January 01 – In Australia, Bob Hawke becomes ACTU president. 01 – The age of majority in Britain is reduced from 21 to 18. 01…
Browsing: Decades
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…
January 01 – In Northern Quebec (Canada), a fire kills 45 people at the Opemiska Club after a young man sets fire to party decorations…
January 01 – Greece becomes the 10th member of the Common Market (EEC). 02 – Fire breaks out at La Scala Opera House in Milan,…
January 02 – Erica Roe Streaks at Twickenham. 03 – South Korea lifts its night-time curfew after 36 years. 04 – Former Australian Prime Minister…
January 01 – Two women are trampled to death and 140 severely injured as crowds dispersing after the traditional New Year celebrations in Trafalgar Square,…
January 01 – Brunei becomes independent of Britain. The Sultan of Brunei appoints himself Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Home Affairs Minister. 01 – After…
January 01 – Dusty Hill of ZZ Top is accidentally shot in the stomach by his girlfriend, Jane Ellen Henderson. She is pulling his boots off…
January 01 – Spain and Portugal join the European Economic Community (EEC). 04 – Thin Lizzy bass player and vocalist, Phil Lynott dies of heart…
January 02 – Ideological purity reaches the superficially cosy world of the nursery. In an attempt to excise any taint of racism, all new editions…
January 02 – A New York accountant finally claims his $3 million lottery jackpot, which he won 45 years earlier. He waited until the New Year…
January 01 – Fidel Castro completes 30 years in power in Cuba. 02 – The US and Canada sign a comprehensive free trade agreement, which…