1st » Joelma fire named A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1st » Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory (Malaysia) named Federal Territory.
2nd » The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
4th » The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
4th » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
7th » Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
8th » After 84 days in outer space named space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit United States or American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
8th » Military coup in Burkina Faso or Upper Volta.
12th » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
17th » Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
21st » The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
22nd » The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation called Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
22nd » Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
23rd » The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.