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| 01 -
USA and China establish diplomatic relations |
| 04 -
Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent
State University shootings |
| 04 -
Influential jazz musician Charles Mingus, dies from a heart attack in
Cuernavaca, Mexico. Aged 56 |
| 04 -
Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton Hotel chain, dies aged 91 |
| 07 -
Cambodia falls to Vietnamese |
| 16
- The Shah of Iran is driven into exile by fanatical supporters of
the Ayatollah Khomeini. The ailing Shah flees to Mexico, then to the
US in October. When uproar over his presence in the US becomes too
great, the Shah relocates to Panama |
| 16 - Lillian Gasinskaya, an
18-year-old Ukrainian woman, jumps from a Russian ship in Sydney
Harbour wearing only a red bikini in a bid to defect to the west |
| 17 -
Australian TV legend Graham Kennedy is chosen as King of Melbourne's
Moomba Festival |
| 19 -
Ex-Attorney General John Mitchell, the last Watergate conspirator
still in jail, is released on parole |
| 22 -
A car bomb in Beirut kills Abu Hassan, allegedly the man behind the
1972 Olympics massacre |
| 23 -
Australian government suspends aid to Vietnam |
| 26 -
US Republican politician, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller dies (b. 1908) |
| 29 -
San Diego teenager Brenda Spencer shoots and kills eleven of her
school friends. When asked why she had done it, she replied "I don't
like Mondays" |
| 29 -
President Carter commutes Patty Hearst's jail sentence |
| 30 -
A referendum of white Rhodesians votes overwhelmingly for black
majority rule |
| 31 -
British Public Sector workers strike in response to the government's
5% limit on pay rises. The period becomes known as "the winter of
discontent" |
| 01 -
Ayatollah Khomeini comes back to Iran after 14 years in exile |
| 02 -
Sid Vicious of The Sex Pistols dies of
a heroin overdose at the New York
apartment of his new girlfriend, Michelle Robinson, while on bail for
the murder of previous girlfriend Nancy Spungen |
| 06 - Pakistan's Supreme
Court rules that former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Butto should be
hanged for conspiring to murder an opponent |
| 08 -
US withdraws aid to the Somoza regime in Nicaragua in protest at
human rights violations, and in an attempt to force Anastasio Somoza
to negotiate with the insurgent Sandinista movement |
| 12 - An Air Rhodesia
Viscount airliner is brought down by missiles fired by nationalist
guerrillas. 59 people are killed |
| 12 -
In Australia, Harry M Miller's 'Computicket' collapses |
| 15 - Four Iranian army
generals are executed by firing squad, and two members of the Shah's
government are executed the following day |
| 17 -
China begins making punitive invasions into Vietnam |
| 23 -
War breaks out between North and South Yemen |
| 17 -
Nottingham Forrest beat Southampton 3-2 in UK League Cup final |
| 26 -
Egypt and Israel sign peace treaty in US |
| 28 - Eric Clapton weds Patti Boyd, ex-wife of
George Harrison, in Tucson,
Arizona |
| 29 -
Idi Amin driven from Uganda as regime crumbles |
| 30 -
IRA car bomb kills Airey Neave, Tory spokesman on Northern Ireland,
as he enters House Of Commons grounds |
| 01 -
The last Royal Navy warship leaves Malta, ending British ties with
the island |
| 01 -
Iran is declared an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Khomeini |
| 02 -
Begin is the first Israeli PM to visit Egypt |
| 03 -
Over 1,000 trucks block the Hume Highway at Camden and Yass in NSW
(Australia) as truck drivers protest against high road taxes and
freight costs |
| 04 - Despite pleas from
world leaders, former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is
hanged in Rawalpindi after
being convicted of conspiracy to murder (b. 1928) |
| 04 -
The Yorkshire Ripper claims his 11th victim, in Halifax. For the
first time the victim is not a prostitute |
| 04 - Hijacker killed in
Sydney Airport Drama |
| 08 -
Folk singer Phil Ochs hangs himself in New York |
| 11 - Kampala, capital of
Uganda, is captured by Tanzanian forces who depose Genera Idi Amin |
| 17 -
IRA detonates 1000lb bomb killing four policemen in Northern Ireland.
