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Section: July (2):
July 1 – Joaquín Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
July 3
31 people are arrested when a demonstration by approximately 4,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters in front of the United States Embassy in London in Grosvenor Square turns violent.
René Barrientos is elected President of Bolivia.
July 6 – Malawi becomes a republic.
July 7 – A Warsaw Pact conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
July 8 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Ntare V, who is in turn deposed by prime minister Michel Micombero.
July 11 – The 1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.
July 12 – Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia.
July 13 – In Chicago, United States, Richard Speck breaks into a nurses' dormitory and murders eight of the nine student nurses who live there.
July 14
Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clash over the Jordan River.
Gwynfor Evans, President of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, becomes Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Carmarthen, taking the previously Labour-held Welsh seat at a by-election with a majority of 2,435 on an 18% swing and giving his party its first representation at Westminster in its forty-one year history.
July 18
Gemini 10 (John Young, Michael Collins) is launched from the United States. After docking with an Agena target vehicle, the astronauts set a world altitude record of 474 miles (763 km).
The International Court of Justice rules in favour of South Africa in a case on the administration of South West Africa which has been brought before them by Ethiopia and Liberia.
July 22 – Following the death of Hsu Tsu-tsai, a visiting engineer, in The Hague under suspicious circumstances, the Chinese government declares Dutch diplomat G. J. Jongejans persona non grata, but tells him not to leave China before Hsu's Chinese associates have been permitted to leave the Netherlands.
July 23 – Katangese troops in Stanleyville, Congo, revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister Moise Tshombe.
July 24
U.N. Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow.
A USAF F-4C Phantom #63-7599 is shot down by a North Vietnamese SAM-2 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Hanoi, the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamese surface-to-air missile in the Vietnam War.
July 26 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, stating that the House, when acting in a judicial capacity, is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
July 28 – The U.S. announces that a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
July 29
1966 Nigerian counter-coup: Army officers from the north of Nigeria execute head of state General Aguiyi-Ironsi and install Yakubu Gowon.
La Noche de los Bastones Largos: Junta takes over Argentine universities.
Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in Woodstock, New York. He is not seen in public for over a year.
July 30 – England beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time.
July 31 – Loss of MV Darlwyne: a pleasure cruiser disappears off the Cornwall coast of England with the loss of all 31 aboard.
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Section: August (2):
August 1
Sniper Charles Whitman kills 15 people and wounds 31 from roof of the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower in the United States, after earlier killing his wife and mother.
The British Colonial Office merges with the Commonwealth Relations Office to form a new Commonwealth Office.
August 5 – The Caesars Palace hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas, United States.
August 6
Braniff International Airways Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska, United States, killing all 42 of those on board.
René Barrientos takes office as the President of Bolivia.
The Salazar Bridge (later the 25 de Abril Bridge) opens in Lisbon, Portugal.
August 10 – Lunar Orbiter 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon, is launched.
August 11
Indonesia and Malaysia issue a joint peace declaration, formally ending the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation which began in 1963.
The Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during which John Lennon apologizes for his "more popular than Jesus" remark, saying, "I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."
August 12 – Massacre of Braybrook Street: Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead 3 plainclothes policemen in London; they are later sentenced to life imprisonment.
August 15 – Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake Kinneret (also known as the Sea of Galilee) for 3 hours.
August 17 – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen.
August 18 – Vietnam War – Battle of Long Tan: D Company, 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, meets and defeats a Viet Cong force estimated to be four times larger, in Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam.
August 19 – The 6.8 Mw Varto earthquake affects the town of Varto in eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 2,394–3,000 and injuring at least 1,420.
August 21 – Seven men are sentenced to death in Egypt for anti-Nasser agitation.
August 22
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is established.
The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), is formed.
August 26 – The first battle of the South African Air Force and the South African Police with PLAN, the armed wing of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), takes place at Ongulumbashe during Operation Blue Wildebeest, triggering the South African Border War which continues until 1989.
August 29 – The Beatles end their U.S. tour with a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It is their last performance as a live touring band.
August 30 – France offers independence to French Somaliland (Djibouti from 1977).
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Section: September (2):
September 1
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed.
98 British tourists die when Britannia Airways Flight 105 crashes in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
September 6 – South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in Parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas.
September 9 – NATO decides to move Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe to Belgium.
September 12 – B. J. Vorster becomes the new Prime Minister of South Africa.
September 13 – Cultural Revolution in China: Clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards are reported by TASS in the Soviet Union.
September 16
In South Vietnam, Thích Trí Quang ends a 100-day hunger strike.
The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
September 19 – Indonesian military commander (later President) Suharto announces the resumption of Indonesian participation in the United Nations.
September 29 – Hurricane Inez strikes Hispaniola, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands homeless in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
September 30
The Bechuanaland Protectorate in Africa achieves independence from the United Kingdom as Botswana, with Seretse Khama as its first President.
Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau Prison in West Berlin.
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Section: October (2):
October 1 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wemme, Oregon, the first loss of a DC-9.
October 3 – Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic.
October 4
Israel applies for membership in the European Economic Community, which is never granted.
Basutoland becomes independent of the United Kingdom and takes the name Lesotho.
October 5
UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is to be celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
Spain closes its Gibraltar border to vehicular traffic.
An experimental breeder reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan suffers a partial meltdown when its cooling system fails.
October 6
LSD is made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only are possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the country are shut down as well.
The Love Pageant Rally takes place in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park (a narrow section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district).
October 7 – The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
October 9 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai Massacre.
October 11 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
October 14
Closure of Intra Bank begins a crisis in the Lebanese banking system.
The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro system.
October 15 – Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found the Black Panther Party in the United States.
October 17 – Lesotho and Botswana are admitted to the United Nations.
October 21 – Aberfan disaster in South Wales (U.K.): 144 (including 116 children) are killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip.
October 26
NATO decides to move its headquarters from Paris to Brussels.
A fire aboard the US aircraft carrier USS Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin kills 44 crewmen.
October 27
The United Nations terminates the mandate given by the League of Nations and proclaims that South West Africa will be administrated by the United Nations. This is rejected by South Africa.
Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans for EPCOT, a utopian planned city to be built in Florida.
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1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1967th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 967th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1960s decade.
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Section: January (2):
January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong Delta.
January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle.
January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema.
January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.
January 23
In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Milton Keynes in England is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area encloses three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed is largely farmland, with evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
January 25 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky forces his rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, into exile while overseas on a diplomatic visit.
January 26
The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalise 90% of the nation's steel industry.
The largest-ever blizzard to hit the US city of Chicago begins.
January 27
Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty (ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting weapons of mass destruction from space.
January 31 – West Germany and Romania establish diplomatic relations.
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Section: February (2):
February 3 – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.
February 5
NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3.
Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto, is launched.
General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua.
February 6 – Alexei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets The Queen on February 9.
February 7 – Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.
February 10 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential succession and disability) is ratified.
February 11 – Burgess Ice Rise, lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, is first mapped by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
February 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
February 22
Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia (see Transition to the New Order and Supersemar).
Donald Sangster becomes the new prime minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.
February 23
Trinidad and Tobago is the first Commonwealth nation to join the Organization of American States.
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted.
February 24 – Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.
February 25 – Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.
February 26 – A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan.
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Section: March (2):
March 1
Brazilian police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.
Óscar Gestido is sworn in as President of Uruguay after 15 years of collegiate government.
March 4
The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.
Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the English Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium, defeating West Bromwich Albion 3–2.
March 9 – Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the United States via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
March 11 – The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.
March 12 – The Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president (Suharto resigned in 1998).
March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.
March 14
The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged with breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide.
March 16 – In the Aspida case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2–18 years in prison, accused of treason and intentions of staging a coup.
March 18
Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles off the coast of Britain, causing the biggest oil spill in history up to that point.
March 19 – A referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France.
March 21
A military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!"
Charles Manson is released from Terminal Island. Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay. Upon his release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the Summer of Love.
March 26 – Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the Cameron Highlands.
March 28 – Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum progressio.
March 29
The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, is launched.
The SEACOM Asian telephone cable is inaugurated.
Torrey Canyon oil spill: British Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force aircraft bomb and sink the grounded supertanker SS Torrey Canyon.
March 31 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.
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Section: April (2):
April 2 – A United Nations delegation arrives in Aden as its independence approaches. The delegation leaves April 7, accusing British authorities of lack of cooperation. The British say the delegation did not contact them.
April 4 – Martin Luther King Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during his sermon at the Riverside Church in New York City.
April 7 – Six-Day War (approach): Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s.
April 8 – Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for the United Kingdom.
April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (A-100 series) takes its maiden flight.
April 10 – The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Best Picture goes to A Man for All Seasons.
April 15
Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. The march, organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, from Central Park to the United Nations drew hundreds of thousands of people, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Belafonte, James Bevel, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, who marched and spoke at the event. A simultaneous march in San Francisco was attended by Coretta Scott King.
Scotland defeats England 3–2 at Wembley Stadium, with goals from Law, Lennox and McCalligog, in the British Championships. This is England's first defeat since they won the World Cup, and ends a 19-game unbeaten run.
April 20
The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.
April 21
Greece suffers a military coup by a group of military officers, who establish a military dictatorship led by Georgios Papadopoulos; future-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou remains a political prisoner till December 25. The dictatorship ends in 1974.
An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois where 33 people are killed and 500 injured).
April 23 – A group of young leftist radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).
April 24 – Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry.
April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.
April 28
In Houston, Texas, United States, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service. He is stripped of his boxing title and barred from professional boxing for the next three years.
Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.
The U.S. aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is formed through a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft (it becomes part of The Boeing Company three decades later).
April 29 – Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to the people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.
April 30 – Moscow's 537 m tall TV tower is finished.
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Section: May (2):
May 1
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.
May 2
The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. It is their last Stanley Cup and last finals appearance to date. It will turn out to be the last game in the Original Six era. Six more teams will be added in the fall.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership.
May 4 – Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States.
May 6
Zakir Husain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.
May 8 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
May 9 – A partial solar eclipse took place.
May 10 – The Greek military government accuses Andreas Papandreou of treason.
May 11 – The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership.
May 15 – The Waiting period leading up to the Six-Day War begins.
May 17
Syria mobilizes against Israel.
President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in the Sinai. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies (May 18).
May 18
Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the Scopes Trial).
In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins guerrilla warfare in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero.
NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission (the first in the Apollo series with a crew): Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham.
May 19 – Yuri Andropov becomes KGB chief in the Soviet Union.
May 20 – The Spring Mobilization Conference, a gathering of 700 antiwar activists is held in Washington D.C. to chart the future moves for the U.S. antiwar movement
May 22 – The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
May 23
A significant worldwide geomagnetic flare unfolded. Radio emissions coming from the Sun jammed military surveillance radars.
Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.
May 27
Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh.
The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights.
May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence, which is not recognized.
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Section: June (2):
June 2
Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which 27-year-old student Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group 2 June Movement.
Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
June 4 – Stockport air disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
June 5 – Six-Day War begins: Israel launches Operation Focus, an attack on Egyptian Air Force airfields; the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan invade Israel. Battle of Ammunition Hill, start of the Jordanian campaign
June 7 – East Jerusalem is captured in a battle conducted by Israeli forces, without the use of artillery, in order to avoid damage to the Holy City.
June 8
Ras Sedr massacre in the Sinai Peninsula: a mass killing of dozens of Egyptian prisoners of war by the Israel Defense Forces.
USS Liberty incident: a United States Navy spy ship is attacked by Israeli forces, allegedly in error, killing 34 crew.
Egypt severs diplomatic relations with the United States.
June 10
Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel.
Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.
June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while he was allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts several days.
June 12
Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
Venera program: Venera 4 is launched by the Soviet Union (the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
June 16 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days.
June 17 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
June 18 – Eighteen British soldiers are killed in the Aden police mutiny.
June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police.
June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love".
June 26
Pope Paul VI ordains 27 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II).
The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1; leads to 200 arrests.
June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
June 28 – Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former president of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped and taken to Algeria.
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Section: July (2):
July 1
Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
The EEC joins with the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Community, to form the European Communities (from the 1980s usually known as European Community [EC]).
Seaboard Air Line Railroad merges with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to become Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, first step to today's CSX Transportation.
The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the Wimbledon tennis championships. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.
American Samoa's first constitution becomes effective.
July 3 – A military rebellion led by Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
July 5 – Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo.
July 6
Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade the secessionist Biafra May 30.
