| January 1 | 50 mph speed limit introduced on Britain’s roads to conserve fuel supplies |
| January 17 | Our Triumph TR6 PVF 255M was registered |
| January 28 | Ceasefire signed ending involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War |
| February 4 | Heiress Patricia Hearst kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army |
| March 1 | Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. |
| March 8 | Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris opens |
| April 28 | The last Americans were evacuated from Saigon, Vietnam |
| May 18 | India successfully tests an atomic device, becoming the world’s sixth nuclear power. |
| June 17 | A bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London damaging Westminster Hall. The bomb had been planted by the Irish Republican Army |
| July 20 | Turkish forces invade Cyprus |
| July 30 | President Nixon Impeached |
| August 8 | President Nixon announces he will resign the following day |
| September 12 | Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia deposed. |
October 5 | The Guildford pub bombings |
| November 7 | Lord Lucan disappears |
| November | Jaguar stopped making the E-Type already it took until 1975 to sell the last ones |
| December 24 | Darwin, Australia almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy |
| Wimbledon Champions | Chris Evert beat O Morozova Jimmy Connors beat Ken Rosewall |
| Films | The Godfather Part II Blazing Saddles The Towering Inferno |
| Music | Patti Smith releases the first Punk Rock single – Hey Joe Olivia Newton John – I Honestly Love You |
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