inspiring Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1966). November 20 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations. The MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field effect transistor), also known as the MOS transistor, is invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in the United States. It revolutionizes the electronics industry, becomes the fundamental building block of the Digital Revolution and goes on to become the most widely manufactured device in history.

December 1 – Cold War: Antarctic Treaty – 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty that sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent (the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War). December 2 – Malpasset Dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Fréjus, killing 412. December 8 – The life boat Mona, based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, capsizes during a rescue attempt with the loss of 8 lives. December 11 – Charles Robberts Swart is appointed the 11th Governor General of the Union of South Africa. December 14 – Makarios III is selected as the first president of Cyprus.

Nylon tights, popularly called pantyhose or sheer tights, are first sold on the open market as 'Panti Legs' by Glen Raven Knitting Mills in the United States. The first known human with HIV dies in the Congo. The current (as of 2024) design of the Japanese 10 yen coin is put into circulation. The Caspian tiger becomes extinct in Iran. The Henney Kilowatt goes on sale in the United States, becoming the first production electric car in almost three decades, but only 47 models will be sold in its 2 year production run. Car tailfin design reaches its apex in the United States with such as the Cadillac Eldorado, Chevrolet Impala second generation model, Dodge Silver Challenger and Imperial Crown Sedan.

April 2 – Nicholas Charnetsky, Soviet Orthodox priest, bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1884)
April 8 – Jonathan Zenneck, German physicist and electrical engineer (b. 1871)
April 9 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
April 18 – Irving Cummings, American actor (b. 1888)
April 28 – María Guggiari Echeverría, Paraguayan Roman Catholic religious professed and venerable (b. 1925)
April 29 – Sir Kenneth Anderson, British general (b. 1891)

October 1 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian jurist, politician and journalist, 1st President of Italy (b. 1877)
October 6 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
October 7 – Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
October 9 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist and lieutenant general of Unit 731 (b. 1892)
October 14 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
October 15 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (b. 1909)
October 16 – George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
October 18 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
October 19 – Ebrahim Hakimi, 29th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1869)
October 20 – Werner Krauss, German actor (b. 1884)
October 22 – Joseph Cahill, Australian politician (b. 1891)
October 28 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
October 29 – King Sisavang Vong of Laos (b. 1885)

Al Abbas ibn Ibrahim as Samlali, Moroccan historian (b. 1877)
Elena Săcălici, Romanian artistic gymnast (b. 1935)