Langenweddingen level crossing disaster: A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany, kills 94 people, mostly children.
July 7 – All You Need Is Love is released in the UK.
July 10
Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.
New Zealand decimalises its currency from pound to dollar at £1 to $2 ($1 = 10/-).
July 12
The Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship.
1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting 5 days and leaving 26 dead.
July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the Plainfield, NJ, riots take place.
July 16 – A prison riot in Jay, Florida, United States leaves 37 dead.
July 19
A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade; businesses are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling 4.2 million. Two more such incidents occur during the following two weeks.
Eighty-two people are killed in a collision between Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 and a Cessna 310 near Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States.
July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.
July 23–31 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
July 24 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
July 29
An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum.
An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead.
July 30 – The 1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 3 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.
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Section: August (2):
August 1 – The UAC TurboTrain makes its first journey.
August 6 – A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]". The date of the discovery is not recorded.
August 7
Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.
August 8 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand.
August 9 – Vietnam War – Operation Cochise: United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
August 10 – Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme's troops take the Congolese border town of Bukavu.
August 15 – The United Kingdom Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the act and continues broadcasting.
August 19 – West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
August 21
A truce is declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Two U.S. Navy jets stray into the airspace of the People's Republic of China following an attack on a target in North Vietnam and are shot down. Lt. Robert J. Flynn, the only survivor, is captured alive and will be held prisoner by China until 1973.
August 24 – Pakistan's first steel mill is inaugurated in Chittagong, East Pakistan (Bangladesh).
August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold the position.
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Section: September (2):
September 1
The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.
Ilse Koch, known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
September 3
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu is elected President of South Vietnam.
At 5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in Sweden switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
September 10 – In a Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, only 44 voters out of 12,182 in the British Crown colony of Gibraltar support union with Spain.
September 17
A riot during a football match in Kayseri, Turkey leaves 44 dead, about 600 injured.
Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.
September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.
September 30 – In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4.
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1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.
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Section: January (2):
January 1 – Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
January 2
Oleg Deripaska, Russian businessman
Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
Anky van Grunsven, Dutch equesterian
January 5
DJ BoBo, Swiss singer, songwriter and dancer
Andrzej Gołota, Polish boxer
Carrie Ann Inaba, American choreographer, game show host and singer
January 6 – John Singleton, African-American film director and writer (d. 2019)
January 11 – Benjamin List, German organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
January 12
Rachael Harris, American actress and comedian
January 13 – Pat Onstad, Canadian soccer player
January 14 – LL Cool J, African-American rapper and actor
January 16 – Atticus Ross, English musician, songwriter, record producer and audio engineer
January 17 – Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
January 24
Michael Kiske, German musician
Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
January 26 – Novala Takemoto, Japanese author and fashion designer
January 27 – Mike Patton, American singer
January 28 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer
January 29 – Edward Burns, American actor
January 30 – King Felipe VI of Spain
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Section: February (2):
February 1
Lisa Marie Presley, American singer, songwriter and daughter of Elvis Presley (d. 2023)
Mark Recchi, Canadian ice hockey player
February 3 – Vlade Divac, Serbian basketball player
February 5
Marcus Grönholm, Finnish rally driver
Qasim Melho, Syrian television actor
February 7
Peter Bondra, Slovakian ice hockey player
Porntip Nakhirunkanok, Miss Universe 1988
February 8
Gary Coleman, African-American actor (d. 2010)
April Stewart, American voice actress
February 10
Laurie Foell, New Zealand/Australian actress
Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
February 11
Lavinia Agache, Romanian artistic gymnast
Mo Willems, American children's book author
February 12 – Josh Brolin, American actor
February 13
Kelly Hu, American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen
Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1993 winner
February 14 – Jules Asner, American model and television personality
February 15 – Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress
February 18
Molly Ringwald, American actress
Dennis Satin, German film director
February 21 – Pellom McDaniels, American football player (d. 2020)
February 22
Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
Jeri Ryan, American actress
February 23
February 24
Andy Berman, American actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian
Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (d. 2005)
February 29 – Sam Sneed, American producer and rapper
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Section: March (2):
March 1
Kat Cressida, American voice actress
Kunjarani Devi, Indian weightlifter
Muho Noelke, German Zen master
March 2 – Daniel Craig, British actor
March 3 – Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player
March 4
Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
Patsy Kensit, British actress
March 5
Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian Prime Minister
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, 10th Prime Minister of Eswatini (d. 2020)
March 6 – Moira Kelly, American actress
March 7 – Jeff Kent, American baseball player
March 9
Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
Rexy Mainaky, Indonesian badminton player
March 11 – Lisa Loeb, American singer
March 12 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor
March 13
Gillian Keegan, British politician
Masami Okui, Japanese singer
March 14
Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress
James Frain, British actor
March 15
Mark McGrath, American singer
Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician
Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer
March 16
David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Trevor Wilson, American basketball player
March 20
Carlos Almeida, Cape Verdean long-distance runner
Ultra Naté, American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoter
March 22 – Euronymous, Norwegian musician (d. 1993)
March 23
Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter and musician
Mike Atherton, English cricketer
Fernando Hierro, Spanish football player and coach
March 26
Kenny Chesney, American country music singer
James Iha, American rock musician
March 27 – Ben Koldyke, American actor
March 28 – Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
March 29 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
March 30 – Celine Dion, Canadian singer
March 31 – César Sampaio, Brazilian football player and coach
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Section: April (2):
April 1
Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer
Andreas Schnaas, German director
Alexander Stubb, 43rd Prime Minister of Finland
April 5
Paula Cole, American singer
Stephen Bardo, American basketball player
Stewart Lee, English stand-up comedian
April 7 – Jože Možina, Slovenian historian, sociologist and journalist
April 8
Patricia Arquette, American actress
Shawn Fonteno, American actor and rapper
April 9 – Tom Brands, American Olympic wrestler
April 11 – CB Milton, Dutch electronic music vocalist
April 12 – Ott, English musician and record producer
April 13 – Necrobutcher, Norwegian musician
April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor and singer
April 15 – Stacey Williams, American model
April 16
Greg Baker, American actor and musician
Martin Dahlin, Swedish football player
Vickie Guerrero, American professional wrestler
April 17
Julie Fagerholt, Danish fashion designer
Adam McKay, American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian, and actor
April 18 – David Hewlett, English-born Canadian actor, writer and director
April 19 – Ashley Judd, American actress
April 20
J. D. Roth, American television host
Yelena Välbe, Russian cross-country skier
April 23 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001)
April 24
Stacy Haiduk, American actress
Jorge Medina, Bolivian civil rights activist and politician (d. 2022)
Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
April 28 – Howard Donald, British singer (Take That)
April 29
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of Croatia (2015-2020)
Michael Herbig, German film director, actor and author
Darren Matthews, English professional wrestler
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Section: May (2):
May 1 – Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
May 2
Jeff Agoos, American soccer player
Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
May 3
Nina Paley, American cartoonist
Li Yong, Chinese host (d. 2018)
May 4
Julian Barratt, English comedian, actor, musician and music producer
Momoko Kikuchi, Japanese actress and singer
May 5 – John Soko, Zambian footballer (d. 1993)
May 7
Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish-born musician
Traci Lords, American actress
May 8 –
Mickaël Madar, French footballer
Éric Martineau, French politician
May 9
Carla Overbeck, American soccer player
Marie-José Pérec, French athlete
Nataša Pirc Musar, Slovenian politician, attorney, author, journalist and 5th President of Slovenia
May 10 – Al Murray, English comedian
May 12 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
May 13
Sonja Zietlow, German television presenter
Scott Morrison, 30th Prime Minister of Australia
May 14 – Greg Davies, English actor, comedian and presenter
May 16 – Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress
May 17 – Constance Menard, French professional dressage rider
May 18 – Vanessa Leggett, American freelance journalist, author, lecturer and First Amendment advocate
May 19 – Kyle Eastwood, American jazz bass musician
May 20
Timothy Olyphant, American actor
Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby player
May 22
Michael Kelly, American actor
Graham Linehan, Irish television writer and director
May 23 – John Ortiz, American actor
May 24 – Charles De'Ath, English actor
May 26 – King Frederik X of Denmark
May 27
Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
Frank Thomas, American baseball player
May 28 – Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
May 30 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French-Moroccan 9/11 conspirator
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Section: June (2):
June 1 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
June 2
Beetlejuice, American entertainer, member of the Wack Pack (The Howard Stern Show)
Jon Culshaw, English impressionist
June 4 – Scott Wolf, American actor
June 5 – Sandra Annenberg, Brazilian newscaster, previously actress
Mel Giedroyc, English comedian and presenter
June 9 – Aleksandr Konovalov, Russian lawyer and politician
June 10
Bill Burr, American comedian
Nobutoshi Canna, Japanese voice actor
June 14 – Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
June 16 – Mariana Mazzucato, Italian born-American economist
June 20 – Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish banker and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Poland
June 24 – Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster
June 25 – Albert Fulivai, Tongan rugby league player
June 26
Paolo Maldini, Italian football player
Jovenel Moïse, 42nd President of Haiti (d. 2021)
Iwan Roberts, Welsh footballer
June 27 – Isabel Saint Malo, Panamian politician
June 28
Chayanne, Puerto Rican-American singer
Adam Woodyatt, English actor
June 29 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
June 30 – Phil Anselmo, American heavy metal vocalist
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Section: July (2):
July 5
Ken Akamatsu, Japanese manga artist
Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
Darin LaHood, American attorney and politician
July 6 – Rashid Sidek, Malaysian badminton player and coach
July 7
Jorja Fox, American actress
Allen Payne, American actor
Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
July 8
Billy Crudup, American actor
Akio Suyama, Japanese voice actor
Josephine Teo, Singaporean politician
Michael Weatherly, American actor
July 9 – Eduardo Santamarina, Mexican actor
July 10 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
July 11 – Conrad Vernon, American voice actor and director
July 13
Robert Gant, American actor
Omi Minami, Japanese voice actress
July 14 – Samantha Gori, Italian basketball player
July 15
Leticia Calderón, Mexican actress
Eddie Griffin, American actor and comedian
Rosalinda Celentano, Italian actress
July 16
Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player
Barry Sanders, American football player
Olga de Souza, Brazilian-Italian singer, model and dancer
July 17
Darren Day, British actor and TV presenter
Beth Littleford, American actress and comedian
July 18 – Grant Bowler, New Zealand-born Australian actor
July 19 – Robert Flynn, American vocalist and guitarist (Machine Head)
July 23
Gary Payton, American basketball player
Stephanie Seymour, American model and actress
July 24
Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
Laura Leighton, American actress
Troy Kotsur, American actor
July 25 – John Grant, American singer-songwriter
July 27
Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
Julian McMahon, Australian actor
July 30
Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
Terry Crews, American actor, television host, artist, and former American football player
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Section: August (2):
August 1 – Pavo Urban, Croatian photographer (d. 1991)
August 3 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007)
August 4
Lee Mack, English actor and stand-up comedian
Olga Neuwirth, Austrian composer
August 5 – Patricia Tarabini, Argentine tennis player
Marine Le Pen, French politician
Colin McRae, Scottish rally car driver (d. 2007)
August 6
August 7 – Lynn Strait, American musician (d. 1998)
August 8 – Kimberly Brooks, American actress and voice artist
August 9
Gillian Anderson, American actress
Eric Bana, Australian actor
James Roy, Australian author
August 11 – Vladimir Kosterin, Ukrainian businessman and foundation president
August 12
Pablo Rey, Spanish painter
Paul Tucker, English songwriter and record producer
Kōji Yusa, Japanese voice actor
August 14
Catherine Bell, American actress
Darren Clarke, Northern Irish professional golfer
Jason Leonard, English rugby player
Jennifer Flavin, businesswoman and former model
August 15 – Debra Messing, American actress
August 16 – Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politician
August 17
Ed McCaffrey, American football player
Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgian economist
Helen McCrory, English actress (d. 2021)
August 20
Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer (d. 2014)
Yuri Shiratori Japanese actress and singer
Bai Yansong, Chinese host
August 21
Dina Carroll, British singer
Stretch, American rapper and record producer (d. 1995)
August 24
Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
Hiroshi Kitadani, Japanese singer
Tim Salmon, American baseball player
Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (d. 1992)
August 25 – Rachael Ray, American television chef and host
August 27 – Luis Tascón, Venezuelan politician (d. 2010)
August 28
Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
Tom Warburton, American animator
August 31
Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician and Australian football player
Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player
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Section: September (2):
September 1
Mohamed Atta, 9/11 ringleader of the hijackers and pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
Atsuko Yuya, Japanese voice actress
September 2 – Francisco Acevedo, American serial killer
September 3 – Raymond Coulthard, English actor
September 4
John DiMaggio, American voice actor and comedian
Mike Piazza, American baseball player
September 5 – Thomas Levet, French golfer
September 7 – Marcel Desailly, French footballer
September 9 – Julia Sawalha, English actress
September 10
Big Daddy Kane, American hip-hop artist
Guy Ritchie, British film director
September 11
Kay Hanley, American musician
Tetsuo Kurata, Japanese actor model
