King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered at the Belasco Theater, New York City, US, and ran for 45 performances.
A London underground train crashes into the end of the tunnel at Moorgate station.
Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the British Conservative Party.
The world's first McDonald's drive-through was opened in Arizona.
Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom opened at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida.
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.
Japanese Red Army (JRA) terrorists stormed the French embassy in The Hague (Netherlands) and took 11 hostages, including the ambassador.
A Coup in Ethiopia ousts Emperor Haile Selassie.
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.
Daredevil Walks a High Wire Between Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
John Lennon was given 60 days to leave the US.
India had their first successful nuclear bomb test.
NASA's SMS-1 satellite launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Delta rocket.
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.
All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France.
A stampede at a soccer match killed forty-nine people in Cairo, Egypt.
The crew of Skylab 4 returned to Earth.
After more than three hundred years of colonial rule, Grenada gained its independence from the UK.
An energy crisis in the USA prompted President Nixon to initiate daylight saving time four months early.
President Richard Nixon signed the US Endangered Species Act into law.
Spanish Prime Minister Carrero Blanco assassinated.
Terrorists attacked Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino International Airport, leaving thirty dead.
The American Psychiatric Association officially declared that homosexuality is not a mental illness.
President George Papadopoulos was ousted by the army, just a week after student-led protests at the Athens Polytechnic were violently put down by the government.
Athens Polytechnic Uprising ends.
The Skylab 4 mission was launched by NASA, taking a crew of three astronauts to the US space station.
NASA launched the last space probe in the Mariner Program, Mariner 10.
The Bosphorus Bridge was completed in Turkey.
Queen Elizabeth II led the Sydney Opera House's grand opening.
Maynard Jackson was elected as the first black Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
Concorde made its first nonstop trip across the Atlantic from Washington, DC, to Paris, France, in a record-breaking time of 3 hours and 32 minutes.
Guinea-Bissau declared its independence from Portugal.
Carl XVI Gustaf succeeds his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf as the King of Sweden.
US involvement in Vietnam ends.
Coup in Rwanda.
President Richard Nixon implemented a 60-day price freeze across the US.
NASA's Explorer 49 was launched into Earth's orbit to research long-range radio waves within the Milky Way.
Trio inventors were granted the patent to the ATM.
The world's first supersonic airliner crashes.
The people of Los Angeles elected Tom Bradley as their first Black mayor.
The USA's first space station, Skylab, was launched into Earth's orbit.
FedEx officially began its operations and flew 186 packages to 25 cities on the US's East Coast.
