November 23, 1974: Ethiopia's new government executes former leaders Akilu, Endelkachew and Aman, along with 57 other prisoners
November 24, 1974: "Lucy", 3.5 million year old human ancestor, discovered in Africa (photo of cast image in Frankfurt, Germany)November 3, 1974: Hotel fire in South Korea kills 88 people
The white minority government of
South Africa granted limited self-government to
QwaQwa, a 253-square-mile (660 km2) portion of land bordering the Kingdom of
Lesotho, as "homeland" (
bantustan) for 180,000 members of the
Sotho people.[3] The homeland, which would exist until 1994, was governed during its 20-year existence by Chief Minister
Tsiame Kenneth Mopeli and its capital was
Witsieshoek (now Phuthaditjhaba).
Baroness
Moura Budberg, 82, Russian adventuress and suspected
double agent for both the Soviet Union's
OGPU secret police and the United Kingdom's
MI6 intelligence agency[5]
Chilean-born British stockbroker
William Beausire, who had dual citizenship in both the UK and Chile, was kidnapped by the Argentina Federal Police while he was at the
Ezeiza International Airport at
Buenos Aires, where he was scheduled to board a flight to
Paris. Beausire was turned over to the Chilean secret police, the
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), where he was tortured. He was last seen in public on July 2, 1975, and became one of the thousands of "
desaparecidos" who disappeared during the Pinochet regime in Chile.[9]
The historic
Jagiełło Oak tree in
Poland, standing 128 feet (39 m) tall and 210 inches (5,300 mm) in circumference, was blown down in a storm.[citation needed]
An early-morning
fire at the Daewang Corner building in the
Dongdaemun District of
Seoul killed 88 people and injured 35. Firefighters reported that 65 of the victims had been inside the Time Go-Go Club on the building's sixth floor; 13 others had been trapped in their hotel rooms on the seventh floor, and six of them had jumped to their deaths. According to witnesses who were able to escape immediately, employees of the club closed the only exit door to prevent other customers from leaving without paying.[15][16][17][18]
The popular German TV detective series Derrick, starring
Horst Tappert as Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and
Fritz Wepper as his assistant, Detective Sergeant Harry Klein, premiered on West Germany's
ZDF network for the first of 281 episodes over 25 seasons.[19]
A
yes or no election was held in the North African nation of
Tunisia for official approval of the re-election of President
Habib Bourguiba and the approval of the list of candidates for the 112-member
Majlis, as selected by the nation's sole legal political party, the
Parti socialiste destourien (PSD).[20] The government reported that almost 97% of registered voters turned out for the election and none of them voted against Borguiba or the PSD candidates.[21]
The
U.S. Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine
USS James Madison (SSBN-627) collided with an unidentified
Soviet NavyVictor-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, during a dive just after departing from the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Refit Site One on
Scotland's
Holy Loch. No confrontation took place, and no casualties were sustained on the U.S. sub, which was under inspection and repair for a week afterward. Any damage to the Soviet submarine was not revealed by the Soviets.[22]
The first
solar-powered airplane, Sunrise I, made its initial flight after being launched in the U.S. by brothers Robert J. Boucher and Roland Boucher, founders of the
AstroFlight company, at a dry lake within the
Mojave Desert in
Camp Irwin, California; Sunrise I had a
wingspan of 32 feet (9.8 m) and weighed 27.5 pounds (12.5 kg), with a 400-watt array of solar cells mounted on the wings.[28] The airplane, not yet ready for a human pilot, flew for almost 20 minutes at an altitude of 300 feet (91 m).[29]
In one of the great upsets of boxing, heavyweight
Earnie Shavers, who had a record of 46 wins (44 by knockout or TKO) and only 3 losses, lost a unanimous decision to unknown boxer Bob Stallings, who had 21 wins, 24 losses and only four knockouts.[30]
In the United States, the
Democratic Party made major gains nationwide in the elections for the U.S. Congress, particularly in the
House of Representatives, where the Democrats won a two-thirds majority, with 291 of the 435 seats. The election also brought 93 first-time Representatives. With 34 of the 100
U.S. Senate seats on the ballot, the Democrats gained four formerly Republican seats to increase their majority to 61 to 37.[33][34] Former
NASAastronautJohn Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, was elected to the
U.S. Senate for the first time.[35]
Simas Kudirka, who had made an unsuccessful attempt to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1971, arrived in New York along with his wife, his two children and his mother after being allowed to leave Moscow earlier in the day. Kudirka had jumped onto a
