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Xerox - The Name

Time: 1958

Place: New York, U.S.

Details: Looking for a term to differentiate its new system, Haloid coined the term xerography from two Greek roots meaning "dry writing". Haloid changed its name to Haloid Xerox in 1958 and then Xerox Corporation in 1961.

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1958

Wordmark of Sony - image
Sony Corporation-Changing The Name To Sony
Jan, 1958 - Tokyo, Japan
Mao Zedong 1963 - image
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Jan, 1958 - China
Logo of Ikea - image
IKEA-The First Möbel-IKÉA Store
1958 - Älmhult, Småland, Sweden
Akio Morita
Akio Morita-Renaming The Company
1958 - Tokyo, Japan
Anyanya Flag
First Sudanese Civil War-The Coup d'état of Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Abboud
1958 - Southern Sudan
Cyprus flag
Cypriot intercommunal violence-Signs of dissatisfaction with the British increased on both sides with Turkish Cypriots now forming Volkan
1958 - Cyprus
Algerian War Image
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1958 - Algeria
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1958 - U.S.
Theodore Kaczynski
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1958 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
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1958 - San Francisco, California, U.S.
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Monday Jan 6, 1958 - U.S.
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1958 - Paris, France
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Jan, 1958 - Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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Monday Jan 27, 1958 - Cyprus
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Feb, 1958 - Liverpool, England
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Thursday Feb 27, 1958 - Oriente Province, Cuba
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Mar, 1958 - South Africa
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Mar, 1958 - Cuba
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Tuesday Mar 11, 1958 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1958 - Panchgani, Mumbai, India
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Saturday May 24, 1958 - Corsica, France
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Wednesday Jun 4, 1958 - Algeria
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Saturday Jun 7, 1958 - Cyprus
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Thursday Jun 12, 1958 - Cyprus
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Saturday Jun 14, 1958 - Bizana, South Africa
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1958 - Russia and China
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Sunday Jun 22, 1958 - Milan, Italy
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Thursday Jun 26, 1958 - The North Coast of Oriente Province, Cuba
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1958 - U.S.
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1958 - London, England, United Kingdom
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1958 - London, England, United Kingdom
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Friday Aug 1, 1958 - Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
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Sep, 1958 - Fresno, California, U.S.
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1958 - U.S.S.R.
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Tuesday Sep 9, 1958 - Christmas Island
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Friday Sep 12, 1958 - Texas, U.S.
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Wednesday Oct 1, 1958 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Oct, 1958 - Algeria
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1958 - U.S.
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1958 - South Africa
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Sunday Oct 26, 1958 - Paris, France
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Wednesday Oct 29, 1958 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Wednesday Nov 5, 1958 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Nov, 1958 - France
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Sunday Nov 16, 1958 - Biy-Myrza, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyrgyzstan)
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1958 - United Kingdom
Raúl Castro Image
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Tuesday Dec 30, 1958 - Maffo, Contramaestre, Cuba
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Wednesday Dec 31, 1958 - Cuba
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Wednesday Dec 31, 1958 - Cuba
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1958 - New Delhi, India
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