1 January: The first Carrefour opens in France.
- The Nile Economic Community comes into being.
- Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo renames itself into Sony
4 January: Messenger 1 burns up in Earth orbit.
5 January: The Imperial Japanese Navy's Antarctic expedition completes it's latest journey, this time with powered vehicles for the first time. These vehicles bring about construction equipment to build a rudimentary airfield in the South Pole.
18 January: Battle of Port Moresby. Overzealous policing done by ethnic Japanese policemen within the city of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, sparked riots among the native Melanesian population.
28 January: A group of Insulindian businessmen forms the Adi Putro company, a Vehicular design company, specifically made to modify existing trucks and other small public transport to suit Insulindia's needs. It would later become Insulindia's premier Car Company.
1 February: Naziq Al Abid, current President of Syria, announces that the date of the election would be held by the 25th of July, 1960. After an unprecedented effort by her Administration to educate the population on the workings of Democracy, her popularity remains shockingly high, considering her status as an Arab feminist, and it looks like, as regular elections will take place in the next decade, that she will remain as President for quite sometime.
2 February: The word Aerospace is formed, based on the word Aero (Air), and Spacecraft (Space).
5 February: Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected as the New Prime Minister of Egypt, he promises further economic cooperation with 'our Nile region allies and the Co-Prosperity Sphere.'
11 February: The Republic of China projects that this year's economic growth would be a solid 10.5%, with significant investments coming from Japan and Australia. China has been the largest recipient of Japanese investment, and it is showing up in their GDP numbers.
20 February: A test rocket explodes in Tanegashima.
21 February: The
peace symbol was designed by Yasuhitomo Tarada, commissioned by the Campaign of Nuclear Disarmament, protesting Japan's nuclear weapons' expansion programs.
28 February: The campaign for nuclear disarmament was launched in Tokyo, Japan.
8 March: The last British and French Battleships were decommissioned, leaving Japan as the only major naval power operating Battleships.
17 March: Japan launches its first successful satellite, the surveyor 1. The satellite would stay for 2 years until it re-enters Earth orbit.
25 March: Canada's
Avro Arrow takes its first flight. It's long range and high performance ensures orders would come in from the Union of Britain and Poland. Both nations wanting to have a high performance interceptor to serve their needs.
26 March: The Sud Aviation
Mirage 3 was first unveiled to the Public, a high performance light fighter, the Mirage 3 is promised to become the Commune of France's premier fighter jet, with plans for a Mirage 4 Interceptor fighter well underway.
1 April: Unemployment in America reaches 20%, marking the height of the 1958 recession in America, after years of stable economic growth,
multiple pressures such as slowing car sales, more expensive loans for property, and lack of any major trade partners ended the so called 'Huey Long Boom.'
6 April: The François-Furukawa agreement, an agreement in which Japan and France would send University Students to their respective countries for cultural, scientific, and educational exchanges, was formalized.
7 April: The Second Sphere Expo, now based on a new building called the Tokyo Big Sight, was opened for the general public. It was a smashing hit.
21 April:
United Airlines flight 736 collides mid flight with a US Air Force F-105 Jet Fighter in Nevada, all 49 persons in both planes are killed.
22 April: Saturday Afternoon at Home, one of the most famous British Comedy Shows, airs on the Union of Britain for the first time.
1 May: Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina.
12 May: The
Pacific Air Defense Command, a formal agreement signed by Japan, the Philippines, and East Russia, comes into force.
15 May: The Union of Britain launches its first ever satellite, the Revolution 1.
22 May: President Huey Long makes it's first televised address on television, making the first American President to ever do so.
