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Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil, New York City experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24…
The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2…
The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in…
Aeroflot Flight B-2 crashes after takeoff from Vitim Airport in the Sakha Republic, killing 39.
The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal…
German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a…
German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a…
The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain
Chief Minister of Sabah Faud Stephens, Peter Joinud Mojuntin, and several other politicians are killed in a plane crash
End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic…
Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of…