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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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| 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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| 1970 |
| | | US feminist Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is her doctoral dissertation on the exploitation of women | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London | |
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| 1970 |
| | | The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is formed in northern Ireland as a coalition of Catholic nationalists and civil-rights campaigners | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Polish composer Witold Lutoslawksi writes a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Nasser dies of a sudden heart attack and is succeeded as Egypt's president by Anwar el-Sadat | |
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| 1970 |
| | | King Hussein of Jordan orders the disarming of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) after violent clashes with his own troops | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but declines collecting it in Stockholm for fear of being denied re-entry to Russia | |
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| 1970 |
| | | A Quebec government minister, Pierre Laporte, is murdered by the Front de Libération du Québec | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima commits suicide in the traditional Samurai manner | |
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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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