May 1958

May 1958
Gone Too Far / Will Dockery-Brian Mallard-Jack Snipe


 * May 1
 * Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina. Aad33.jpg
 * May 7 Will Dockery is born in La Grange, Georgia.
 * The Nordic Passport Union comes into force.
 * May 9 – Actor-singer Paul Robeson, whose passport has been reinstated, sings in a sold-out one-man recital at Carnegie Hall. The recital is such a success that Robeson gives another one at Carnegie Hall a few days later; but, after this, Robeson is seldom seen in public in the United States again. His Carnegie Hall concerts are later released on records and on CD. Aad34.jpg
 * May 10 – Interviewed in the Chave d'Ouro café, when asked about his rival António de Oliveira Salazar, Humberto Delgado utters 1 of the most famous comments in Portuguese political history: "Obviamente, demito-o! (Obviously, I'll sack him!)".
 * May 12 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
 * May 13
 * French Algerian protesters seize government offices in Algiers, leading to a military coup.
 * During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
 * May 15 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. Aad35.jpg
 * MGM's Gigi opens in New York City, beginning its run in the U.S. after being shown at the Cannes film festival. The last of the great MGM musicals, it will become a huge critical and box office success and win 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Gigi is Lerner and Loewe's 1st musical written especially for film, and is deliberately written in a style evoking the team's My Fair Lady, which was still playing on Broadway at the time and could not be filmed yet.
 * May 18 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1404.19 mi/h.
 * May 20 – Fulgencio Batista's government launches a counteroffensive against Castro's rebels.
 * May 21 – United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
 * May 23 – Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
 * May 30 – The bodies of unidentified United States soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.