Assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford is foiled.
Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Anne Seton as the first American saint.
NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
Luxury fashion brand Giorgio Armani was founded in Milan, Italy.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project completed the world's first international space rendezvous.
The first-ever international crewed space mission was jointly launched by the US and the USSR.
São Tomé and Príncipe gains independence from Portuguese rule.
Comoros becomes independent.
The Republic of Cabo Verde gained its independence from Portugal.
The first Cricket World Cup begins.
Animal fossils found in North Carolina became the oldest known in the US.
Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to conquer Mount Everest.
President Gerald Ford declares an end to the 'Vietnam Era.'
A NASA X-ray astronomy space telescope called 'Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53' was launched into space.
The fall of Saigon marks the end of the Vietnam War.
Hubert van Es takes the famous picture of a helicopter airlift from a Saigon rooftop.
Phnom Penh falls to the Khmer Rouge.
The Biological Weapons Convention comes into effect.
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.
The first International Women's Day was celebrated.
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.
The Soviet Union's Soyuz 17 was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz rocket.
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 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.
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.
