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International Geophysical Year aka I.G.Y. begins, and will run until December 31, 1958. The year (actually 18 months) is intended to signal a new era of international co-operation being made possible by the end of the Cold War. On his 1982 album The Nightfly, Donald Fagen will include the song I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World), expressing the hopes of a young man in the fifties looking forward to a bright new future for the world.
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