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Timeline / 1970-1992 1970 Edward Heath becomes prime minister Floods in Pakistan kill 500,000 4 dead at Kent State (Ohio) war protest First Earth Day The Beatles break up Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces Arthur Hiller's Love Story 1971 Decimal coinage becomes official UK currency Masterpiece Theatre premieres on PBS Civil war between East + West Pakistan London Bridge moved to USA Jim Morrison dies at 27 Spinal Tap's Nerve Damage Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland Palestinian terrorists kill 11 at Munich Olympics Pocket calculators introduced Grammy Awards: Carly Simon Best New Artist Ms. magazine launches David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust 1973 Watergate hearings begin Chilean president Salvador Allende killed J. R.R. Tolkien dies at 81 Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris George Lucas's American Graffiti Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped Patti Smith releases first punk rock single, Hey Joe Nixon resigns India detonates nuclear device Britain's National Health Service offers free family planning Streaking Coppola's Godfather II The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort 1975 Zadie Smith born Cambodia falls to Khmer Rouge Vietnam War ends Birmingham pub bombings by IRA Microsoft co-founded by Bill Gates, age 19 Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon ITV's Benny Hill 1976 June: Britain swelters in heat wave Alex Haley's Roots 1977 Disco inferno! Elvis Presley dies at 42 Steve Biko murdered while in police custody Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II Sex Pistols release Anarchy in the UK Indira Gandhi resigns as Indian Premier Cyclone kills 10,000 in India George Lucas's Star Wars Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1978 First test-tube baby, Louise Brown, born in Britain Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected pope as John Paul II Dominica gains independence from Britain Top British TV: Sale of the Century 1979 Three Mile Island accident Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Britain Louis Earl Mountbatten murdered by IRA terrorists Monty Python's Life of Brian Top British TV: To The Manor Born 1980 British Airways is privatized British SAS soldiers storm Iranian embassy in London and kill all but one terrorist John Lennon shot dead in New York John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday Bill Forsyth's Gregory's Girl 1981 MTV goes on the air Belize gains independence from Britain IRA inmates begin a hunger strike. Bobby Sands dies on 5 May Brixton and Toxteth riots Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer In London, Cats premieres David Putnam's Chariots of Fire 1982 Britain's Channel 4 launches The Falklands War Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract Speilberg's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial Attenborough's Gandhi 1983 First US cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common airbase in Britain Apple introduces computer mouse Britain introduces the pound coin Bill Forsyth's Local Hero Lewis Gilbert's Educating Rita 1984 Famine in Ethiopia Bob Geldof's Band Aid releases Do They Know It's Christmas? Live Aid concerts Brunei becomes independent of Britain Miners' strike in Britain Indian Army invades Sikh Golden Temple of Amritsar; 300 die in the attack Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated Deadly gas leaks kill 2000, injure 200,000 in Bhopal, India James Cameron's Terminator Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev calls for 'glasnost' and 'perestroika' British Antarctic Survey discovers hole in the ozone layer Stephen Frears's My Beautiful Laundrette Terry Gilliam's Brazil James Ivory's A Room with a View 1986 US space shuttle Challenger explodes on take-off Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the Soviet Union Iran-Contra scandal Petshop Boys first hit West End Girls Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis 1987 London-based labels coin the term world music Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut 'Great Storm' -- the worst in three centuries -- blasts over southeast Britain. U2 releases The Joshua Tree Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I John Boorman's Hope and Glory 1988 George Bush wins presidency in a landslide over Michael Dukakis. Terrorist bomb planted in Pan-Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses A Fish Called Wanda 1989 Lech Walesa and Solidarity win in Poland Hundreds of Chinese pro-democracy demonstrators massacred in Beijing's Tiananmen Square The Berlin Wall falls I M Pei designs glass pyramid at the Louvre Uprising in East Pakistan and Kashmir; India sends troops Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot 1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years In Britain, Trafalgar Square anti-poll tax demonstration ends in rioting and looting Mary Robinson inaugurated first woman president of Ireland Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or 'mad cow disease.' Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet 1991 US-led coalition launches Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation Soviet Union ceases to exist Freddie Mercury of Queen dies of AIDS Alan Parker's The Commitments Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit 1992 Bill Clinton wins US presidential election against George Bush Riots in Los Angeles Margaret Thatcher resigns as prime minister Neil Jordan's The Crying Game Spielberg's Jurassic Park Essays + Interviews: Smashing Slang! | Timeline/1970-92 | The Soundtrack | Zadie Smith  Essays + Interviews | Who's Who/Cast + Credits | Novel to Film Russell Baker | Story Synopsis | Links + Bibliography | The Forum  Home | About The Series | The American Collection | The Archive Schedule & Season | Feature Library | eNewsletter | Book Club Learning Resources | Forum | Search | Shop | Feedback
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