Events in the year 1958 in Kerala.
Incumbents Governor of Kerala -
Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
Chief minister of Kerala –
E. M. S. Namboodiripad Chief Justice of Kerala High Court
Justice K.T. Koshy
Events
29 April - Food poisoning from flour containing Parathion claimed 108 lives in Kerala. The gravest incident occurred at a Lok Sahayak Sena camp in Sasthamkotta where 74 got killed.https://eparlib.sansad.in/bitstream/123456789/901473/1/02_IV_30-04-1958_p52_p53_PII.pdf#:~:text=Signs%20of%20food%20poisoning%20appeared%20among%20the,those%20who%20have%20ded%20are%20military%20personnel. 19 May - Rosamma Punnoose won the first ever byelection to state assembly from Devikulam Assembly constituency. She who won the constituency was removed by court intervention which led to byelection. 26 July - Two Revolutionary Socialist Party affiliated cashew workers killed in police firing at Chandanathope. 20 October - Two tea plantation workers including a pregnant women killed in police firing at Munnar.
Dates unknown
Liberation Struggle (Kerala)
Births
28 April - Jose Chacko Periappuram cardiac surgeon who performed first Heart transplantation in state. 26 June - Suresh Gopi - actor and politician.
Deaths
13 March - Vallathol Narayana Menon - Poet (b.1878)
See also
History of Kerala 1958 in India
References