Events in the year 1958 in Kerala.
Incumbents[edit | edit source]
Chief Justice of Kerala High Court
- Justice K.T. Koshy
Events[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
Births[edit | edit source]
- 28 April - Jose Chacko Periappuram cardiac surgeon who performed first Heart transplantation in state.
- 26 June - Suresh Gopi - actor and politician.
Deaths[edit | edit source]
- 13 March - Vallathol Narayana Menon - Poet (b.1878)
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "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. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-03-24.
- ↑ Team, DNA Web. "Kerala's 'first legislator' Rosamma Punnoose passes away". DNA India. Retrieved 2026-03-24.
- ↑ "From 50 Years Ago: Kerela in Turmoil". Economic and Political Weekly. 43 (2008). 2008-08-02.
- ↑ M.K, Nidheesh (2017-04-13). "Kerala celebrates 60th anniversary of state's first govt under EMS Namboodiripad". mint. 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.