Editing 1958

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== Events ==
* January 18 - The Battle of Hayes Pond: a group of over 500 armed Lumbee Native Americans show up at a [[Ku Klux Klan]] rally, resulting in several Klansmen being injured by gunfire. No fatalities occur.
* January 23 - [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]] is overthrown as President of Venezuela by a collective of Army officers who wish to restore democracy in the country.
* February 22 - Egypt and Syria join together to form the '''United Arab Republic'''. [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] is named president.
* May - [[Mao Zedong]] initiates the Great Leap Forward.
* August 7 - End of [[La Violencia]].
* September 2 - [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] is elected Prime Minister of South Africa.
* October 2 - [[Ahmed Sékou Touré]] is named the first President of Guinea.
* October 27 - [[Ayub Khan]] seizes power in Pakistan via a successful ''coup d'état''.
* December 28 - Beginning of the Battle of Santa Clara.
* Unknown - The [[National States' Rights Party]] is founded.
* Unknown - [[J.B Stoner]] bombs the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. No one is injured in the attack.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 9 - [[Mehmet Ali Ağca]]
* January 19 - [[Altemio Sanchez]]
* March 29 - [[Victor Salva]]
* April 11 - [[Brynn Hartman]]
* April 15 - [[Abu Hamza al-Masri]]
* April 16 - [[Robert Lewis Dear]]
* May 27 - [[Wayne Williams]]
* August 15 - [[Maria Kisito and Gertrude Mukangango|Gertrude Mukangango]]
* August 26 - [[Billy Ray Irick]]
* September 19 - [[John Couey]]
* November 22 - [[Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor]]
* November 27 - [[Georges Rutaganda]]

=== Victim births ===
* March 18 - Mbaye Diagne
* July 4 - Nancy Wilcox
* August 26 - Fredrick List
* August 29 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Jackson Michael Jackson]
* September 13 - Terri Brooks
* October 13 - Jamal Khashoggi

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* June 16 - [[Imre Nagy]]
* July 11 - [[Peter Manuel]]
* August 24 - [[Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom]]
* December 17 - [[Pierre-Antoine Cousteau]]
=== Victim deaths ===