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The space race is on with Russia's launch of Sputnik. |
The U.N. occupies the Gaza Strip as the Israelis withdraw from Egypt.
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| The U.S. opens its first nuclear power plant.
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| Kwame Nkumrah becomes the first prime minister of the newly independant Ghana.
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Krushchev retains power, despite efforts by Malenkov and Molotov to wrest it from him.
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Anthony Eden resigns as English Prime Minister, replaced by Harold MacMillan. | |