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Watergate scandal: Under questioning by Senate investigators, White House deputy chief of staff Alexander Butterfield…
Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; the hostages had bonded with their…
Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, in an internationally…
Scottish trade unionist Jimmy Reid condemned the capitalist "rat race" in his inaugural address as Rector of the Univers
The Troubles: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginn
The Troubles: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginn
The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U
The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U
The Dominion of Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and officially became a republic withi
Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Op
Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Pha
President Richard Nixon signed Title IX (co-author Patsy Mink pictured) into law as part of the Education Amendments, pr
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated twenty-two bombs throughout Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated twenty-two bombs throughout Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Troubles: Hours after the British Army's Operation Motorman brought an end to the self-declared autonomous area of…
President Idi Amin announced the expulsion of Asians from Uganda.
In a match widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th…
Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt…
Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh
The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense