1970s

January 01 - In Australia, Bob Hawke becomes ACTU president. 01 - The age of majority in Britain is reduced from 21 to 18. 01 - Jimi Hendrix debuts the Band of Gypsys at Fillmore East. The show...

January 02 - 66 Football fans are killed when a barrier collapses at Ibrox Park in Glasgow following a match between old firm rivals Celtic and Rangers. A few seconds before the end of the match,...

January 01 - French singer Maurice Chevalier dies (b. 1888) in Paris. He is 83. 03 - An IRA bomb injures 55 women and children when it explodes in a Belfast department store. 04 - Rose Heilbron is...

January 01 - Britain, Denmark and Ireland join the European Economic Community (the "Common Market") bringing the total number of member states to nine. 01 - Baseball star Roberto Clemente is killed in a light plane crash...

January 01 - Golda Meir wins Israeli election. 01 - 38 Italians die when an Italia Airlines Fokker Friendship crashes near Turin. There are four survivors. 02 - US legislation for a national speed limit of 55 mph...

January 01 - The Watergate criminal trial ends. Aides of former President Nixon (John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, Robert Mardian and John D. Ehrlichman) are found guilty of trying to cover up. 01 - The University...

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 Beatles road manager Mal Evans is shot dead by Los Angeles police investigating...

January 01 - Groucho Marx dies in Los Angeles. 02 - Legendary jazz pianist and composer Erroll Garner dies. 03 - Former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces he is leaving Westminster to become President of the European Commission in...

January 01 - An Air India Jumbo explodes killing 213. 03 - Indira Gandhi is expelled from India's Congress Party. 05 - The Sex Pistols make their US concert debut with a gig in Atlanta, Georgia. 10 - The...

January 01 - USA and China establish diplomatic relations. 04 - Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in Kent State University shootings. 04 - Influential jazz musician Charles Mingus, dies from a...

ADIDAS Brand-name graffiti appearing primarily on running shoes, including a pair that glows in the dark. AGEISM Discrimination against the elderly for being old. AIR SUPPORT "It's not bombing - it's air support" - U.S. Air Force colonel in Phnom...

Average Weekly Wage (male): $149.93 Average Weekly Wage (female): $138.71 3-seater sofa and 2 x leather-look armchairs: $259.00 Chrome and Glass Coffee Table (Square): $29.00 62cm Colour TV: $779.00 4-piece stereo system: $599.00 2-door fridge: $499 Electric...