The bomb is the IRA's most powerful yet |
| 21 -
The Bjelke-Petersen government in Queensland, Australia, allows
the unannounced demolition of the historic Bellevue Hotel |
| 22 - Tanzanian forces
capture Jinja, 50 miles from Kampala |
| 03 -
Jeremy Thorpe loses his seat in the British election. The
Conservatives win with a majority of 43 over all other parties |
| 04 -
Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman Prime Minister |
| 07 -
In Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini lowers the age of marriage to 13 for
girls and 15 for boys |
| 08 -
Ten die and 47 are hurt when fire breaks out in a Woolworth's store
in Manchester |
| 11 -
American Woolworth's heiress Barbara Hutton dies aged 67 |
| 12 -
Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-2 in the FA Cup Final |
| 18 -
The estate of Karen Silkwood wins $10.5 million compensation for the
atomic contamination she suffered as a nuclear worker in 1974 |
| 22 -
Progressive Liberal party wins Canadian general election - Joe Clark
becomes Prime Minister |
| 25 -
An American Airlines DC 10 crashes in Chicago shortly after take-off.
275 people are killed in the worst air disaster in US history |
| 28 -
Britain agrees to take 982 Vietnamese "boat people" refugees on South
China Sea |
| 29 -
Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Rhodesia's first black Prime Minister |
| 04 -
South African President Vorster resigns after a financial scandal |
| 07/10
- European electors vote for the first European Parliament |
| 11 -
John Wayne loses his fight against cancer.
Wayne, 72, began his career under his real
name, Marion Morrison, nicknamed "Duke" as a student on vacation. He
was married three times and had seven children. |
| 12 - American Bryan Allen
makes the first man-powered flight across the English Channel,
pedalling his Gossamer Albatross from Folkestone in England to
Cap Gris Nez, France, in 2 hours 50 minutes |
| 13 -
The Sioux Indian nation is awarded $17.5 million for lands taken from
them in the Black Hills of South Dakota back in 1877 - including
interest, the settlement comes to over $100 million |
| 18 -
The SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty is signed in Vienna by
President Carter and USSR President Leonid Brezhnev |
| 22 - The former leader of
the British Liberal Party Jeremy Thorpe, along with David Holmes,
George Deakin and John Le Mesurier (not the Dad's Army
star), is acquitted of conspiracy to murder |
| 29 -
Lowell George (Little Feat) dies of a drug-induced heart attack in
Arlington, Virginia, aged 34 |
| 11 - After 6 years in space
Skylab streaks back to Earth and dumps most of its 80 tons of molten
metal into a watery grave |
| 12 -
Singer Minnie Ripperton dies |
| 15 -
In a televised speech, President Carter calls for a new energy
conservation program that includes limiting oil imports, reducing oil
use by utilities, fuel rationing for motorists and the study of other
forms of fuel |
| 16 -
Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq |
| 17 -
Sandinista victory sends Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza
into exile |
| 19 -
Maria Pintassilgo becomes Portugal's first woman Prime Minister |
| 20 - Security forces of
Rhodesia kill more than 180 black auxiliaries |
| 23 -
Ayatollah Khomeini bans the broadcast of music, saying it corrupts
youth |
| 24 -
Gas explosion kills 14 miners at Appin colliery in NSW, Australia |
| 15 -
Seb Coe is first athlete to hold world indoor records simultaneously
for 800 metres, 1500 metres and the mile |
| 26 -
Rhodesia renamed Zimbabwe |
| 27 - British Admiral of the
Fleet Earl Mountbatten
is killed in Sligo Bay, Ireland, by an IRA bomb in his boat. Also
killed in the explosion are his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, and
15-year-old boatman Paul Maxwell. 82-year-old Lady Brabourne dies the
next day |
| 30 - Francis McGirl and
Thomas McMahon are charged in Dublin with the murder of Earl
Mountbatten |
| 01 -