September 13 – Laura Cutina, Romanian artistic gymnast
September 15 – Danny Nucci, American actor
September 16 – Marc Anthony, American actor and singer
September 17
Anastacia, American singer-songwriter
Tito Vilanova, Spanish football manager (d. 2014)
September 18 – Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
September 20 – Van Jones, African-American author
September 21
Lisa Angell, French singer
Kevin Buzzard, British mathematician
Ricki Lake, American actress, producer, and television presenter
September 22 – Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, 62nd Prime Minister of Romania
September 23 – Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
September 25
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, (d. 2013)
John A. List, American economist
Will Smith, African-American actor and rapper
September 26
James Caviezel, American actor
Michelle Meldrum, American guitarist (d. 2008)
Tricia O'Kelley, American actress
Ben Shenkman, American television, film and stage actor
September 27
Mari Kiviniemi, 62nd Prime Minister of Finland
Paul Rudish, American voice actor and animator
September 28
Mika Häkkinen, Finnish double Formula 1 world champion
Naomi Watts, British actress and film producer
September 29
Patrick Burns, American paranormal investigator and television personality
Luke Goss, English singer and actor
Alex Skolnick, American jazz/heavy metal guitarist
Samir Soni, Indian film and TV actor
September 30 – Bennet Omalu, Nigerian pathologist
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Section: October (2):
October 1
Kevin Griffin, American singer-songwriter, frontman of Better Than Ezra
Mark Durden-Smith, British television presenter
Jay Underwood, American actor
October 2
Lucy Cohu, English actress
Victoria Derbyshire, English broadcast presenter
Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (d. 2017)
October 3 – Nadia Calviño, Spanish politician
October 7
Luminița Anghel, Romanian dance/pop recording artist, songwriter, television personality and politician
Thom Yorke, British singer-songwriter
October 8
Daniela Castelo, Argentine journalist (d. 2011)
Emily Procter, American actress
October 9
Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d. 2011)
Pete Docter, American animator, director
October 10
Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountainbiker
Feridun Düzağaç, Turkish rock singer-songwriter
October 11
Tiffany Grant, American voice actress
Jane Krakowski, American actress
Brett Salisbury, American football quarterback
October 12
Paul Harragon, Australian rugby league player
Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer, and producer
October 13
Preet Bharara, Indian-American politician
Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress and singer
October 14
Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
October 15
Didier Deschamps, French footballer
Jyrki 69, Finnish singer
Nashwa Mustafa, Egyptian actress
October 16 – Michael Stich, German tennis player
October 20 – Damien Timmer, British joint-managing director, television producer, television executive producer
October 22 – Shaggy, Jamaican singer
October 24 – Mark Walton, American story artist, actor
October 27 – Alain Auderset, Swedish writer
October 28 – Juan Orlando Hernández, 55th President of Honduras
October 29
Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater
Tsunku, Japanese singer, music producer and song composer
John Farley, American actor and comedian
October 30
Moira Quirk, English actress and voice actress
Jack Plotnick, American film and television actor, writer, and producer
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Section: November (2):
November 1 – Silvio Fauner, Italian cross-country skier
November 4
Lee Germon, New Zealand cricketer
Daniel Landa, Czech composer, singer and actor
Miles Long, American pornographic actor and director
November 5
Mr. Catra, Brazilian musician (d. 2018)
Sam Rockwell, American actor
Seth Gilliam, African-American actor
Penny Wong, Australian politician, Foreign Minister
November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, American actress
November 7 – Ignacio Padilla, Mexican writer (d. 2016)
November 8
Parker Posey, American actress
Zara Whites, Dutch actress
November 9 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian classical pianist
November 10 – Tracy Morgan, African-American actor and comedian
November 12
Kathleen Hanna, American musician and activist
Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress
Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player
November 13 – Pat Hentgen, American baseball player
November 15
Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and film director
Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
November 16 – Tammy Lauren, American actress
November 18
Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
Luizianne Lins, Brazilian politician
Owen Wilson, American actor and comedian
November 20
Chew Chor Meng, Singaporean Chinese television actor
Jules Trobaugh, American artist and photographer
November 21
Qiao Hong, Chinese table tennis player
Sean Schemmel, American voice actor
November 23 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar
November 24
Phil Starbuck, former English footballer
Awie, Malaysian rock singer
yukihiro, Japanese musician
November 25
Tunde Baiyewu, British singer
Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
November 27 – Michael Vartan, French actor
November 29
Hayabusa, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2016)
Jonathan Knight, American singer
November 30 – Rica Matsumoto, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
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Section: December (2):
December 2
Lucy Liu, American actress, voice actress, director, singer, dancer, model, and artist
Rena Sofer, American actress
December 3
Brendan Fraser, Canadian-American actor
Montell Jordan, American singer
December 5
Margaret Cho, American actress and comedian
Wendi Deng Murdoch, Chinese-American entrepreneur and businesswoman
December 7
Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league player
David Kabré, Burkinabe military leader and politician
December 9 – Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler, 1996 Olympic gold medalist
December 11
Emmanuelle Charpentier, French biochemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt, German speed skater
Eula Valdez, Filipino actress
December 18
Casper Van Dien, American actor
Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
December 19 – Ken Marino, American actor and comedian
December 20 – Nadia Farès, Moroccan born-French actress
December 21 – Khrystyne Haje, American actress
December 22 – Dina Meyer, American actress
December 23 – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, American photographer
December 24 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress and model (d. 2008)
December 25 – Helena Christensen, Danish model
December 28 – Lior Ashkenazi, Israeli actor
December 30 – Fabrice Guy, French Olympic skier
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1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
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Section: January (2):
January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
January 5 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants.
January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314.
January 16 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4.
January 18 – Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separate correctly causes a near-fatal re-entry (not publicly acknowledged until 1997) but the module makes a hard landing in the Ural Mountains.
January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests.
January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
January 22 – Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured; Brezhnev escapes unharmed. Very little is publicly admitted about the incident by the Soviet authorities at this time.
January 27
Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.
Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Irish Unionist leader and founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.
January 28 – 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970.
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Section: February (2):
February 4 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
February 8
The Allende meteorite explodes over Mexico.
After 147 years, the last weekly issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published in the United States. (The magazine is later briefly resurrected as a monthly magazine.)
February 9 – The Boeing 747 "jumbo jet" is flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at Everett, Washington.
February 13 – Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorists bomb the Montreal Stock Exchange.
February 14 – Pope Paul VI issues Mysterii Paschalis, a motu proprio, deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints (including Valentine, who was celebrated on this day).
February 17 – Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair the SEALAB III habitat off San Clemente Island, California.
February 24 – The Mariner 6 Mars probe is launched from the United States.
February 28 – The 1969 Portugal earthquake hits Portugal, Spain and Morocco.
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Section: March (2):
March 2
In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted.
Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
March 3
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, Rusty Schweickart, David Scott) to test the lunar module.
In a Los Angeles court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
March 16 – Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off for Miami; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground.
March 17
Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.
The Longhope life-boat is lost after answering a mayday call during severe storms in the Pentland Firth between Orkney and the northern tip of Scotland; the entire crew of 8 die.
March 18 – An annular solar eclipse is visible in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is the 49th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 129.
March 20
One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on a United Arab Airlines flight, most of them Muslim pilgrims returning to Aswan from Mecca, are killed when the Ilyushin-18 turboprop crashes during a sandstorm.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar, and proceed to their honeymoon "Bed-in" for peace in Amsterdam.
March 22
UCLA wins its third consecutive NCAA basketball championship by defeating Purdue University, 92 to 72.
The landmark art exhibition When Attitudes become Form, curated by Harald Szeemann, opens at the Kunsthalle Bern in Bern, Switzerland.
March 28 – Pope Paul VI increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134.
March 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.
March 30 – The body of former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower is brought by caisson to the United States Capitol to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
March 31 – The Barroterán coal mine disaster kills 153 coal miners in Mexico.
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Section: April (2):
April 3 – The Mass of Paul VI is promulgated in the Catholic Church by the Pope.
April 4 – Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
April 7 – RFC series begins with Network Working Group RFC 1 on ARPANET host software.
April 8 – The Montreal Expos become Major League Baseball's first team outside the United States.
April 9 – Fermín Monasterio Pérez is murdered by the ETA in Biscay, Spain; the 4th victim in the name of Basque nationalism.
April 15 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a US reconnaissance aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
April 17 – Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is found guilty of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
April 20 – British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
April 22 – English sailor Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping.
April 28 – Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before.
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Section: May (2):
May 10 – The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the Vietnam War.
May 13 – May 13 Incident: Race riots occur in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
May 14 – Colonel Muammar Gaddafi visits Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
May 15 – An American teenager known as 'Robert R.' dies in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
May 16 – Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 5 lands on Venus.
May 17 – Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 6 begins to descend into Venus's atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
May 18 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford, John Young) is launched. It is to be a full rehearsal for the Moon landing, stopping 15 kilometers short of actually reaching the lunar surface.
May 20 – United States National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in California.
May 21 – Rosariazo: Civil unrest breaks out in Rosario, Argentina, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
May 22 – Apollo program: Apollo 10's lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the Moon's surface.
May 26
The Andean Pact (Andean Group) is established.
Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first crewed Moon landing.
May 26–June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second bed-in. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Lennon composes and records the song "Give Peace a Chance" during the event.
May 29 – Cordobazo: A general strike and civil unrest break out in Córdoba, Argentina.
May 30 – Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island.
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Section: June (2):
June 3 – While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally rams and slices into the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seamen.
June 5 – An international communist conference begins in Moscow.
June 8
Francisco Franco orders the closing of the Gibraltar–Spain border and communications between Gibraltar and Spain in response to the 1967 Gibraltar sovereignty referendum. The border remains closed until a partial reopening on December 15, 1982.
U.S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet at Midway Island. Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September.
June 15 – Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.
June 17 – After a 23-game match, Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become the World Chess Champion in Moscow.
June 24 – The United Kingdom and Rhodesia sever diplomatic relations, after the Rhodesian constitutional referendum.
June 27 – Gay intercourse is officially legalized in Canada.
June 28 – The Stonewall riots, a milestone in the modern gay rights movement in the United States, began in New York City.
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Section: July (2):
July 7 – French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
July 8 – Vietnam War: The first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
July 14
Football War: After Honduras loses an association football match against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes effect on July 20.
The Act of Free Choice for West Irian commences in Merauke, Indonesia.
July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy in Florida towards the first crewed landing on the Moon.
July 19
Chappaquiddick incident: US Senator Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy does not report the accident for nine or ten hours.
John Fairfax lands in Hollywood Beach, Florida, United States and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board the 25' ocean rowboat Britannia (left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969).
July 20
Apollo program Moon landing: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17 UTC) Apollo 11's Lunar Module Eagle lands on the Moon's surface. At 10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC July 21), an estimated 650 million people worldwide, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at this time, watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his first historic steps on the surface.
1969 Tour de France: Belgian Eddy Merckx wins the cycle race for the first time.
July 22 – Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco appoints Prince Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state following his death.
July 24
Apollo program: Apollo 11 returns from the first successful Moon landing and the astronauts are placed in biological isolation for several days in case they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to rule out microscopic life.
The Soviet Union returns British lecturer Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for their spies Peter and Helen Kroger (Morris and Lona Cohen).
July 26 – A 6.4 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Yangjiang destroying thousands of homes and killing 3,000 people.
July 30 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam, meeting with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
July 31 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa.
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Section: August (2):
August 2 – U.S. President Richard Nixon visits Romania, becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to visit a communist state since the start of the Cold War.
August 4 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since the two sides cannot agree to any terms.
August 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometres (2,190 mi)).
August 9 – On orders from Charles Manson, members of the Manson Family invade the Los Angeles home of film director Roman Polanski, and murder his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, and four others.
