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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is removed from the Soviet Writers' Union.
Samuel Beckett receives the Nobel Prize for literature.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York purchases the art collection of the late expatriate writer Gertrude Stein for $6 million.
Federico Fellini's film Satyricon is released.
Ken Russell's movie Women in Love is released.
Yasser Arafat is elected chair of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
12 Jan.
Approximately five thousand people march in London to protest discrimination against nonwhites; hundreds clash with police.
17 Mar.
Golda Meir is sworn in as premier of Israel.
28 Apr.
Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France after voters reject his proposed constitutional reforms.
Queen Elizabeth II makes her son Charles Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
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