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| 1973 |
| | | US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels | |
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| 1973 |
| | | President Salvador Allende appoints Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and brings him into the cabinet | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The 77-year-old Juan Perón, after returning to Argentina, is once again elected president | |
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| 1973 |
| | | William Friedkin directs a horror movie, The Exorcist, from a novel by William Peter Blatty | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Henry Kissinger, previously head of the National Security Council, is appointed US secretary of state | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Chilean president Salvador Allende dies in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of Stalin's labour camps, is published in Paris | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Sydney Opera House opens with a performance by Australian Opera of Prokofiev's War and Peace | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement | |
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| 1973 |
| | | US vice-president Spiro Agnew resigns when convicted on charges of bribery | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Richard Nixon appoints Gerald Ford as his vice-president in place of the disgraced Spiro Agnew | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Arab oil-exporting countries cause an economic crisis by denying oil to western countries supporting Israel | |
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| 1973 |
| | | US author Erica Jong publishes her first novel, Fear of Flying | |
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| 1973 |
| | | A cease-fire brokered by the USA and UN brings the Yom Kippur War to and end after 18 days | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Patrick White is the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn is deported from the USSR to West Germany for publishing The Gulag Archipelago | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon | |
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| 1974 |
| | | British physicist Stephen Hawking describes how black holes can emit radiation, a process now known as 'Hawking radiation' | |
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| 1974 |
| | | More than 7000 life-size terracotta solders are unearthed at Xi'an, placed to guard the tomb of the third century BC Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi | |
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| 1974 |
| | | A military coup in Portugal ends four decades of Salazar's and Caetano's dictatorial New State | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet takes sole power in Chile, at the head of a junta which governs with extreme brutality | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Willy Brandt resigns and is succeeded by Helmut Schmidt, as leader of the SDP and chancellor of Germany | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Former prime minister Harold Wilson returns to Downing Street as leader of a minority government, but wins a second general election later in the year | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing defeats François Mitterrand in the French presidential election | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Golda Meir resigns and Yitzhak Rabin succeeds her as leader of the Labour party and Israeli prime minister | |
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| 1974 |
| | | US tennis player Chris Evert wins the first of three victories at Wimbledon and of seven in the French Open | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Jimmy Connors wins both Wimbledon and the US Open, on each occasion defeating the veteran Ken Rosewall | |
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| 1974 |
| | | German-born British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner completes his monumental 46-volume Buildings of England | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Isabel Perón becomes president of Argentina on the death of her husband Juan Perón | |
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| 1974 |
| | | An uprising organized in Ethiopia by the Dergue results in the arrest of Haile Selassie and his murder a year later | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Turkish troops invade and occupy northeast Cyprus, causing the island to be divided for decades to come | |
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| 1974 |
| | | The US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to hand over White House tapes of conversations relevant to Watergate | |
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| 1974 |
| | | The House Judiciary Committee takes the first steps in the process of impeaching President Nixon, citing obstruction of justice | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Kirov company while on tour in Canada | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Faced by the prospect of impeachment over Watergate, President Nixon resigns | |
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