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  1970s timeline
     
1970
 
    
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings       
1970
 
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The breakaway province of Biafra surrenders after three years of devastating civil war in Nigeria       
1970
 
    
Australian author David Malouf is first published as a poet, with his collection Bicycle and Other Poems       
1970
 
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Salvador Allende, heading a Socialist and Marxist coalition, is elected president in Chile      
1970
 
    
Norodom Sihanouk is removed from power in Cambodia in a US-supported coup led by General Lon Nol       
1970
 
    
US film director Robert Altman launches a successful and long-running theme with his Vietnam black comedy, M*A*S*H