Timeline Thursday 2 October 1958

Events on Thursday 2 October 1958 2

• 1880 – 1958 Marie Stopes (1880-1958) Died 2 October 1958, aged 77 Stopes was a British author and campaigner who opened Britain's first birth-control clinic in 1921 and wrote the influential "Married Love." Her work reshaped public attitudes toward contraception, though her later advocacy of eugenics remains controversial.
• 1958 Guinea gains independence First French sub-Saharan colony to break away Guinea became the first French colony in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence, after voters rejected membership in the new French Community under a referendum led by Sekou Toure. France withdrew aid abruptly in response, and Toure became the country's first president.