Text on "The Year 1958 in Review" Coffee Gift Mug

European Community created. An economic and political organization formed from the consolidation of three western European treaty organizations, the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community. - Eisenhower orders US Marines into Lebanon. - The United States launches its first satellite and first of the Explorer series aboard a Jupiter C rocket. - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. - Castro's revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana. - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. - Kaiser Aluminum introduces the first aluminum can. - Stereo records are introduced commercially; in the system that becomes the standard, each sound channel is engraved on one side of a single groove. - Bifocal contact lenses are introduced. - Pan Am introduced 707 trans-Atlantic jet service. - John XXIII is elected Pope. - Books: Tennessee Williams: Suddenly Last Summer. - Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's. - William Faulkner: New Orleans Sketches. - Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita. - Leon Uris: Exodus. - Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition. - John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society. - Films: The Bridge on the River Kwai - Peyton Place - Sayonara - No Time for Sergeants - The Vikings - The Search for Paradise - South Pacific - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. - Songs:"At the Hop" Danny and the Juniors - "Don't I Beg of You" Elvis Presley - "Tequila" .The Champs - "Twilight Time" ... The Platters. Television Shows: Gunsmoke - Wagon Train - Have Gun Will Travel. - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship. - Van Cliburn wins the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in the USSR