BRITAIN AND THE WORLD SINCE 1953
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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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