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And also in 1958:

* 111 people take part in the first U.S. domestic passenger jet trip, consisting of a National 707 flight from New York City to Miami.
* Johnny Hart's prehistoric comic strip "B.C." first sees print.
* Jack Tramiel moves his Commodore Portable Typewriter company from the Bronx to Toronto and renames it Commodore Business Machines. It is a typewriter sales and repair shop.
* Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book "Lolita" is published.
* The US Army launches the first American earth satellite Explorer I from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It contains Texas Instruments transistors, along with an experiement by James Van Allen which discovers Earth's radiation belt.
* Videotape is invented the previous year (1957) by Ampex in Sunnyvale, California.
* Arnold Palmer wins his first Masters tournament.
* Coach George "Punch" Imlach takes the helm of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
* The first public demonstration against nuclear weapons takes place in Aldermaston, England.