U.S. Coast Guard ship but then was returned to the custody of the Soviets, who sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment for treason.[37]
Abdellatif Zeroual, 23, Moroccan dissident and official of the
Ila al-Amam Marxist group, disappeared after being taken away by a group of plainclothes police.[49]
At least 80 people died in a collision between two passenger trains 43 miles (69 km) west of
Cotonou, Dahomey.[50]
The Soviet Union's lunar probe Luna 23 landed on the Moon in the
Mare Crisium for the purpose of gathering and returning lunar soil to the Earth. The probe's drill was damaged when Luna 23 tipped over after landing on "unfavorable" terrain.[51][52]
Argentina's President
Isabel Perón unexpectedly issued an emergency decree of a "
state of siege" in the South American nation in an effort to deal with political violence that had claimed 136 lives during her first 129 days in office. The decree banned all public meetings and allowed any suspected terrorists to be arrested without a court order and held indefinitely without being brought to trial.[53]
Thirty-three inmates at the
Long Kesh Prison (later called the "Maze Prison") in
Northern Ireland, most of them convicted terrorists of the IRA, attempted to escape through an underground tunnel which they had dug. IRA member Hugh Coney was shot and killed by a guard after emerging outside the walls, and 29 others were captured only a few yards past the prison. The other three were captured within 24 hours.[54]
The
President of Bolivia, General
Hugo Banzer, personally led the suppression of a rebellion of Bolivian Army troops who had seized control of the cities of
Santa Cruz and
Montero, according to government radio broadcasts. A radio broadcast from the capital at
La Paz said that Banzer flew to
Cochabamba, where he rallied loyal paratroopers, then flew with them to the outskirts of Santa Cruz where, "with the aid of planes, air force cadets and loyal troops in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, Banzer led the march on the rebel-held city and crushed the uprising."[57]
At
Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA held a final dress rehearsal for the
Apollo–Soyuz mission, scheduled for launch in
July 1975. Many of the technicians who participated in the simulation anticipated losing their jobs once the mission flew.[58]
American pop singer and actress
Connie Francis was
raped at knife-point in her room at a
Howard Johnson's motel in
Westbury, New York, after performing at the
Westbury Music Fair the previous evening.[65] Francis subsequently sued the motel chain for failing to provide adequate security and reportedly won a $2.5 million judgment,[66] one of the largest such judgments in history, leading to a reform in hotel security. Her rapist was never found.[67]
The original
Covent Garden market in
London closed after 300 years, with a bell tolling at 11 a.m. to mark the occasion. The Covent Garden had been established in
1671 by
King Charles I. The market would reopen the following Monday as the
New Covent Garden Market, at a new site 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away.[68][69]
Judge
Frank J. Battisti of the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio acquitted 8 former members of the
Ohio Army National Guard in the May 4, 1970,
Kent State shootings, finding that the prosecution had not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the guardsmen intended to violate protestors' civil rights. Battisti stated in his opinion: "It is vital that state and
National Guard officials not regard this decision as authorizing or approving the use of force against demonstrators, whatever the occasion of the issue involved. Such use of force is, and was, deplorable."[70]
The
NBC television network broadcast an episode of the
police procedural series Police Woman involving a lesbian crime ring. In response to protests from
gay rights groups, NBC agreed later in the month not to rebroadcast the episode.[71]
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, 39, a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, disappeared the day after the murder of Sandra Rivett, the nanny of his children, at the Lucan family home at 46
Lower Belgrave Street in the wealthy
Belgravia district of London.[75] Accused by his estranged wife, Veronica Duncan, of attacking her and of murdering Rivett, Lord Lucan was last seen alive by a friend in
Uckfield,
East Sussex. Lucan's blood-soaked car was found two days later in
Newhaven, East Sussex. Named at an
inquest seven months later as Rivett's murderer, Lucan was never located and would be declared
legally dead on October 27, 1999.[76]
The fiery collision in
