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| 1971 |
| | | Pakistan surrenders to India within a month of Indian intervention in the war to suppress East Pakistan | |
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| 1971 |
| | | With the end of the war between Pakistan and India, East Pakistan becomes independent as Bangladesh | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto takes over as president of Pakistan, now consisting only of its western half | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns from prison in West Pakistan to become prime minister of the newly independent state of Bangladesh | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Aborigines pitch a Tent Embassy on Australia Day outside parliament in Canberra to highlight political injustices | |
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| 1972 |
| | | British paratroops open fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing thirteen, in what becomes known as Bloody Sunday | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The British government suspends the parliament at Stormont and imposes direct rule from Westminster | |
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| 1972 |
| | | An Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress but fails when not ratified in sufficient states | |
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| 1972 |
| | | In an orgy of ethnic slaughter in Burundi, Tutsis klll some 100,000 Hutus | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The SALT 1 treaty is signed by the US and USSR, limiting anti-ballistic missiles | |
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