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September 1958
The following events occurred in September 1958: September 1, 1958 (Monday) *The first Cod War began between the United Kingdom and Iceland as Iceland's new fishing limits went into effect. Eleven British fishing trawlers ignored the ban, carrying out their operations within of Iceland, the former limit, and four Royal Navy frigates entered the area to prevent the seizure of the British fishing boats by the ''Icelandic Coast Guard, Gæslan'', Iceland's Coast Guard. The first confrontation came when the anti-submarine warship HMS Palliser (F94), HMS ''Palliser'' sailed, with guns manned, in front of an Icelandic guard ship as it was approaching British fishermen. September 2, 1958 (Tuesday) *All 11 people on a U.S. Air Force C-130 plane were killed after the aircraft strayed across the border from Turkey and crashed in the Soviet Union, impacting northwest of Yerevan, capital of the Armenian SSR. The Soviet Foreign Ministry acknowledged on September 12 that the plane "fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Gaulle (cropped)
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the May 1958 crisis in France, Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement when appointed Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic after approval by 1958 French constitutional referendum, referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969. Born in Lille, he was a decorated officer of World War I, wounded several times and taken prisoner of war (POW) by the Germans. During the interwar period, he advocated mobile armoured divisions. During the German invasion of May 1940, he led an armoured divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
