News from 1958
Our Lady of Angels School in Chicago, IL, goes up in flames trapping students and teachers leaving 90 students and 5 nuns dead
Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier when Bulganin resigns
General Charles deGaulle becomes French Premier
The first telephone modem is introduced
Gordon Gould invents the LASER
Jack Kilby and Robert Nyoce invent the integrated circuit
Explorer I (the first US Earth satellite) goes into orbit and sends back signals about the Van Allen Belt
NY Yankees defeat Milwaukee Braves to take the World Series
Bobby Fischer becomes the youngest chess champion in history
