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1970s timeline
1970
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel,
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1970
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
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
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