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Events in the year 1958 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

  • President of India – Rajendra Prasad
  • Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  • Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das

Governors

  • Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
  • Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
  • Bihar – Zakir Hussain
  • Bombay – Sri Prakasa
  • Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh
  • Mysore – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
  • Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
  • Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
  • Orissa – Bhim Sen Sachar
  • Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (until 15 September), Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (starting 15 September)
  • Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
  • Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
  • West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

  • National income - 152,835 million
  • 1 January - DRDO was established
  • 18 February – Finance minister of India T. T. Krishnamachari resigns following M. C. Chagla Commission report on Haridas Mundhra LIC scandal.
  • 28 February – Jawaharlal Nehru presents Union budget of India as Finance Minister.
  • 26 March - Mother India becomes the first ever Cinema of India to get nominated in the Academy Awards.
  • 29 April - Food poisoning caused by leakage of Folidol during transportation kills 74 in a Lok Sahayak Sena camp at Sasthamkotta, Kerala.
  • 18 to 20 May – The 16th Session of Indian Labour Congress was held at New Delhi.
  • Vimochana Samaram against First Namboodiripad ministry in Kerala
  • Unknown date &ndash; Reliance Industries was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in Bombay (present day in Mumbai), as predecessor name was Reliance Commercial Corporation.

Law

  • 22 May – Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Ordinance came into force
  • 11 September – The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 is passed by the Parliament.
  • 1 October – The Standards of Weights and Measures Act took effect.

Sport

  • Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.
  • Milkha Singh (field athletics player) had won the gold medal

Births

  • 5 March – Nassar, actor, producer, writer, director, lyricist and singer.
  • 29 April – Saumen Guha, political activist, human rights campaigner and author.
  • 30 May K. S. Ravikumar, film director and actor.
  • 15 August Raj Kapoor (Tamil director), film director and actor.
  • 16 August – R. R. Patil, politician (died 2015)
  • 19 September – Lucky Ali, singer, composer and actor
  • 2 December Lal (actor), actor, director, screenwriter, producer and distributor.
  • 17 December Jayasudha, actress.

See also

  • List of Bollywood films of 1958

References