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The score of the film The Sting revives interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London
The Watergate scandal claims its first senior victims with the resignation of two of Nixon's closest advisers, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman
A military coup plunges democratic Uruguay into eleven years of repressive terror
US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels
President Salvador Allende appoints Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and brings him into the cabinet
The 77-year-old Juan Perón, after returning to Argentina, is once again elected president
William Friedkin directs a horror movie, The Exorcist, from a novel by William Peter Blatty
Henry Kissinger, previously head of the National Security Council, is appointed US secretary of state
Chilean president Salvador Allende dies in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet
US vice-president Spiro Agnew resigns when convicted on charges of bribery
Richard Nixon appoints Gerald Ford as his vice-president in place of the disgraced Spiro Agnew
Arab oil-exporting countries cause an economic crisis by denying oil to western countries supporting Israel
US author Erica Jong publishes her first novel, Fear of Flying
Augusto Pinochet takes sole power in Chile, at the head of a junta which governs with extreme brutality
US tennis player Chris Evert wins the first of three victories at Wimbledon and of seven in the French Open
Jimmy Connors wins both Wimbledon and the US Open, on each occasion defeating the veteran Ken Rosewall
Isabel Perón becomes president of Argentina on the death of her husband Juan Perón
The US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to hand over White House tapes of conversations relevant to Watergate
The House Judiciary Committee takes the first steps in the process of impeaching President Nixon, citing obstruction of justice
Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Kirov company while on tour in Canada
Faced by the prospect of impeachment over Watergate, President Nixon resigns
Richard Nixon is succeeded as US president by his vice-president, Gerald Ford
President Ford pardons ex-president Nixon for his part in the Watergate affair, thus removing the possibility of criminal charges
Muhammad Ali regains the world heavyweight title, beating George Foreman in Zaire in a fight that becomes known as the Rumble in the Jungle
