Editing We Didn't Start the Fire (section)

==== 1958 ====
*'''[[Lebanon]]''' is engulfed in a [[1958 Lebanon crisis|political and religious crisis]] that eventually involves U.S. intervention.
*'''[[Charles de Gaulle]]''' is [[1958 French presidential election|elected]] first president of the [[French Fifth Republic]] following the [[May 1958 crisis in France|Algerian Crisis]].
* '''[[California]] [[baseball]]''' begins as the [[History of the Brooklyn Dodgers|Brooklyn Dodgers]] and [[History of the New York Giants (baseball)|New York Giants]] move, respectively, to [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Los Angeles]] and [[San Francisco Giants|San Francisco]].
* '''Starkweather homicide''': [[Charles Starkweather]] killed eleven people, mostly in [[Lincoln, Nebraska]].
* [[Thalidomide scandal|'''Thalidomide''' babies]]: Many pregnant women taking the drug [[Thalidomide]] had '''children''' born with congenital [[birth defects]].