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- Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1970]] to [[1989]]'''.
3: === [[1970s]] ===
4: *[[1970]] - [[Environmental Protection Agency]] enacted
6: *[[1972]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1972]] (including [[Watergate]] burglary)
11: ...ecomes President (by [[succession]] rather than [[election]])
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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]]. - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]] - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ... [[Gibson Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, w...
8: ...member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Marki...
10: ...her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband had p...
12: It is generally believed that it was Nancy Astor who, during a [[Worl...
17: # [[Robert Gould Shaw III]] (1898-1970) - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...couple had two children, [[Rahul Gandhi]] (born [[1970]]) and [[Priyanka Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She a...
11: ...e the [[1998]] Lok Sabha elections, assuming the helm of the Congress Party. With the charisma of the ...
13: ...he [[Indian general election, 2004|2004 Lok Sabha election]]. On [[May 16]] she was unanimously voted ...
15: ...Party]], which had been voted out of power in the elections, threatened to launch a nationwide agitati... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
3: ...w partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
18: ...anisation of Finnish Trade Unions for the years [[1970]]–[[1974]]. She joined the Social Democrati...
20: ...the minister of justice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister...
24: ... to win the election. In the previous elections [[Elisabeth Rehn]] came very close to victory. Halonen... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kelly&Bastian.jpg|220px|thumb|Petra Kelly on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''Eine t?...
2: ...d in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
4: ...[American University]] ([[Washington, DC]]), in [[1970]].
6: ...ng at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in nume...
8: Petra Kelly was one of the founders in [[1979]] of ''Die Gr... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
13: |[[Colin Powell]]
27: ...Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
29: ...ovember 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secretary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]...
31: ...rm. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to ...
34: ...1014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.) - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...he [[Irish Labour Party|Labour Party]], the first elected president in the office's history not to hav...
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7: ...t size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
18: [[Fine Gael]]: Austin Currie, TD</table>
23: ...orn into a family that was a historical mix of rebels against the Crown and servants of the Queen. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
1: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="margin: 0em 1em ...
27: ... of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...gn relations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and forme...
31: ...eurial culture. She also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour mar...
36: ... Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was not re-elected as an Alderman, a decision which affected hi... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
7: *[[Nellie McClung|Nellie Mooney McClung]] (a famous [[suffragist]] and ...
8: ...|Louise Crummy McKinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
13: ...pointed to the Senate. Among other reasons, until 1970 the Senate approved divorces.
18: *the act exclusively used the word "he" to refer to senators.
20: ...led the exclusion of women from public office "a relic of days more barbarous than ours." Because the ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...my and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which were sent in by ...
6: ...child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name:...
14: ...ndependent Poland. Luxemburg denied the right of self-determination for nations under [[socialism]], w...
19: ...aim was to improve the number of seats the party held in the [[Reichstag]].
25: Nonetheless, Luxemburg kept up her political activities; i... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...n and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ...f the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 d...
6: ... In 1945, her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where t...
8: ...ucation, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...ere she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood G...
4: ...h [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ... [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
8: ...an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: ...e Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', champi... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...rsity]] in [[1955]]. Her novel [[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [...
6: ...Her efforts during the [[1960]]'s and [[1970]]'s helped break down the segregation of literature from ...
8: ...h of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first Afri...
14: ==Novels==
15: *''[[The Bluest Eye]]'' (1970) - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]]...
2: ...[[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[si...
6: ...h she won, adding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Web...
8: ..., the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...arilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... [[rock]], [[blues]], [[pop]], [[hip-hop]], [[gospel]], and even [[opera]], The state of [[Michigan]] ...
6: ...ost notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a jaz...
8: ...[[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they j...
10: ...uble LP of live gospel music recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it ...
12: ...s era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ''"You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman", "Think", "Baby I Love You"... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...s a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ...er studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternat...
7: ...reja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomo...
9: ...orium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual ma...
15: * "I am a religious person...and by 'religion' I mean re-ligio, the re-tying of a bond...r... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...mb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
2: ... for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
6: ...l in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues heroines, and in ...
8: ...f their early singles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
10: ...er]] documentary ''Monterey Pop'' captured [[Cass Elliott]] in the crowd silently mouthing "Wow, that'... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...es Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ...mid-[[1960s]] in [[New York City]]. Through the [[1970s]] she expanded her horizons, predominantly to [[...
5: ...sly "poetic", her songs were strengthened by Mitchell's extraordinary wide-ranging voice (with a range...
7: ...rst two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...Also of interest, "For Free" is the first of Mitchell's many songs focusing on the dichotomy between t...
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