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1958
 
    
Irish writer Brendan Behan's autobiographical Borstal Boy is published       
1958
 
    
Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London       
1958
 
     
Polish film director Andrzej Wajda makes Ashes and Diamonds, starring the Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski        
1958
 
    
The baseball teams Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California       
1958
 
    
English author Alan Sillitoe publishes his first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning       
1958
 
    
18-year-old British pop singer Cliff Richard has his first hit single with Move It       
1958
 
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French citizens approve the new constitution proposed by de Gaulle, thus introducing the Fifth Republic        
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