Events in History
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Event of Interest
Nov 25 British Labour Party leader Harold Wilson proposes Britain should work towards a withdrawal from Northern Ireland, and after 15 years; the Republic of Ireland could rejoin the British Commonwealth
Harold Wilson
- Nov 27 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
- Nov 27 Two Customs officials are shot by an Irish Republican Army sniper firinge upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a Customs Post near Newry, County Armagh
- Nov 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 30 The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights
- Dec 1 Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
- Dec 2 Soviet space probe Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
- Dec 2 United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) declares independence from UK
- Dec 2 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
Appointment of Interest
Dec 2 Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is appointed President of the United Arab Emirates
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Event of Interest
Dec 3 US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
Richard Nixon
- Dec 3 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
- Dec 4 The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan
- Dec 4 The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi
- Dec 4 McGurk's Bar bombing: the UVF explode a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen others; this was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during 'the Troubles'
- Dec 5 Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession
- Dec 6 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as US Supreme Court justice
- Dec 6 A woman dies trying to salvage property from the Salvation Army Citadel in Belfast after bomb which started a large fire in an adjoining building
- Dec 7 "Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
- Dec 7 An off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment is shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
- Dec 9 Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to US Supreme Court
- Dec 10 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
- Dec 10 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
- Dec 11 The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
- Dec 11 A bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were killed and nineteen wounded
- Dec 13 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
- Dec 14 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
- Dec 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 14 The Pakistan Army executes an estimated 1,111 of East Pakistan's intellectuals during the Bangladesh Liberation War
- Dec 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 16 Vijay Diwas (Victory Day): East Pakistan's independence (as Bangladesh) from Pakistan is recognized internationally after India's army occupies Dacca, and 93,000 West Pakistani troops surrender
- Dec 16 Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
- Dec 17 Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
- Dec 17 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
- Dec 18 1st Candlelight Processional at the EPCOT Center, Disney World
- Dec 18 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) formed by Jesse Jackson in Chicago
- Dec 18 US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)
- Dec 18 Three members of the Irish Republican Army die when the bomb they were transporting explodes prematurely in King Street, Magherafelt, County Derry.
- Dec 19 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
- Dec 20 Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
Historic Publication
Dec 20 First preview issue of "Ms" magazine is published in the US launched by Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
- Dec 21 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th Secretary-General
- Dec 21 A publican is killed as he tried to remove a bomb from his pub, Northern Ireland
- Dec 22 UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
- Dec 22 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Event of Interest
Dec 23 British Prime Minister Edward Heath visits Northern Ireland and expresses his determination to end the violence
Edward Heath
- Dec 24 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
- Dec 25 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) formed by Jesse Jackson
- Dec 25 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
- Dec 28 Hashish now falls under the Dutch Opium Law (Opiumwet)
- Dec 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 30 A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin.
- Dec 31 Lt Gen Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA
- Dec 31 Edmund Compton, then Northern Ireland Ombudsman, is replaced by John Benn