Pioneer II flies within 13,000 miles of Saturn |
| 02 -
Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim |
| 08 -
Jean Seberg is found dead in Paris |
| 09 -
British bandleader Norrie Paramor dies |
| 14 -
Plans are announced for the revitalisation of London' Docklands area |
| 14 -
ABBA perform for the first time in North America at a venue in
Vancouver, Canada |
| 20 -
Ruthless dictator of the Central African Empire, Jean Bédal Bokassa
(who is said to have eaten his enemies), is removed from power by his
nephew, former president David Dacko. The troubled country is once
again a republic |
| 21 -
NME young guns Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill wed at
Brentwood Registry Office |
| 23 -
200,000 demonstrators attend the "No Nukes" rally and concert in New
York City |
| 26 -
Elton John collapses onstage at Hollywood Universal Amphitheatre,
suffering from exhaustion |
| 27 -
British entertainer Gracie Fields dies, aged 81, on the Isle of Capri |
| 27 -
Guitarist Jimmy McCulloch (ex- Wings, Thunderclap Newman,
Small Faces)
dies aged 26 |
| 08/12
- The Dow Jones Industrial plunges 58 points in
panic trading triggered by the Federal Reserve Board's raising of
interest rates. Though the market eventually rights itself, the new
high interest rates spell bad news for the automobile and
construction industries |
| 19 -
Australian Federal Police formed |
| 26 -
South Korean president Park Chung Hee is assassinated |
| 04 -
The US embassy in Teheran, Iran is seized by Iranian student
revolutionaries. Most foreign hostages are released, but 52 white
American males remain hostage. The revolutionaries demand the return
of the deposed Shah to Iran to stand trial. The US refuses, and the
"hostage crisis" begins - The majority of the hostages are not ultimately released
until January 1981 |
| 11 - 200,000 people are
evacuated from Mississauga in Canada after a freight train jumps the
rails and chemicals burst into flames |
| 15 -
The Queen's art adviser, Sir Anthony Blunt, is revealed as a Russian spy
and the 'fourth man' in the defection of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 |
| 18 - Three hostages are
released from the American embassy in Teheran |
| 20/23
- Armed militants seize the Grand Mosque in
Mecca |
| 21 - Demonstrators attack
the US embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and four people are killed |
| 22 -
UK Mortgage rate hits a record 15% |
| 28 -
NZ plane hits mountain in Antarctica - 257 people die |
| 03 -
Eleven people are trampled to death in the audience at a concert by
The Who at River Front Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 04 -
President Carter announces candidacy for re-election, despite polls
showing his approval rating is at its lowest levels ever |
| 12 - Lord Soames arrives in
Salisbury as the new British Governor of Southern Rhodesia. The
14-year rebellion ends |
| 18 - Stanley Barrett is the
first man to break the sound barrier on land after his rocket car
reaches a speed of 739.666 mph (1190.35 kph) in California |
| 27 - President Hafizullah
of Afghanistan is deposed and executed after a coup strongly backed
by Soviet troops |
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Feb 01 - Ayatollah Khomeini back to Iran from exile
Mar 29 - Idi Amin regime crumbles in Uganda
Mar 29 - Atomic crisis at Three Mile Island, USA
May 04 - Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman PM
Jun 09 - Ghost train fire in Sydney claims lives
'Hyperno' wins Melbourne Cup
Melbourne scientists invent the Bionic Ear
First Australian Lotto draw hosted by Mike Walsh and Karen
Pini
Quotes of the Year
"By God, I'll confront them"
Margaret Thatcher, promising to tackle rampant union power
"It's like saying to Beethoven. 'This symphony's a real
treat, Ludwig, but it's 32 bars too long'"
John Cleese, who vetoed the sale of Fawlty Towers to America because
he refused to allow episodes to be cut
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