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| 01 - Britain, Denmark and
Ireland join the Common Market |
| 09 - Southern Rhodesia
closes its border with Zambia after terrorist attacks |
| 17 - President Marcos
proclaims a new constitution in the Philippines under which he rules
indefinitely |
| 22 - Former US President Lyndon B Johnson dies |
| 22 - The US Supreme Court
legalises abortion in America |
| 27 - USA, North and South
Vietnam and the Vietcong sign a peace treaty bringing the Vietnam
War to an end |
| 30 - James W McCord and G
Gordon Liddy are convicted of breaking into and illegally wiretapping
Democratic Party Headquarters at the
Watergate apartment complex in
Washington DC |
| 08 - Max Yasgur, whose farm
housed the 1969 Woodstock Festival, dies aged 53 |
| 09 - Britain and East
Germany establish diplomatic relations |
| 12 - The first American
prisoners-of-war from North Vietnam are flown out |
| 21 - 104 die as Israeli
fighter planes force down a Libyan Boeing 727 in the Sinai desert |
| 27 - 120 protesting
American Indians take hostages at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,
demanding an investigation of the federal treatment of Native
Americans |
| 01 - Palestinian terrorists
storm the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum, holding five diplomats
hostage |
| 02 - At the Saudi Arabian
embassy, Palestinian terrorists murder the US ambassador, his chargé
d'affaires and the Belgian chargé d'affaires |
| 08 - In a Northern Ireland
referendum, voters choose to remain part of the UK, but only 59% of
citizens vote |
| 08 - Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan, a founding member
of The Grateful Dead, dies
from liver failure brought on by alcohol poisoning. He is 27 |
| 08 - Paul
McCartney and his wife Linda plead guilty to charges of growing marijuana on
their Scottish farm. The couple are freed after paying a fine of £100
as there was no question of the narcotic being used for any purpose
other than personal consumption |
| 08 - 15 die in an arson
attack at the Whisky Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane, Australia |
| 16 - Australian
Commonwealth police raid ASIO (Australian Security and Intelligence Organization) offices |
| 23 - Watergate judge John J Sirica publicizes
a letter written to him by James W McCord, which
claims that Nixon Administration officials had applied political
pressure to him and other defendants to plead guilty and keep quiet
about the break-in |
| 23 - Yoko Ono is granted
permanent residence in the USA but John
Lennon is ordered to leave
the country within 60 days |
| 26 - Women are allowed on
the floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time |
| 29 - Last US troops leave Vietnam |
| 01 - VAT (Value Added Tax)
introduced in UK |
| 01 - John Lennon and Yoko
Ono announce the founding of Nutopia, a new country with no laws or
borders (though nobody can find it on any map). It is no accident
that the press conference is held on April 1st |
| 06 - The finance ministers
of the EEC countries establish a European fund for monetary
cooperation |
| 08 - Spanish artist Pablo
Picasso dies aged 91 |
| 09 - Arab terrorists
attempt to hijack an Israeli plane at Nicosia. One Arab is killed and
seven are captured |
| 10 - Israeli commandos land
in Beirut and kill three Palestinian guerrilla leaders |
| 18 - Three Royal Navy
frigates begin patrolling in waters near Iceland following a dispute
between Britain and Iceland over cod fishing |
| 21 - Former Australian PM
and Treasurer Arthur McFadden dies |
| 26 - An Icelandic gunboat
shells and damages a British trawler |
| 27 - Acting FBI Director L
Patrick Gray resigns after revelations surface that he had
intentionally destroyed records involving the Watergate break-in |
| 30 - On national TV, Nixon
accepts responsibility (but not blame) for Watergate. He accepts the
resignations of advisers H. R. Haldeman and John D. Erlichman, and
fires John W. Dean III as counsel |
| 14 - US launches their
first space station, Skylab. Its solar panels are damaged
