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1958 in Luxembourg

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January – March

  • 20 January – Michel Rasquin resigns from the government to become Luxembourg's member of the inaugural European Commission, with responsibility for Transport.
  • 1 February – Joseph Frieden replaces Joseph Bech as Prime Minister. He forms a new government, renewing the Christian Social People's Party's coalition with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party.
  • 3 February – Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands sign a treaty creating the Benelux Economic Union.
  • 16 March – Representing Luxembourg, Solange Berry finishes ninth (and joint-last) in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958 with the song Un grand amour.
  • April – June

  • 27 April – Luxembourg's European Commissioner, Michel Rasquin, dies.
  • 18 June – Lambert Schaus is appointed to the European Commission, with responsibility for Transport, replacing Michel Rasquin, who died in April.
  • July – September

  • 10 July – Luxembourg signs a convention with the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate on the construction of the Vianden Pumped Storage Plant.
  • 19 July – Charly Gaul wins the 1958 Tour de France.
  • 12 August – Louis Hencks is appointed to the Council of State, replacing Albert Wagner, who resigned in July.
  • October – December

  • 31 December – Alfred Loesch resigns from the Council of State.
  • Births

  • 28 January – Jay Schiltz, journalist
  • 16 March – Marco Pütz, musician
  • 17 May – Pol Schmoetten, playwright
  • 2 June – Camille Gira, politician
  • 18 August – Anita, Princess of Hohenberg
  • 22 August – Sylvie Andrich-Duval, politician
  • 28 September – François Biltgen, politician
  • 3 October – Alex Bodry, politician
  • Deaths

  • 27 April – Michel Rasquin, politician and European Commissioner
  • 7 August – Camille Wampach, historian
  • 27 December - Batty Fischer, amateur photographer
  • References

    1958 in Luxembourg Wikipedia