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| 1958 |
| | | Egypt and Syria merge as the United Arab Republic (but disengage three years later) | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Eight members of the Manchester United football team die in an air crash when flying back to England from Belgrade via Munich | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The Venezuelan dictator Marcos Jiménez escapes to the USA with an estimated fortune of $200 million | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Lynn Seymour creates the first of many roles for MacMillan, dancing the Adolescent in The Burrow | |
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| 1958 |
| | | A Commonwealth team, led by Vivian Fuchs, completes the first overland crossing of Antarctica | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Irish dramatist Brendan Behan's play The Hostage is produced in Dublin | |
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| 1958 |
| | | In The Affluent Society US economist John Kenneth Galbraith criticizes wasteful modern consumerism | |
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| 1958 |
| | | French Algerians seize government buildings in Algiers, in a campaign to ensure that Algerian remains French | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Chicken Soup with Barley begins a trilogy by English playwright Arnold Wesker | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The Fire Raisers, by Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, is performed in Zürich | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The national assembly in Paris grants de Gaulle six months of unrestricted power as president – his condition for returning to government | |
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| 1958 |
| | | On his second day in power, de Gaulle visits Algiers to confront the settlers with an unwelcome message | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The new hard-line Hungarian government headed by János Kádár tries and executes Imre Nagy | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Paul Newman stars in the film version of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Yasser Arafat and others in Kuwait found Al-Fatah, a secret organization advocating armed resistance against Israel | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The king of Iraq, Faisal II, is murdered in Baghdad in a coup led by Abdul Karim Qassim | |
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| 1958 |
| | | John Cranko's version of Romeo and Juliet, to Prokofiev's score, is premiered by La Scala Ballet in Venice | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Truman Capote publishes a short novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, with a bewitching central character, Holly Golightly | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Irish writer Brendan Behan's autobiographical Borstal Boy is published | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Polish film director Andrzej Wajda makes Ashes and Diamonds, starring the Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The baseball teams Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California | |
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| 1958 |
| | | English author Alan Sillitoe publishes his first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | |
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| 1958 |
| | | 18-year-old British pop singer Cliff Richard has his first hit single with Move It | |
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| 1958 |
| | | French citizens approve the new constitution proposed by de Gaulle, thus introducing the Fifth Republic | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is launched in Britain with Bertrand Russell as president | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Nationalist Kurds in the north of Iraq launch a guerrilla war against the new government in Baghdad | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Harold Pinter's first play in London's West End, The Birthday Party, closes in less than a week | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The colony of French Guinea opts for immediate independence as the republic of Guinea, breaking its links with France | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Mao Zedong imposes on China a Great Leap Forward, an attempt at industrialization that results in economic chaos and widespread famine | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Sekou Touré, the first president of Guinea, settles in for twenty-six years of dictatorial rule | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Hendrik Verwoerd become prime minister of South Africa on the death of J.G. Strijdom | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Ayub Khan, commander-in-chief of the Pakistani army, replaces Iskander Mirza as president in a bloodless coup | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Angelo Roncalli is elected pope and takes the name John XXIII | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete a skyscraper for Seagram in New York | |
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