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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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| 1970 |
| | | Four students are killed by National Guards during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Two students are killed at the all-black Jackson State College in Mississippi when police fire into a dormitory during a riot | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Australian feminist Germaine Greer publishes The Female Eunuch as a wake-up call to women | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Australian tennis player Margaret Court achieves the grand slam in singles, adding it to her previous grand slam in doubles | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Edward Heath is prime minister after leading the Conservatives to UK election victory | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik's Universal Prayer, a cantata setting poetry by Alexander Pope, has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Italian playwright Dario Fo's black comedy Accidental Death of an Anarchist has its premiere in Milan | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Ba'thist leader Hafiz al-Assad takes power in a military coup in Syria | |
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