during the launch |
| 17 - The Senate Select
Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by North
Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, opens televised hearings to explore the
alleged cover-up of the Nixon administration's involvement in the Watergate affair |
| 25 - Skylab 2
carries astronauts Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz to
rendezvous with Skylab. The three repair the solar panels
damaged in Skylab's launch and conduct scientific experiments,
before returning to Earth on June 22 |
| 29 - Thomas Bradley becomes
first black Mayor of Los Angeles |
| 01 - In Greece, the
monarchy is abolished and George Papadopoulos becomes the first
president of the republic |
| 04 - Murry Wilson, father
of Beach Boys' Brian, Carl and Dennis, dies of a heart attack aged 55 |
| 16/25 - USSR Party
Secretary Leonid Brezhnev visits the US |
| 22 - Applications by
West and East Germany to join the UN are accepted |
| 24 - Soviet premier
Brezhnev attends a summit conference in the US |
| 25 - Erskine Childers
becomes president of Ireland, succeeding Eamon De Valera |
| 25/29 - Former White House
counsel John Dean testifies before the Senate Watergate Committee,
implicating himself, White House Chief of Staff H R Haldeman,
Assistant of Domestic Affairs John Erlichman, former Attorney General
John Mitchell, and President Richard Nixon in the cover-up |
| 26 - Keith Richard and
Anita Pallenberg are arrested on firearms and drugs charges |
| 04 - Eight soldiers, four
warders and 21 prisoners are injured during a riot at Maze Prison in
Northern Ireland |
| 04 - Don Powell, the
drummer with British glam-rockers Slade, is badly injured in a car
crash that kills his girlfriend |
| 06 -
Bob Hawke is elected to
head the Australian Labor Party |
| 08 - Australian Labor
stalwart Arthur Calwell dies aged 76 (hopefully not as a result of
the news that Bob Hawke was the new party leader!) |
| 15 - Grandson of US oil
billionaire Paul Getty kidnapped |
| 16 - Former White House
aide Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of secret recordings
Nixon made of White House conversations. Though subpoenaed for them
by special prosecutor Archibald Cox, Nixon refuses to release them |
| 18 - 43 Belgian tourists
are killed when their coach plunges from a mountain road into a river
in the French Alps |
| 19 - Actor and Martial Arts
expert Bruce Lee dies in mysterious circumstances |
| 20 - A Japanese Boeing 747
with 123 passengers and 22 crew is hijacked over Holland and forced
to fly to Dubai. Later, at Benghazi, the plane is blown up by the
hijackers. A girl hijacker is killed by a grenade explosion, but all
passengers and crew escape |
| 21 - France explodes test
H-bomb at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific despite protests from
Australia and New Zealand |
| 28 - Skylab 3 makes
a rendezvous with the orbiting Skylab station. Astronauts Alan
Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma perform further repairs and
experiments |
| 05 - Terrorists kill three,
injure 55 at Athens Airport |
| 06 - US bombers
accidentally bomb a friendly village in Cambodia |
| 02 - British author J R R
Tolkien (Lord Of The Rings) dies |
| 04 - John Erlichman and G
Gordon Liddy are indicted in connection with the burglary of the
office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Following Ellsberg's
release of The Pentagon Papers, the two were allegedly looking
for evidence that would link Ellsburg (a former Defense Department
analyst) to the KGB |
| 11 - A military junta
headed by General Pinochet seizes power in Chile in a bloody coup
during which President Allende is killed |
| 11 - During a riot at a
gold mine near Johannesburg, 11 African miners are shot and killed |
| 15 - King Gustaf Adolf of
Sweden dies. He is succeeded by his grandson Carl Gustaf, who becomes
King Carl XVI Gustav |
| 19 - US musician (ex-The
Byrds) Gram Parsons dies in California after collapsing in a motel.
He was 26 |
| 20 - US singer/songwriter
Jim Croce dies when the plane he is flying in crashes into a tree.
