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| 1970 |
| | | Two students are killed at the all-black Jackson State College in Mississippi when police fire into a dormitory during a riot | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Australian feminist Germaine Greer publishes The Female Eunuch as a wake-up call to women | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Australian tennis player Margaret Court achieves the grand slam in singles, adding it to her previous grand slam in doubles | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Edward Heath is prime minister after leading the Conservatives to UK election victory | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik's Universal Prayer, a cantata setting poetry by Alexander Pope, has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Italian playwright Dario Fo's black comedy Accidental Death of an Anarchist has its premiere in Milan | |
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| 1970 |
| | | A new Queen’s School is built in Cumberland Road, becoming Kew’s only Anglican school after the closure of the neighbouring St Luke’s School | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Ba'thist leader Hafiz al-Assad takes power in a military coup in Syria | |
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| 1970 |
| | | US feminist Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is her doctoral dissertation on the exploitation of women | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London | |
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