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1930
 
     
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications        
1940  May
 
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A German army races west through northern France, aiming to cut off the Allied troops in Belgium      
1941
 
    
British author Rebecca West publishes an account of Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon       
1944  January 22
 
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In Operation Shingle an Allied force lands at Anzio, on the west coast of Italy behind the German lines       
1945  May 4
 
   
British general Bernard Montgomery receives the surrender of German forces in the north and west of Europe      
1957
 
   
Six founding nations (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany) establish the European Economic Community (EEC)      
1958
 
    
Harold Pinter's first play in London's West End, The Birthday Party, closes in less than a week       
1959
 
    
Harold Pinter's second play in London's West End, The Caretaker, immediately brings him an international reputation       
1967
 
    
English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim       
1970
 
    
Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London