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1. 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
   5: *[[1971]] - [[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution|26th Amendment]] ratif...
   9: ...nited States|USA]]'s first [[space station]] launched

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1. History of China (45919 bytes)
   2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
   7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
   9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
   14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
   18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
2. November 4 (10686 bytes)
   2: ...8th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
   7: ...res [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
   9: ...iam III of England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
   10: ...852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont...
   11: ...Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
3. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
   10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
   16: *[[Agathon]] (c. 448-400 BCE), Athenian tragic poet
   17: ...[[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
   21: ...d Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
   25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
4. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
   1: ...64]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
   4: ...us as a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colef...
   6: ...Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where in 1906, she married [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor|Waldo...
   8: ...st woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Consta...
   10: ...ewssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
5. Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
   3: ...of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
   7: ...1970]]) and [[Priyanka Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
   11: ...n citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her lack of fluency in [[Hindi language|Hindi]].
   13: ...lition government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
   15: ... newly formed [[National Advisory Council]] with the status of a Cabinet Minister.
6. Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
   1: ...nd|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
   3: ...mmon-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
   7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]&n...
   9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
   11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]–[[1990]]
7. Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
   1: ...y on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''Eine t?che Liebe'']]
   2: ...d in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
   4: ...[American University]] ([[Washington, DC]]), in [[1970]].
   6: ...ce and environment campaigns in [[Germany]] and other countries.
   8: ...f the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
8. Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
   27: ...d African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to se...
   29: ...confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
   31: ...) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
   34: ...d on weekends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021014...
   35: ...University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is ...
9. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
   1: :Mary Robinson ''is also the name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poe...
   3: ...end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
   17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Le...
   23: ... mix of rebels against the Crown and servants of the Queen.
   25: ...sor William Binchy]], and, the current holder of the position, abortion rights campaigner [[Ivana Baci...
10. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    2: ..."font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
    3: ...#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
    25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
    27: ...in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellati...
    29: ...e the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
11. The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
    1: ...re women persons?" The case came to be known as the '''Persons Case'''.
    3: The women, all of whom were from [[Alberta]], were:
    5: *[[Emily Murphy]] (the [[British Empire|British Empire's]] first woman j...
    7: ...McClung]] (a famous [[suffragist]] and member of the Alberta legislature);
    8: ...my McKinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
12. Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
    2: ...in by the government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed.
    6: ... growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
    8: ...rs managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
    10: ...ience of [[form of government|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange c...
    12: ...f parliament focused more and more on gaining further parliamentary rights and on material wealth.
13. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador All...
    4: ...ges. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and t...
    6: ...ocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
    8: ...re she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
    10: ... returned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there that year.
14. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976...
    4: ...h [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
    6: ...especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[De...
    8: ...), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
    10:
15. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    4: ...d freedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
    6: ...ture]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
    8: ...d the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this priz...
    10: ... currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
    12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays ...
16. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    1: ...llafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
    2: ...rn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
    4: ...raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
    6: ...ry rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
    8: ... the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
17. Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
    2: ...s from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry pu...
    6: ...ults never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to com...
    8: ...Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
    10: ...charts - the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Littl...
    12: ...er added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
18. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    3: ...ory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
    5: ...final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
    7: ...group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
    9: ...a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]'...
    11: ...diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
19. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    1: ...cert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']...
    2: ...nctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a p...
    4: ...n]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with frien...
    6: ... her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
    8: ...gles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
20. Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
    1: ...t|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
    3: ... most highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
    5: ...e to her voice, which was especially prominent in her later albums.
    7: ...irst two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
    9: ... its costs, both in terms of its pressure and of the loss of privacy and freedom it entails.

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