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01 - Golda Meir wins Israeli election

04 - President Nixon refuses to comply with subpoenas calling for him to hand over White House documents

06 - Football matches are played in UK on Sunday for the first time due to the current power crisis

18 - Egypt and Israel agree to end their five month conflict by separating their forces along the Suez Canal

20 - A Gallup poll shows that 79% of American voters are in favour of impeaching President Nixon

26 - In Australia, Brisbane is cut off after torrential rains and a cyclone cause flooding. Five people die and 8,000 are left homeless

01 - Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs, who escaped from London's Wandsworth prison in 1965, is arrested in Rio de Janeiro, but extradition is refused

02 - China launches a new Cultural Revolution against the teachings of Confucius and the policies of Lin Piao

03 - Prisoners burn down Bathurst Gaol in Australia

05 - The Mariner 10 space probe sends back pictures of Venus from as close as 26,000 miles

05 - Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. The radicals demand a ransom of $70 in food for every poor person in California

06 - A House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry against Nixon is approved by the House of Representatives

07 - Grenada becomes independent

10 - British coalminers begin a national strike for a large pay increase

13 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is sent into exile from the USSR following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago

20 - Cher, the female partner in the husband and wife duo Sonny and Cher who topped the worlds charts in 1965 with I Got You Babe, files for divorce from Sonny Bono, her husband of 10 years in Santa Monica, California

22 - The Hearst family begins a $2,000,000 food giveaway in compliance with the ransom demands of their daughters kidnappers

22 - Pakistan recognizes Bangladesh

23 - Saturday mail deliveries end in Australia

28 - The Labour Party win the British General Election, but the results mean there is no overall majority for any party. The seats are divided Labour 301, Tory 296, Liberals 12 and Others, 9

01 - Seven of Nixon's former advisors are indicted on charges of conspiracy to obstruct investigations into the Watergate scandal

02 - Military rule in Burma ends as General Ne Win becomes president

03 - In the world's worst air disaster, a Turkish DC-10 crashes after take off from Orly airport in Paris, with the loss of 346 lives

03 - A British Airways VC10 enroute from Bombay to London is hijacked by Arab terrorists after leaving Beirut. At Amsterdam, all passengers and crew are saved and the terrorists are arrested after setting fire to the plane

04 - Edward Heath resigns as British Prime Minister and Labour party leader Harold Wilson forms a new government

08 - Britain returns to full working week

10 - Japanese Imperial Army Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda surrenders on Lubang Island in the Philippines after maintaining military vigil in the jungle for 29 years, unaware of the Japanese surrender in August 1945

18 - Ex-Beatle John Lennon is ejected from the Troubador Club in Los Angeles where he had been constantly interrupting a show by the Smothers Brothers with comments that included swearing and a recurrent "I'm John Lennon". There were also allegations that Lennon had assaulted both the duo's manager and (with a sanitary towel attached to his forehead) one of the waitresses. Once outside the building, Lennon initiates a scuffle with a waiting photographer

18 - Arabs lift oil embargo against US following Henry Kissinger's diplomatic missions to Egypt and Israel

20 - An attempt to kidnap Princess Anne in The Mall, London, fails despite the gunman, 26 year old Ian Ball, shooting and wounding the Princess's bodyguard, James Beaton, her limousine driver, a police constable, and a passing journalist who intervened

24 - Mariner 10 photographs Mercury

28 - Nikolae Ceaucescu is elected president of Romania

30 - In England, Red Rum wins the Grand National

01 - Boundary changes are made in England and Wales which affect nearly all counties. Rutland disappears, but four new counties are created: Avon, Cleveland, Humberside and Cumbria

02 - French President, Georges Pompidou, dies of mysterious illness aged 62

03 - Patricia Hearst announces that she has changed her name to Tania and is joining the Symbionese Liberation Army of her own free will

06 - The 'California Jam' held at LA's Ontario Speedway causes traffic chaos as police are forced to tow away over 700 cars. Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, The Eagles and many other major groups perform on a stage built atop four railway box cars

08 - Nixon signs a bill to raise the minimum US wage to $2.30 an hour

10 - Israeli premier Golda Meir resigns in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur war

15 - A bank camera takes a picture of a heavily-armed Patricia Hearst committing a bank robbery

17 - Vinnie Taylor, of US 50s revival rockers Sha Na Na, dies

24 - Pamela Morrison, the Lizard King's widow, succumbs to a heroin overdose in her Hollywood apartment

25 - An almost bloodless coup in Portugal overthrows Dr Caetano. The coup is known as the "carnation revolution"

04 - In England, Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0 in the FA Cup Final

06 - Chancellor Brandt resigns in German spy row

08 - British R&B pioneer Graham Bond dies when he falls in front of a train at London's Finsbury Park Station

