Britain and the World 1974

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	1974
Jan1	Public holiday in Britain
Feb4	Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
Feb13	Dissident Nobel Prize winner writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR. He returned to Russia 27 May 1994
Mar3	World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in a forest at Ermenonville near Paris killing 346 persons
Mar10	Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan Lancs
Maar20	An attempt to kidnap Princess Anne was made by a gunman who fired six shots, then tried to drag her from her car in The Mall. He was later charged with attempted murder.
Mar29	Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. (The guardsmen were later acquitted.)
Apr28	Last Americans evacuated from Saigon as the Vietnam War reaches its conclusion
May17	Three car bombs exploded without warning during Dublin's rush-hour, ensuring maximum casualties - including an entire family. A little over eighty-five minutes later, another massive car-bomb exploded in Monaghan, just south of the border. In total 33 people die
May29	British government brought Northern Ireland under direct rule from Westminster one day after the collapse of the Northern Ireland executive. A crippling general strike in the province ended.
Jun30	Mrs. Alberta King, mother of the late Martin Luther King, was assassinated during a church service
Jul7	West Germany beats Netherlands 2-1 in 10th World Cup Final held in Munich
Jul20	Turkey invades Cyprus an invasion that caused the formal partition of the island
Jul23	Greek military dictatorship collapses
Aug5	U.S. President Richard Nixon admitted he had withheld information regarding Watergate break-in; he announced his resignation three days later.
Aug9	Gerald Ford was sworn in as 38th president of the United States after the resignation of Richard Nixon became effective.
Oct5	The Guidford Pub Bombings - The Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars - led to the wrongful conviction of the "Guildford Four"
Oct30	Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire ("The Rumble in the Jungle") to regain his world heavyweight title
Nov7	An IRA bomb explodes at the Kings Head Woolwich
	Lord Lucan disappeared following the murder of his children's nanny
Nov21	Bombings of Birmingham, pubs kill 21 people and injure 162 others and which leads to the (wrongful) convictions of theBirmingham Six the following year. Six days later The Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed

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