All Events

Mark Brown is the last craftsman to build and hire rowing boats in the St Helena Boathouses, as the arches gradually become adapted to non-commercial purposes

The independence of Angola is established in the Alvor agreement between Portugal and three rival guerrilla groups, the MPLA, FNLA, and UNITA

Internment is ended in Ulster after the Gardiner Report states that it brings the law into disrepute

The MPLA, controlling the capital but not the country, declares itself the government of newly independent Angola

Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor for the second time, five years after divorcing

The republic of Dahomey changes its name to one already famous in African history – Benin

UNITA and the FNLA join forces to set up a rival Angolan government at Huambo, in the south of the country

Chiang Kai-shek dies and is succeeded by his son, Chiang Ching-Kuo, as leader of the republic of China in Taiwan

Anatoly Karpov becomes world chess champion by default when Bobby Fischer fails to defend his title

The South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, is taken by North Vietnamese forces

South Vietnam surrenders, as President Duong Van Minh broadcasts an order to all South Viernames forces to lay down their arms

Khmer Rouge guerrillas, led by Pol Pot, take Phnom Penh and launch a genocidal reign of terror in Cambodia

US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century

The first series of Fawlty Towers, co-written by and starring John Cleese, is broadcast on British TV

David Hockney begins a new career as a set designer, with The Rake's Progress by Stravinksky at Glyndebourne

Portuguese East Africa becomes independent as Mozambique, with Frelimo as the only political party

Astronauts Tom Stafford and Aleksei Leonov shake hands when their Apollo and Soyuz craft successfully dock in space

Czech choreographer Jiri Kylián becomes director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague

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