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Overthrow of the Batista régime in Cuba by Fidel Castro.
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Opening of Four-Power Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Geneva (France,
the United Kingdom, the United States and the USSR) on the German
question.
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The Baghdad Pact signed on 24 February 1955 becomes the Central
Treaty Organisation (CENTO). Full members: Iran, Iraq, Pakistan,
Turkey and United Kingdom. Associate member: United States. Its
headquarters is set up in Ankara. (Dissolved, 26 September 1979).
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Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the
United Kingdom initial the Stockholm Convention establishing the
European Free Trade Association (EFTA) (1)
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Inauguration of the new NATO Headquarters at the Porte Dauphine
in Paris.
Additional
information:
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1. Finland became an associate
member of EFTA in 1961. Iceland joined in 1970. Denmark and the United Kingdom
withdrew from EFTA on joining the EEC on 1 January 1973. Portugal withdrew
from EFTA on 1 January 1986. |