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| 1958 |
| | Harold Macmillan's chancellor, Peter Thoneycroft, and his entire treasury team resign when he overrules them on economic policy | |
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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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