August 10 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of the Manson Family kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles.
August 13 – Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
August 14 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland to restore order following three days of political and sectarian violence, marking the beginning of the 37-year Operation Banner.
August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast of the United States, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 USD).
August 21 – Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria.
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Section: September (2):
September 1
1969 Libyan coup d'état: A bloodless coup in Libya ousts King Idris and brings Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power.
For Brazil, the Jornal Nacional was created on Monday, 1 September 1969.
September 2 – Ho Chi Minh, the president of North Vietnam, dies at the age of 79.
September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six counts of premeditated murder for the 1968 My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.
September 9 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a DC-9 airliner, collides in flight with a small Piper PA-28 airplane, and crashes near Fairland, Indiana, killing all 83 people in both aircraft.
September 11 – An annular solar eclipse is visible in Pacific Ocean and South America, and is the 41st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134.
September 22–25 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem.
September 23 – China carries out an underground nuclear bomb test.
September 25 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is founded.
September 28 – 1969 West German federal election: The Social Democrats, led by Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt, and the Free Democrats led by Walter Scheel, formed a coalition government with Brandt as Chancellor, after the Social Democrats severed their relationship with Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger's Christian Democratic Union.
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Section: October (2):
October 1
In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Worker's Party, replacing Tage Erlander as Prime Minister on October 14.
The Beijing Subway begins operation.
October 2 – A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations.
October 5 – Sazae-san first airs on Fuji Television.
October 9–12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the Illinois National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial.
October 11 – The Zodiac Killer shoots and kills taxi driver Paul Stine in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco; this is the serial killer's last known murder.
October 11–16 – The New York Mets upset the Baltimore Orioles four games to one in the World Series.
October 15 –
DZKB-TV Channel 9, the Philippines' sixth TV station, is launched.
Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstrations across the United States.
October 17 – Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the CCD at Bell Laboratories (30 years later, this technology is widely used in digital cameras).
October 20 – Experimental research showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks, is published.
October 21
Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany.
General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.
October 25 – 1969 Australian federal election: John Gorton's Liberal/Country Coalition government is narrowly re-elected with a sharply reduced majority, defeating a resurgent Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam. Prime Minister Gorton survived a leadership challenge by his deputy William McMahon as well as David Fairbairn in the immediate aftermath of the election.
October 29 – The first electronic message is sent between two computers connected via ARPANET between University of California, Los Angeles and SRI International in California at around 10:30pm local time, the initial forerunning technology to the Internet.
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Section: November (2):
November 3 – Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (31st government).
November 10 – The television series Sesame Street premiered on National Educational Television, becoming the most famous preschool television series of all time.
November 14
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second crewed mission to the Moon.
The SS United States, the last active United States Lines passenger ship, is withdrawn from service.
November 15 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
November 17 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
November 19
Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
Professional footballer Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
Vietnam War: A Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, The Plain Dealer, publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers to Alcatraz Island and begins a 19 month long occupation, lasting until June 1971.
November 21
U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.
The first ARPANET link is established (the progenitor of the global Internet).
November 24 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to the Moon.
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Section: December (2):
December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held. September 14 is the first of the 366 days of the year selected, meaning that anyone born on September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned. On January 4, 1970, The New York Times will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random".
December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.
December 6 – Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert, an event which came to be viewed as the end of the hippie era and the de facto conclusion of late-1960s American youth culture.
December 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, Italy, kills 17 people and injures 88.
December 24
Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial.
The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea.
Nigerian troops capture Umuahia. The last Biafran capital before its dissolution becomes Owerri.
December 27 – The Liberal Democratic Party wins 47.6% of the votes in the 1969 Japanese general election. Future prime ministers Yoshirō Mori and Tsutomu Hata and future kingmaker Ichirō Ozawa are elected for the first time.
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1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.
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Section: January (2):
January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 5 – The 7.1 Mw Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 14,621 are killed and 30,000 injured.
January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
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Section: February (2):
February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina (a rear-end collision) kills 236.
February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists.
February 11 – Ohsumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket.
February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
February – Multi-business conglomerate Virgin Group is founded as a discount mail-order record retailer by Richard Branson in the UK.
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Section: March (2):
March 1 – Rhodesia's white minority government severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic.
March 4 – All 57 men aboard the French submarine Eurydice are killed when the vessel implodes while making a practice dive in the Mediterranean Sea.
March 5 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification by 56 nations.
March 6 – Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (32nd government).
March 12 – Citroën introduces the Citroën SM, the world's fastest front-wheel drive auto at this time, at the annual Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland.
March 15 – The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
March 16 – The complete New English Bible is published in the UK.
March 18 – General Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and holds Queen Sisowath Kossamak under house arrest.
March 19 – Ostpolitik: The leaders of West Germany and East Germany meet at a summit for the first time since Germany's division into two republics. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is greeted by cheering East German crowds as he arrives in Erfurt for a summit with his counterpart, East German Ministerpräsident Willi Stoph.
March 20 – The Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (ACCT) is founded.
March 21 – "All Kinds of Everything", sung by Dana (music and lyrics by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 (staged in Amsterdam) for Ireland.
March 31
NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members. All passengers and crew are eventually freed.
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Section: April (2):
April 4 – Fragments of burnt human remains believed to be those of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children are crushed and scattered in the Biederitz river at a KGB center in Magdeburg, East Germany.
April 8
A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan, kills 79 and injures over 400.
Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as Bahr el-Baqar massacre. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.
April 10 – In a press release written in mock-interview style, that is included in promotional copies of his first solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he has left The Beatles.
April 11
An avalanche at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps kills 74, mostly young boys.
Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched from the United States toward the Moon.
April 13 – An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in four days.
April 17 – Apollo program: Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific.
April 21 – The Principality of Hutt River "secedes" from Australia (it remains unrecognised by Australia and other nations).
April 24 – China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1).
April 26 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is founded.
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Section: May (2):
May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio, are killed and nine wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen at a protest against the U.S. incursion into Cambodia.
May 6
Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
Feyenoord win the European Cup in association football after a 2–1 win over Celtic.
May 11 – Lubbock tornado: A strong, multi-vortex F5 tornado impacts areas of Lubbock, Texas, after dark, resulting in 26 fatalities and over 1,500 injuries.
May 14
Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape and create the Red Army Faction in West Germany which exists until 1998.
Jackson State killings: In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.
May 17 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to cross the South Atlantic.
May 26 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
May 31
The 7.9 Mw Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794 and 70,000 are killed and 50,000 injured.
The 1970 FIFA World Cup in association football is inaugurated in Mexico.
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Section: June (2):
June 1 – Soyuz 9, a two-man spacecraft, is launched from the Soviet Union for an orbital flight of nearly 18 days, an endurance record at this time.
June 4 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
June 8 – A coup in Argentina brings a new junta of service chiefs; on June 18, Roberto M. Levingston becomes President.
June 12 – National Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf guerrillas attack military garrisons at Izki and Nizwa in Oman.
June 19 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed into international law, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
June 21 – Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. As 3-times winner, they keep the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently.
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Section: July (2):
July 1 – Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens in Palo Alto, California, United States.
July 3
All 112 people on board Dan-Air Flight 1903 are killed when the chartered British De Havilland Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona through navigational error.
The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the Mururoa Atoll. It is the fifth in a series that started on June 15 in their program to perfect a hydrogen bomb small enough to be delivered by a missile.
July 5 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport, Toronto, Ontario through pilot error; all 109 passengers and crew are killed.
July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados.
July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
July 23 – 1970 Omani coup d'état: Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a bloodless palace coup by his son, Qaboos with covert British support. Among the reforms he introduces is the abolition of chattel slavery in Oman.
July 30 – Thalidomide scandal: Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 Thalidomide victims in the UK.
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Section: August (2):
August 11 – Creation of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts in Confolens, France.
August 17 – Venera program: Venera 7 is launched from the Soviet Union toward Venus. It later becomes the first spacecraft to transmit data from the surface of another planet successfully.
August 31 – Solar eclipse of August 31, 1970: An annular solar eclipse is visible in Oceania, and is the 14th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 144.
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Section: September (2):
September 1 – An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the country's Black September crisis.
September 3–6 – Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.
September 4
Chilean Socialist Senator Salvador Allende wins 36.2% of the vote in his run for presidency defeating former right-wing President Jorge Alessandri with 34.9% of the votes and Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic with 27.8% of the votes.
Soviet Russian prima ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in London.
September 5 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends in October 1971).
September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zurich and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.
September 7 – Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
September 8–10 – The Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make repeated unsuccessful truces.
September 9 – Guinea recognizes the German Democratic Republic.
September 10 – Cambodian government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after three months.
September 15 – King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
September 17 – Black September: King Hussein of Jordan orders the Jordanian Armed Forces to oust Palestinian fedayeen from Jordan.
September 18 – Death of Jimi Hendrix: American rock musician Jimi Hendrix dies of an overdose, age 27, in London, two days after last playing in public.
September 19 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial Greek junta led by Georgios Papadopoulos.
September 20
Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border.
Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples, landing back on Earth September 24.
September 21 – Palestinian armed forces reinforce guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.
September 22
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is founded.
Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.
September 27
Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
Pope Paul VI names Saint Teresa of Ávila (d. 1582) as the first female Doctor of the Church.
September 28 – Vice President Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt following the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
September 29 – In Berlin, Red Army Faction members rob three banks, with loot totaling over DM 200,000.
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Section: October (2):
October 2 – The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.
October 3
In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is formed in the United States and the Weather Bureau is renamed to National Weather Service as part of NOAA.
Pope Paul VI names Saint Catherine of Siena (d. 1380) as the second female Doctor of the Church.
October 4
Jochen Rindt becomes Formula One World Driving Champion, the first to earn the honor posthumously.
In Bolivia, Army Commander General Rogelio Miranda and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President Alfredo Ovando Candía, who dismisses him.
American rock singer Janis Joplin is found dead of an overdose, age 27, in her hotel room in Hollywood.
October 5 – The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps British trade commissioner James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all imprisoned FLQ members, beginning Quebec's October Crisis. The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.
October 6 – Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
October 7 – General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.
October 8
The U.S. Foreign Office announces the renewal of arms sales to Pakistan.
Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
October 9 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia, escalating the Cambodian Civil War between the government and the Khmer Rouge.
October 10
Fiji becomes independent.
October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
October 11 – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
October 13 – Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon.
October 14 – A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor.
October 15
A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.
In Egypt, a referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.
October 16 – October Crisis: The Canadian government declares a state of emergency and outlaws the Quebec Liberation Front.
October 17
October Crisis: Quebec politician Pierre Laporte is found murdered by the FLQ in south Montreal.
A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul.
Anwar Sadat officially becomes President of Egypt.
October 20
The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe.
New Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
October 22 – Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
October 24 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile by a run-off vote in the National Congress
October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by 22-year-old pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence. Hunley is the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
October 28
In Jordan, the government of Ahmad Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is Wasfi al-Tal.
A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.
Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame (part fuelled by LNG) to an official land speed record of 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
October 30 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
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Section: November (2):
November 1
The Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146.
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Zygfryd Wolniak and three Pakistanis are killed in an attack on a group of Polish diplomats at the Karachi airport.
November 3
Salvador Allende takes office as president of Chile.
The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4 million in damage (1970 USD, $576 million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people.
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die this week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded in the week, however).
November 8 – Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.
November 9
The Soviet Union launches Luna 17 for the moon.
Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
November 13
1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph (193 km/h) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (modern-day Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster). It gives rise to the temporary island of New Moore / South Talpatti.
Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following a military coup within the Ba'ath Party.
November 14
Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team, are killed.
The Soviet Union enters the International Civil Aviation Organization, after having resisted joining the UN Agency for more than 25 years. Russian becomes the fourth official language of the ICAO.
November 16 – The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flies for the first time.
November 17 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
November 19 – The six European Economic Community nation prime ministers meet in Munich to begin the new programme of European Political Cooperation (EPC), a unified foreign policy for a future European Union.
November 20 – The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade, in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa.
November 21
Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.
In Ethiopia, the Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.
Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
1970 Australian Senate election: The Liberal/Country Coalition government led by Prime Minister John Gorton and the Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam each ends up with 26 seats, both suffering a swing against them. The Democratic Labor Party wins an additional seat and holds the balance of power in the Senate. This is the last occasion on which a Senate election is held without an accompanying House of Representatives election.
