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Photo taken in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. Sherlock77 (James) has identified this car as a Mercedes-Benz 190SL
April 1958

* April 3 – Castro’s revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana
* April 4-April 7 – The first protest march for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from Hyde Park, London to Aldermarston, Berkshire. Demonstrators demand ban of nuclear weapons
* April 4 – The daughter of the actress Lana Turner stabs her mother’s gangster lover to death (eventually ruled self-defense).
* April 6 – Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari divorces the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after she is unable to produce any children.
* April 17 – King Baudouin of Belgium officially opens the World Fair in Brussels, also known as Expo ‘58.

unknown dates 1958

* The First Cod War between UK and Iceland
* BBC Radiophonic Workshop created
* During the International Geophysical Year, Earth’s magnetosphere is discovered
* The United States conducts Operation Argus during August and September
* Foundation of Amirkabir University of Technology
* Based on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-war baby boom ended in the United States as an eleven-year decline in the birth rate began – the longest on record in that country
* Last legal female circumcision in the United States.
* Denatonium, the bitterest substance known is discovered. It is used as an aversive agent in products such as bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them.
* Van Cliburn wins the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in the USSR, breaking cold war tensions.
* The Jim Henson Company founded
* The Japanese 10 yen coin ceased having serrated edges after a five year period beginning in 1953. All 10 yen coins since and before had smooth edges.

Famous Birthdays
March-April 1958

* March 1 – Nik Kershaw, English singer
* March 3 – Miranda Richardson, English actress
* March 4 – Patricia Heaton, American actress
* March 4 – Lennie Lee British artist
* March 5 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (d. 1988)
* March 8 – Gary Numan, British singer
* March 10 – Steve Howe, baseball player (d. 2006)
* March 10 – Sharon Stone, American actress
* March 14 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
* March 18 – Kayo Hatta, American film director (d. 2005)
* March 20 – Holly Hunter, American actress
* March 21 – Gary Oldman, English actor
* April 1 – D. Boon, American singer and guiatrist (d. 1985)
* April 3 – Alec Baldwin, American actor
* April 4 – Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990)
* April 10 – Yefim Bronfman, Russian-born pianist
* April 10 – Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, American musician and record producer
* April 12 – Will Sergeant, English guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen)
* April 15 – Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* April 15 – Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and musician
* April 21 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
* April 22 – Ken Olandt, American actor
* April 24 – Brian Paddick, British police commander
* April 25 – Fish, Scottish singer
* April 28 – Hal Sutton, American golfer
* April 29 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress

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