11 - Chinese earthquake kills 20,000

17 - Police open fire on Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters in LA leaving six of eight known members dead. Patty Hearst was not in the building at the time

18 - In Australia, Gough Whitlam has a narrow win in the election

18 - India explodes her first nuclear bomb

19 - Nostalgia Central founder David Turner sails from England to emigrate to Australia ;)

24 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington dies of cancer and pneumonia, aged 75

26 - The teenage audience at a David Cassidy concert in London runs out of control. Six girls are taken to hospital and a 14-year-old girl dies four days later from injuries sustained in the crush

27 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is sworn in as president of France

31 - Israel and Syria agree to disengage their territorial dispute in the Golan Heights

03 - Yitzhak Rabin becomes Israeli Premier

10 - Duke of Gloucester dies aged 74

13 - Prince Charles makes his maiden House of Lords speech in London

17 - An IRA bomb explodes in the Houses of Parliament in London and damages Westminster Hall

01 - Argentinean President General Juan Perón dies, aged 78. He is succeeded by his wife, Maria Eva Perón

11 - Sir John Kerr is new Governor-General of Australia

15 - President Makarios of Cyprus is overthrown in a Greek-engineered coup. Nicos Sampson is installed as president

20 - Turkey invades Cyprus

22 - Greece and Turkey agree to a ceasefire

23 - Greek military junta resigns and Constantin Karamanlis returns from exile

23 - Nicos Sampson is replaced as president of Cyprus by Glafkos Clerides. 2,000 British and foreign nationals and tourists are evacuated by Royal Navy ships and helicopters

24 - The US Supreme Court orders the White House to honour Leon Jaworski's subpoena of tapes and documents, ruling that executive privilege does not apply to Watergate evidence

26 - The US House Judiciary Committee recommends that the House of Representatives impeach Nixon

29 - Mama Cass Elliot (from The Mamas & The Papas) dies in Harry Nilsson's London flat from a heart attack induced by choking on a ham sandwich, after which she inhaled her own vomit

30 - A ceasefire is agreed in Cyprus

30 - French becomes the official language of Quebec, Canada

05 - Nixon releases tapes and transcripts which reveal his approval of the Watergate cover-up

08 - Nixon is first US President to resign. Watched by 100,000,000 people on television, he admits he made some wrong decisions, but insists that the real reason he is leaving is because Congress no longer supports him

09 - Vice President Gerald Ford sworn in as 38th US President. He is the first man not to have been elected by ballot to either the vice presidency or the presidency

19 - The US ambassador in Cyprus, Rodger Paul Davies, is shot dead by Greek-Cypriot demonstrators

31 - New Zealand prime minister Norman Kirk dies, aged 51

01 - Radio and television licenses abolished in Australia

08 - President Ford grants “full, free, and absolute pardon” to ex-president Nixon

12 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed in a left-wing military coup

16 - President Ford offers a limited amnesty to Vietnam War draft resisters and deserters, on the condition that they swear allegiance to the US and perform up to two years of public service

21 - Floods in Honduras, caused by hurricanes, result in the deaths of more than 8,000 people

01 - Bankcard is introduced - The first plastic money in Australia

10 - At the second British general election of the year, Labour wins with a narrow majority of three

11 - London rocked by series of IRA bomb blasts

14 - The UN recognises the PLO as the voice of the Palestinian people

29 - Muhammad Ali regains his world heavyweight title in Zaire

12 - English police want missing aristocrat Lord Lucan for murder of his children's nanny

17 - Erskine Childers, president of Ireland, dies aged 68

17 - At the first democratic elections in Greece for 10 years, the new Democracy party of Karamanlis wins decisively

21 - Twenty-one people die in IRA bomb blasts in two public houses in Birmingham

22 - A British Airways VC10 is hijacked at Dubai and forced by four terrorists to fly to Tunis. The crew is released after seven Palestinians are freed from jails in Cairo and The Hague

26 - Japanese prime minister Tanaka resigns following a corruption scandal

29 - Britain outlaws the IRA

08 - Civilians oust the Colonels in Greece

19 - Nelson A Rockefeller, former Governor of New York, is sworn in as Vice-President

21 - Top London store Harrods is bombed by the IRA. There are no fatalities

21 - The New York Times reports that the CIA had maintained files on 10,000 US citizens during the Nixon administration, as well as engaging in illegal domestic operations against opponents of the Vietnam War

24 - British Labour MP John Stonehouse is arrested in Melbourne, Australia after 'disappearing' in Miami

25 - Cyclone Tracy flattens Darwin, (Australia) on Christmas Eve. Winds of 200km/h and torrential rain claim the lives of 68 people and destroy 10,000 of Darwin's 12,000 houses, leaving 43,000 people homeless

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