November 22 – Guinean president Ahmed Sékou Touré accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital Conakry. The Guinean army repels the landing attempts over the next three days.
November 25–29 – A U.N. delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.
November 25 – In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.
November 28 – The Montréal Alouettes defeat the Calgary Stampeders, 23–10, to win the 58th Grey Cup in Canadian football.
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December 1
The Italian Chamber of Deputies accepts a new divorce law.
Ethiopia recognizes the People's Republic of China.
The Basque ETA (separatist group) kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián.
Luis Echeverría becomes president of Mexico.
December 2 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency is established.
December 3
October Crisis: In Montreal, kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16 Basque terrorism suspects begins.
December 4
The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzcoa, over strikes and demonstrations.
The U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea.
December 5
The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends.
Fluminense win the Brazil Football Championship.
December 7
Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.
The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies.
During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, which will become known as the Warschauer Kniefall ("Warsaw Genuflection").
December 12 – A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead.
December 15
The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.
The South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korea Strait; 308 people are killed.
December 16 – The Ethiopian government declares a state of emergency in the region of Eritrea over the activities of the Eritrean Liberation Front.
December 20 – An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid.
December 21 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat makes its first flight.
December 22
The Libyan Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka extermination camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
December 23
The Bolivian government releases Régis Debray.
Law 70-001 is enacted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amending article 4 of the constitution and making the country a one-party state.
December 25 – ETA releases Eugen Beihl in Spain.
December 27 – President of India V. V. Giri declares new elections.
December 28 – The suspected killers of Pierre Laporte, Jacques and Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
December 29 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs into law the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
December 30 – In Biscay in the Basque country of Spain, 15,000 go on strike in protest at the Burgos trial death sentences. Francisco Franco commutes the sentences to 30 years in prison.
December 31 – Paul McCartney sues in Britain to dissolve The Beatles' legal partnership.
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1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade. The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
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January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland.
January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September.
January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day.
January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom All in the Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS.
January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are released in Santiago, Chile; Giovanni Enrico Bucher is released January 16.
January 15 – The Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt.
January 18
Strikes in Poland demand the resignation of Interior Minister Kazimierz Świtała. He resigns January 23 and is replaced by Franciszek Szlachcic.
Ivan Koloff defeats Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship in wrestling ending a seven and two thirds years reign, the longest in the Championships history.
A South Korean marine kills 6 people in a mass shooting in Kimpo, South Korea.
January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices; February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Khalij el-Arab countries.
January 24 – The Guinean government sentences to death 92 Guineans who helped Portuguese troops in the failed landing attempts in November 1970; 72 are sentenced to hard labor for life; 58 of the sentenced are hanged the next day.
January 25
In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes president.
In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and 3 female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
Intelsat IV (F2) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean March 26.
January 31 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 (carrying astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell) lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.
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Section: February (2):
February 4
In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised.
The Nasdaq stock exchange is founded in New York City.
February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
February 6 – The 4.6 Mb Tuscania earthquake shakes the Italian province of Viterbo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 24 deaths, 150 injuries and extreme damage.
February 7
Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton-specific ones.
Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party.
February 8 – A new stock market index called the Nasdaq Composite debuts in the United States.
February 9
The 6.5–6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.
February 10 – A total lunar eclipse is visible from Pacific, Americas, Europe and Africa, and is the 50th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 123.
February 11 – The US, UK, USSR and others sign the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.
February 11–12 – Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in Amman.
February 13 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
February 15 – Decimal Day: The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency (see also decimalisation).
February 16 – In Italy, a local parliament elects the city of Catanzaro as the capital of Calabria; residents of Reggio di Calabria riot for 5 days because of the decision.
February 20 – The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning across the nation's radio and television stations, meant to be a standard weekly test conducted by NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. Some stations cease broadcasting until the message is rescinded, as required by federal rules, while most ignore it.
February 21
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
Between February 21 and 22, an outbreak of nineteen tornadoes rages across the Mississippi Delta in Mississippi and Louisiana, killing 123 people.
February 23 – Operation Lam Son 719: South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri is killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering campaign.
February 25 – A partial solar eclipse is visible from Europe, Africa and Asia, and is the 18th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 149.
February 26 – Secretary General U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of the March equinox (March 21) as Earth Day.
February 27 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform abortions.
February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California.
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Section: March (2):
March 1
A bomb explodes in the men's room at the United States Capitol; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
Pakistani president Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending National Assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as the 17th Premier of Ontario.
March 2 – Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman launched the non-cooperation movement in East Pakistan.
March 4 – The southern part of Quebec, and especially Montreal, receives 16½" (42 cm) of snow in what becomes known as the Century's Snowstorm (la tempête du siècle).
March 5
The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan.
In Belfast, a Led Zeppelin show includes the first public performance of "Stairway to Heaven," a song from the band's fourth album.
March 6 – A fire in a mental hospital in Burghölzli, Switzerland kills 28 people.
March 7
Die Sendung mit der Maus airs its first episode on Das Erste.
The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of East Pakistan (modern day-Bangladesh), delivers a public speech at the Racecourse Field in Dhaka calling for masses to be prepared to fight for national independence.
March 8
The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI breaks into the Media, Pennsylvania offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and removes all of its files.
"Fight of the Century": Boxer Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in a 15-round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden.
March 10 – William McMahon replaces John Gorton as the Liberal/Country Coalition Prime Minister of Australia after Gorton resigns following a vote of confidence that was tied 33-all.
March 11 – THX 1138, George Lucas' first full-length film, premieres in theaters.
March 12 – Hafez al-Assad becomes president of Syria.
March 12–13 – The Allman Brothers Band plays their legendary concert at the Fillmore East.
March 16 – Trygve Bratteli forms a government in Norway.
March 18 – A landslide in Chungar, Peru crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200.
March 23 – General Alejandro Lanusse of Argentina takes power in a military coup.
March 25 –
The Pakistani army starts Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) at midnight after President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, a military ruler, voids election results that gave the Awami League an overwhelming majority in the parliament; start of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. That ended the non-cooperation movement.
The North East Mall opens in Hurst, Texas
March 26
East Pakistan's independence is declared by Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and transmitted using East Pakistan Rifles radio.
Nihat Erim (a former CHP member) forms the new government of Turkey (33rd government, composed mostly of technocrats).
March 27 – East Pakistan's independence is repeatedly declared by army major (later president of Bangladesh) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong.
March 29
U.S. Army lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders during the My Lai Massacre and is sentenced to life in prison (he is later pardoned).
A Los Angeles jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and female followers Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.
March 30 – Starbucks coffee shop is founded in the U.S. state of Washington.
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Section: April (2):
April 1 – The United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership.
April 5
In Ceylon, a group calling themselves the People's Liberation Front begins a rebellion against the Bandaranaike government.
Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.
April 8 – A right-wing coup attempt is exposed in Laos.
April 12 – Palestinians retreat from Amman to the north of Jordan.
April 17
The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
Libya, Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a confederation.
April 19
The government of Bangladesh flees to India.
Sierra Leone becomes a republic.
The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1.
Charles Manson is sentenced to death in the United States; in 1972, the sentence for all California death-row inmates will be commuted to life imprisonment.
April 20
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
Cambodian prime minister Lon Nol resigns but remains effectively in power until the next elections.
National Public Radio (NPR) airs its first broadcast.
April 21 – Siaka Stevens is sworn in as the first president of Sierra Leone.
April 24
Soyuz 10 fails to dock with Salyut 1.
An estimated 200,000 people in Washington, D.C., and a further 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest against the Vietnam War.
April 25
Todor Zhivkov is reelected as the leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Franz Jonas is reelected as president of Austria.
April 26 – The government of Turkey declares a state of siege in 11 provinces, including Ankara, in response to violent demonstrations.
April 30 – The Milwaukee Bucks sweep the Baltimore Bullets in four games to win their first NBA championship.
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Section: May (2):
May 1
Amtrak begins intercity rail passenger service in the United States.
The Ceylonese government promises amnesty for guerillas who surrender before May 5.
May 2 – In Ceylon, left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings.
May 3
Arsenal F.C. wins the English League First Division championship at the home of their bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur, with Ray Kennedy scoring the winner. (Arsenal will go on to win the league and cup 'double' six days later by defeating Liverpool in the FA Cup final).
The Harris Poll finds that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War.
East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as Socialist Unity Party leader but retains the position of head of state.
1971 May Day Protests: Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
May 5
The U.S. dollar floods the European currency markets and especially threatens the Deutsche Mark; the central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading.
FedEx, the logistics and delivery service, founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.
May 6 – The government of Ceylon begins a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front.
May 9
Arsenal FC beats Liverpool F.C. 2–1 to win the English FA Cup, thus completing the league and cup 'double'.
Mariner 8 fails to launch.
May 12 – An earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city of Burdur.
May 15 – Israeli ambassador to Turkey Efraim Elrom is kidnapped; he is found killed in Istanbul May 25.
May 16 – A coup attempt is exposed and foiled in Egypt.
May 18
The U.S. Congress formally votes to end funding for the American Supersonic Transport program.
The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup against the Chicago Black Hawks. The Canadiens became only the second team in NHL history to win the Cup in Game 7 on the road, and did so after the home team had won each of the previous six games in the series. This also marked Jean Béliveau's last NHL game.
May 19 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
May 22 – An earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of Bingöl, Turkey; more than 1,000 are killed and 10,000 are made homeless.
May 23 – Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes at Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia, killing 78 people, mostly British tourists.
May 26
Austria and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb hoaxer/extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari), who is later arrested.
May 27
Six armed passengers hijack a Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna.
Christie's auctions a diamond known as Deepdene; it is later found to be artificially colored.
May 28 – Portugal resigns from UNESCO.
May 30 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
May 31 – The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the government in exile in territory formerly part of Pakistan.
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Section: June (2):
June – Massachusetts passes its Chapter 766 laws enacting special education.
June 1 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
June 6
Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 (Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev) is launched.
A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
June 10
The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China.
Corpus Thursday: A student rally on the streets of Mexico City is roughly dispersed.
Amtrak had its first fatal accident when 11 people were killed and 163 injured in the derailment of the City of New Orleans train near Tonti, Illinois.
June 11 – Neville Bonner becomes the first Indigenous Australian to sit in the Australian Parliament.
June 13
Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.
Racing drivers Gijs van Lennep of the Netherlands and Helmut Marko of Austria win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Martini Racing Porsche 917K.
June 14 – Norway begins oil production in the North Sea.
June 17
Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U.S. will return control of Okinawa.
President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
June 18 – Southwest Airlines, a low-cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
June 20 – Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoly Fedoseyev has been granted asylum.
June 21 – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg.
June 25 – Madagascar accuses the U.S. of conspiring to oust the government; the U.S. recalls its ambassador.
June 27 – Concert promoter Bill Graham closes the legendary Fillmore East, which first opened on 2nd Avenue in New York City on March 8, 1968.
June 28 – Assassin Jerome A. Johnson shoots Joe Colombo, boss of his eponymous crime family, in the head during an Italian-American rally, putting him in a coma.
June 30
New York Times Co. v. United States: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint.
After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first human-occupied space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft die after their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
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Section: July (2):
July – Nordic Council secretariat inaugurated.
July 3 – Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, dies of a heart failure at the age of 27 in the bathtub of his apartment on the 3rd floor of the Rue Beautreillis 17 in Paris, France.
July 4
Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.
The first plane lands at Seychelles International Airport in Victoria, Seychelles (Mahe).
July 5 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
July 6 – Hastings Banda is proclaimed President for Life of Malawi.
July 9 – The United Kingdom increases the number of its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000.
July 10–11 – Coup attempt in Morocco: 1,400 cadets take over the king's palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when the king's troops storm the palace (ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement).
July 10 – Gloria Steinem makes her Address to the Women of America.
July 11 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
July 13
Ólafur Jóhannesson forms a government in Iceland.
Jordanian army troops launch an offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan.
The Yugoslavian government begins allowing foreign companies to take their profits from the country.
Reggie Jackson's long home run, which hits a transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium, helps the American League defeat the National League 6–4 in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit.
July 14 – Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco.
July 15 – American President Richard Nixon announces his 1972 visit to China.
July 17 – Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the dispute (Südtirolfrage) regarding South Tyrol.
July 18 – The Trucial States are formed in the Persian Gulf.
July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City tops out at 1,362 feet (415 m), making it the second-tallest building in the world.
