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31 aboard Super Viscount killed when it collides with Ital jet fighter over Nettuno, Italy; fighter pilot fails out; liner on London-Naples-Malta flight; scene illus; map
Army fails to put 12-ft inflatable aluminum balloon-satellite called Beacon in orbit for air density study. Cape Canaveral; unable to test technique of firing 'kick' rocket when balloon case reached apogee of orbit
says Repubs want to help workers drive out racketeers, s, Chicago
Cia Cubana airliner with 11 passengers reptd missing in rebel area; rebel threats against airline noted; US nickel plant at Nicaro reptd seized; Const guarantees reptd suspended 45 more days
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1958Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, author, and academic[†]
Michael Eric Dyson is an American academic, author, Baptist minister, and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as race, religion and politics as well as biographies on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Jay-Z.
1958Rose Nabinger, German singer[†]
Rose Nabinger is a German jazz singer.
1958Frank Schaffer, German sprinter[†]
Frank Schaffer is an East German retired athlete who specialised in the 400 metres.
1958Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.[†]
Springhill mining disaster may refer to any of three deadly Canadian mining disasters that occurred in 1891, 1956, and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill coalfield, near the town of Springhill in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. In the 1891 accident, 125 died; in 1956, 39 were killed; and in 1958, 75 miners were killed.
1958Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, make their debut in Spirou magazine.[†]
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. Belgium covers an area of 30,689 km2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.8 million; its population density of 383/km2 (990/sq mi) ranks 22nd in the world and sixth in Europe. The capital and largest metropolitan region is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]