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| c. 1969 |
| | | Paintings discovered on stone slabs in a cave in Namibia are dated to about 28,000 years ago | |
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| 1969 |
| | | British scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards fertilize in a test-tube eggs removed from human ovaries | |
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| 1970 |
| | | US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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| 1970 |
| | | The breakaway province of Biafra surrenders after three years of devastating civil war in Nigeria | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Australian author David Malouf is first published as a poet, with his collection Bicycle and Other Poems | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Salvador Allende, heading a Socialist and Marxist coalition, is elected president in Chile | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Norodom Sihanouk is removed from power in Cambodia in a US-supported coup led by General Lon Nol | |
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| 1970 |
| | | US film director Robert Altman launches a successful and long-running theme with his Vietnam black comedy, M*A*S*H | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Qaboos bin Sa'id seizes the throne from his father, Sultan Sa'id, in a palace coup in Oman | |
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| 1970 |
| | | President Nixon sends US troops into Cambodia to destroy Vietminh bases | |
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