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Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1958;_Stamp_Act
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| January 28, 1958 |
Georgia Museum of Art opens following a complete renovation and remodeling. |
| February 5, 1958 |
An unarmed hydrogen bomb is jettisoned from a B-47 flying over Tybee Roads (the shipping lanes off Tybee Island) into Wassaw Sound after a mid-air accident
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Nuclear warhead near Savannah |
| February 21, 1958 |
Gov. Marvin Griffin signs a bill creating the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, superceding the old Authority. |
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Stone Mountain |
| March 9, 1958 |
Duluth telephone exchange becomes GReenleaf-6.
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| March 20, 1958 |
Actress Holly Hunter born, Conyers
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Holly Hunter |
| March 22, 1958 |
Hank Williams, Jr. makes his stage debut in Swainsboro
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| April 6, 1958 |
Arnold Palmer wins the Masters Tournement in Augusta, Georgia. It is his first "major" tournement win.
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Masters Tournament |
| April 10, 1958 |
Following the death of Chuck Willis earlier in the day, American Bandstand Emcee Dick Clark dedicates the show the R&B singer
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Chuck Willis |
| April 10, 1958 |
R&B singer Chuck Willis died in Atlanta, Georgia from peritonitis. He was barely 30 years old.
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Chuck Willis |
| April 21, 1958 |
Up to 2 inches of hail fell on Ben Hill and Sumter Counties. There was no reported damage.
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| May 17, 1958 |
Good Golly, Miss Molly by "Little Richard" Penniman is released.
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| May 22, 1958 |
Construction begins on the world's first merchant ship with nuclear power, The Savannah
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| May 27, 1958 |
Wayne Williams is born in Atlanta
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| June 3, 1958 |
Poet Byron Herbert Reece, ill and financially hurting, commits suicide
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| June 25, 1958 |
Margie Dell Pitts and Eleanor Joyce Chapman join the National Guard in Griffin, the first women to do so.
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| July 18, 1958 |
First National Bank and Trust of Asheville and Union National Bank of Charlotte creates First Union Bank
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| August 7, 1958 |
Dahlonega and Lumpkin County present a gift of gold for the state capitol - the gold leaf for the top of the capitol dome arrives via an 1830's wagon train
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Dahlonega, Georgia |
| August 8, 1958 |
Deborah Norville born, Dalton, Georgia
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| September 6, 1958 |
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy born, Atlanta
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| September 10, 1958 |
Ernest Vandiver wins the Democratic gubernatorial primary, assuring his victory in the general election
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
| September 19, 1958 |
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, Inc. gives Stone Mountain to the state of Georgia
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Stone Mountain |
| September 20, 1958 |
Martin Luther King is stabbed by a mentally deranged woman from Adrian, Georgia, while on a book tour in New York City.
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Martin Luther King
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| October 1, 1958 |
James Brown first #1 hit, Try Me, is released
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James Brown |
| October 12, 1958 |
The Reform Jewish Temple in Atlanta is destroyed, dynamited by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ku Klux Klan in Georgia |
| October 17, 1958 |
Country music singer and songwriter Alan Jackson born, Newnan
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| December 15, 1958 |
Atlanta City Council approves the largest single expenditure in its history, almost 10 million dollars for a new airport. It is completed in 1961
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