January 01 – In Australia, Bob Hawke becomes ACTU president. 01 – The age of majority in Britain is reduced from 21 to 18. 01…
Browsing: The 1970s
January 01 – The ‘Uniform Monday Act’ moves Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day and Columbus Day holidays in the US to Mondays. 02 – 66 Football fans…
January 01 – French singer Maurice Chevalier dies (b. 1888) in Paris. He is 83. 03 – An IRA bomb injures 55 women and children…
January 01 – Britain, Denmark and Ireland join the European Economic Community (the “Common Market”) bringing the total number of member states to nine. 01…
January 01 – Golda Meir wins Israeli election. 01 – 38 Italians die when an Italia Airlines Fokker Friendship crashes near Turin. There are four…
January 01 – The Watergate criminal trial ends. Aides of former President Nixon (Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, Robert…
January 02 – 22 die as hurricane winds rock Britain. 05 – The Khmer Rouge drafts a new constitution in Cambodia, renaming it Democratic Kampuchea. 05 – Former…
January 01 – Groucho Marx dies in Los Angeles. 01 – London’s first full-time punk venue, The Roxy, opens in Neal Street, Covent Garden. The Clash…
January 01 – An Air India jumbo jet explodes in mid-air and crashes into the sea off Bombay killing 213. 03 – Indira Gandhi is…
January 01 – USA and China establish official diplomatic relations. 04 – The state of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead…