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| 1957 |
| | | Six founding nations (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany) establish the European Economic Community (EEC) | |
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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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| 1959 |
| | | Harold Pinter's second play in London's West End, The Caretaker, immediately brings him an international reputation | |
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| 1967 |
| | | English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn is deported from the USSR to West Germany for publishing The Gulag Archipelago | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off opens in London's West end | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The Oslo Accords, brokered by the Norwegian government between the PLO and Israel, are seen as a breakthrough in the Middle East crisis | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Trinidadian cricketer Brian Lara sets a new world record, scoring 501 not out when playing for Warwickshire against Durham | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Palestinian president Yasser Arafat dies in a hospital near Paris | |
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