Events of 1958 (the year of Jim's birth)

• NASA North American Space Agency is formed


• 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.


• Munich air disaster - 21 dead, including 7 Manchester United Players


• Toyota and Datsun Cars go on sale in The US


• Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union


• US Unemployment reaches 5.2 million
  
  
• Nelson Rockefella Elected Governor of New York


• US passenger jet flights start with a National Airlines Boeing 707


• The first Trans Atlantic passenger jetliner service begins with flights between London and New York on the new Comet Jet


• The Great Chinese Famine begins in 1958 and ending in 1961 causing the death of nearly 30 million through a combination of natural disasters and poor planning.


• Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army.
  
  
• Brazil wins the 1958 World Cup in Sweden