- July 28
- 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil). [1]
- August 8
- President Richard M Nixon announces he will resign his office 12PM August 9. [1]
- August 9
- US President Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president. [1] [603.54]
- August 11
- Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey). [1]
- August 15
- South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination. [1]
- August 18
- In Naragh, Iran, a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
- August 26
- Soyuz 15 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3. [1]
- August 30
- Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugoslavia rail yard killing 153. [1]
- September 7
- Portugal and Mozambique sign the Lusaka Agreement, granting Mozambique independence. [1367.1156]
- September 8
- US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes. [1]
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
- September 10
- Portuguese Guinea gains independence from Portugal as Guinea-Bissau. [278.446] [978.322]
- September 11
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 from Charleston, South Carolina to Charlotte, North Carolina crashes 3.3 miles short of the Charlotte airport, killing 72 passengers and crew. [1092.4]
- September 12
- Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia. [1]
- September 16
- US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for American Vietnam War deserters. [1]
- September 17
- Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations. [5]
- September 18
- Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die. [1]
- October 3
- Neat the coast of Peru, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurs, about 80 kilometers southwest of Lima. [53]
- October 8
- In the Leeward Islands, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. Considerable property damage on Antigua, Barbuda, and Saint Kitts. [53]
- November 1
- Fire kills 189 in less than 25 minutes (Sao Paulo, Brazil). [1]
- November 16
- First intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away. [1]
- November 26
- Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal). [1]
- November 30
- Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens, and Tim White discover Lucy (Australopithecus) in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. [5]
- December 1
- Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville, Virginia, 92 die. [1]
- December 2
- Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for six days. [1]
- December 4
- Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Muslim pilgrims. [1]
- Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison. [1]
- December 5
- Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran, Iran). [1]
- December 8
- Greek monarchy rejected by referendum. [1]
- Irish Republican Socialist Party forms. [1]
- December 9
- Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail. [1]
- December 10
- European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament. [1]
- Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun. [1]
- December 13
- Former British colony of Malta becomes a republic. [1367.803]
- December 16
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- December 20
- Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state. [1]
- December 22
- Second cease-fire between Irish Republican Army and British. (It lasts until approximately April 1975.) [1]
- Referenda in Comoros: three islands vote for independence, one stays French. [1]
- December 25
- Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia. [1]
- December 26
- The Soviet Salyut 4 space station is launched. [5]
- December 27
- FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional/Sandinista National Liberation Front) seizes government hostages at a private Managua party. [1]
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- December 28
- In Pakistan, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs. 5,300 killed, 17,000 injured; a total of 97,000 people affected. The village of Pattan and nearby hamlets were completely destroyed. [1] [53]
- December 30
- US Congress allows private ownership of gold. [767.52] [1081.425]
- The Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought). [1]
- December 31
- US President Gerald Ford issues Executive Order 11825 legalizing private ownership of gold. [434.62] [1097.844]
|