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Events in the year '''1958''' in '''Kerala'''.

== Incumbents ==
[[List of governors of Kerala|'''Governor of Kerala''']] -

* [[Burgula Ramakrishna Rao]]

[[List of chief ministers of Kerala|'''Chief minister of Kerala''']] –

* [[E. M. S. Namboodiripad]]
[[Kerala High Court|'''Chief Justice of Kerala High Court''']]

* Justice K.T. Koshy

== Events ==

* 29 April - [[Food poison|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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-28 |title=Mysterious deaths in J&K trigger memories of Kerala's 1958 food poisoning tragedy |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/jammu-kashmir-mysterious-deaths-mirror-kerala-food-poisoning-incident-in-1958-organophosphate-poison-89effdfd |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=@mathrubhumi |language=en}}</ref><ref>[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. 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.]</ref>
* 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-12-29 |title=Rosamma Punnoose passes away in Oman |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/Rosamma-Punnoose-passes-away-in-Oman/articleshow/28095001.cms |access-date=2026-03-24 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=DNA Web |title=Kerala's 'first legislator' Rosamma Punnoose passes away |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-kerala-s-first-legislator-rosamma-punnoose-passes-away-1941827 |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=DNA India |language=en}}</ref>
* 26 July - Two [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]] affiliated cashew workers killed in police firing at [[Chandanathope]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2008-08-02 |title=From 50 Years Ago: Kerela in Turmoil. |url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2008/31/50-years-ago/50-years-ago-kerela-turmoil.html |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |language=en |volume=43 |issue=2008}}</ref>
* 20 October - Two tea plantation workers including a pregnant women killed in police firing at [[Munnar]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=M.K |first=Nidheesh |date=2017-04-13 |title=Kerala celebrates 60th anniversary of state's first govt under EMS Namboodiripad |url=https://www.livemint.com/Politics/l4VxIZwzKyIJUb82lJajYJ/Kerala-celebrates-60th-anniversary-of-states-first-govt-und.html |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=mint |language=en}}</ref>

=== Dates unknown ===

* [[Liberation Struggle (Kerala)]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Dismissal Of The First Elected Communist Government In Kerala: An Abuse Of Article 356 Of The Constitution - The Polis Project |url=https://thepolisproject.com/read/the-dismissal-of-the-first-elected-communist-government-in-kerala-an-abuse-of-article-356-of-the-constitution/ |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=thepolisproject.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== 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 ==
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[[Category:1950 in India]]
[[Category:Years in Kerala]]
[[Category:1950s in Kerala]]

1958 in Kerala - Revision history

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