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Patty Hearst, daughter of multimillionaire publisher Randolph Hearst, is abducted by the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army and held for ransom. None is paid, and weeks later Hearst is seen helping her captors rob a San Francisco bank. She is later captured and sent to jail for the crime.
The worst disaster in aviation history at the time occurs near Paris when a jumbo jet crashes, killing all 345 passengers and crew.
People magazine debuts with Mia Farrow on the cover and launches the era of celebrity journalism.
Henry "Hank" Aaron hits his historic 715th home run, breaking the record set by Babe Ruth.
Streaking; running naked for a few moments in a public place; becomes a fad.
Golda Meir resigns as premier of Israel.
Aristocrat Valery Giscard d'Estaing is elected president of France.
Leading Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the West.
Faced with impeachment over his role in the Watergate affair, President Nixon resigns, to be succeeded by Vice President Ford.
With a one-stroke victory over Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino captures the Professional Golfers' Association championship.
President Ford pardons former President Nixon.
Muhammed Ali knocks out George Forman and regains his heavyweight title.
The use of telephone answering machines becomes popular.
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An agreement is signed in Paris to stop fighting in Vietnam.
G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, Jr., are convicted of plotting to spy on the Democrats in the Watergate break-in.
The first planeload of POWs return home from the Vietnam War.
Four top aides to President Nixon quit over the Watergate affair.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to the Washington Post for its investigation of the Watergate scandal.
After more than 300 years of British rule, the Bahamas become independent.
Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns under scrutiny by the FBI on charges of taking kickbacks from government contractors.
Juan Peron, president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955, is again elected to that post.
President Nixon agrees to turn over tape recordings of conversations that might have some bearing on the Watergate break-in.
In retaliation for supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War, Arab nations place an embargo on oil shipments to the United States. The federal energy director announces a standby gas rationing program.
O.J. Simpson, pro football player, sets a rushing record of more than 2,000 yards in a season.
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The Coca-Cola Bottling Company recalls 3 million cans of Coke because some of the aluminum lids are found to be contaminated.
The Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan.
Germany pays $5 million to hijackers of a jumbo jet for the release of passengers held hostage.
President Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit China.
The Pioneer 10 spacecraft takes a 21-month journey to Jupiter, beaming back to earth detailed photos of the planet and its moons.
President Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit Moscow. He spends one week there in talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
Alabama Governor George Wallace, a controversial presidential candidate because of his white supremacist sympathies, is shot by a sniper and paralyzed from the waist down but plans to continue his quest for the White House.
Five burgulars are charged with breaking into the Washington, D.C., office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex.
President Nixon orders the biggest ever bombing raid on North Vietnam.
South Dakota Senator George McGovern chooses Sargent Shriver as his vice-presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket.
Arabs massacre 11 Israeli atheletes at the Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. The Olympic flag flies at half mast.
American swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seven gold medals at the Munich Olympics.
President Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko sign a strategic arms limitation treaty.
Richard Nixon wins a second term in the White House.
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South Dakota's Senator George McGovern opens his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Ida Amin and rebels topple the government in Uganda and seize power.
Rolls-Royce, Ltd., declares bankruptcy after suffering huge losses in developing a new jet engine for Lockheed.
In New York City's Madison Square Garden, Joe Frazier defeats Muhammed Ali to retain the heavyweight boxing championship
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The Soviet Union wins the world hockey championship for the ninth consecutive time.
A cholera epidemic in newly independent but impoverished Bangladesh (East Pakistan) causes worldwide concern.
Three Soviet cosmonauts are found dead in their spaceship after its return to earth.
The Apollo 15 astronauts explore the moon's surface riding in a battery-operated vehicle known as Lunar Rover.
To combat runaway inflation, President Nixon orders a 90-day freeze on prices and wages.
After 34 years, Look magazine ceases publication.
The British House of Commons ends a 14-year debate and allows the United Kingdom to join the European Common Market.
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