1958 in Kerala

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.2025-01-28 Mysterious deaths in J&K trigger memories of Kerala's 1958 food poisoning tragedy https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/jammu-kashmir-mysterious-deaths-mirror-kerala-food-poisoning-incident-in-1958-organophosphate-poison-89effdfd 2026-03-24 @mathrubhumi enhttps://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.2013-12-29 Rosamma Punnoose passes away in Oman https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/Rosamma-Punnoose-passes-away-in-Oman/articleshow/28095001.cms 2026-03-24 The Times of India 0971-8257Team DNA Web Kerala's 'first legislator' Rosamma Punnoose passes away https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-kerala-s-first-legislator-rosamma-punnoose-passes-away-1941827 2026-03-24 DNA India en 26 July - Two Revolutionary Socialist Party affiliated cashew workers killed in police firing at Chandanathope.2008-08-02 From 50 Years Ago: Kerela in Turmoil. https://www.epw.in/journal/2008/31/50-years-ago/50-years-ago-kerela-turmoil.html Economic and Political Weekly en 43 2008 20 October - Two tea plantation workers including a pregnant women killed in police firing at Munnar.M.K Nidheesh 2017-04-13 Kerala celebrates 60th anniversary of state's first govt under EMS Namboodiripad https://www.livemint.com/Politics/l4VxIZwzKyIJUb82lJajYJ/Kerala-celebrates-60th-anniversary-of-states-first-govt-und.html 2026-03-24 mint en Dates unknown Liberation Struggle (Kerala)The Dismissal Of The First Elected Communist Government In Kerala: An Abuse Of Article 356 Of The Constitution - The Polis Project https://thepolisproject.com/read/the-dismissal-of-the-first-elected-communist-government-in-kerala-an-abuse-of-article-356-of-the-constitution/ 2026-03-24 thepolisproject.com en-GB 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 Category:1950 in India Category:Years in Kerala Category:1950s in Kerala