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| 1964 |
| | | The Beijing ballet company goes political with The Red Detachment of Women, supervised by Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Kwame Nkrumah, the founding father of Ghana, is toppled in a coup while away on a state visit to China | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Communist leaders Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping are attacked in China's Cultural Revolution as the biggest and worst 'capitalist roaders' | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Mao Zedong unleashes China's teenagers as violent Red Guards to spearhead his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, better known as the 'Little Red Book', is the constant companion of every Red Guard | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Gang of Four achieve malign power during China's Cultural Revolution | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Salvador Allende, heading a Socialist and Marxist coalition, is elected president in Chile | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
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| 1973 |
| | | President Salvador Allende appoints Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and brings him into the cabinet | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Chilean president Salvador Allende dies in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet | |
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