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02 - 66 Football fans are killed when barrier collapses at Ibrox Park in Glasgow

07 - Long hair for men is declared legal in the USSR

08 - The British ambassador in Uruguay, Geoffrey Jackson, is kidnapped by guerrillas

10 - Coco Chanel, the fashion designer who gave her name to the Chanel No 5 perfume, dies

11 - First divorce in UK on sole grounds of "Irretrievable Breakdown" granted

15 - President Sadat of Egypt opens the Aswan High Dam which will keep the level of the River Nile constant throughout the year

16 - The Swiss ambassador to Brazil is freed after 70 political prisoners are released

19 - The first all-out strike in the 300 year history of the British Post Office halts postal services throughout the UK

25 - A military coup in Uganda deposes President Milton Obote and puts Major General Idi Amin in power

31 - Apollo 14 mission launched

02 - Major General Idi Amin pronounces that he is the absolute ruler of Uganda "for ever and ever". He later also declares himself ruler of Scotland and generously offers to marry Princess Anne to heal the rift between Uganda and Britain . . .

04 - Rolls Royce is declared bankrupt

05 - Apollo 14 lands on Moon. Two moonwalks are made and 100 lbs of moon rock samples collected

07 - Swiss women win the right to vote

09 - The Sylmar earthquake kills 65 and causes $500 million in damage in Southern California

15 - Decimal currency introduced in Britain. New bronze 2p, 1p and ½p coins are issued

26 - Two policemen are killed in Belfast by machinegun fire

01 - A bomb planted by a movement calling itself the Weather Underground damages the Senate wing of the Capitol building in Washington DC. No one is injured

10 - Three off-duty British soldiers are murdered in Northern Ireland

10 - Australian PM John Gorton votes himself out - William McMahon is new Prime Minister

12 - A bloodless military coup in Turkey leads to the resignation of premier Suleyman Demirel

23 - Brian Faulkner replaces Major Chichester Clark as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

26 - Civil war erupts in Pakistan and the Awami League declares autonomy for East Pakistan (as Bangladesh)

29 - Charles Manson is convicted of Tate murders. The Manson "family" are sentenced to death

31 - Lt William Calley is found guilty of the massacre of 22 South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai and receives a life sentence. His superiors are all acquitted leading many to speculate that Calley is being used as a scapegoat

06 - Russian musical maestro Igor Stravinsky dies in New York

07 - President Nixon announces the withdrawal of 100,000 troops from Vietnam by December

19 - Soviets launch the space station Salyut I

19 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic

20 - US Supreme Court rules unanimously that bussing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation

21 - Haitian dictator François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier dies. He is succeeded by his son Jean-Claude 'Baby-Doc', aged 19

23 - Numerous Vietnam veterans return their medals and decorations as part of the anti-war protest in Washington DC

24 - Russian spacecraft Soyuz 10 successfully docks with the space station Salyut I

03 - Thousands of anti-war demonstrators attempt to stop US government activities by blocking traffic into Washington DC during the morning rush hour

06 - British singer Dickie Valentine dies in a car crash

12 - Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena De Macias in the Town Hall at St Tropez, France

21 - EEC agrees terms for British entry

23 - Jackie Stewart wins Monaco Grand Prix

24 - Neville Bonner becomes first Aboriginal senator in Australian government

26 - Qantas payout $500,000 to bomber/extortionist

27 - Egypt and the USSR sign a 15-year treaty of friendship

30 - The spacecraft Mariner 9 achieves a successful orbit of Mars

06 - The Ed Sullivan Show airs for the final time, featuring Gladys Knight and The Pips

06 - Soviets G T Dobrovolsky, V N Volkov and V I Patsayev become first cosmonauts to man an orbital space station

11 - A group of American Indians end their 19 month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. The fifteen protesters had claimed the island under a provision in a treaty between the government and the Indian nations which gave American Indians free run of unused federal land. They are forcibly removed by US Marshals

