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China rejects Japanese terms on private pact; trade com chmn Nan charges Japan with sabotaging pact in collusion with US and Nationalist China; Peiping radio assails Kishi, others, particularly on flag issue; Japanese Cabinet spokesman reaffirms its stand
Smithsonian scientists rept satellite apparently disintegrated over Caribbean, possibly near Barbados; final sightings by Moonwatch and other observers noted; map
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NY Times survey of 13 states action on recession shows most of them want more Fed works
talks resumption opposed by French Right Wing
1958Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor[†]
Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It (2005–2012), for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.
1958Jim Smith, English musician[†]
James A. Smith is an English musician, best known as the bassist for the rock band Cardiacs which he formed with his brother Tim Smith, the band's frontman and leader. Jim is highly regarded for his distinctive bass playing.
1958The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.[†]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]