1958 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1958 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Births 3.1 January - March 3.2 April - June 3.3 July - September 3.4 October-December 3.5 Unknown date 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
• Prime Minister - Harold Macmillan, Conservative Party

[edit] Events

• February 6 - Munich air disaster - 21 dead, including 7 players for Manchester United. ^[1]
• February 25 - Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• March 2 - A British team led by Sir Vivian Fuchs completes the first crossing of the Antarctic in Snow-cat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams in 99 days
• 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
• 29 April - The musical My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, opens in London's Drury Lane theatre.
• May 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area. ^[2]
• 7 June - Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet which describes the diagnostic use of ultrasound.^[3]
• 9 June - The Queen officially re-opens Gatwick Airport.
• July 10 - First parking meters installed in Britain
• July 17 - British paratroopers arrive in Jordan; king Hussein has asked help against pressure from Iraq
• 18–26 July - 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Cardiff.
• July 24 - The first life peerage is created in Britain
• July 26 - The Queen gives her son Charles the title of Prince of Wales.
• August 30–September 1 - Riots between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London
• October 4 - BOAC uses new Comet jets to become the first airline to fly jet passenger services across the Atlantic.
• December 5 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Queen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost. ^[4]
• December 5 - The Preston bypass, the United Kingdom's first motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. This stretch is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.

[edit] Unknown dates

• The First Cod War between UK and Iceland.
• BBC Radiophonic Workshop created.
• English biochemist Frederick Sanger wins his first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin" (his second comes in 1980). ^[5]
• German-born British mathematician Klaus Roth wins the Fields Medal for his work on the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem.

[edit] Births

[edit] January - March

• January 24 - Jools Holland, British musician
• 27 January - Alan Milburn, British Labour politician and MP for Darlington
• 29 January - Linda Smith, comedian (died 2006)
• 1 February - Eleanor Laing, British Conservative politician, MP for Epping Forest, and Shadow Minister for Women
• 7 February - Matt Ridley, English science writer
• February 11 - Michael Jackson, British broadcast executive
• 12 February - Steve Grand, English computer scientist
• 20 February - James Wilby, British actor
• March 1 - Nik Kershaw, English singer
• March 3 - Miranda Richardson, English actress
• March 4 - Lennie Lee British artist
• March 5 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (d. 1988)
• March 8 - Gary Numan, British singer
• 13 March - Caryl Phillips, British writer
• 16 March - Chris Mole, British Labour politician and MP for Ipswich
• March 18 - Neil Brand, British writer and composer
• March 21 - Gary Oldman, English actor

[edit] April - June

• 6 April - Jackie Gallagher, English footballer
• April 12 - Will Sergeant, English guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen)
• April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and musician
• 15 April - Abu Hamza al-Masri, Muslim cleric convicted of inciting racial hatred and murder
• 15 April - Sir Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet, British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• April 24 - Brian Paddick, British police commander
• April 25 - Fish, Scottish singer
• 3 May - Sandi Toksvig, Danish-born comedian, author, and radio presenter
• May 4 - Caroline Spelman, British Conservative politician, MP for Meriden, Shadow Secretary of State for Local and Devolved Government Affairs
• 25 May - Paul Weller, English singer-songwriter (The Jam, The Style Council)
• 7 June - Ivan Henderson, British Labour politician and MP for Harwich
• 23 June - John Henry Hayes, British Conservative politician, MP for South Holland and The Deepings, and Chairman of the Cornerstone Group

[edit] July - September

• 6 July - Jennifer Saunders, British comedienne
• 30 July - Kate Bush, British singer and songwriter
• 7 August - Bruce Dickinson, English musician
• 10 August - Rosie Winterton, British Labour politician, MP for Doncaster Central, and member of the Privy Council
• 13 August - Feargal Sharkey, Northern Irish musician, former lead singer of The Undertones.
• 16 August - Madonna, American-born singer, songwriter, and actress
• 29 August - Lenny Henry, British entertainer
• 18 September - Linda Lusardi, British model, actress, and television presenter
• 21 September - Simon Mayo, British radio presenter
• 23 September - Danielle Dax, British musician
• 27 September - Irvine Welsh, novelist

[edit] October-December

• October - Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan
• October 14 - Thomas Dolby, English musician
• October 20 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler
• October 27 - Simon Le Bon, English musician (Duran Duran)
• 26 October - Shaun Woodward, British Labour politician and MP for Bishop Auckland
• November 1 - Mark Austin, English newsreader (ITN)
• 2 November - Mark Phillip Hendrick, British Labour Co-operative politician and MP for Preston
• November 25 - Kim Ashfield, British model
• 2 December - Andrew George, British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for St Ives
• December 6 - Nick Park, English filmmaker and animator

[edit] Unknown date

• Tim Bevan, New Zealand-born film producer (Working Title Films)
• Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director
• Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish film director
• Philip Dunne, British Conservative politician and MP for Ludlow
• Omar Bakri Muhammad, Syrian-born Muslim cleric

[edit] Deaths

• February 6 - Manchester United players in the Munich air disaster:

• Roger Byrne team captain (b. 1929)
• Geoff Bent (b. 1932)
• Eddie Colman (b. 1936)
• Duncan Edwards (b. 1936)
• Mark Jones (b. 1933)
• David Pegg (b. 1935)
• Tommy Taylor (b. 1932)
• Liam Whelan (b. 1935)

• February 13 - Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
• March 26 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• April 16 - Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (b. 1920)
• April 19 - Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874)
• May 3 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• May 19 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 9 June - Robert Donat, English film and stage actor (b. 1905)
• June 13 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
• June 28 - Alfred Noyes, English poet (b. 1880)
• 26 August - Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer (b. 1872)
• 25 September - Henry Arthur Evans, Welsh Conservative politician (b. 1898)
• October 17 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
• October 24 - G. E. Moore, British philosopher, author of Principia Ethica (b. 1873)
• November 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)

[edit] References

• BBC News On This Day for 1958