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| 1974 |
| | | Richard Nixon is succeeded as US president by his vice-president, Gerald Ford | |
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| 1974 |
| | | President Ford pardons ex-president Nixon for his part in the Watergate affair, thus removing the possibility of criminal charges | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Muhammad Ali regains the world heavyweight title, beating George Foreman in Zaire in a fight that becomes known as the Rumble in the Jungle | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Portuguese Guinea becomes independent as Guinea-Bissau, with Luís Cabral as president | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Kenneth MacMillan uses Scott Joplin as his score for a ragtime ballet, Elite Syncopations | |
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| 1974 |
| | | The SNP achieves a surge in Scottish nationalism, winning eleven seats at Westminster on 30% of the Scottish vote | |
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| 1974 |
| | | The Canadian province of Quebec introduces Bill 22, making French the province's sole official language | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Cyclone Tracy devastates the Australian city of Darwin on Christmas Day, destroying 80% of the domestic buildings | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Internment is ended in Ulster after the Gardiner Report states that it brings the law into disrepute | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The MPLA, controlling the capital but not the country, declares itself the government of newly independent Angola | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor for the second time, five years after divorcing | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The republic of Dahomey changes its name to one already famous in African history – Benin | |
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| 1975 |
| | | UNITA and the FNLA join forces to set up a rival Angolan government at Huambo, in the south of the country | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Chiang Kai-shek dies and is succeeded by his son, Chiang Ching-Kuo, as leader of the republic of China in Taiwan | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Anatoly Karpov becomes world chess champion by default when Bobby Fischer fails to defend his title | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The king of Morocco sends 350,000 settlers across the border into Western Sahara | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, is taken by North Vietnamese forces | |
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| 1975 |
| | | South Vietnam surrenders, as President Duong Van Minh broadcasts an order to all South Viernames forces to lay down their arms | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The Willis Faber building, by English architect Norman Foster, is completed in Ipswich | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Khmer Rouge guerrillas, led by Pol Pot, take Phnom Penh and launch a genocidal reign of terror in Cambodia | |
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| 1975 |
| | | US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The first series of Fawlty Towers, co-written by and starring John Cleese, is broadcast on British TV | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Yakubu Gowon, who united Nigeria after the Biafran war, is thrown out in a military coup | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Milos Forman directs Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on a novel by Ken Kesey | |
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| 1975 |
| | | David Hockney begins a new career as a set designer, with The Rake's Progress by Stravinksky at Glyndebourne | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Portuguese East Africa becomes independent as Mozambique, with Frelimo as the only political party | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa, become independent as the republic of Cape Verde | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Astronauts Tom Stafford and Aleksei Leonov shake hands when their Apollo and Soyuz craft successfully dock in space | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Czech choreographer Jiri Kylián becomes director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague | |
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| 1975 |
| | | US director Steven Spielberg has a major success with his second feature film, Jaws | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The island of Papua New Guinea wins independence from Australia | |
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| 1975 |
| | | School friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found a software firm, calling it Microsoft | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Excavation of the 5200-year-old passage grave at Newgrange in Ireland is completed | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Austrian racing driver Niki Lauda wins the first of three Formula One world championship titles | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The British group the Sex Pistols launch punk rock, with their first gig at St Martin's School of Art in London | |
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| 1975 |
| | | There is political turmoil in Australia after the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, dismisses prime minister Gough Whitlam | |
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