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On December 23, 1970, the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 417 metres (1,368 ft), making it the tallest building in the world. The year's #1 song was "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel. Ricky Schroder, Saad Hariri, Willie Roaf would arrive in the same year.
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The original One World Trade Center was one of the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center complex in New York City. It was topped out in 1970, and completed in 1972. 0 m), and was the tallest building in the world until 1973, when surpassed by the Sears Tower in Chicago.
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1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.
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Former skyscraper in Manhattan, New York
The original One World Trade Center was one of the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center complex in New York City. It was topped out in 1970, and completed in 1972. 0 m), and was the tallest building in the world until 1973, when surpassed by the Sears Tower in Chicago.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo or less often Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 124 million people, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the fourth-most populous country in Africa and the most populous Francophone country in the world.
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