The first ofLeonard Bernstein'sYoung People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic is telecast by CBS. The Emmy-winning series (one concert approximately every 3 months except for the summer) will run for more than 14 years. It will make Bernstein's name a household word, and the most famous conductor in the U.S.[2]
January 28 –Hall of Famebaseball playerRoy Campanella is involved in an automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed.
January 31 – The first successful Americansatellite,Explorer 1, is launched into orbit.
February 5 – TheTybee Bomb, a 7,600 pound (3,500 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia.
February 28 –Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster: The worst school bus accident in U.S. history up to this date occurs at Prestonsburg, Kentucky; 27 are killed.[3]
March 8 – TheUSSWisconsin is decommissioned, leaving theUnited States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896 (it is recommissioned October 22, 1988).
The Convention on the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) enters into force, founding the IMCO as a specialized agency of theUnited Nations.
May 9 – Actor-singerPaul Robeson, whose passport has been reinstated, sings in a sold-out one-man recital atCarnegie Hall. The recital is such a success that Robeson gives another one at Carnegie Hall a few days later. But after these two concerts, Robeson is seldom seen in public in the United States again. His Carnegie Hall concerts are later released on records and onCD.
October 11 –Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of the three-projectAble space probes, becomes the first spacecraft launched by the newly formedNASA.
December 19 – A message from President Dwight D. Eisenhower is broadcast fromSCORE, the world's firstcommunications satellite, launched by the U.S. the previous day.
Based on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-warbaby boom ends in the United States as an 11-year decline in the birth rate begins (the longest on record in the country).
The United Kingdom,Soviet Union and the U.S. agree to stop testing atomic bombs for 3 years.
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^“MARGUERITE SNOW.”The New York Times (1923-) February 18, 1958
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