Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
The final episode of Monty Python aired, which disbanded due to one member who lost interest and another who struggled with alcoholism.
Two bombs exploded in pubs in central Birmingham, UK.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre horror film premiered in cinemas in Los Angeles, California.
The Franklin National Bank closed due to fraud, the largest US bank to fail at the time.
John Lennon's album 'Walls and Bridges' was released in the US.
US President Gerald Ford officially pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes he committed as President.
Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States after Richard Nixon handed in his resignation.
Richard Nixon announced his resignation from being President of the United States of America.
John Lennon was given 60 days to leave the US.
The Heimlich Maneuver was published in an article for the first time.
India had their first successful nuclear bomb test.
NASA's SMS-1 satellite launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Delta rocket.
Europe surrendered to ''Waterloo" as ABBA smashed the 19th Eurovision Contest in Brighton, England.
China's famous Terracotta Army was uncovered by a group of farmers near Xi'an, China.
NASA's Mariner 10 became the first spacecraft to reach Mercury.
Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda became the last Japanese soldier to surrender, 29 years after WWII ended.
A stampede at a soccer match killed forty-nine people in Cairo, Egypt.
The Soviet Union exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the winner of the 1970 Nobel Price in Literature winner.
The crew of Skylab 4 returned to Earth.
After more than three hundred years of colonial rule, Grenada gained its independence from the UK.
'The Way We Were' by Barbra Streisand reached number one on the Billboard 100 charts.
American author Peter Benchley published his novel 'Jaws.'
An energy crisis in the USA prompted President Nixon to initiate daylight saving time four months early.
