chronology xvDate Historical Events Literary Events
candidate Hubert Humphrey; Spiro
Agnew becomes Vice President;
Soviet forces crush the ‘Prague
Spring’ peaceful uprising against
communist rule in Czechoslovakia;
presidential candidate Robert Kennedy
and African American leader Dr
Martin Luther King are assassinated;
Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes
fi fteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
1969 Neil Armstong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Adrienne Rich, Leafl ets;
Aldrin become the fi rst men to walk Tom Leonard starts Six
on the surface of the moon; the My Glasgow Poems, completed
Lai massacre in Vietnam is revealed 1979 ; Alberto Baltazar
due to the journalistic work of Urista, ‘El plan Espiritual
Seymour Hersh; the Woodstock de Aztlán’
open-air concert takes place at Max
Yasgur’s farm in upstate New York.
1970 The Brazilian soccer team beat Italy Ted Hughes, Crow
4 – 1 in the fi nal to win the World Cup
in Mexico City; The Beatles announce
that the group is to break up.
1971 Battles between India and Pakistan Geoffrey Hill, Mercian
erupt into full-scale war when India Hymns; Adrienne Rich,
invades East Pakistan (now The Will to Change
Bangladesh) in support of the
independence movement.
1972 Richard Nixon is re-elected president Edwin Morgan, Glasgow
of the USA; fi ve men are arrested for Sonnets; Seamus Heaney,
breaking and entering Democratic Wintering Out
party offi ces in the Watergate complex
in Washington DC; Labour leader
Gough Whitlam becomes Prime
Minister of Australia; Clyde
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