Tokyo Bay of the Taiwanese freighter Pacific Ares and the Japanese oil tanker Yuyo Maru killed 33 sailors, all but one of them on the freighter. The Pacific Ares had departed from
Kawasaki with cargo for
Los Angeles and was 4 miles (6.4 km) out to sea when it encountered the incoming Yuyo Maru. Rescue boats saved 34 survivors, and 19 bodies were found, but 14 other sailors listed as missing were not recovered.[79][80]
Two days after putting down a revolt in
Bolivia, President
Hugo Banzer suspended the activities of all political parties, labor unions, employer organizations and professional associations and canceled plans for democratic elections until at least 1980. Banzer dismissed his civilian cabinet and formed a new "national reconstruction government", commenting that "Here and now, a new history will begin for Bolivia." The move came after the military leadership of Bolivia, led by Air Force General
Oscar Adriazola, informed President Banzer in a memo that the generals were "categorically and definitely not in agreement with holding elections or returning to the parliamentary system while the critical period the country is going through internally is not yet over."[81]
A bomb exploded on the second floor of the
Organization of American States headquarters in
Washington, D.C. No one was injured.[83] A previously unknown group called "Cuba Movement C-4" claimed responsibility for the bombing, stating its opposition to the Cuban regime of
Fidel Castro.[84]
Nine people, ranging in age from 2 to 44 years old, were killed in the crash of a single car when their vehicle broke through a guardrail on
Interstate 20 near
Longview, Texas, and fell 50 feet (15 m), landing upside down.[85] All of the persons killed were residents of
Midwest City, Oklahoma, who were traveling to a family reunion when the driver fell asleep and the car went out of control.[86]
Workmen hose down USS Pegasus on the day before launch
Richard McCoy Jr., 31, an American who had been convicted for the 1972 hijacking of United Airlines Flight 855, and had escaped from the federal prison in
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania on August 10, was killed in a shootout with FBI agents who had located him at a house he had been renting in
Virginia Beach, Virginia. FBI agents also arrested Melvin Dale Walker, who had escaped from prison with McCoy.[89]
Soviet Head of State
Nikolai V. Podgorny said in a speech that any artwork in the Soviet Union that "departed even slightly from the principles of
socialist realism" would be considered unacceptable by the Soviet Ministry of Culture. Podgorny's remarks came at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of Moscow's Maly Theater.[93]
Haile Selassie, who had been the
Emperor of Ethiopia until being deposed from office on September 12 and placed under arrest, was transported by the Republic of Ethiopia's revolutionary council to the National Palace, where he had once maintained offices. Since his arrest, he had been detained in the Ethiopian Army's 4th Division barracks at the quarters reserved for the Division's commanding general. Selassie had lived at the Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa until his overthrow.[94]
Günter von Drenkmann, 64, German lawyer, president of the "Kammergericht" (West Berlin district court), was murdered on his 64th birthday by a group of men who appeared at his home in
Charlottenburg. Judge von Drenkmann was shot four times when he answered his doorbell. Authorities were unable to rule out a link with Holger Meins' death the previous day.[90][97]
A previously unknown subatomic particle, the
J/psi meson, was discovered independently by two different groups of researchers. The discovery led to rapid changes in
high-energy physics which collectively became known as the "November Revolution".[99]Burton Richter and
Samuel C. C. Ting received the 1976
Nobel Prize in Physics "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind."[100]
The crime that would lead to the arrest and execution of Pakistan's Prime Minister
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took place after the Nawab judge
Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri was shot to death during an apparent attempt to assassinate his son, Pakistan National Assembly representative
Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri. Prime Minister Bhutto would be arrested in 1977 on suspicion of ordering the assassination of Ahmad Kasuri and hanged in 1979.[101]
After more than three months of fighting between the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, invading from North Vietnam) and the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN, defending South Vietnam), and hundreds of deaths on both sides, the Communist PAVN won the
Battle of Thuong Duc, but the ARVN was able to prevent the Communists from capturing the South Vietnamese city of
Da Nang.[102] South Vietnam would fall to the Communists less than six months later.
