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| | | The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is formed in northern Ireland as a coalition of Catholic nationalists and civil-rights campaigners | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Polish composer Witold Lutoslawksi writes a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Nasser dies of a sudden heart attack and is succeeded as Egypt's president by Anwar el-Sadat | |
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| 1970 |
| | | King Hussein of Jordan orders the disarming of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) after violent clashes with his own troops | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but declines collecting it in Stockholm for fear of being denied re-entry to Russia | |
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| 1970 |
| | | A Quebec government minister, Pierre Laporte, is murdered by the Front de Libération du Québec | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima commits suicide in the traditional Samurai manner | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Michael Tippett's opera The Knot Garden has its premiere at Covent Garden | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League win on an independence platform in the election in East Pakistan | |
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| 1970 |
| | | In the Pakistan election, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto wins a clear majority in West Pakistan | |
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