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increased spending, income drop cause record debt
rept on Ohio
Dr F Sanger wins '58 Nobel chem award for developing method of studying protein structure
Washington officials oppose 3-power directorate but concede NATO may need some changes
Name taken by Cardinal Roncalli upon election as Pope
1958Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator[†]
Blažej Baláž is a Slovak contemporary artist. His practise as an artist is usually associated with political art, environmental, activist, mail-art and neo-conceptualism. After 1988 he began working with text as art, neo-conceptual and post-conceptual texts.
1958David Remnick, American journalist and author[†]
David J. Remnick is an American journalist, writer, and editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, and is also the author of Resurrection and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age in 2000. Before joining The New Yorker, Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post. He also has served on the New York Public Library board of trustees and is a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2010, he published his sixth book, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.
1958Danny Vranes, American basketball player[†]
Daniel LaDrew Vranes is an American former professional basketball player.
1958Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1886)[†]
Zoe Byrd Akins was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]