The Greek Cypriot President of Cyprus,
Glafkos Clerides, and the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community in northern Cyprus,
Rauf Denktash, agreed that 1,600 elderly Greek Cypriots in the Turkish zone would be allowed to be transported to the Greek Cypriot zone.[103]
The
United Nations General Assembly voted, 91 to 22, to suspend
South Africa from participation in participation in Assembly matters for the remainder of the 1974-1975 session.[115] The suspension would remain in effect for almost 20 years until the end of
apartheid on June 23, 1994.
Jack Teich, a wealthy 34-year-old U.S. executive and an owner of the Acme Architectural Products company, was
kidnapped from his home at
Kings Point, New York, and held for captive until a record ransom of $750,000 (worth more than $4.5 million dollars in 2024) was paid for his safe release on November 19.[120][121]
William Flowers, a 19-year-old student at
Monmouth College in
New Jersey, died of suffocation during a hazing ritual for pledges of the Delta Rho Chapter of the
Zeta Beta Taufraternity. The pledges were forced to dig "graves" in beach sand and lie in them, and Flowers' "grave" collapsed in on him. Flowers was the first black student to pledge for Zeta Beta Tau at Monmouth.[122][123] The national fraternity subsequently suspended the Monmouth chapter as a result of the incident.[123]
Member nations of the
Organization of American States (OAS), meeting in
Quito in
Ecuador, voted, 12 to 9, to end the 10-year-long embargo against
Cuba, but fell two votes short of the two-thirds majority required by the OAS.[124]
In
Paris, the
International Energy Agency was formed by representatives of 16 nations— the U.S., the UK, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey— in a cooperative agreement to pool the combined oil supplies of the members in the event of another embargo by oil-producing nations.[141]
Portuguese Army Major General
Mário Lemos Pires took office as the last colonial governor of
Portuguese Timor, a colonial possession of Portugal since
1702.[142] Granted independence by Portugal in 1975, the area on the island of
Timor was quickly annexed by
Indonesia.
Jane Lauren Alpert, a former member of the U.S. left-wing terrorist group
Weather Underground and a fugitive for four-and-a-half years after posting a bail bond and failing to appear for her sentencing in 1970 for conspiracy to bomb two U.S. government buildings, voluntarily surrendered at the federal prosecutor's office in New York City.[143] She would be released in 1977 after 27 months' imprisonment.
In
Egypt, 50 people drowned when an overloaded sailing craft sank in the
Nile near the town of
Desouk.[150]
Ethiopia's Head of State, General
Aman Andom, Chairman of the
Derg, angered other Derg members, including Lieutenant Colonel
Mengistu Haile Mariam, when he sent a message to all military units critical of the Derg government.[citation needed] Andom would be executed eight days later in the Derg's purge of former government and military officials.[151]
Secretariat, the racehorse who had won the
American Triple Crown in 1973, became a sire for the first time with the birth of his first foal, which would be named First Secretary.[161][162]
The
radio telescope at the
Arecibo Observatory on
Puerto Rico sent
an interstellar radio message towards
Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in the area of
the constellation Hercules in the stellar view from Earth.[168] Transmitted multiple times at irregular intervals, the "Arecibo message" contained 1,679 (73 x 23) bits of binary code with the hope that if it reached another intelligent civilization, scientists would not only see it as evidence of Earth intelligence, but eventually display the message in picture form on a 73-row and 23-column grid.[169] The message will reach its destination around the year
27,000 CE.
