Date in year · 1958 · The 1950s
March 26, 1958
On March 26, 1958, the United States Army launches Explorer 3. Jean-Marc Pilorget, Gabi Delgado-López, Malcolm Marshall would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · March 26, 1958
The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
Explorer 3 was an American artificial satellite launched into medium Earth orbit in 1958. S. satellite Explorer 1 in its design and mission.
Around 1958
The year in brief
1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1958th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 958th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1950s decade.
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On March 26, 1958
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1958 The United States Army launches Explorer 3. Satellite launched by the United States (1958)
Explorer 3 was an American artificial satellite launched into medium Earth orbit in 1958. S. satellite Explorer 1 in its design and mission.
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1958 The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. Political party in the French African colonies
The African Regroupment Party was a political party in the French African colonies.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1958
- April 14 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
- April 21 United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
- April 26 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- April 4 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
- April 5 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada, is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
- April 6 Capital Airlines Flight 67 crashes in Tittabawassee Township, Michigan, near Freeland Tri-City Airport, killing 47.
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