July 19–23 – Major Hashem al-Atta ousts Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiri in a military coup in Sudan. Fighting continues until July 22, when pro-Nimeiri troops regain power. Al-Atta and three officers are executed.
July 22
A BOAC flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at Benghazi, Libya, where two leaders of the unsuccessful Sudanese coup, travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and are subsequently executed.
A partial solar eclipse is visible from Asia and North America, and is the 70th and final solar eclipse of Solar Saros 116.
July 24 – Georgina Rizk of Lebanon is crowned Miss Universe 1971.
July 25–30 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli records two Debussy works in Munich for Deutsche Grammophon, his fifth recording.
July 26 – Apollo 15 (carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin) is launched.
July 28 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese communist leader, is hanged.
July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.
July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 people are killed.
July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, a day after landing on the Moon.
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Section: August (2):
August – Camden, New Jersey erupts in race riots, with looting and arson, following the beating death of a Puerto Rican motorist by city police. Also in 1971, Philadelphia International Records is established, with Camden native Leon Huff as co-founder.
August 1 – In New York City, 40,000 attend The Concert for Bangladesh.
August 2 – U.S. department store chain J. C. Penney debuts its trademark Helvetica wordmark which has been used ever since.
August 5
The South Pacific Forum (SPF) is established.
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 enters service with American Airlines.
August 6 – A total lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds is observed, visible from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, and is the 38th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 128.
August 7 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth.
August 9
India signs a 20-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union.
Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison; 20 people die in the riots that follow.
August 10 – Mr. Tickle, the first book in the Mr. Men series is first published, in the U.K.
August 11 – Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
August 12 – Syria severs diplomatic relations with Jordan because of border clashes.
August 14
British troops are stationed on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to stop arms smuggling.
Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain (As of 2018 officially the Kingdom of Bahrain).
August 15
Jackie Stewart becomes Formula One World Drivers' Champion in the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth.
The number of British troops in Northern Ireland is raised to 12,500.
President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
August 15–September 5 – The 1971 Women's World Cup in Association football (an event not recognized by FIFA) is staged in Mexico: Denmark will be the winners.
August 16 – Hastings Banda, President of Malawi, becomes the first black president to visit South Africa.
August 18
Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
British troops are engaged in a firefight with the IRA in Derry, Northern Ireland.
August 19–22 – A right-wing coup ignites a rebellion in Bolivia. Miners and students join troops to support president Juan José Torres, but eventually Hugo Banzer takes over.
August 20
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat) (effective February 12, 1973).
The USS Manatee spills 1,000 US gallons (3,800 L) of fuel oil on President Nixon's Western White House beach in San Clemente, California.
A partial solar eclipse is visible from Southern Ocean, and is the 4th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 154.
August 21 – A bomb made of two hand grenades by alleged communist rebels explodes in the Liberal Party campaign party in Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila the Philippines, injuring several anti-Marcos political candidates.
August 25
Border clashes occur between Tanzania and Uganda.
Bangladesh and eastern Bengal are flooded; thousands flee the area.
August 26 – A civilian government takes power in Greece.
August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.
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Section: September (2):
September – Operation Sourisak Montry VIII opens when forces of the Royal Thai Army recapture several positions in the territory of Laos on the south bank of the Mekong in response to an encroaching Chinese presence to the north.
September 2 – The United Arab Republic is renamed to the Arab Republic of Egypt
September 3
Qatar gains independence from the United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby emirates, Qatar declines to become part of either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.
Manlio Brosio resigns as NATO Secretary General.
September 4
A Boeing 727 (Alaska Airlines Flight 1866) crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
The Free State of Christiania is founded.
September 8 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
September 9 – English musician John Lennon releases his second studio album Imagine. Worldwide sales of the title track will exceed 5 million.
September 9–13 – Attica Prison riot: A revolt breaks out at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York. In the end, state police and the United States National Guard storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10 of them hostages.
September 17 – Hugo L. Black retires as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States after serving for 34 years, at this time a record for longevity; Black dies eight days later.
September 19 – Trams in Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) cease to run.
September 21 – Pakistan declares a state of emergency.
September 24 – Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return.
September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.
September 28 – Cardinal József Mindszenty, who has taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest since 1956, is allowed to leave Hungary.
September 29 – A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in the Indian state of Orissa, kills 10,000.
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Section: January (2):
January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.
January 4 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395).
January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed.
January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth catches fire and sinks in Hong Kong's Victoria harbor while undergoing conversion to a floating university.
January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
January 11 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares a new constitutional government in Bangladesh, with himself as president.
January 12 – In a 10-hour siege, a cell of 4 left-wing insurgents hold off a task force of 2500 army soldiers and police agents in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: eight members of the security forces and the entire insurgent cell are killed in the course of the siege.
January 13 – Prime Minister of Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia is overthrown in a military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
January 14 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark succeeds her father, King Frederik IX, on the throne of Denmark, the first queen regnant of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
January 18 – Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, 33 days after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.
January 19 – The Libertarian enclave Minerva on a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation, declares independence. Soon neighboring Tonga annexes the area and dismantles the platform.
January 20 – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announces that Pakistan will immediately begin a nuclear weapons program.
January 21
A New Delhi bootlegger sells wood alcohol to a wedding party; 100 people die.
Tripura, part of the former independent Twipra Kingdom, becomes a full state of India.
January 24 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam; he has spent 28 years in the jungle, having failed to surrender after World War II.
January 26
Yugoslavian air stewardess Vesna Vulović is the only survivor when her plane crashes in Czechoslovakia. She survives after falling 10,160 meters (33,330 feet) in the tail section of the aircraft.
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is set up on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra.
January 30
Bloody Sunday: The British Army kills 14 unarmed nationalist civil rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
January 31 – King Birendra succeeds his father as King of Nepal.
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Section: February (2):
February 2
A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin, killing Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder. The German militant group June 2 Movement claims responsibility, announcing its support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. The British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.
February 3–13 – The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan.
February 4 – Mariner 9 sends pictures as it orbits Mars.
February 15 – President of Ecuador José María Velasco Ibarra is deposed for the fourth time.
February 17 – Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model T when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced.
February 19 – Asama-Sansō incident: Five United Red Army members break into a lodge below Mount Asama in Japan, taking the wife of the lodgekeeper hostage.
February 21 – The Soviet uncrewed spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
February 21–28 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.
February 22
The Troubles: 1972 Aldershot bombing – A car bomb planted by the Official Irish Republican Army kills seven people outside a British military base in Aldershot, England.
Lufthansa Flight 649 is hijacked and taken to Aden. Passengers are released the following day after a ransom of 5 million US dollars is agreed.
February 23 – US activist Angela Davis is released from jail. Rodger McAfee, a farmer from Caruthers, California, helps her make bail.
February 26 – Luna 20 comes back to Earth with 55 grams (1.9 ounces) of lunar soil.
February 28 – The Asama-Sansō incident ends in a standoff between 5 members of the Japanese United Red Army and the authorities, in which two policemen are killed and 12 injured.
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Section: March (2):
March 1 – Juan María Bordaberry is sworn in as President of Uruguay amid accusations of electoral fraud.
March 2
The Club of Rome presents the research results leading to its report The Limits to Growth, published later in the month.
The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made spacecraft to leave the solar system.
Jean-Bédel Bokassa becomes President of the Central African Republic.
March 4
Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference Charter is signed (effective February 28, 1973).
March 19 – India and Bangladesh sign the Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace.
March 22
The 92nd U.S. Congress votes to send the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
Eisenstadt v. Baird: The Supreme Court of the U.S. rules that unmarried people have the right to access contraception on the same basis as married couples
March 25 – "Après toi" sung by Vicky Leandros (music by Klaus Munro & Mario Panas, lyric by Klaus Munro & Yves Dessca) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 (staged in Edinburgh) for Luxembourg.
March 26 – An avalanche on Mount Fuji in Japan kills 19 climbers.
March 27 – The First Sudanese Civil War ends.
March 30 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam
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Section: April (2):
April 4 – The U.S. formally recognizes Bangladesh.
April 10
The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare.
Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
The 6.7 Mw Qir earthquake shakes southern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 5,374 people in the province of Fars.
The 44th Annual Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
April 13 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
April 16
Apollo 16 (John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke) is launched. During the mission, the astronauts, driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle, achieve a lunar rover speed record of 18 km/h.
Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
April 26 – The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar enters service with Eastern Airlines.
April 27
Ikiza: Burundi government forces begin a 4-month genocide against the Hutu people, killing 100,000–300,000.
A no-confidence vote against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
April 29 – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and for using marijuana.
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Section: May (2):
May 2 – Fire at the Sunshine Mine, a silver mine in Idaho, kills 91.
May 5 – An Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo, Sicily; 115 die.
May 7 – General elections are held in Italy.
May 10 – Operation Linebacker and Operation Custom Tailor begin with large-scale bombing operations against North Vietnam by tactical fighter aircraft.
May 13 – A fire in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store in Osaka, Japan, kills 115.
May 21 – In St. Peter's Basilica (Vatican City), Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's Pietà statue with a geologist's hammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ.
May 22
The Dominion of Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified.
Ferit Melen forms the new (interim) government of Turkey (35th government)
May 23 – The Tamil United Front (later known as Tamil United Liberation Front), a pro-Tamil organization, is founded in Sri Lanka.
May 26
Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.
Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
May 27 – Mark Donohue wins the Indianapolis 500 in a Penske Racing McLaren–Offenhauser.
May 30
Lod Airport massacre: Three Japanese Red Army members operating on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations kill 26 and injure 80 people at Lod Airport, Israel.
The Troubles: The Official Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
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Section: June (2):
June – Iraq nationalizes the Iraq Petroleum Company.
June 3 – Sally Priesand becomes the first American woman (and the second known woman anywhere) to be ordained as a rabbi within Judaism.
June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Sweden
June 8
Seven men and three women hijack a plane from Czechoslovakia to West Germany.
Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
June 9 – The Black Hills flood kills 238 in South Dakota.
June 11 – Henri Pescarolo (France) and co-driver former World Drivers' Champion Graham Hill (Britain) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Equipe Matra MS670.
June 12 – Popeyes was formed in Arabi, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, in St. Bernard Parish.
June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.
June 14 – Japan Airlines Flight 471 crashes outside New Delhi airport, killing 82 of 87 occupants.
June 16 – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France.
June 17
Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
Chilean president Salvador Allende forms a new government.
June 18
Staines air disaster: 118 die when a British European Airways Trident 1 jet airliner crashes two minutes after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport.
West Germany beats the Soviet Union 3–0 in the final to win Euro '72.
Hong Kong's worst flooding and landslides in recorded history with 653.2 millimetres (25.72 in) of rainfall in the previous three days. 67 people die due to building collapses in Mid-levels districts landslide and building collapses, with a further 83 due to flooding-related fatalities. It is the second worst fatality due to building collapses, and the worst flooding in Hong Kong's recorded history.
June 23
Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C.I.A. to obstruct the investigation by the F.B.I. into the Watergate break-ins.
The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, Anthony Barber, announces a decision for the pound sterling to move to a floating exchange rate. Although intended to be temporary, this remains permanent. Foreign exchange controls are applied to most members of the sterling area.
June 30 – The International Time Bureau adds the first leap second (23:59:60) of this year to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Section: July (2):
July 1 – The Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.
July 2 – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally.
July 4 – The first Rainbow Gathering is held in Colorado.
July 10 – At least 24 people have been killed by elephants crazed by heat and drought in separate incidents in the Chandka Forest of India, according to news agency reports.
July 11
The long anticipated chess match between world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, and United States champion Bobby Fischer, begins in Iceland at Reykjavík.
Curtis Mayfield releases the soundtrack to the 1972 film, Super Fly.
July 10–14 – The Democratic National Convention meets in Miami Beach. Senator George McGovern, who backs the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam, is nominated for president. He names fellow Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate.
July 18 – Anwar Sadat expels 20,000 Soviet advisors from Egypt.
July 21
The Troubles: Bloody Friday – 22 bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode in Belfast, Northern Ireland; nine people are killed and 130 seriously injured.
A collision between two trains near Seville, Spain, kills 76 people.
July 23 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
July 24 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck succeeds his father Jigme Dorji Wangchuck as King of Bhutan.
July 25 – U.S. health officials admit that African-American men were used as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study without their informed consent.
July 27 – The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft makes its first flight in the United States.