Four Egyptian passenger ships entered the
Suez Canal, the first commercial vessels to do so since the
Six-Day War in 1967.[170]
Serial killer
Paul John Knowles, who had murdered 18 people since his escape from jail on July 26, was captured by a civilian in
Henry County, Georgia. David Clark, a Vietnam War veteran and hospital maintenance worker, had been on a hunting trip when he encountered Knowles, who was fleeing police, and held him at gunpoint until officers could arrive at the scene.[183] The day before, Knowles had kidnapped and murdered his last two victims, a Florida state trooper and a motorist whom he had taken hostage.[184] Knowles himself would be shot to death on December 18 after attempting to disarm a sheriff.
Napoleon Lechoco, the head of the Filipino Political Action Committee in Washington, D.C., held
Eduardo Romualdez, the
Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States, hostage at gunpoint for over 10 hours at the
Philippine Embassy on
Embassy Row, demanding that his 16-year-old son in
Manila receive an exit visa. This was believed to be the first time a foreign ambassador was held hostage in the United States. Lechoco released Romualdez and surrendered to police after
Philippine PresidentFerdinand Marcos gave assurances that his son could leave the country. Lechoco's son departed the Philippines for the United States on November 19.[189][190]
An explosion killed two members of a team investigating
a tunnel in the
Korean Demilitarized Zone, U.S. Navy Commander Robert M. Ballinger and a South Korean officer, and injured six other military personnel, five American and one South Korean.[201]
In
Birmingham, England,
two pubs on New Street were bombed, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others, many of them seriously, in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the
Provisional Irish Republican Army. At 8:17 in the evening, a time bomb exploded at the Mulberry Bush pub, killing 10 people, two of whom had been walking past the establishment. Ten minutes later, at 8:27, another bomb detonated at the Tavern in the Town and killed 11 others. The bombings were the deadliest terrorist acts in the Britain in the 20th century.[211][212]
The bombings were wrongly blamed on the "
Birmingham Six", six men from Northern Ireland who were longtime residents of the city, who were coerced by police abuse into signing confessions to a crime that they had not committed. The six men— Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Joe Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power and Johnny Walker— would be sentenced to life imprisonment on August 15, 1975, until their convictions were overturned by an appellate court on March 14, 1991.[213] Later, a witness would identify
Mick Murray as the organizer of the bombings.[214]
Japan's Ministry of Transport issued its "Ministerial Ordinance for Partial Revision of Safety Standards for Road Transport Vehicles" to require all motor vehicles manufactured in Japan to include a
speed chime that would begin ringing if the vehicle exceeded 105 kilometres per hour (65 mph). Under pressure from other car-producing nations, the requirement would be removed in 1986.[216]
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3236 was enacted by a vote of 89 in favor, 8 against and 37 abstentions. The resolution declared its reaffirmation (after a 1948 resolution) of "the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in Palestine, including...the right to self-determination without external interference; the right to national independence and sovereignty [and] the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted." In a separate resolution, the General Assembly granted the
Palestine Liberation Organizationobserver status as a representative of the
Palestinian people in and around
Israel.[223]
Aldo Moro took office as the
Prime Minister of Italy. Moro, who had served as Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968, replaced
Mariano Rumor, whose government collapsed on October 3 after the ministers could not agree on how to manage a rising inflation rate.[231][232]
The first "double heart" transplant on a human being was performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, by Dr.
