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1958
 
    
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is launched in Britain with Bertrand Russell as president       
1958
 
  
Nationalist Kurds in the north of Iraq launch a guerrilla war against the new government in Baghdad     
1958
 
    
Harold Pinter's first play in London's West End, The Birthday Party, closes in less than a week       
1958
 
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The colony of French Guinea opts for immediate independence as the republic of Guinea, breaking its links with France     
1958
 
    
Mao Zedong imposes on China a Great Leap Forward, an attempt at industrialization that results in economic chaos and widespread famine       
1958
 
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Sekou Touré, the first president of Guinea, settles in for twenty-six years of dictatorial rule      
1958
 
    
Hendrik Verwoerd become prime minister of South Africa on the death of J.G. Strijdom       
1958
 
    
Ayub Khan, commander-in-chief of the Pakistani army, replaces Iskander Mirza as president in a bloodless coup       
1958
 
   
Angelo Roncalli is elected pope and takes the name John XXIII      
1958
 
     
Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete a skyscraper for Seagram in New York