All Events

US director Steven Spielberg has a major success with his second feature film, Jaws

School friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found a software firm, calling it Microsoft

Excavation of the 5200-year-old passage grave at Newgrange in Ireland is completed

Austrian racing driver Niki Lauda wins the first of three Formula One world championship titles

The British group the Sex Pistols launch punk rock, with their first gig at St Martin's School of Art in London

There is political turmoil in Australia after the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, dismisses prime minister Gough Whitlam

Franco dies and is succeeded as Spanish head of state by Juan Carlos, heir to the Bourbon throne

Surinam wins independence from the Dutch, with Johan Ferrier as the first president

In Angola the USA and USSR fund rival guerrilla groups, MPLA and UNITA

Canadian novelist Robertson Davies completes his semi-autobiographical Deptford Trilogy

Malcolm Fraser becomes the Australian prime minister, winning the first of three general election victories

Cuban troops, sent by Castro to Angola, clash with South African forces attempting to combat communism

Mikhail Baryshnikov dances in the New York premiere of Twyla Tharp's ballet Push Comes to Shove

Nkomo and Mugabe merge their guerrilla troops in a more effective disruptive force, to be known as the Patriotic Front

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs design and market a personal computer, calling it the Apple

14-year-old Jodie Foster stars as a drug-addicted child prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver

Mary Leakey and her team find footprints, about 3.6 million years old, of bipedal hominids walking upright at Laetoli in Tanzania

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