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| 1972 |
| | | Spanish director Luis Buñuel satirizes social conventions in his film Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Francis Ford Coppola writes and directs The Godfather, the first of three related films | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Taverneris performed at Covent Garden | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Eleven Israeli athletes are killed by Palestinian 'Black September' terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games | |
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| 1972 |
| | | US swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals in the Munich Olympics | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Alabama becomes a major scandal after a whistle-blower reveals the details | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines, citing the danger of a Communist takeover | |
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| 1972 |
| | | English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The Washington Post publishes the first report that the Watergate break-in was linked to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign | |
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| 1972 |
| | | English poet James Fenton publishes his first collection, Terminal Moraine | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Richard Nixon is re-elected US president with a landslide victory over Democrat George McGovern | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Chess player Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky to become the first US world champion | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Gough Whitlam is Australia's prime minister after Labor party victory | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Russian composer Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony alarms the Soviet authorities and is denied a Moscow premiere | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Prime minister Jack Lynch leads Ireland into the European Community | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Prime minister Edward Heath takes Britain into the European Community, on the third attempt | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Paris Peace Accords end the US combat role in Vietnam, with nothing achieved and millions dead | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Elvis Presley performs in Honolulu in the Aloha Concert, the first programme to be broadcast live round the world by satellite | |
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| 1973 |
| | | In the Calder case, the Supreme Court of Canada recognizes Aboriginal title to land | |
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| 1973 |
| | | A Little Night Music, with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Activists of the American Indian Movement survive a ten-week siege at Wounded Knee, winning international attention | |
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| 1973 |
| | | British economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher publishes an influential economic tract, Small is Beautiful | |
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| 1973 |
| | | US choreographer Twyla Tharp creates Deuce Coupe, set to songs by the Beach Boys | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Roe v. Wade establishes in US law that prohibiting abortion violates a woman's right to privacy | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The last US troops leave Vietnam, ending American involvement in a continuing war between the north and south of the country | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Sears Tower opens in Chicago, displacing the Empire State as the tallest building in the world | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film The Sting | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The score of the film The Sting revives interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Polisario is formed to fight for the independence of Western Sahara | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Winning power in a military coup, Juvenal Habyarimana begins a 21-year spell as dictator in Rwanda | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Watergate scandal claims its first senior victims with the resignation of two of Nixon's closest advisers, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman | |
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| 1973 |
| | | A military coup plunges democratic Uruguay into eleven years of repressive terror | |
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| 1973 |
| | | A military coup deposes Zahir Shah and brings to an end the hereditary monarchy in Afghanistan | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Likud is formed in Israel as an alliance of right-wing parties | |
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