Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1958. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg & the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Rome. Heralding, the birth of the EEC.

February: A Munich plane crash claims 23 lives. Onboard are the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the 'Busby Babes'.

March: Vanguard 1, the first solar powered satellite is launched. It functioned until 1964 & is the oldest manmade satellite still orbiting.

April: Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament march 52 miles to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston.

May: Bodies of unidentified soldiers killed during World War II & the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

June: Due to a crisis in the Fourth Republic, Charles de Gaulle is called out of retirement to lead France for 6 months.

July: The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) replaces the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).

August: Madonna Louise Ciccone is born. Madonna, will become the best-selling female recording artist of all time.

September: Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working microchip, it will revolutionize the world of electronics.

October: At the age of 77 Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected the 261st pope, succeeding Pope Pius XII.

November: A missile, part of the Atlas program, becomes the first InterContinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) to fly to a full range.

December: Rebel troops under Che Guevara begin invasion of Santa Clara, Cuba. Two days later Batista resigns & flees the country.