Christiaan Barnard, introducing a new technique of supplementing a diseased heart with a donor heart that "takes the brunt of pumping the blood through the body" while "the blood still passes through the patient's original heart." The first recipient, Ivan Taylor, received the donor heart of a 10-year-old girl. Taylor survived for four and a half months, dying on April 5, 1975.[250]
Rosemary Lane (stage name for Rosemary Mullican), 61, American actress and singer and one of the
Lane Sisters, died of complications of pulmonary obstruction and
diabetes.[258]
Japan's Prime Minister
Kakuei Tanaka announced his resignation after an invesigative committee of Japan's House of Representatives, the Diet, was preparing to call Aki Sato as a witness. Tanaka and Ms. Sato had been having a romantic relationship for many years. The announcement was made by
Chief Cabinet Secretary (and future Prime Minister)
Noboru Takeshita.[259][260]
In West Germany, teams of agents from the
GSG 9 special forces made simultaneous raids targeted at arresting suspected members of the
Red Army Faction terror group.[261]
In
Punjab, India, about 100 people were injured in a clash between police and 6,000 student demonstrators.[270]
In
Moscow, plainclothes agents took Soviet physicist and dissident
Andrei Tverdokhlebov, the secretary of the Soviet branch of
Amnesty International, into custody as he walked home with a friend from a movie. Agents also searched Tverdokhlebov's apartment.[271] The following day, Tverdokhlebov would issue a statement about the search of his apartment and the confiscation of various items, concluding, "However, they have not yet taken away my fountain pen."[272]
In one of the closest elections in the history of the United States Congress, a
recount showed that Democrat
John A. Durkin— initially declared to have lost the
November 5 race for U.S. Senator for New Hampshire to Republican
Louis C. Wyman by 355 votes (110,716 to 110,361)[273]— was found to have actually won the race by 10 votes {110,924 to 110,914).[274][275] Wyman filed an appeal to the state's Ballot Law Commission and on December 24, the second recount would show an even closer election.
Brigadier General
Tafari Benti became the new Head of State of Ethiopia after he was named as the Chairman of the
Derg, the military council that had executed the prior leader.[279]
Singer
John Lennon gave his final live musical performance, appearing at New York's
Madison Square Garden as the guest of
Elton John. The two musicians appeared together to sing "
I Saw Her Standing There".[281][282] According to New York Times critic
John Rockwell, "Not that the crowd hadn't given every indication of loving Mr. John and his music. But with Mr. Lennon, there was an electricity that sparked through the crowd long after Mr. Lennon had left the stage."[281]
The first
Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act in the United Kingdom was given royal assent by Queen Elizabeth II, eight days after the Birmingham pub bombings, hours after the measure passed the House of Commons and the House of Lords.[287][288]
The French National Assembly, after a 30-hour debate that included a speech by
Simone Veil, voted 284 to 189 to pass a bill legalizing
abortion in France. The French Senate would ratify the bill on December 1, "making France the first nation of Latin and Catholic background to legalize abortion."[289][290]
U.S. President Ford pardoned 8 men convicted of resistance to the
Vietnam War and granted conditional clemency to 10 others. Most of the men had been in prison for refusal to enter military service.[291]
The National Guard of El Salvador invaded the town of La Cayetanan, near
Tecoluca in the
San Vicente Department, then rounded up and executed six peasants who were members of the Federation of Christian Peasants of El Salvador (FECCAS), and arrested another 13 who were not seen again.[292]
General
Peng Dehuai, 76, Chinese military leader, former Minister of National Defense for the
People's Republic of China (1954 to 1959), died in a prison in
Beijing, where he had been imprisoned during the 1966 Cultural Revolution.[294]
During a preliminary race for the following day's
Macau Grand Prix, West German driver
Dieter Glemser lost control of his car, which ran into the crowd, killing a child and injuring 6 other people.[302]
U.S. Representative
Wilbur Mills of Ohio, Chairman of the powerful
Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, caused an embarrassing scene when he arrived, intoxicated, at
The Pilgrim Theatre in
Boston, and walked on the stage where his mistress,
Fanne Foxe, was performing as a stripper. The scandal followed an October 7 incident where he and Foxe were stopped by police of the U.S. Park Service while he was drunk. Mills stepped down as the Ways and Means Committee Chairman days later and retired from Congress after choosing not to run for re-election in 1976.[305]
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November 23, 1974: Ethiopia's new government executes former leaders Akilu, Endelkachew and Aman, along with 57 other prisoners
November 24, 1974: "Lucy", 3.5 million year old human ancestor, discovered in Africa (photo of cast image in Frankfurt, Germany)November 3, 1974: Hotel fire in South Korea kills 88 people
The white minority government of
South Africa granted limited self-government to
QwaQwa, a 253-square-mile (660 km2) portion of land bordering the Kingdom of
Lesotho, as "homeland" (
bantustan) for 180,000 members of the
Sotho people.[3] The homeland, which would exist until 1994, was governed during its 20-year existence by Chief Minister
Tsiame Kenneth Mopeli and its capital was
Witsieshoek (now Phuthaditjhaba).
