- July 25
- The Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched. [1] [5]
- July 28
- Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott and Lousma) launched. [1]
- July 29
- Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy. [1]
- August 1
- Death of Walter Ulbricht in Berlin, Germany; chancellor (1960-1973). [37]
- August 3
- Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, United Kingdom). [1]
- August 5
- USSR launches Mars 6. [1]
- August 9
- USSR launches Mars 7. [1]
- August 14
- August 15
- Black September group kills three, wounds 55 in Athens, Greece. [1]
- August 19
- Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after ten years. [1]
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- August 23
- Intelsat communications satellite launched. [1]
- August 28
- In Veracruz, Mexico, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. More than 600 killed, thousands injured. Heavy damage in the states of Morelos, Puebla, and Veracruz; thousands homeless. Felt strongly at Mexico City. [1] [53]
- September 1
- 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark). [1]
- September 11
- Chile's President, Salvador Allende, is deposed in a military coup by General Augusto Pinochet. Allende is killed, most likely by suicide. (In the following days, about 13,500 civilians are arrested and imprisoned; hundreds are executed.) [46.14,87] [1544.56]
- September 12
- Two bettors win the largest US Daily Double (US$19,909.60 in Detroit, Michigan). [1]
- September 15
- King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden dies. [7]
- September 18
- German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany are both taken into the United Nations. [37]
- September 19
- Prince Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte ascends the throne of Sweden as King Carl XVI Gustaf. [7]
- September 22
- Henry Kissinger, a German immigrant, is sworn in as America's first Jewish Secretary of State. [1] [37]
- September 23
- Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power. [1]
- September 24
- Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence. [1841.599]
- September 25
- Three-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days. [1]
- September 26
- Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris, France, in record-breaking 3 hours 33 minutes. [1] [5]
- September 27
- Soyuz 12 carries two cosmonauts into Earth orbit (two days). [1]
- October 5
- The European Patent Convention is signed. [5]
- October 6
- (1350 hours) Egypt launches first attack of Yom Kippur War on Israel, crossing the Suez Canal into Sinai, to establish and hold a bridgehead to show Arabs that Israel could be successfully attacked. [1] [118.36] [240.170]
- (1405 hours) Syria attacks Israel from the east, with three mechanized divisions with 900 tanks, mostly Soviet T-54 and T-55 types. In the first wave, Israelis destroy about 60 tanks of the Syrian 7th Infantry Division. Syrian air defences shoot down about 23 Israeli jets. [118.36]
- Syrian helicopter-borne commandos seize Israeli stronghold atop Mount Herman near the Lebanon border. [118.38]
- October 7
- (2200 hours) Syrian tanks attack Israeli positions again, with 500 tanks against 40. [118.40]
- October 8
- (0100 hours) Syrian tanks break off attacks on Israeli positions, to recover vehicle losses. This pause allows Israelis to call in artillery fire and re-arm and refuel tanks. [118.40]
- (0400 hours) Syrian tanks attack Israeli positions again. [118.40]
- Death of Syrian Brigadier General Omar Abrash, when his commanding tank against Israeli tanks takes a direct hit. [118.40]
- October 9
- (early) Syrians capture Booster Ridge in the Golan Heights, but Israelis quickly recapture it, decimating two battalions of Assad Republican Guard. [118.40]
- Syrians withdraw in the Golan Heights, leaving 260 wrecked tanks, 500 armored personnel carriers, and other vehicles on the battlefield. [118.40]
- October 11
- Israeli tanks drive toward the Syrian capital. Egypt responds by leaving its defensive positions in the Sinai, to attack Israeli positions and take pressure off the Syrian front. As they leave the safety of anti-air cover, Israeli jets knock them out. [118.40]
- October 15
- Israeli armored division under Major General Ariel Sharon breaches the Egyptian front, crosses the Suez Canal, and drives on to Cairo. [118.39]
- October 16
- US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize. [1] [37]
- Saudi Arabia and four other Arab states announce a 70 percent increase in the price of oil. Iran joins them. [240.170]
- October 17
- Five-month oil embargo by Arab states against US and Netherlands begins. [1]
- October 19
- US President Richard Nixon asks Congress for US$2.2 billion aid to Israel. [240.170]
- October 20
- Arab oil producers impose total oil embargo on USA. [1] [240.170]
- October 22
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 imposes a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War. [1] [118.39]
- October 23
- United Nations's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted. [1]
- October 24
- Heavy fog causes 65-car collision killing nine on New Jersey Turnpike. [1]
- Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, Egypt, 26 miles from Damascus, Syria. [1] [240.188]
- October 27
- In Canon City, Colorado, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
- October 30
- The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time. [5]
- November 3
- Mariner 10 launched; will make first Venus pictures, first mission to Mercury. [1]
- November 9
- Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto, Japan). [1]
- November 10
- The central banks of USA, Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom abandon their 5-year agreement to not trade gold on the open market. [789.60]
- November 14
- Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Captain Mark Phillips. [1]
- November 16
- US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline. [1]
- Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit. [1]
- November 17
- US President Richard Nixon tells Associated Press "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook". [1]
- November 25
- Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos. [1]
- November 26
- Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death. [1]
- December 1
- Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea. [1]
- December 6
- Bahrain's constitution goes into effect. [1]
- December 9
- Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland. [1]
- December 11
- Ron Santo becomes first to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet. [1]
- West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia. [1]
- December 12
- Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 and $10 silver coins). [1]
- December 13
- MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya. [1]
- December 15
- American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness. [1]
- December 16
- American kidnapping victim Paul Getty III freed. [1]
- December 17
- Arab terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait. [1]
- December 18
- Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days. [1]
- December 19
- Grenada adopts constitution. [1]
- December 20
- Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms. [1]
- Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA. [1]
- December 21
- Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US and USSR meet in Geneva, Switzerland. [1]
- December 23
- Six Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices. [1]
- French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed. [1]
- December 24
- In New Mexico, USA, a magnitude 4.1 earthquake occurs. [53]
- Ferryboat capsizes off coast of Ecuador, drowning 200. [1]
- December 25
- The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze. [5]
- December 28
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Archipelag. [1]
- In the New Hebrides Islands, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs. [53]
- December 29
- In the New Hebrides Islands, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. [53]
- December 30
- First picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek - Skylab). [1]
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