Template:Year in Kerala Template:Dynamic list Events in the year 1958 in Kerala.
Incumbents
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.[1][2]
- 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.[3][4]
- 26 July - Two Revolutionary Socialist Party affiliated cashew workers killed in police firing at Chandanathope.[5]
- 20 October - Two tea plantation workers including a pregnant women killed in police firing at Munnar.[6]
Dates unknown
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
References
- ↑ Mysterious deaths in J&K trigger memories of Kerala's 1958 food poisoning tragedy. @mathrubhumi(2025-01-28). Retrieved 2026-03-24.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Rosamma Punnoose passes away in Oman. The Times of India(2013-12-29). Retrieved 2026-03-24.
- ↑ Kerala's 'first legislator' Rosamma Punnoose passes away, Team, DNA Web. DNA India. Retrieved 2026-03-24.
- ↑ From 50 Years Ago: Kerela in Turmoil.. Economic and Political Weekly({Template:Date).
- ↑ Kerala celebrates 60th anniversary of state's first govt under EMS Namboodiripad, M.K, Nidheesh. mint(2017-04-13). Retrieved 2026-03-24.
- ↑ The Dismissal Of The First Elected Communist Government In Kerala: An Abuse Of Article 356 Of The Constitution - The Polis Project. thepolisproject.com. Retrieved 2026-03-24.