Date in year · 1970 · The 1970s
On November 25, 1970, in Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt. 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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Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, short story writer, playwright, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. Mishima is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.
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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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Japanese author and coup attempt leader (1925–1970)
Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, short story writer, playwright, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. Mishima is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.
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