- January 14
- USSR breaks trade agreement with US. [1]
- January 15
- Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence. [1]
- January 19
- Four mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq. [1]
- In the Kashmir-Xizang border region, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. 42 dead, 40 seriously injured, 2,500 people left homeless, and extensive damage in the Kinnaur district of the Himachal Pradesh State. [53]
- January 22
- Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched. [1]
- January 24
- Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England. [1]
- January 25
- Bangladesh parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman. [1]
- February 2
- Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea, Ethiopia. [1]
- Off Alaska, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurs. [53]
- February 4
- In Haicheng, China, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. 10,000 dead. An evacuation warning was issued the day before the earthquake, due to changes in land elevation and in ground water levels, widespread reports of peculiar animal behavior, and many foreshocks. [53]
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- February 11
- Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership. [1]
- February 13
- Cyprus premier Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation. [1]
- February 14
- Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station, Netherlands. [1]
- February 18
- Italy broadens abortion law. [1]
- February 20
- Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party. [1]
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- February 27
- CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin. [1]
- February 28
- 40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop. [1]
- The first Lome' Agreement is signed between the EC (EG, Europäische Gemeinschaft) and 46 developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. [1] [37]
- March 8
- Royal Canadian Mint announces branch mint opening in Winnipeg, Manitoba. [1]
- March 11
- Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails. [1]
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- March 12
- Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam. [1]
- March 18
- Kurds end fight against Iraqi army. [1]
- March 21
- Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years. [1]
- March 22
- Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong". [1]
- March 25
- Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot to death by nephew at age 68. [1]
- March 26
- The biological weapons convention enters into force. [5]
- March 27
- Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. [5]
- March 28
- In Eastern Idaho, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs. [53]
- March 31
- The Republic of Malta issues its first postage stamps. [1367.808]
- April 1
- Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer. [1]
- April 3
- Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend. [1]
- April 4
- US Air Force transport carrying orphans from Saigon, Vietnam crashes killing 155. [1]
- Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen. [5]
- April 13
- Chad military coup by General Odingar. [1]
- Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war. [1]
- April 15
- Gabon amends constitution. [1]
- April 17
- Phnom Penh falls to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's five-year war. [1]
- April 19
- India launches first satellite with help of USSR. [1]
- April 21
- Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after ten years. [1]
- April 25
- First Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao. [1]
- Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins first free election in Portugal. [1]
- USSR performs underground nuclear test. [1]
- West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm, Sweden. [1]
- April 27
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- April 28
- South Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president. [1]
- April 29
- Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth. [1]
- April 30
- Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds in Vietnam; Saigon surrenders. The army of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam takes over the Republic of Vietnam. During the decade of fighting, 58,000 American soldiers died. [1] [35] [129] [982.1117]
- May 5
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels). [1]
- May 7
- US President Gerald Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era". [1]
- Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays. [1]
- May 11
- Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market. [1]
- May 12
- US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces. [1]
- May 14
- French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia. [1]
- US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship. [1]
- May 16
- India annexes Principality of Sikkim. [1]
- Michael X [Abdul Malik] is hanged in Trinidad for murder. [1]
- May 17
- Los Angeles police raid the secret headquarters of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killing six of the group's nine known members. [129]
- May 19
- Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India. [1]
- May 24
- Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16 fighter jet. [1]
- Soyuz 18B carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4. [1]
- May 26
- In the northern Atlantic Ocean, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs, off the coast of Portugal. [53]
- May 27
- Worst motor vehicle disaster in United Kingdom; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge in Yorkshire, killing 38. [1]
- May 30
- European Space Agency (ESA) forms. [1]
- June 5
- Suez Canal reopens (after Six Day War caused it to close). [1]
- June 6
- British voters decide to remain in Common Market. [1]
- Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established. [1]
- June 8
- Two passenger trains collide near Munich, Germany, killing 35 people. [1] [37]
- USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing. [1]
- June 9
- Fire in prison hospital kills ten prisoners and one guard (Sanford, Florida). [1]
- June 14
- USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing. [1]
- June 17
- Voters in Northern Mariana Island approve commonwealth status with US. [1]
- June 18
- Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh. [1]
- June 24
- Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at JFK Airport in New York, kills 113. [1]
- June 25
- Former Portuguese colony Mozambique gains independence as People's Republic of Mozambique. [1367.1151]
- India's Indira Gandhi declares an Emergency, and imposes dictatorship rule on the country. (The Emergency rule lasts 21 months.) [1646.34]
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