- January 10
- Sweden (first Western country) recognizes North Vietnam. [1]
- USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus. [1]
- January 14
- 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers. [1]
- Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later. [1]
- January 15
- The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5, which docks with Soyuz 4 in orbit. It is the first-ever docking of two manned spacecraft, and the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another. [1] [5]
- January 16
- Jan Palach, protesting Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, self immolates at age 20. [1]
- January 17
- United States attorney general Ramsey Clark charges IBM with unlawful monopolization of the computer industry, and requests the federal courts break it up. (13 years later, the US Justice Department will drop the case.) [4]
- January 18
- Expanded four-party Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris, France. [1]
- January 20
- Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President of the United States. [1]
- University of Arizona reports first optical identification of pulsar (in Crab Nebula). [1]
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- January 22
- Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit. [1]
- January 24
- Queen Juliana is appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa. [1]
- Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency. [1]
- January 25
- John Zajíc, Czech student, self-incinerates. [1]
- US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris, France. [1]
- January 27
- Fourteen spies hung in Baghdad, Iraq. [1]
- Nine Jews publicly executed in Damascus, Syria. [1]
- Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to three years. [1]
- January 30
- The Beatles hold their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London, England. The 42-minute impromptu free concert is broken up by the police. [1] [5]
- US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere. [1]
- February 3
- Eduardo C Mondlane, President of Mozambique, is murdered. [1]
- The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat head of Palestinian Liberation Organization. [1]
- February 5
- US population reaches 200 million. [1]
- February 7
- Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of Palestinian Liberation Organization. [1]
- February 8
- Over 2 tons of stony carbonaceous meteorites (type CV3) fall near Pueblito de Allende in Mexico. (The mixture of oxygen isotopes indicate an origin from beyond the Solar System.) [523.91,123]
- February 9
- World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes first commercial flight. [1]
- February 13
- Suriname government of Pengel resigns. [1]
- February 17
- Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's prime minister. [1]
- February 18
- Palestinian Liberation Organization attacks El-Al plane in Zurich, Switzerland. [1]
- February 21
- First launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur, Kazachstan (explodes). [1]
- February 23
- In Celebes Island, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. In area of Madjene, 64 people were killed, 97 injured, and over 1,200 buildings were wrecked. A tsunami was generated that reached about 4 metres height along the coastal villages north of Madjene. The tsunami reportedly took 600 lives. [53]
- Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine. [1]
- February 25
- Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars. [1]
- February 27
- General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup. [1]
- US President Richard Nixon visits West Berlin. [1]
- February 28
- West of Portugal, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs, killing two in Portugal and 11 in Morosso. [53]
- March 2
- First test flight of the supersonic Concorde. [1]
- Chinese and Russians clash on Zhenbao Island on their border at the far east of PRoChina. (Tanks, rockets, artillery, helicopters are involved for 14 days, but no land changes hands.) [1838.26]
- March 3
- French maiden flight of Concorde 001 supersonic jet, from Toulouse. [730.54]
- March 5
- Gold reaches record high US$47 per ounce in Paris, France. [1]
- Gustav Heinemann elected President of Federal Republic of Germany. [1] [37]
- March 7
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- March 15
- Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (hundreds dead). [1]
- March 16
- Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155. [1]
- March 17
- Golda Meir becomes Israel's fourth Prime Minister. [1]
- March 19
- British invade Anguilla. [1]
- March 20
- US President Richard Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970. [1]
- March 25
- Andes Pact signed in Peru. [1]
- Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as President. [1]
- March 26
- Nuclear reactor Dodewaard in Netherlands goes into use. [1]
- Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched. [1]
- March 28
- In Turkey, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs in the Alasehir region. Eleven people were killed and over 7,000 houses destroyed or moderately damaged. [53]
- March 29
- In Ethiopia, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs, completely razing the town of Sardo, killing 24 persons and injuring 165. [53]
- Communist New People's Army is founded in Philippines. [1]
- April 1
- Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corporation. [1]
- The Hawker Siddeley Harrier jet enters service with the British Royal Air Force. [5]
- April 4
- Dr. Denton Cooley implants first temporary artificial heart. [1] [5]
- April 9
- British maiden flight of Concorde 002 supersonic jet (Filton-Bristol, UK). [1] [730.50]
- April 11
- The export ban of US silver coins is lifted. [388.B20] [486.32] [618.77] [817.36] (May 12 [433.3] [582.51])
- April 14
- Tornado strikes Dacca, East Pakistan, killing 540. [1]
- April 15
- North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea. [1]
- April 17
- Bernadette Devlin elected to British House of Commons. [1]
- Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed. [1]
- April 22
- First human eye transplant performed. [1]
- April 23
- Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province, China. [1]
- April 24
- Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians. [1]
- American B-52 bombers drop 3,000-ton bombs at Cambodian boundary. [1]
- April 25
- 5,400th and last radio broadcast of Mrs Dale's Diary on BBC Radio. [1]
- A fireball is photographed over Bangor in northern Wales, which falls in two pieces (one 4.95kg) 60km apart near Sprucefield and Bovedy, Northern Ireland. [521] [523.26]
- April 28
- Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. Alain Poher is made Provisional President of France. [1] [1197.172]
- May 5
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night). [1]
- May 8
- Cambodia recognizes German Democratic Republic. [1]
- Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation. [1]
- May 10
- Apollo 10 transmits first color pictures of Earth from space. [1]
- US troops begin attack on Hill 937/Hamburger Hill, Vietnam. [1]
- May 14
- Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada. [1]
- Last Chevrolet Corvair car built. [1]
- May 16
- Protesting students occupy Magden House, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [1]
- US submarine Guitarro sinks at the pier at San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. [1]
- USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- Soviet spaceprobe Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere. [1] [5]
- May 20
- US troops capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam. [1]
- May 23
- Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes. [1]
- May 25
- Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup. [1]
- May 27
- Walt Disney World construction begins. [1]
- May 29
- Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes first crossing of Arctic Sea ice. [1]
- May 30
- Gibraltar adopts constitution. [1]
- People revolt in Willemstad, Curaçao. [1]
- June 1
- Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV. [1] [457]
- June 2
- Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne slices US destroyer. [1]
- June 19
- Alain Poher ceases serving as Provisional President of France. [1197.172]
- June 22
- In Cleveland, Ohio, USA, the Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river. [5]
- June 27
- Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York; about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, lasting three days. [1]
- June 29
- First Jewish worship service at White House, Washington, DC. [1]
- June 30
- Spain returns Ifni (piece of southern Morocco) to Morocco. [1841.849]
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