13 - The first installment of The Pentagon Papers - excerpts from the Pentagon's classified study History of the US Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy - is published in the New York Times. Former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg admits to leaking the material and is indicted for theft and possession of secret documents

24 - The Mersey Tunnel is opened in Liverpool, England

30 - Soviet cosmonauts mysteriously found dead in their seats aboard the Soyuz 11 spaceship after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere

02 - A 19-year-old Australian part Aboriginal girl named Evonne Goolagong takes the women's singles title at Wimbledon

02 - The Erskine Bridge is opened over the River Clyde in Scotland

03 - Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, dies in Paris of a heart attack while in the bath. He was 27

03 - Anti-apartheid riots erupt on the Springboks rugby tour of Australia

06 - Jazz legend Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong dies

07 - Swedish pop stars Bjorn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog (later of ABBA) are married near Skane in Sweden

09 - Two civilians are shot dead by British troops in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The British government refuses to hold an inquiry

13 - The Jordanian army begins a campaign to remove Palestinian guerrillas from bases in North Jordan. Iraq and Syria close borders with Jordan in protest

29 - Tito re-elected President in Yugoslavia

31 - David Scott and James Irwin of Apollo 15 are the seventh and eighth men to walk on the moon, but the first to drive there in the Moon Rover

11 - 300 suspected terrorists are arrested in Northern Ireland

11 - Belfast is torn by rioting after introduction of internment without trial

18 - A deaf mute is shot dead in Northern Ireland because he "ignored" an order to stop

18 - Australia and New Zealand announce the withdrawal of their combat troops from Vietnam

28/29 - Hells Angels rampage at The Weeley Festival in Clacton, UK. The gang are routed by festival-goers who mount a counter attack and destroy most of the Angels' prized hand-built choppers

03 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono leave London for New York. John will never return to the UK

09 - The British ambassador in Uruguay is released by guerrillas

09/13 - 43 people die in riots at Attica State Correctional Facility in Attica, New York

11 - Soviet statesman Nikita Khrushchev dies

24 - Britain expels 90 Russian diplomats for alleged spying

29 - A bomb explodes in a Belfast public house killing two people

30 - US Coastguards prevent members of a new Canadian environmental pressure group from reaching the island of Amchitka off the coast of Alaska (the site of an imminent US nuclear test). The campaigners are onboard a fishing boat which they have called Greenpeace

01 - A soldier is shot dead in Belfast, making a total of 23 soldiers killed this year in Northern Ireland

08 - The USSR expels four diplomats and a businessman, and bans a further 13 from entering the Soviet Union

10 - The re-built London Bridge is opened at Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Built in 1824 across the River Thames in London, the bridge has been dismantled and shipped brick-by-brick from England to its new home in the desert

12 - Rock & roll pioneer Gene Vincent dies of a ruptured stomach ulcer (aged 36) in California

21 - Jade Jagger is born to Mick and Bianca Jagger at Belvedere Nursing Home in Paris, France

25 - 26th Amendment to US Constitution lowers voting age to 18

25 - UN General Assembly votes to admit Communist China to the UN and expel Taiwan

27 - Republic of Congo changes its name to Zaire

28 - The House of Commons votes in favor of Britain joining the Common Market, with a majority of 112

29 - Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band dies in a motorcycle accident, aged 24

05 - Princess Anne named Sportswoman of the Year

12 - Nixon proclaims the end of the US offensive in Vietnam and announces the withdrawal of 45,000 troops by Feb 1972

15 - China takes seat at UN for first time

24 - Somewhere between Seattle, Washington and Reno, Nevada, hijacker DB Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Orient jet with $200,000 in ransom money. Cooper, who is never apprehended, becomes an instant folk hero

28 - Palestinian guerrillas assassinate the Jordanian Prime Minister. King Hussein rules out further talks

30 - Australian combat role in Vietnam ends