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