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Harold
Pinter's Life
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Social, Political and Cultural Events
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Harold
Pinter born in London, 10 October
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1930 |
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Publishes several
poems and begins to find work as an actor
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1950 |
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1951 |
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First performance of Samuel
Beckett's Waiting for Godot
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1952 |
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First H-Bomb tested
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1953 |
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Coronation of Queen Elizabeth
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1955 |
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Suez
Crisis. ITV launches commercial television in Britain |
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1956 |
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John Osbourne's Look Back in
Anger opens in London
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The Room receives
its first performance in Bristol
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1957 |
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1958 |
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CND launched
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The Birthday Party
broadcast on ITV
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1960 |
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The Lady Chatterley trial ends
with the book's 31-year ban lifted
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1961 |
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Berlin Wall erected
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1962 |
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That was the Week that Was and
Steptoe and Son begin on BBC television. The Beatles' first
single, Love Me Do, is released
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The Lover wins
the Prix Italia television award
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1963 |
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Profumo scandal. President Kennedy
assassinated
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1964 |
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BBC Two launches. BBC One begins
broadcast of The Wednesday Play
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The Homecoming
opens in Aldwych, presented by the RSC
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1965 |
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Vietnam
War begins |
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Pinter receives
CBE
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1966 |
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Cathy Come Home broadcast on
BBC One
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1967 |
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BBC Two begins colour transmissions
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1968 |
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Lord Chamberlain no longer able
to exercise powers of censorship
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Pinter directs
Simon Gray's West End hit Butley
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1971 |
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1972 |
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Bloody Sunday occurs in Londonderry
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Pinter's first
television play in colour, Monologue, is broadcast
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1973 |
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Britain
joins the EEC |
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1974 |
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Miners' strikes culminate in
"Three Day Week" in Britain. Watergate scandal
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1975 |
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Cambodia falls under Pol Pot's
regime
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1976 |
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National Theatre opens. Sex
Pistols appear on prime time television. BBC ban Roy Minton's
Scum and Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle
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1977 |
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Queen's Silver Jubilee
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1979 |
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Margaret Thatcher becomes prime
minister
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The French Lieutenant's
Woman, with a screenplay by Pinter, opens
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1981 |
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Riots
break out in Toxteth and Brixton |
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1982 |
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Falklands War begins
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One for the Road
opens, and is shown by the BBC several months later
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1984 |
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Miners
Strike; Threads broadcast by the BBC |
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1989 |
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Berlin Wall falls
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Pinter speaks
in the House of Commons regarding Nicaragua
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1991 |
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Gulf
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1994 |
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Nelson Mandela becomes first
black president of South Africa. Channel Tunnel opens
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Ashes to Ashes
opens at the Royal Court
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1996 |
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Pinter speaks
on the anniversary of Nato's bombing of Serbia at the Committee
for Peace in the Balkans Conference
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2000 |
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Speaks at the
University of Florence criticising US foreign policy
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2001 |
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Terrorist attacks on United States and subsequent US bombing of Afghanistan |
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Pinter is made a Companion of Honour for services to Literature
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2002 |
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US and Britain at odds with
the UN over preemptive strikes on Saddam Hussain
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