- January 8
- Secret peace talks between US and North Vietnam resume near Paris, France. [1]
- USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing. [1] [5]
- January 15
- Pope Paul VI has an audience with Israeli Golda Meir at Vatican. [1]
- US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam. [1]
- January 16
- USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of the Moon. [1]
- January 17
- City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi, Vietnam. [1]
- New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life. [1]
- January 22
- The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Roe v. Wade that women, as part of their constitutional right to privacy, can terminate a pregnancy during its first two trimesters. [1] [129] [162.24]
- US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord. [1]
- January 23
- Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for first time in 7,000 years. [1]
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- Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Muslim pilgrims. [1]
- US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War. [1]
- January 26
- Belgium government of Leburton forms. [1]
- January 27
- William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-North Vietnam treaty. [1]
- January 30
- Near the coast of Michoacan, Mexico, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. 52 people killed, 390 were injured, 22,000 made homeless. A volcano 80 kilometers north of Colima begins eruption. [53]
- February 3
- US President Richard Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law. [1]
- February 4
- Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled. [1]
- February 5
- Funeral for Lieutenant Colonel William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War. [1]
- February 10
- 83-metre-wide gas tank on Staten Island, New York, explodes, crushing 40. [1]
- February 12
- First US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines. [1]
- Ohio becomes the first US state to post distances on signs in System International (Metric) units. [5]
- February 13
- US dollar devalued by 10 percent. [1]
- February 15
- USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km). [1]
- February 22
- Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108. [1]
- US and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington DC. [1]
- February 23
- Gold goes up US$10 overnight to record US$95 an ounce in London, England. [1]
- February 25
- Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders. [1]
- February 27
- American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in South Dakota. [1]
- Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius. [1]
- February 28
- In New Jersey, USA, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake occurs. [53]
- Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders. [1]
- March 2
- "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum. [1]
- Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, is assassinated. [1]
- March 7
- Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory. [1]
- Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh. [1]
- March 8
- Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens. [1]
- March 10
- Morocco adopts constitution. [1]
- Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda, is assassinated. [1]
- March 13
- Syria adopts constitution. [1]
- March 14
- Liam Cosgrave is appointed president of Ireland. [1]
- March 15
- In San Juan Capistrano, California, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
- March 17
- Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge. [1]
- In Luzon, Philippine Islands, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. 78 buildings destroyed in Lopez and Calauag. [53]
- March 20
- In the Kerguelen-Gausberg Rise of the Antarctic plate, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurs. [53]
- March 25
- Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test versus England. [1]
- March 29
- The last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. [1] [129]
- March 30
- The United Arab Emirates is admitted to the Universal Postal Union. [994.937] [1135]
- Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam. [1]
- April 1
- Japan allows its citizens to own gold. [1]
- John Lennon and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence (April Fool's Joke). [1]
- April 2
- International Telephone And Telegraph pleads guilty to asking US Central Intelligence Agency to affect Chilean presidential election. [1]
- April 3
- The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City. [5]
- April 6
- Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium. [1]
- Troops of India invade Sikkim. [1]
- US launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter and Saturn. [1]
- April 9
- Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam. [1]
- April 10
- BEA Vanguard Turboprop flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes into wooded hillside during landing, killing 107 of 143. [1]
- Pakistan suspends constitution. [1]
- April 12
- France recognizes North Vietnam. [1]
- Sudan adopts constitution. [1]
- Swaziland suspends constitution. [1]
- April 19
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- April 20
- Canadian ANIK A2 becomes first commercial satellite in orbit. [1]
- April 27
- Country music theme park Opryland opens in Nashville, Tennessee. [457]
- May 3
- Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 metres), tops out. [1]
- May 4
- Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the Pope. [1]
- May 5
- Largest paid crowd ever assembled in US to see a single musical act: 56,800 fans pay US$309,000 to see Led Zeppelin at Tampa Stadium, Florida. [457]
- May 7
- Pulitzer Prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter). [1]
- May 10
- Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania. [1]
- May 11
- Dutch Government of Uyl forms. [1]
- May 14
- Open market price of gold breaks US$100 per ounce for the first time. [1] [789.60]
- Skylab launched, the first Space Station. [1]
- May 17
- US performs three nuclear tests at Rifle, Colorado. [1]
- May 18
- Russian party leader Brezhnev visits Federal Republic of Germany. [1]
- May 22
- US President Richard Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up. [1]
- At Xerox PARC, Bob Metcalfe invents the Ethernet computer connectivity system, describing in a memo how the technology would work. The name "Ethernet" refers to medium-independent transmission of data packets, and is based on a discredited physical theory of an existing "ether" in space allowing transmission of light rays from the sun to the Earth. [4]
- May 25
- Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora installed as president. [1]
- US launches first Skylab; crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz. [1]
- May 26
- Bahrain adopts its constitution. [1]
- May 29
- Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds. (Davis will start Arista records.) [1]
- June 7
- German Chancellor Willy Brandt the visits Israel. He is the first German chancellor to visit Israel while in office as chancellor. [37]
- June 17
- In Japan, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs, centered in the northern coastal area of Hokkaido. Regional tsumani up to 3 metres. Twenty-six fishing boats battered or sunk, water supply temporarily disrupted, over 30,000 people evacuated, 250 tons of salmon on the docks washed away. The total damage estimated at $5 million. [53]
- June 22
- Netherlands' highest court officially bans fluoridation of water. [861.194]
- Skylab 2's astronauts land. [1]
- June 30
- Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse. [1]
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- Japanese geologists find another 12 fragments of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains in the Antarctic. [523.55]
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