July 31 – The Troubles, Northern Ireland:
Operation Motorman 4:00 AM: The British Army begins to regain control of the "no-go areas" established by Irish republican paramilitaries in Belfast, Derry ("Free Derry") and Newry.
Claudy bombing ("Bloody Monday"), 10:00 AM: Three car bombs in Claudy, County Londonderry, kill nine. It becomes public knowledge only in 2010 that a local Catholic priest was an IRA officer believed to be involved in the bombings but his role was covered up by the authorities.
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Section: August (2):
August 4
Expulsion of Asians from Uganda: Dictator Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months. Most of their property is confiscated.
August 1972 solar storms: A huge solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in the U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until August 10.
August 10 – 1972 Great Daylight Fireball: A brilliant meteor is seen in the western U.S. and Canada as an Apollo asteroid skips off the Earth's atmosphere.
August 12 – Oil tankers Oswego-Guardian and Texanita collide near Stilbaai, South Africa.
August 14 – An East German Ilyushin airliner crashes near East Berlin; all 156 on board perish.
August 16 – As part of a coup attempt, members of the Royal Moroccan Air Force fire upon, but fail to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
August 19 – The first daytime episode of the second incarnation of the American game show The Price Is Right is taped at CBS Television City, to be aired on September 4.
August 21 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, renominates U.S. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for a second term.
August 22
Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.
In the Almirante Zar Naval Base, Argentina, 16 detainees are executed by firing squad in the Trelew massacre.
August 26–September 10 – The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany.
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Section: September (2):
September 1
Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American world chess champion.
The Second Cod War begins between the United Kingdom and Iceland.
September 5–6 – Munich massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after eight members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.
September 10 – Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and becomes the youngest Formula One World Champion at the age of 25.
September 14 – West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations.
September 23 – Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos announces on national television the issuance of Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.
September 24 – An F-86 fighter aircraft leaving an air show at Sacramento Executive Airport fails to become airborne and crashes into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, killing 12 children and 11 adults.
September 25 – 1972 Norwegian EC referendum: Norway rejects membership of the European Economic Community.
September 28 – The Canada men's national ice hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in the eighth and final game of the 1972 Summit Series 6–5 to win the series 4–3–1.
September 29 – China–Japan relations: The Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China is signed in Beijing, which normalizes Japanese diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Section: October (2):
October – In Somalia, the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali alphabet as the country's official writing script.
October 1
The first publication reporting the production of a recombinant DNA molecule, by Paul Berg and colleagues, marks the birth of modern molecular biology methodology.
Alex Comfort's bestselling manual The Joy of Sex is published.
October 2 – Denmark joins the European Community; the Faroe Islands stay out.
October 5 – The United Reformed Church in England is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.
October 6 – A train crash in Saltillo, Mexico, kills 208 people.
October 8 – A major breakthrough occurs in the Paris peace talks between Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ.
October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive.
October 22 – The Oakland Athletics defeat the Cincinnati Reds four games to three to capture Major League Baseball's World Series. It is the Athletics' first championship since 1930, when the franchise was in Philadelphia.
October 25 – Belgian Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in cycling in Mexico City.
October 26 – A coup in the Republic of Dahomey (later Benin) led by Mathieu Kérékou removes a civilian government (which has been headed by a triumvirate consisting of Ahomadégbé, Apithy and Maga).
October 28 – The Airbus A300 flies for the first time.
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Section: November (2):
November – The Nishitetsu Lions baseball club, part of the NPB's Pacific League, is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary of Nishi-Nippon Railroad. The team is renamed the Taiheiyo Club Lions.
November 7 – 1972 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide. The election has the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting.
November 11 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
November 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
November 16 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
November 19 – Seán Mac Stíofáin, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving a radio interview to RTÉ and charged with being a member of the IRA.
November 28 – The last executions in Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – are guillotined at La Santé Prison by chief executioner André Obrecht. Bontems, found not guilty of murder by the court, is condemned as Buffet's accomplice. President Georges Pompidou, in private an abolitionist, upholds both death sentences in deference to French public opinion.
November 29
The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the river Amstel in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands.
Atari in the United States release the production version of Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets, devised by Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn.
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Section: December (2):
December 2 – 1972 Australian federal election: The Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam defeats the Liberal/Country Coalition government led by Prime Minister William McMahon. Consequently, Whitlam becomes the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia since the defeat of Ben Chifley in 1949. Whitlam will be sworn in on December 5; his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War. McMahon resigns from the Liberal leadership almost immediately; he will be replaced by outgoing Treasurer Billy Snedden.
December 7
Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last crewed Moon mission for more than 50 years, is launched and The Blue Marble photograph of the Earth is taken. The mission also includes five mice.
Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot the assailant.
December 8
United Airlines Flight 553 crashes short of a runway in Chicago, killing 43 of 61 passengers and two people on the ground. A day later, over $10,000 cash is found in the purse of Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt's wife, who was on board.
International Human Rights Day is proclaimed by the United Nations.
December 11 – Apollo 17 lands on the Moon.
December 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. The next person to set foot on the Moon will not do so before 2026.
December 15
The Commonwealth of Australia ordains equal pay for women.
The United Nations Environment Programme is established as a specialized agency of the United Nations.
December 16
The Constitution of Bangladesh comes into effect.
The Portuguese army kills 400 Africans in Tete, Mozambique.
December 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 17 returns to Earth, concluding the program of lunar exploration.
December 21 – ZANLA troopers attack Altera Farm in north-east Rhodesia.
December 22
Australia establishes diplomatic relations with China and East Germany.
A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war (they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam).
December 23
The 6.2 Mw Nicaragua earthquake kills 5,000–11,000 people in the capital Managua. President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is later accused of not distributing millions of dollars worth of foreign aid.
Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme compares the American bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres. The U.S. breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
Asker accident: Braathens SAFE Flight 239 crashes during approach to Oslo Airport, Fornebu, Norway; forty people on board are killed.
December 28 – The bones of Nazi Party official Martin Bormann are discovered in Berlin during construction work.
December 29 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of 176 on board. It is the first hull loss of a wide-body aircraft.
December 31 – For the first and last time, a 2nd leap second is added (23:59:60) to a year, making 1972 366 days and two seconds long, the longest year ever within the context of UTC.
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1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.
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Section: January (2):
January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines.
January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Nixon is the only person to have been sworn in twice as President (1969, 1973) and Vice President of the United States (1953, 1957).
January 22
The Sunshine Showdown: George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica.
A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria; 176 people are killed.
January 27 – U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
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Section: February (2):
February 8 – A military insurrection in Uruguay poses an institutional challenge to President Juan María Bordaberry.
February 21 – Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (Boeing 727) is shot down by Israeli fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane. Only 5 (1 crew member and 4 passengers) of 113 survive.
February 28 – The Republic of Ireland general election is held. Liam Cosgrave becomes the new Taoiseach.
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Section: March (2):
March 8 – The Troubles: A referendum is held in Northern Ireland over whether to reunite with the Republic of Ireland or to stay a part of the UK. The result was 98% remain. The Provisional Irish Republican Army responds to the referendum by planting four car bombs in London on the same day, two of which went off, causing one death and injuring over 200 people.
March 10 – Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda, is assassinated outside Government House, along with his aide-de-camp.
March 18 – Comet Kohoutek is discovered.
March 20 – A British government White Paper on Northern Ireland proposes the re-establishment of an Assembly elected by proportional representation, with a possible All-Ireland council.
March 21 – The Lofthouse Colliery disaster occurs in Great Britain. Seven miners are trapped underground; none survive.
March 27 – At the 45th Academy Awards, The Godfather wins best picture.
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Section: April (2):
April 1
India launches the wildlife conservation program Project Tiger.
Value Added Tax (VAT) is introduced in the United Kingdom.
April 3 – The first handheld mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City.
April 5
Fahri Korutürk becomes the sixth president of Turkey.
Pioneer 11 is launched on a mission to study the Solar System.
April 6 – Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees becomes the first designated hitter in Major League Baseball.
April 7 – Tu te reconnaîtras by Anne-Marie David (music by Claude Morgan, text by Vline Buggy) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 for Luxembourg.
April 10 – Operation Spring of Youth: Israeli commandos raid Beirut, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement. The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saeb Salam, a Sunni Muslim.
April 10 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan introduced its new constitution, its supreme law.
April 15 – Naim Talu, a former civil servant, forms the new government of Turkey (36th government).
April 17 – The German counter-terrorist force GSG 9 is officially formed in response to the Munich massacre.
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Section: May (2):
May 3 – The Sears Tower in Chicago, United States, is topped-out, becoming the world's tallest building at 1,451 feet (442 m).
May 5 – Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
May 10 – The Polisario Front, a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Spanish Sahara, is formed.
May 11 – The Data Act (Sw. Datalagen) − the world's first national data protection law − is enacted in Sweden.
May 14 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
May 18 – Second Cod War: Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, announces that Royal Navy frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 80 km (50 mi) limit around Iceland.
May 25
Skylab 2 (Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz, Joseph Kerwin) is launched on a mission to repair damage to the recently launched Skylab space station.
Héctor José Cámpora becomes democratic president of the Argentine Republic ending the 1966 to 1973 Revolución Argentina military dictatorship.
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Section: June (2):
June 1 – The Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.
June 3 – A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed.
June 10 – Henri Pescarolo and co-driver Gérard Larrousse (both France) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Equipe Matra MS670B.
June 20 – The Ezeiza massacre occurs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers shoot at left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.
June 24
Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first Soviet leader to do so.
UpStairs Lounge arson attack, an as-yet unsolved attack on a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, in which 32 patrons are killed.
June 25 – Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the 4th President of Ireland.
June 26 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome, nine people are killed in the explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
June 27 – Coup d'état in Uruguay: pressed by the military, President Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament; a 12-year-long civic-military dictatorship begins.
June 28 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
June 30 – A very long total solar eclipse occurs. During the entire second millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality.
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Section: July (2):
July 3 – Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
July 5 – The catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) occurs in Kingman, Arizona, United States, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, killing 11 firefighters. This explosion becomes a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
July 10 – The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
July 11 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Orly, France; 123 people are killed.
July 16 – Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
July 17 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
July 20 – France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll, over the protests of Australia and New Zealand.
July 21 – Lillehammer affair: Agents of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, shoot and kill a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, mistakenly believing him to be a senior member of the Palestinian Black September Organization.
July 23 – The Avianca Building in Bogotá, Colombia, suffers a serious fire, in which four people are killed.
July 25 – The Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
July 28 – Skylab 3 (Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, Alan Bean) is launched, to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard Skylab.
July 31 – A Delta Air Lines DC-9 aircraft flying as Delta Air Lines Flight 173 lands short of Logan Airport runway at Boston, United States, in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3000 feet (914 m) short. All 6 crew members and 83 passengers are killed; one of the passengers died several months after the accident.
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Section: August (2):
August 1 – Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is inaugurated.
August 2 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
August 5
Black September members open fire at the Athens airport; 3 people are killed, 55 injured.
Mars 6, also known as 3MP No. 50P, is launched by the Soviet Union to explore Mars.
August 8 – South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung is kidnapped in Tokyo by the KCIA.
August 15 – The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia according to the Case–Church Amendment-an act that prohibits military operations in Laos, Cambodia, and North and South Vietnam as a follow-up of the Paris Peace Accords.
August 23 – The Norrmalmstorg robbery occurs, famous for the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.
August 25 – Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon: Two Australian girls go missing whilst attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval, never to be seen again.
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Section: September (2):
September 9 – Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart becomes World Drivers' Champion when his Tyrrell 003-Cosworth finishes fourth in the 1973 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
September 11 – Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in a violent military coup after serious political instability. President Salvador Allende allegedly commits suicide during the coup in the presidential palace and General Augusto Pinochet heads a US-backed military junta that governs Chile for the next 17 years.
September 15 – Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden following the death of his grandfather, King Gustaf VI Adolf.
September 18 – The two German Republics, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations.
September 20
Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in a singles tennis match billed as the "Battle of the Sexes".
Jim Croce, Maury Muehleisen and four others are killed in a plane crash shortly after takeoff following a concert at Northwestern Louisiana University in Natchitoches.
September 27
Soviet space program: Soyuz 12 (Vasily Lazarev, Oleg Makarov), the first Soviet manned flight since the Soyuz 11 tragedy in 1971, is launched.
Luís Cabral declares the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau from the Estado Novo regime in Portugal. It is later granted in September 1974.
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Section: October (2):
October 6 – Yom Kippur War begins: The fourth and largest Arab–Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.
