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| 1977, Jan. 4 |
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| Press censorship was abolished. | 1 |
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| March 12 |
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| The poet Vicent Aleixandre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. | 2 |
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| April |
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| The Communist Party was legalized after its leaders promised Premier Suarez that the party's interest was in peaceful changes. | 3 |
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| June 15 |
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| In the first free national elections since 1936, Suarez's Democratic Center Union won a majority of the seats in the Cortes. | 4 |
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| Aug. 4 |
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| A sweeping political amnesty was granted. Jailed Communist Party members were freed on Aug. 30. | 5 |
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