Events 401 - 424 of 424
- Dec 16 Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
- 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 17 Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
- Dec 17 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
- Dec 18 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) formed by Jesse Jackson in Chicago
- 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 18 US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)
- Dec 19 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
Historic Publication
Dec 20 First preview issue of "Ms" magazine is published in the US launched by Gloria Steinem
- Dec 20 Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
- Dec 21 A publican is killed as he tried to remove a bomb from his pub, Northern Ireland
Event of Interest
Dec 21 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th Secretary-General
- 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
Event of Interest
Dec 23 US President Richard Nixon commutes remaining 8 years of Teamsters labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa's 13-year jail term for bribery and fraud
- 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 A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin.
- Dec 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 31 Edmund Compton, then Northern Ireland Ombudsman, is replaced by John Benn
- Dec 31 Lt Gen Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA