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The Watergate scandal claims its first senior victims with the resignation of two of Nixon's closest advisers, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman
Work starts on a new building for the Public Record Office on the site of former government offices in Kew, Surrey
A military coup plunges democratic Uruguay into eleven years of repressive terror
A military coup deposes Zahir Shah and brings to an end the hereditary monarchy in Afghanistan
Likud is formed in Israel as an alliance of right-wing parties
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
The first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of Stalin's labour camps, is published in Paris
The Sydney Opera House opens with a performance by Australian Opera of Prokofiev's War and Peace
Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement
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
A cease-fire brokered by the USA and UN brings the Yom Kippur War to and end after 18 days
Patrick White is the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is deported from the USSR to West Germany for publishing The Gulag Archipelago
Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon
British physicist Stephen Hawking describes how black holes can emit radiation, a process now known as 'Hawking radiation'
More than 7000 life-size terracotta solders are unearthed at Xi'an, placed to guard the tomb of the third century BC Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi
