| 1971 | An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162. |
| 1974 | Watergate scandal: U.S.
President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 1975 | Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m.
He is never seen or heard from again. |
| 1978 | The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side. |
| 1980 | Vanuatu gains independence. |
| 1980 | Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law. |
| 1981 | As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland. |
| 1990 | Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in
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