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| 1962 |
| | | Ruhollah Khomeini, a leading ayatollah in Qom, denounces the Shah of Iran and declares a fatwa against his regime | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini is arrested in Qom, and imprisoned for eight months in Tehran, after instigating riots against the Shah | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Robert Mugabe and Ndabaningi Sithole split from ZAPU to found ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Plaid Cymru sends its first MP to Westminster when Gwynfor Evans wins a Carmarthen by-election | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Congress passes a Freedom of Information Act, giving the public an important new right in the USA | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Robert Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The Parti Québécois is formed in Canada by René Lévesque | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The first civil rights march in northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with batons and water cannon | |
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| 1970 |
| | | 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 |
| | | The outgoing Pakistan government, led by Yahya Khan, rejects the election result and sends troops to East Pakistan | |
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