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<catset>Category="958"</catset><right><p><table cellpadding=3 style="margin-left: 15px;"><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b>Years:</b></small><br><a href="954">954</a> <a href="955">955</a> <a href="956">956</a> <a href="957">957</a> - 958 - <a href="959">959</a> <a href="960">960</a> <a href="961">961</a> <a href="962">962</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b><a href="List of decades">Decades</a>:</b></small><br><a href="920s">920s</a> <a href="930s">930s</a> <a href="940s">940s</a> - <b><a href="950s">950s</a></b> - <a href="960s">960s</a> <a href="970s">970s</a> <a href="980s">980s</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center><small><b><a href="Centuries">Centuries</a>:</b></small><br><a href="9th century">9th century</a> - <b><a href="10th century">10th century</a></b> - <a href="11th century">11th century</a></td></tr></table><p></right><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Events</h2><ul> <li>Kshemgupta, King of <a href="Kashmir">Kashmir</a> dies and is succeeded by his young son Abhimanyu. Didda, <a href="Widow">Widow</a> of the former and mother of the latter, becomes <a href="De facto">De facto</a> ruler. </ul><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Births</h2><ul> <li><a href="Basil II">Basil II</a>, <a href="List of Byzantine emperors">Byzantine Emperor</a> <li><a href="Samuil">Samuil of Bulgaria</a> </ul><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Deaths</h2><ul> <li>King <a href="Gorm the Old">Gorm the Old of Denmark</a> <li><a href="Masudi">Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di</a>, Arab geographer, historian, and physicist </ul><p><b>Literature</b> <ul> <li> First literary reference to legendary <a href="Sherwood Forest">Sherwood Forest</a>, although no mention yet of <a href="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a>, its most famous bandit denizen. </ul>