Bangladesh Liberation War
Nine months of war, and a new nation on the map
In March 1971 the Pakistani army launched Operation Searchlight against the Bengali national movement in East Pakistan. Mass killings followed; by various estimates 300,000 to 3 million died, and some 10 million refugees fled to India. In December India entered the war, and on 16 December the Pakistani forces surrendered in Dhaka. Bangladesh was born.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 24 years earlier
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 23 years earlier
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 22 years earlier
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 9 years later
Europe
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 18 years earlier
- 1961 Berlin Wall built — 10 years earlier
- 1968 May 1968 in France — 3 years earlier
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 18 years later
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 18 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — 14 years earlier
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 10 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 14 years later
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 18 years later
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 20 years later
Middle East
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 23 years earlier
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 8 years later
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 9 years later
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 19 years later
Africa
- 1960 Year of Africa — 11 years earlier
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — 8 years earlier
- 1967 First human heart transplant — 4 years earlier
- 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War and Biafra — 4 years earlier
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 3 years later
Americas
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — 9 years earlier
- 1969 Moon landing — 2 years earlier
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 1 year earlier
- 1973 Chilean coup d'état — 2 years later
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 12 years later
Oceania
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 17 years earlier
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 12 years earlier
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Pablo Picasso (aged 90)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 82)
- Mao Zedong (aged 78)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 53)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 41)
- Harry S. Truman (aged 87)
- Haile Selassie (aged 79)
- Nikita Khrushchev (aged 77)
- Golda Meir (aged 73)
- Jorge Luis Borges (aged 72)