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Events relating to north america
Two students are killed at the all-black Jackson State College in Mississippi when police fire into a dormitory during a riot
US feminist Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is her doctoral dissertation on the exploitation of women
A Quebec government minister, Pierre Laporte, is murdered by the Front de Libération du Québec
The Dance Theatre of Harlem, founded by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, gives its first performance at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
Joe Frazier becomes the first boxer to beat Muhammad Ali in a professional fight, at New York's Madison Square Gardens
Hip-hop originates as a dance style in New York among young African Americans
Duel, about a motorist terrorized by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood
Evidence of official deception concerning US involvement in Vietnam is published in the New York Times as the Pentagon Papers
In the Apollo 15 mission US astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the vehicle Rover-1 on the surface of the moon
Stanley Kubrick directs Malcolm McDowell in a film of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange
Greenpeace is founded in Canada to campaign against US nuclear testing
95-year-old Spanish cellist Pablo Casals conducts in New York his Hymn to the United Nations
An Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress but fails when not ratified in sufficient states
The SALT 1 treaty is signed by the US and USSR, limiting anti-ballistic missiles
Bernardo Bertolucci directs Marlon Brando in the sexually explicit film Last Tango in Paris
Five burglars are arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate office building in Washington
Francis Ford Coppola writes and directs The Godfather, the first of three related films
US swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals in the Munich Olympics
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Alabama becomes a major scandal after a whistle-blower reveals the details
The Washington Post publishes the first report that the Watergate break-in was linked to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign
Richard Nixon is re-elected US president with a landslide victory over Democrat George McGovern
Chess player Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky to become the first US world champion
The Paris Peace Accords end the US combat role in Vietnam, with nothing achieved and millions dead
Elvis Presley performs in Honolulu in the Aloha Concert, the first programme to be broadcast live round the world by satellite
In the Calder case, the Supreme Court of Canada recognizes Aboriginal title to land
