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20 February - The government announces plans to close the 300-year-old docklands at the Isle of Sheppey, which would result in more than 2,500 workers losing their jobs.[3]
21 February - Duncan Edwards dies in the early hours of morning at Munich's Recht Der Isaar Hospital, 15 days after suffering multiple injuries in the Munich air disaster.
2 March - A British team led by Sir Vivian Fuchs completes the first crossing of the Antarctic in Snow-cat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams in 99 days.[2]
The Life Peerages Act 1958 receives Royal Assent; the Act allows the creation of life peers who can sit in the House of Lords. As life peerages could be bestowed on women, this Act allowed for women to sit in the House of Lords for the first time.[4]
10 December - English biochemist Frederick Sanger wins his first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin" (his second comes in 1980).[9]