His guitarist, Maury Mulheisen is also killed |
| 23 - General Juan Peron returns
from exile and is elected President of Argentina |
| 26 - 18 pensioners die in
bus plunge into Tumut Pond Dam in Snowy Mountains, Australia |
| 06 - Egypt and Syria launch
a joint attack on Israel on Yom Kippur - the holiest day in the
Jewish calendar |
| 08 - Britain's first
commercial radio station, the London Broadcasting Company, goes on
the air |
| 09 -
Elvis and Priscilla
Presley divorce in Santa Monica, California |
| 09 - $50 note comes into
circulation in Australia |
| 10 - Spiro Agnew resigns as
US Vice President and then, in federal court in Baltimore, pleads no
contest to charges of evasion of income taxes on $29,500 he received
in 1967, while governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on
three years probation |
| 12 -
Gerald Ford is
nominated Vice President by Richard Nixon |
| 12 - US Court of Appeal
orders Nixon to hand over the Watergate tapes |
| 13 - German President
Gustav Heinemann attacked by an insane assailant during a business
leaders meeting in Augsburg. Heinemann is not seriously injured |
| 16 - Jazz legend Gene Krupa
dies |
| 17 - Eleven Arab OPEC
states agree to cut oil production and raise prices by over 70% in
protest at US support of Israel |
| 17 - Queen Elizabeth opens
the Sydney Opera House |
| 19 - 500 drown in Spanish
floods in the Granada, Murcia and Almeria provincs |
| 19 -
Nixon offers a summary
of the Watergate tapes in exchange for no further enquiries.
Prosecutor Archibald Cox refuses |
| 20 - In the “Saturday Night
Massacre,” Nixon fires special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and
Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus. Attorney General
Elliot L. Richardson resigns |
| 24 - Syria accepts UN
ceasefire |
| 25 - US forces are put on
worldwide alert as fears rise of USSR involvement in the Middle East
conflict |
| 25 - John Lennon begins a
lawsuit against the US government alleging his telephone was tapped
at a time when he was fighting a deportation order for his political
leanings |
| 31 - Three Provisional IRA
leaders are snatched from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin in a hijacked
helicopter |
| 01 -
Nixon appoints Leon Jaworksi as special
Watergate prosecutor |
| 06 -
New York Dolls drummer
Billy Murcia dies of a heroin overdose in London, England |
| 09 - Six Watergate burglars
jailed |
| 11 - Egypt and Israel
accept a US plan for a ceasefire |
| 13 - Iceland agrees to a
plan to end the 'cod war' with Britain |
| 14 - Princess Anne marries
Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey, watched by 500 million TV
viewers |
| 25 - A military coup in
Greece ousts the government of President Papadopoulos |
| 26 - A released White House
tape is revealed to have had eighteen minutes erased from it |
| 26 - Bass player John
Rostill of The Shadows is electrocuted while playing guitar in his
home studio |
| 03 - In Australia, smooth
lawyer Neville Wran is to lead NSW opposition |
| 05 - UK government impose
50 MPH speed limit to reduce fuel consumption |
| 06 - Representative
Gerald Ford is sworn in as US Vice-President |
| 17 - British PM
Edward Heath
initiates a three-day working week in response to crippling disputes
in the coal, railway and power sectors |
| 17 - Arab terrorists kill
32 people at Rome Airport, hijack a Lufthansa aircraft and fly to
Kuwait. The crew and hostages are released and the five guerrillas
surrender |
| 20 - 1950's US pop star
Bobby Darin dies during heart surgery at the Cedars of Lebanon
Hospital in Los Angeles, aged 37 |
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Jan 22 - LBJ dies
May 22 - Nixon & Watergate
Nov 14 - Princess Anne weds
 Bar codes are
introduced for stock control and pricing in supermarkets
Drink cans
with push-through tabs (the "Pop-Top") are manufactured in the US
Israeli Uri
Geller claims paranormal abilities to bend spoons by mind-power
Hitler's car
sells for $153,000
Price of a
meat pie in Australia is 18 cents while a 2 bedroom house costs around $23,000 -
$30,000 AUD.
'Gala
Supreme' wins Melbourne Cup
Quote of the Year
"When you are a guest in someone's house, you do not start
criticising the wallpaper or moving the furniture around".
Roger Moore, in South Africa to make the film Gold responding to a
question about his attitude to apartheid
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