October 10 – Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States.
October 14 – Thai popular uprising: Students revolt in Bangkok – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
October 15 – Typhoon Ruth crosses Luzon, Philippines, killing 27 people and causing $5 million in damage.
October 17 – An OPEC oil embargo against several countries supporting Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.
October 20
The Saturday Night Massacre: U.S. President Richard Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in line at the Department of Justice, then fires Cox. The event prompts calls for Nixon's impeachment.
The Sydney Opera House in Australia is opened by Queen Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work.
October 25 – The Yom Kippur War ends.
October 26 – The United Nations recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau.
October 30 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait for the first time in history.
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Section: November (2):
November 3
Pan Am flight 160, a Boeing 707-321C, crashes at Logan International Airport, Boston, killing three people.
Mariner program: NASA launches Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet).
November 7 – The Congress of the United States overrides President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
November 8 – Millennium '73, a festival hosted by Guru Maharaj Ji at the Astrodome, is called by supporters the "most significant event in human history".
November 11 – Egypt and Israel sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord.
November 16
Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 (Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an 84-day mission.
U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
November 17 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurs against the military regime in Athens, Greece.
November 25 – Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
November 27 – The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.
November 29 – 104 people are killed in a Taiyo department store fire in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan.
November – Queen Sisowath Kossamak of Cambodia is released from house arrest to Beijing.
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Section: December (2):
December – Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.
December 1 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
December 3 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
December 6 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; he is sworn in the same day.
December 14 – Rhodesia executes two Blacks at Salisbury Central Prison for murder.
December 18
Soviet space program: Soyuz 13 (Pyotr Klimuk, Valentin Lebedev) is launched.
The Islamic Development Bank is created as a specialized agency of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) (effective August 12, 1974).
December 20 – Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by the separatist organization ETA.
December 28 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
December 30 – Terrorist Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff.
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1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade. Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a parliamentary republic and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the hosts won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire.
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Section: January (2):
January 3
Alessandro Petacchi, Italian road cyclist
Katie Porter, American politician
January 9 – Farhan Akhtar, Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, singer, producer, and television host
January 10
Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor
January 12
Melanie C, English pop singer (Spice Girls)
Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier
January 14
Kevin Durand, Canadian-American actor and singer
January 16 – Kate Moss, English model
January 19 – Natassia Malthe, Norwegian actress and model
January 22 – Joseph Muscat, 13th Prime Minister of Malta
January 23 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
January 24 – Ed Helms, American actor and stand-up comedian
January 25 – Emily Haines, American-Canadian singer
January 27 – Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete
January 28 – Kari Traa, Norwegian freestyle skier
January 29
Michael Andersen, Danish basketball player
Kōji Wada, Japanese rock singer (d. 2016)
January 30
Christian Bale, British actor
Olivia Colman, English actress
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Section: February (2):
February 1 – Roberto Heras, Spanish road cyclist
February 3
Shahab Hosseini, Iranian actor and film director
Ayanna Pressley, American politician
Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
February 4
Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress
February 7
J Dilla, American record producer and rapper (d. 2006)
Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
Nujabes, Japanese record producer and DJ (d. 2010)
Femke Zeedijk-Raeven, Dutch politician
February 8
Seth Green, American actor and comedian
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French musician and record producer
Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-born American boxer and mixed martial artist (d. 2016)
February 10
Elizabeth Banks, American actress and film director
David Datuna, Georgian-American artist (d. 2022)
Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
February 11 – Alex Jones, American radio host, conspiracy theorist, author and filmmaker
February 12 – Naseem Hamed, British boxer
February 13 – Robbie Williams, British singer
February 14
Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
Valentina Vezzali, Italian fencer
February 15
Mr Lordi, Finnish singer
Alexander Wurz, Austrian racing driver
February 16 – Mahershala Ali, American actor and rapper
February 17
Jerry O'Connell, American actor
February 18
Nadine Labaki, Lebanese film director, actress and activist
February 22
James Blunt, English singer
David Pelletier, Canadian pair skater
February 25
Divya Bharti, Indian film actress (d. 1993)
Dominic Raab, British politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
February 26 – Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
February 27
Carte Goodwin, former United States senator from West Virginia
Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japanese speed skater
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1974_2
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Section: March (2):
March 4
Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player
Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
March 5
Jens Jeremies, German footballer
Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
Eva Mendes, American actress and model
Hiten Tejwani, Indian model and actor
March 6 – Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional wrestler
March 7
Jenna Fischer, American actress
Antonio de la Rúa, Argentine lawyer
March 9 – Nalbert Bitencourt, Brazilian volleyball player
March 14 – Grace Park, Canadian actress
March 13
Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
Vampeta, Brazilian football player and coach
March 15 – Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union player
March 19 – Vida Guerra, Cuban born-American model and actress
March 20 – Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
March 21 – Rhys Darby, New Zealand actor and comedian
March 22
Marcus Camby, American basketball player
Kidada Jones, American actress
Bassem Youssef, Egyptian journalist and comedian
March 23 – Jaume Collet-Serra, Spanish-American film director and producer
March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
March 26 – Laurel Lee, American politician and lawyer
March 28 – Daisuke Kishio, Japanese voice actor
March 29 – Miguel Gómez, Colombian photographer
March 30 – Miho Komatsu, Japanese pop singer and songwriter
March 31
Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter
Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer
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1974_3
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Section: April (2):
April 2 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
April 6 – Robert Kovač, Croatian football player and coach
April 8 – Chris Kyle, American sniper (d. 2013)
April 9 – Jenna Jameson, American adult actress and model
April 11
Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
April 12
Marley Shelton, American actress
Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
April 13 – Marta Jandová, Czech musician and actress
April 15
Danny Pino, Cuban American actor
Tim Thomas, American Ice Hockey player
April 16 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director
April 17
Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth)
Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer
April 18
Lorraine Pilkington, Irish actress
Edgar Wright, English film director
April 21 – Oleksiy Zhuravko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2022)
April 23 – Jennifer Paz, Filipino actress
April 24 – Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist and autistic savant
April 25 – Grant Achatz, American chef and restaurateur
April 28 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and model
April 29 – Anggun, Indonesian-French singer-songwriter
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Section: May (2):
May 1 – Lornah Kiplagat, Kenyan-Dutch runner
May 2 – Matt Berry, English actor and singer
May 3 – Princess Haya bint Al Hussein of Jordan
May 7
Lawrence Johnson, American pole vaulter
Breckin Meyer, American actor
May 8 – Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer
May 9 – Brian Deegan, American motocross racer
May 10
Liu Fang, Chinese pipa player
Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
May 11 – Simon Aspelin, Swedish tennis player
May 14 – Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer-songwriter
May 16 – Laura Pausini, Italian singer
May 17
Andrea Corr, Irish singer
Tamara Rojo, Spanish ballet dancer
May 18 – Ikke Nurjanah, Indonesian dangdut singer and actress
May 19
Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league player
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indian film actor
May 20 – Mikael Stanne, Swedish singer
May 21 – Fairuza Balk, American actress and musician
May 22
Sean Gunn, American actor
Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian artistic gymnast
May 23 – Jewel, American singer
May 26 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
May 27
Marjorie Taylor Greene, American politician
Gürkan Uygun, Turkish actor
May 28
Hans-Jörg Butt, German footballer
Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer
May 29 – Steve Cardenas, American martial artist and actor
May 30 – Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
May 31 – Kenan Doğulu, Turkish pop musician
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Section: June (2):
June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer
June 2 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player
June 3 – Martín Karpan, Argentinian actor
June 7
Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
Helen Vollam, Principal Trombone Player for the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Bear Grylls, British survivalist
June 13
Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter.
Selma, Icelandic singer
Steve-O, American actor
June 18 – Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Turkish actor and model
June 19 – Rossella Erra, Italian television personality
June 21
Natasha Beaumont, Malaysian actress and model
Maggie Siff, American actress
Hitoshi Uematsu, Japanese short track speed skater
June 22
Devayani, Indian actress
Donald Faison, American actor
B. V. S. Ravi, Indian writer
Tu Tamarua, Cook Islands rugby union flanker
Vijay, Indian actor
June 23
Joel Edgerton, Australian actor and filmmaker
Kim Young-chul, South Korean comedian and singer
Andi Vasluianu, Romanian actor
June 24
Andrea De Cruz, Singaporean actress
Ruffa Gutierrez, Filipino model, beauty queen and actress
June 25
Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
Tereza Pergnerová, Czech actress, singer and television presenter
June 26
Derek Jeter, American baseball player
Ecija Ojdanić, Croatian actress
Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer and actress
Kristofer Steen, Swedish musician
Matt Striker, American professional wrestler and commentator
June 27 – Christopher O'Neill, British-American businessman, Swedish royal
June 28
Nelson Mariano II, Filipino chess Grandmaster
Rob Dyrdek, American entrepreneur and Television personality
June 29 – Pua Khein-Seng, Malaysian businessman
June 30 – Hezekiél Sepeng, South African middle-distance athlete
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Section: July (2):
July 1
Timmy Hung, Hong Kong actor
Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorean race walker
July 2 – Moon So-ri, South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter
July 3
Taiga Ishikawa, Japanese politician and LGBT activist
Marko Milošević, Serbian fugitive and refugee
July 4
Kevin Hanchard, Canadian actor
Karole Rocher, French actress
July 6 – Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
July 7 – Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler
July 8
Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, actress, model and socialite (d. 2015)
Dragoslav Jevrić, Montenegrin footballer
July 12
Parvin Dabas, Indian actor, model and director
Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer
July 14
Martina Hill, German actress, comedian and impersonator
David Mitchell, British comedian and actor
July 20 – Doug Ithier, Australian footballer
July 22
Franka Potente, German actress and singer
Johnny Strong, American actor
July 23
Maurice Greene, American athlete
Stephanie March, American actress
Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian road racing cyclist
July 24
Eva Aridjis, Mexican-American director and screenwriter
July 25 – Lauren Faust, American animator
July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
July 28
Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician
July 29 – Josh Radnor, American actor
July 30 – Hilary Swank, American actress
July 31 – Emilia Fox, English actress
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1974_7
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Section: August (2):
August 5 – Kajol, Indian actress
August 6 – Ever Carradine, American actress
August 7 – Michael Shannon, American actor
August 9 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician
August 14 – Christopher Gorham, American actor
August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
August 16
Didier Cuche, Swiss alpine skier
Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
August 20
Amy Adams, American actress
Misha Collins, American actor
Deborah Gravenstijn, Brazilian judoka
Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist
August 22
Cory Gardner, American politician
Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist
August 23
Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist
Ovi, Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician
Shifty Shellshock, American rapper, singer-songwriter and vocalist (d. 2024)
August 24 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
August 28 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
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1974_8
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Section: September (2):
September 3 – Jen Royle, American sports reporter and chef
September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer
September 6
Tim Henman, English tennis player
Nina Persson, Swedish singer
September 7 – Glenn Ljungström, Swedish guitarist
September 9 – Leah O'Brien, American softball player
September 10
Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer; mixed martial arts fighter
Ryan Phillippe, American actor
Ben Wallace, American basketball player
September 12
Kenichi Suzumura, Japanese voice actor
September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
September 15 – Wael Kfoury, Lebanese singer, musician, and songwriter
September 16 – Loona, Dutch singer
September 17
Austin St. John, American actor and martial artist
Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
September 18
Sol Campbell, English footballer
Xzibit, American rapper
September 19
Jimmy Fallon, American actor, comedian, and television personality
Hidetaka Miyazaki, Japanese video game designer and executive
Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
September 20 – Jon Bernthal, American actor
September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
September 24 – Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer
September 26 – Joo Jin-mo, South Korean actor
September 30 – Yul Bürkle, Venezuelan actor and model
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Section: October (2):
October 2 – Rachana Banerjee, Indian film actress
October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
October 6 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese sports shooter
October 7
Shannon MacMillan, American soccer player
Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
October 10
Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
Oded Kattash, Israeli basketball player and coach
Chris Pronger, Canadian hockey player
October 11 – Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player
October 15 – Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish politician
October 16
Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
October 17 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
October 18
Susana Díaz, Spanish politician
Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
October 23
Aravind Adiga, Indian-Australian author
Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
October 24 – Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress
October 25 – Nevenka Fernández, Spanish economist.
October 28
Nelly Ciobanu, Moldovan singer
Joaquin Phoenix, American actor born in Puerto Rico
October 29
Akashdeep Saigal, Indian television actor and model
Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician
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