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Tickle as the first book. August The president of Syria, Hafez al-Assad, lets go of diplomatic relations with Jordan due to border clashes. August After years of British rule, Bahrain gains independence.

August A day freeze on wages, prices and rents is announced by President Richard Nixon. August New Zealand and Australia decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.

August The arrest of 20 of the Camden 28 is announced by J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell. August Thousands flee Bangladesh and eastern Bengal due to floods. August The female world record marathon is run by Adrienne Beames, achieving a time of , beating the record set previously in the year.

September 3: Qatar gains total independence from Britain. The burglars were trying to find information about Ellsberg to discredit him. September 4: An Alaskan plane crash results in the deaths of people in the Chilkoot Mountains.

King beats Casals , September Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev dies at the age of 77 from a heart attack. September Members of the Ku Klux Klan are arrested in connection with 10 school bus bombings. September The first Cup Noodle is marketed by Momofuku Ando in waterproof polystyrene containers. September A state of emergency is declared by Pakistan. September After being caught spying, 90 Russian diplomats are expelled from Britain.

September It is reported by the New York Times that more white youths are becoming interested in black gospel music. September As many as 10, people are killed off the Bay of Bengal when a cyclone and tidal wave hits the area. In Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney World opened on this day, becoming the most visited vacation resort in with an attendance of more than 58 million people.

October 8: Imagine by John Lennon is released. October In Memphis, Tennessee, two people are killed as a result of racial disturbances.

October In Vancouver, Canada, Greenpeace is established. October The final issue of Look magazine is published. October In Scotland, the Clarkston Explosion kills 22 people. The next day, they vote to replace Taiwan with China. October Gerard Newe is the first Catholic to serve in the Northern Ireland government since October Britain is the sixth nation to have a satellite in orbit.

October The number of US troops in Vietnam falls to ,, a record low. October The critically acclaimed album by Pink Floyd, Meddle, is released. November 1: The Eisenhower dollar is put into circulation in the US. The album goes on to sell 23 million copies in the US. November 9: American mass murderer John List kills his family at their home in New Jersey before disappearing and moving to Colorado.

November The Mariner 9 becomes the first space probe to orbit another planet by orbiting Mars. November The processor is advertised by Intel. November Air activity is increased by the United States when fighting got close to Phnom Penh, in order to support the Cambodian government during the war.

November Omar is granted independence from the United Kingdom. November The Cairngorm Plateau Disaster becomes the worst mountaineering tragedy in British history, when five children and one of their leaders are killed by exposure in the Scottish mountains. November An unidentified man, going by the name of Dan Cooper as seen on his plane ticket, hijacked a Boeing aircraft between Portland and Seattle. The case remains the only unsolved skyjacking case as of March December 2: As the first spacecraft to reach Mars, the Soviet Mars 3 lander lands on the surface, transmitting for only a few seconds before going silent.

December 4: An emergency session is called by the UN Security Council to discuss the deteriorating relationship between India and Pakistan. December The Golden Gate Bridge loses power all night due to a power failure, meaning there is no light all night. December The independence of East Pakistan is internationally recognised when India occupies Dacca and 93, West Pakistani troops surrender, leading the day to be known as Vijay Diwas Victory Day.

December American golfer and course designer Bobby Jones Jr. December For the second time in history, the US dollar is devalued.

The game lasted 82 minutes and 40 seconds. December In Seoul, the worst hotel fire in history happens at the Taeyokale Hotel, resulting in the deaths of people. December The UK gives up his military bases in Malta. American cult leader Charles Manson carried out many murders in the s with his followers, the Manson Family Cult. Despite never actually killing anyone himself, his crimes led him to become one of the most recognized criminal figures in history. When Manson and the Family were arrested, it was not actually on suspicion of the murders.

It was because it was believed they had vandalized a portion of the Death Valley National Park, something completely unrelated to the murders. They later became associated when Susan Atkins confessed during her hold in detention on suspicion of murdering a man named Gary Hinman in an unrelated incident. Detectives realised after this that Manson and his Family played a part in the killings. Following the horrific Tate murders carried out by Charles Manson and the Manson Family, the jury in the murder trial convicts all of the defendants of first-degree murder on January 25, Charles Manson headed to state prison for 7 counts of first-degree murder, and 1 count of conspiracy to commit murder.

Manson was sentenced to death for his crimes, but escaped death due to a change of law for California Death Row inmates in He then spent the next four decades in prison, being denied parole 12 times before his death in It was quite normal in the s for people convicted of murder to get out relatively quickly, sometimes after 10, 15 years, but the public were so afraid of these killers getting out.

Located near Orlando, Florida, the grounds were built on swamplands that Walt Disney began purchasing during the s. By , Disney publicly announced plans for the park but he died in before construction could begin. The UAE was formed as an autocratic federation of seven emirates each controlled by a hereditary governor. The nation has become strikingly diverse and modern partially due to its location on the Persian Gulf.

The Mariner 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to enter the orbit of another planet on November 14th of Mariner 9 had been launched on May 30th of It was successful in its missions which were becoming the first artificial satellite to orbit Mars, mapping the surface of Mars, gathering atmospheric data, and taking highly detailed images of the surface.

The Mariner 9 spacecraft stopped its communications in October of and is expected to remain in orbit around Mars for around 50 years before it will fall into the atmosphere of the red planet, Mars. The nation of Qatar became independent from the United Kingdom during September of Located on the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar had been a British protectorate since and had also been ruled by the House of Thani since the early 19th century.

Qatar had a simple transition to independence as under its previous agreement with the United Kingdom, the country had already had internal autonomy. The independence agreement removed all British influence and involvement and Qatar became a fully sovereign state ruled by the Al Thani family as a hereditary constitutional monarchy.

There were some issues with docking the modules, that were overcome after several attempts. Once they arrived on the Moon, Shepard became the fifth person to walk on the Moon and the first to try golfing on the surface after he attached a golf club head onto a lunar tool and attempted a few swings.

The crew made it safely back to Earth on February 9th after nine days and brought back over 90 pounds of lunar rocks and samples to be examined. The first crew arrived a few days after its launch but they were unable to dock and had to abandon the mission. It was not until June that the Soyuz 11 became the first crew to board the space station and spent a record-breaking 23 days there. The Salyut 1 space station orbited for a total of days before it was purposefully de-orbited and disintegrated above the Pacific.

Ibrox disaster in Scotland when On January 2nd 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match. Peru Earthquake results in the destruction of the town of Chungar, Peru, and the death of most of the towns people. Prison riot and prisoners take hostages at Attica Prison in New York, resulting in the death of 10 hostages and 29 inmates. The U. Supreme Court upholds School Busing Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education U. In an attempt to control inflation President Richard M.

Major General Idi Amin takes control of Uganda soon to become one of the worst and most notorious dictators of modern times. Tupac Shakur June 16th. As a scholar of race and culture in the U.

The release commemorated the Walk to Freedom , a Detroit mass march from earlier that summer, and featured a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. But the world had changed by The freedom struggle had taken a more radical turn with the emergence of the Black Power movement, the Chicano Movement, the Young Lords and the American Indian Movement.

The first Earth Day, April 22, , focused attention on the emerging U.