Baroness
Moura Budberg, 82, Russian adventuress and suspected
double agent for both the Soviet Union's
OGPU secret police and the United Kingdom's
MI6 intelligence agency[5]
Chilean-born British stockbroker
William Beausire, who had dual citizenship in both the UK and Chile, was kidnapped by the Argentina Federal Police while he was at the
Ezeiza International Airport at
Buenos Aires, where he was scheduled to board a flight to
Paris. Beausire was turned over to the Chilean secret police, the
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), where he was tortured. He was last seen in public on July 2, 1975, and became one of the thousands of "
desaparecidos" who disappeared during the Pinochet regime in Chile.[9]
The historic
Jagiełło Oak tree in
Poland, standing 128 feet (39 m) tall and 210 inches (5,300 mm) in circumference, was blown down in a storm.[citation needed]
An early-morning
fire at the Daewang Corner building in the
Dongdaemun District of
Seoul killed 88 people and injured 35. Firefighters reported that 65 of the victims had been inside the Time Go-Go Club on the building's sixth floor; 13 others had been trapped in their hotel rooms on the seventh floor, and six of them had jumped to their deaths. According to witnesses who were able to escape immediately, employees of the club closed the only exit door to prevent other customers from leaving without paying.[15][16][17][18]
The popular German TV detective series Derrick, starring
Horst Tappert as Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and
Fritz Wepper as his assistant, Detective Sergeant Harry Klein, premiered on West Germany's
ZDF network for the first of 281 episodes over 25 seasons.[19]
A
yes or no election was held in the North African nation of
Tunisia for official approval of the re-election of President
Habib Bourguiba and the approval of the list of candidates for the 112-member
Majlis, as selected by the nation's sole legal political party, the
Parti socialiste destourien (PSD).[20] The government reported that almost 97% of registered voters turned out for the election and none of them voted against Borguiba or the PSD candidates.[21]
The
U.S. Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine
USS James Madison (SSBN-627) collided with an unidentified
Soviet NavyVictor-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, during a dive just after departing from the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Refit Site One on
Scotland's
Holy Loch. No confrontation took place, and no casualties were sustained on the U.S. sub, which was under inspection and repair for a week afterward. Any damage to the Soviet submarine was not revealed by the Soviets.[22]
The first
solar-powered airplane, Sunrise I, made its initial flight after being launched in the U.S. by brothers Robert J. Boucher and Roland Boucher, founders of the
AstroFlight company, at a dry lake within the
Mojave Desert in
Camp Irwin, California; Sunrise I had a
wingspan of 32 feet (9.8 m) and weighed 27.5 pounds (12.5 kg), with a 400-watt array of solar cells mounted on the wings.[28] The airplane, not yet ready for a human pilot, flew for almost 20 minutes at an altitude of 300 feet (91 m).[29]
In one of the great upsets of boxing, heavyweight
Earnie Shavers, who had a record of 46 wins (44 by knockout or TKO) and only 3 losses, lost a unanimous decision to unknown boxer Bob Stallings, who had 21 wins, 24 losses and only four knockouts.[30]
In the United States, the
Democratic Party made major gains nationwide in the elections for the U.S. Congress, particularly in the
House of Representatives, where the Democrats won a two-thirds majority, with 291 of the 435 seats. The election also brought 93 first-time Representatives. With 34 of the 100
U.S. Senate seats on the ballot, the Democrats gained four formerly Republican seats to increase their majority to 61 to 37.[33][34] Former
NASAastronautJohn Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, was elected to the
U.S. Senate for the first time.[35]
Simas Kudirka, who had made an unsuccessful attempt to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1971, arrived in New York along with his wife, his two children and his mother after being allowed to leave Moscow earlier in the day. Kudirka had jumped onto a
U.S. Coast Guard ship but then was returned to the custody of the Soviets, who sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment for treason.[37]
Abdellatif Zeroual, 23, Moroccan dissident and official of the
