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East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese…
Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of…
Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of…
Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically hands over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave…
Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
El Tacnazo: Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian Prime Minister carries out a coup d'état in the city of Tacna,…
The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in…
Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members…
Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.
The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual…
Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to…
Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime
Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime
Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape