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The Soviets put into orbit the first space station, Salyut 1, but the crew of three die on returning to earth
The 19-year-old Jean Claude Duvalier, succeeding his father as president of Haiti, becomes known as Baby Doc
Duel, about a motorist terrorized by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood
With support from Moscow, Erich Honecker takes Walter Ulbricht's place as leader of East Germany
Ian Paisley and others in northern Ireland form the Democratic Unionist Party, as the intransigent wing of Ulster Unionism
Mobutu gives the Congo a new name, Zaire, deriving from an African word for river
King Hussein, alarmed at the continuing power of Palestinian guerrillas within Jordan, expels the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Evidence of official deception concerning US involvement in Vietnam is published in the New York Times as the Pentagon Papers
The arrest of Mujibur Rahman, together with brutal attempts at repression, turn resistance in East Pakistan into full-scale civil war
19-year-old Aboriginal tennis player Evonne Goolagong wins the singles title at Wimbledon
Gerry Adams is imprisoned for suspected IRA links but is released for lack of evidence
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
In the Apollo 15 mission US astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the vehicle Rover-1 on the surface of the moon
Internment without trial, reintroduced in Ulster to deal with the developing crisis, is used at first only against Catholics suspected of terrorism
Stanley Kubrick directs Malcolm McDowell in a film of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange
British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
Greenpeace is founded in Canada to campaign against US nuclear testing
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is staged a year after being released as a record
95-year-old Spanish cellist Pablo Casals conducts in New York his Hymn to the United Nations
India intervenes in the Pakistan civil war on the side of East Pakistan, the future Bangladesh
Peter Maxwell Davies moves to the Orkneys, where he founds (in 1977) the St Magnus Festival
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), expelled from Jordan, makes a new base in Lebanon
Libya's political bible is now the Green Book by Muammar al-Gaddafi
Pakistan surrenders to India within a month of Indian intervention in the war to suppress East Pakistan
With the end of the war between Pakistan and India, East Pakistan becomes independent as Bangladesh
