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1965
 
   
Footballer Franz Beckenbauer plays his first international for West Germany      
1965
 
    
German performance artist Joseph Beuys walks round a gallery demonstrating How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare       
1967
 
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The Ibo of eastern Nigeria claim independence for their region – as the republic of Biafra       
1968
 
    
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung ('Tuning') employs six unaccompanied voices for 75 minutes       
1969
 
   
Willy Brandt, leader of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), becomes chancellor of Germany      
1970
 
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The breakaway province of Biafra surrenders after three years of devastating civil war in Nigeria       
1971
 
    
With support from Moscow, Erich Honecker takes Walter Ulbricht's place as leader of East Germany       
1972
 
    
Eleven Israeli athletes are killed by Palestinian 'Black September' terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games       
1974
 
    
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is deported from the USSR to West Germany for publishing The Gulag Archipelago       
1974
 
    
Willy Brandt resigns and is succeeded by Helmut Schmidt, as leader of the SDP and chancellor of Germany