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Centuries :
19th century -
20th century -
21st century
Decades : 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 - 1972 - 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
Events
Prime minister of Sweden , Olof Palme compares the American bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres. The US breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
January 2 - Major robbery in Pierre Hotel, New York. $4 million dollars worth of valuables stolen.
January 5 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
January 4 - Kurt Waldheim becomes the Secretary General[?] of United Nations .
January 9 - RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire (Hong Kong harbor[?] ).
January 9 - Rose Heilbron[?] becomes the first woman judge in the United Kingdom (Old Bailey , London ).
January 11 - East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh
January 14 - King Frederik IX of Denmark[?] dies - his daughter Queen Margaret II of Denmark ascends to the throne at January 16
January 24 - Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi[?] discovered in Guam . He had spent 28 years in the jungle
January 26 - Yugoslavian air stewardress Vesca Vulovic is the only survivor when her plane crashes in Czechoslovakia .
January 30 - Bloody Sunday : United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland .
January 30 - Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth
February 1 - First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced (price $395)
February 3 - Sapporo Winter Olympics begin.
February 4 - Mariner 9 sends pictures from Mars
February 5 - Bob Douglas[?] becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame .
February 9 - British government declares a state of emergency over a miners' strike
February 17 - Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T -(15 million)
February 18 - The California Supreme Court[?] invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison.
February 21 - February 27 - President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented eight-day visit to Communist China and meets with Mao Zedong .
February 21 - The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon .
February 23 - Lufthansa plane hijacked to Aden . Passengers are released after ransom on 16 million D-marks.
February 25 - Terrorism : Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked a jumbo jet .
March 2 - Launch of Pioneer 10 spacecraft.
March 8 - The Goodyear[?] blimp flies for the first time
March 13 - Britain and China resume full diplomatic relations after 22 years. Britain withdraws its consulate from Taiwan .
March 19 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty .
March 24 - In a bid for peace, Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland .
March 30 - Vietnam War : The Eastertide Offensive[?] begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam .
April 16 - Apollo 16 launched
April 18 - Roland Corporation founded in Osaka
April 27 - Constructive Vote of No Confidence against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
May 9 - Three out of six bombs explode in Springer[?] newspaper building in Hamburg , West Germany . 17 dead.
May 15 - Governor George C. Wallace[?] of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer[?] at a Laurel, Md. , political rally.
May 21 - In Rome , Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo 's Pieta[?] -statue with a hammer
May 22 - Ceylon becomes republic of Sri Lanka
May 26 - Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT treaty[?] in Moscow.
May 26 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia .
May 30 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial.
June 2 - Andreas Baader and some other members of Red Army Faction are arrested in Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.
June 4 - Angela Davis found not guilty of murder
June 14 - June 23 - Hurricane Agnes kills 117 in US east coast.
June 15 - Ulrike Meinhof and Gerhard Müller of Red Army Faction are arrested in a teacher's apartment in Hannover , West Germany.
June 17 - Watergate break-in, Washington, D.C.
Return of Okinawa from United States ' control to Japan .
June 29 - Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional
July 18 - Anwar Sadat sends Soviet military advisors home.
August 4 - Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50.000 asians with British passports to Britain within three months;
September 1 - Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in Reykjavik Chess tournament and becomes the first American chess champion.
September 5 - Eleven Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group Black September invade Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed.
September 14 - West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations.
September 17 - Uganda announces that there is Tanzanian troops in its territory.
September 23 - Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in Philippines .
October 2 - Denmark joins EEC . Faroe Islands stay out.
October 5 - United Reformed Church founded out of Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.
October 13 - Fairchild passenger plane transporting a rugby team crashes in Andes. They are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive.
October 17 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visits Yugoslavia .
November 5 - Group of Amerindians occupies the Bureau of Indian Affairs
November - Richard M. Nixon defeats George McGovern in the U.S. presidential election
December 22 - Earthquake destroys Managua , capital of Nicaragua .
December 28 - The bones of Martin Bormann identified in Berlin.
December 29 - An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 crashes into the Everglades killing 99 of 163 onboard
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
January 30 - Tim Jones , Gonzo Journalist
February 11 - Dennis Iliohan[?] , Dutch football player.
February 15 - Jaromir Jagr , ice hockey star
February 17 - Denise Richards , actress
February 17 - Philippe Candeloro[?] , figure skater
February 17 - Billie Joe Armstrong , musician ("Green Day ")
February 29 - Antonio Sabato Jr.[?] , actor
March 6 - Shaquille O' Neal , basketball player
March 15 - Mark Hoppus , musician ("Blink 182 ")
March 17 - Mia Hamm , soccer player
March 22 - Elvis Stojko , figure skater
March 23 - Judith Godrèche , actress
April 4 - Stefan Wolpe , composer
April 4 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr.[?] , American politician
May 20 - Busta Rhymes , rap music singer
May 21 - The Notorious B.I.G. , musician (+ 1997 )
June 29 - Samantha Smith , U.S. activist.
August 30 - Cameron Diaz , actress
Deaths
January 1 - Maurice Chevalier , French entertainer, surgical complications
January 14 - King Frederick IX of Denmark
January 26 - Mahalia Jackson , gospel music singer
February 11 - Jan Wils[?] , architect
February 20 - Walter Winchell , journalist
March 27 - M. C. Escher , Dutch graphic artist
March 29 - Lord J. Arthur Rank[?] , movie theater owner
April 4 - Stefan Wolpe , composer
May 2 - J. Edgar Hoover , FBI director
May 13 - Dan Blocker[?] , actor
May 22 - Margaret Rutherford , actress
May 28 - Edward VIII , king in 1936 (+ 1894 )
October 1 - Louis Leakey , British paleontologist
October 24 - Jackie Robinson (Baseball Hall of Famer )
October 26 - Igor Sikorsky , aviation engineer
November 1 - Ezra Pound , poet
November 25 - Henri Coanda , aerodynamics pioneer
November 28 - Sibylla[?] , queen of Sweden .
December 26 - Harry S Truman , US president, heart failure.
December 31 - Roberto Clemente (baseball Hall of Famer )
Nobel Prizes
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