30 May: Unidentified bodies of veterans from all sides of the 2nd American Civil War is buried at Arlington.
1 June: 'A dishonorable practice', an opinion article at the New York Times, written by a 'Mister Anonymous', was published, it widely condemned the institution of segregation and discrimination of African Americans in the Union State, decades later. It would be later revealed that the anonymous writer is in fact, John F Kennedy himself
10 June: Pizza Hut was founded in Wichita, Kansas
13 June: After 5 years of governance, Imre Nagy was reelected as the leader of the Hungarian Commune.
20 June: The Iron Barque Omega of Callao, Peru-Bolivian Confederation, sinks, carrying guano, it is the last full rigged ship trading on sail.
1 July: The Imperial Japanese Navy has finally decided on what supercarrier design they should make.
Proposal C, perhaps the 'smallest' proposal in terms of tonnage and size, is nonetheless a quantum leap in performance. Far more capable than the current Kaga class, construction will begin this year, with the first seaworthiness trials being conducted in 1960.
2 July: The Imperial Japanese Navy also sets out a plan to completely overhaul it's submarine fleet, already in the process of retiring it's oldest subs. In addition to the new I-500, and the Kaidai IV, the IJN will also make a new submarine, the Asashio class, details will be announced in 1959.
5 July: The proposals for the G12N Shouri project was received, and it appears that the Nakajima proposal won out. The IJAF is planning roughly 300 planes to be delivered by 1965.
12 July: The Beatles, at that time known as The Quarrymen, paid 17 shillings and 6 pence for their first recording session
15 July: V Bombers, the Vulcan, Valiant and Victor Strategic bombers were unveiled to the public, after highly intense discussions between the various defense contractor unions on whether which one should make what, a general agreement was signed in 1957, and the three 'V Bombers', named after their wing designs reminiscent of a V, was unveiled at the Farnborough Air Show, Union of Britain.
1 August: The Japanese Aerospace Agency, or JASA, was founded. It would later be renamed as JAXA.
3 August: The I-500 became the first nuclear powered submarine to cross the North Pole underwater.
5 August: With assistance from Japan and Korea, China begins a decades long campaign to eradicate the opium addiction still plaguing the country.
10 August: The Mitsubishi
Skyjet 100, owned by Japan Airlines, flew from Tokyo to Ekaterinburg and back, the first nonstop transcontinental flight of the airplane.
26 August: Operation Sea-Bell, Japan begins nuclear testing in the Sea of Japan/ East Sea.
1 September: The First Cod war between the UOB and Ireland begins.
13 September: A Sony electrical engineer invents the world's first Microchip.
14 September: the Bavarian commune becomes the first Germanic Country to launch a rocket into the upper atmosphere.
27 September:
Typhoon Ida hits Japan, killing at least 1,269 people.
2 October: BOAC opens it's new route from London to Montreal in a De Havilland Comet, making it the first airline to offer nonstop transatlantic service.
11 October: Adventurer 1, the first ever Japanese space probe was successfully launched by Japan.
18 October: The first ever video game, Tennis for two, was introduced by William Higinbotnam, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory's Visitor's day exhibit, Union State of America.
21 October: The Equality act passes both the House of Representatives and House of Peers in Japan, formally making it possible for women to run for office in both legislative branches.
3 November: UNESCO was formed by a resolution in the UN General Assembly, they designate the Eiffel Tower, the Big Ben, and Himeji Castle as World Heritage sites as their first act.
14 November: More clashes between the Toubou Commune and Sudan. Leading to casualties on both sides, leaders at various CPS nations are concerned that things are going to heat up even more.
1 December:
Yoshinoya, the famous Japanese fast food chain, expands overseas for the first time. Opening it's first store in Korea.
9 December: Retired soldier and veteran of the 2nd American Civil War, Robert W Welch Jr, migrated to Japan after seeing a poster promoting the country in the Japanese Embassy at Washington DC. He would later be one of Japan's leading political figures.
10 December: GoldStar, a predecessor to LG, was founded in Seoul, Korea.
16 December: A fire broke out at a department store in Bogota, Colombia, killing 84 people.
18 December: Japan launches its first ever communications satellite, the Karafuto 1.
31 December: The amount of people who travelled by air now exceeds the amount who travels by sea.