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A powerful bomb exploded at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, killing eight people.
Watergate scandal: U.S. president Gerald Ford gave his recently resigned predecessor Richard Nixon a controversial…
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars
Juvénal Habyarimana (pictured) orchestrated a bloodless coup d'état of the Rwandan government and began a totalitarian…
John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the American oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome.
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…
The Egyptian Armed Forces crossed the Suez Canal (pictured) to attack occupying Israeli forces at the Bar Lev Line in…
U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize would be jointly awarded to Henry Kissinger…
Yom Kippur War: Egyptian forces retreated from the Battle of the Chinese Farm, allowing Israeli forces to build their…
Watergate scandal: Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to…
Watergate scandal: Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to…
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