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Centuries : 19th century - 20th century 21st century
Decades : 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 - 1975 - 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980
Events
January 1 - John N. Mitchell , H. R. Haldeman , John D. Ehrlichman[?] are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21
January 7 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
January 8 - Ella Grasso[?] becomes Governor of Connecticut , becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband
January 20 - Michael Ovitz[?] founds Creative Artists Agency[?]
January - Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer
February 9 - The Soyuz 17[?] Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative party in the United Kingdom .
February 21 - Watergate scandal : Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman[?] are sentenced to prison.
March 4 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England .
March 6 - Algiers Accord[?] : Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
March 9 - Construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline[?] begins.
March 10 - Vietnam War : North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout[?] , South Vietnam , on their way to capturing Saigon .
March 25 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness .
April 3 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov , giving Karpov the title.
April 17 - Pol Pot proclaims the "Democratic Republic of Kampuchea" in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975-1979 ).
April 25 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon , the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 30 - The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
May 12 - Mayaguez incident : The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez [?] in international waters.
May 15 - The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by U.S. Navy and Marines. 38 are killed.
May 16 - India annexes Sikkim .
May 16 - Junko Tabei[?] becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest .
May 28 - 15 West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos[?] thus creating the Economic Community of West African States .
July 6 - The Comoros declare their independence from France .
July 15 - Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space
September 5 - President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt in Sacramento , California .
September 22 - President Ford survives a second assassination attempt, again by a female.
November 11 - Angola independent from Portugal .
November 11 - Gough Whitlam dismissed as Prime Minister of Australia during the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 .
November 25 - Suriname independent from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
November 28 - East Timor independent from Portugal
December 7 - East Timor invaded by Indonesia
Spanish army quits Spanish (Western) Sahara. Saharaui[?] Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades ex-Spanish Western Sahara.
December 29 - A bomb explods at New York City 's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
January 3 - Danica McKellar , actress
January 22 - Balthazar Getty[?] , actor
January 27 - Bill Walsh , Movie producer and writer.
February 4 - Natalie Imbruglia , musician
February 11 - Chuck Watanabe[?] , kayaker
February 20 - Brian Littrell[?] , musician ("NSYNC ")
February 22 - Drew Barrymore , actress.
March 5 - Niki Taylor[?] , fashion model
May 2 - David Beckham , English footballer
May 8 - Enrique Iglesias[?] , singer
May 23 - Jewel , singer
May 26 - Lauryn Hill , hip-hop singer
June 4 - Angelina Jolie , US actress
June 25 - Vladimir Kramnik , Russian chess player
August 7 - Charlize Theron , South African actress
Deaths
January 24 - Larry Fine[?] , actor (The Three Stooges[?] )
February 4 - Louis Jordan , musician
February 14 - P. G. Wodehouse , writer
February 24 - Nikolai Bulganin[?] , Premier of the Soviet Union[?]
February 25 - Elijah Muhammad[?] , Black Muslim leader
March 8 - George Stevens , director, producer, cinematographer
March 14 - Susan Hayward , actress
March 15 - Aristotle Onassis , shipping magnate
March 16 - T-Bone Walker , musician
March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
April 5 - Chiang Kai-shek , President of the Republic of China
May 8 - Avery Brundage[?] , President of the International Olympic Committee
May 13 - Bob Wills , country musician
May 23 - Moms Mabley[?] , comedienne
July 4 - Georgette Heyer , author
July 29 - James Blish , U.S. science fiction author
August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich , aged 68, Russian composer
August 24 - Eamon de Valera , Irish politician and patriot
November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini , film director
November 20 - Francisco Franco , dictator of Spain
December 24 - Bernard Herrmann , composer
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Nobel Prizes
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