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Events relating to asia
Karaoke (abbreviated from the Japanese for 'empty orchestra') evolves in Japan
Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, becomes India's prime minister as leader of the Congress party
Suharto forces the Indonesian president, Achmed Sukarno, to hand over to him all executive powers
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader of the Awami League, demands full autonomy for East Pakistan (Bangladesh)
Communist leaders Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping are attacked in China's Cultural Revolution as the biggest and worst 'capitalist roaders'
Mao Zedong unleashes China's teenagers as violent Red Guards to spearhead his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, better known as the 'Little Red Book', is the constant companion of every Red Guard
A pre-emptive air strike by Israel destroys almost all Egypt's aircraft and launches the Six-Day War
Israel captures the Gaza Strip and Sinai peninsula from Egypt
Israel captures East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan
Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six-Day War
English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim
The Vietcong launch widespread attacks on South Vietnamese cities during the Tet (lunar new year) holiday
US soldiers massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai
Raden Suharto is elected president, formalizing his already de facto succession to Sukarno as the Indonesian dictator
A military coup in Iraq brings to power a government composed mainly of Ba'thists
At a congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
On the death of Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir succeeds him as leader of a coalition government in Israel
Pakistan's president Ayub Khan hands over power to another general, Yahya Khan, who introduces martial law
The Gang of Four achieve malign power during China's Cultural Revolution
Norodom Sihanouk is removed from power in Cambodia in a US-supported coup led by General Lon Nol
Qaboos bin Sa'id seizes the throne from his father, Sultan Sa'id, in a palace coup in Oman
President Nixon sends US troops into Cambodia to destroy Vietminh bases
Ba'thist leader Hafiz al-Assad takes power in a military coup in Syria
King Hussein of Jordan orders the disarming of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) after violent clashes with his own troops
