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| 1970 |
| | | Michael Tippett's opera The Knot Garden has its premiere at Covent Garden | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League win on an independence platform in the election in East Pakistan | |
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| 1970 |
| | | In the Pakistan election, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto wins a clear majority in West Pakistan | |
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| 1970 |
| | | The outgoing Pakistan government, led by Yahya Khan, rejects the election result and sends troops to East Pakistan | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The Dance Theatre of Harlem, founded by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, gives its first performance at the Guggenheim Museum in New York | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Idi Amin leads a successful coup against the president of Uganda, Milton Obote | |
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| 1971 |
| | | US and South Vietnamese troops cross the border to invade Laos | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Joe Frazier becomes the first boxer to beat Muhammad Ali in a professional fight, at New York's Madison Square Gardens | |
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| c. 1971 |
| | | Hip-hop originates as a dance style in New York among young African Americans | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Indian sitar-player Ravi Shankar composes the first of his two concertos for sitar and orchestra | |
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