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| 1971 |
| | | The Soviets put into orbit the first space station, Salyut 1, but the crew of three die on returning to earth | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The 19-year-old Jean Claude Duvalier, succeeding his father as president of Haiti, becomes known as Baby Doc | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Duel, about a motorist terrorized by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood | |
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| 1971 |
| | | With support from Moscow, Erich Honecker takes Walter Ulbricht's place as leader of East Germany | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Ian Paisley and others in northern Ireland form the Democratic Unionist Party, as the intransigent wing of Ulster Unionism | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Awami League leader Mujibur Rahman declares unilaterally that Bangladesh (East Pakistan) is an independent state | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Mobutu gives the Congo a new name, Zaire, deriving from an African word for river | |
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| 1971 |
| | | King Hussein, alarmed at the continuing power of Palestinian guerrillas within Jordan, expels the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Evidence of official deception concerning US involvement in Vietnam is published in the New York Times as the Pentagon Papers | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The arrest of Mujibur Rahman, together with brutal attempts at repression, turn resistance in East Pakistan into full-scale civil war | |
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| 1971 |
| | | 19-year-old Aboriginal tennis player Evonne Goolagong wins the singles title at Wimbledon | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Gerry Adams is imprisoned for suspected IRA links but is released for lack of evidence | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
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| 1971 |
| | | In the Apollo 15 mission US astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the vehicle Rover-1 on the surface of the moon | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Internment without trial, reintroduced in Ulster to deal with the developing crisis, is used at first only against Catholics suspected of terrorism | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Stanley Kubrick directs Malcolm McDowell in a film of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange | |
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| 1971 |
| | | British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Greenpeace is founded in Canada to campaign against US nuclear testing | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is staged a year after being released as a record | |
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| 1971 |
| | | 95-year-old Spanish cellist Pablo Casals conducts in New York his Hymn to the United Nations | |
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| 1971 |
| | | India intervenes in the Pakistan civil war on the side of East Pakistan, the future Bangladesh | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Peter Maxwell Davies moves to the Orkneys, where he founds (in 1977) the St Magnus Festival | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), expelled from Jordan, makes a new base in Lebanon | |
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| c. 1971 |
| | | Libya's political bible is now the Green Book by Muammar al-Gaddafi | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Pakistan surrenders to India within a month of Indian intervention in the war to suppress East Pakistan | |
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| 1971 |
| | | With the end of the war between Pakistan and India, East Pakistan becomes independent as Bangladesh | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto takes over as president of Pakistan, now consisting only of its western half | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns from prison in West Pakistan to become prime minister of the newly independent state of Bangladesh | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Aborigines pitch a Tent Embassy on Australia Day outside parliament in Canberra to highlight political injustices | |
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| 1972 |
| | | British paratroops open fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing thirteen, in what becomes known as Bloody Sunday | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The British government suspends the parliament at Stormont and imposes direct rule from Westminster | |
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| 1972 |
| | | An Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress but fails when not ratified in sufficient states | |
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| 1972 |
| | | In an orgy of ethnic slaughter in Burundi, Tutsis klll some 100,000 Hutus | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The SALT 1 treaty is signed by the US and USSR, limiting anti-ballistic missiles | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Ultimos Ritos ('Last Rites'), an oratorio by John Tavener, has its first performance in Haarlem in the Netherlands | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Bernardo Bertolucci directs Marlon Brando in the sexually explicit film Last Tango in Paris | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Jean-Marie Le Pen founds a neo-Fascist party in France, the National Front | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Five burglars are arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate office building in Washington | |
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