Dec 29 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC

Dec 10 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

Dec 28 Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at MSG

Dec 23 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act

Dec 03 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed

Dec 29 Eleven people die when a bomb explodes in the main terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York.

Dec 30 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force

Aug 24 Royal Commission in Australia finds women in public service work in poor conditions and are underpaid and had limited promotion prospect

Aug 20 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126

Aug 27 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world

Aug 01 Helsinki Agreement, on human rights, signed by over 35 nations

Aug 03 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River

Aug 21 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway

Aug 29 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky

Aug 03 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated

Aug 11 US vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to UN

Aug 20 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing

Aug 01 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations

Oct 01 Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"

Oct 30 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals

Oct 30 NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City Drop Dead"

Oct 21 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched

Oct 01 Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles

Oct 26 Anwar Sadat becomes the first Egyptian president to visit the United States.

Oct 22 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus

Oct 09 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 10 Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)

Oct 22 World Football League disbands

Oct 30 Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's leader

Oct 14 Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside

Oct 30 NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"

Oct 21 Mexico City's first major subway accident takes 26 lives

Oct 29 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills first

Oct 25 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing

Oct 01 Reunion Island stops prints stamps, France takes over production

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