Ila al-Amam Marxist group, disappeared after being taken away by a group of plainclothes police.[49]
At least 80 people died in a collision between two passenger trains 43 miles (69 km) west of
Cotonou, Dahomey.[50]
The Soviet Union's lunar probe Luna 23 landed on the Moon in the
Mare Crisium for the purpose of gathering and returning lunar soil to the Earth. The probe's drill was damaged when Luna 23 tipped over after landing on "unfavorable" terrain.[51][52]
Argentina's President
Isabel Perón unexpectedly issued an emergency decree of a "
state of siege" in the South American nation in an effort to deal with political violence that had claimed 136 lives during her first 129 days in office. The decree banned all public meetings and allowed any suspected terrorists to be arrested without a court order and held indefinitely without being brought to trial.[53]
Thirty-three inmates at the
Long Kesh Prison (later called the "Maze Prison") in
Northern Ireland, most of them convicted terrorists of the IRA, attempted to escape through an underground tunnel which they had dug. IRA member Hugh Coney was shot and killed by a guard after emerging outside the walls, and 29 others were captured only a few yards past the prison. The other three were captured within 24 hours.[54]
The
President of Bolivia, General
Hugo Banzer, personally led the suppression of a rebellion of Bolivian Army troops who had seized control of the cities of
Santa Cruz and
Montero, according to government radio broadcasts. A radio broadcast from the capital at
La Paz said that Banzer flew to
Cochabamba, where he rallied loyal paratroopers, then flew with them to the outskirts of Santa Cruz where, "with the aid of planes, air force cadets and loyal troops in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, Banzer led the march on the rebel-held city and crushed the uprising."[57]
At
Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA held a final dress rehearsal for the
Apollo–Soyuz mission, scheduled for launch in
July 1975. Many of the technicians who participated in the simulation anticipated losing their jobs once the mission flew.[58]
American pop singer and actress
Connie Francis was
raped at knife-point in her room at a
Howard Johnson's motel in
Westbury, New York, after performing at the
Westbury Music Fair the previous evening.[65] Francis subsequently sued the motel chain for failing to provide adequate security and reportedly won a $2.5 million judgment,[66] one of the largest such judgments in history, leading to a reform in hotel security. Her rapist was never found.[67]
The original
Covent Garden market in
London closed after 300 years, with a bell tolling at 11 a.m. to mark the occasion. The Covent Garden had been established in
1671 by
King Charles I. The market would reopen the following Monday as the
New Covent Garden Market, at a new site 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away.[68][69]
Judge
Frank J. Battisti of the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio acquitted 8 former members of the
Ohio Army National Guard in the May 4, 1970,
Kent State shootings, finding that the prosecution had not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the guardsmen intended to violate protestors' civil rights. Battisti stated in his opinion: "It is vital that state and
National Guard officials not regard this decision as authorizing or approving the use of force against demonstrators, whatever the occasion of the issue involved. Such use of force is, and was, deplorable."[70]
The
NBC television network broadcast an episode of the
police procedural series Police Woman involving a lesbian crime ring. In response to protests from
gay rights groups, NBC agreed later in the month not to rebroadcast the episode.[71]
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, 39, a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, disappeared the day after the murder of Sandra Rivett, the nanny of his children, at the Lucan family home at 46
Lower Belgrave Street in the wealthy
Belgravia district of London.[75] Accused by his estranged wife, Veronica Duncan, of attacking her and of murdering Rivett, Lord Lucan was last seen alive by a friend in
Uckfield,
East Sussex. Lucan's blood-soaked car was found two days later in
Newhaven, East Sussex. Named at an
inquest seven months later as Rivett's murderer, Lucan was never located and would be declared
legally dead on October 27, 1999.[76]
The fiery collision in
Tokyo Bay of the Taiwanese freighter Pacific Ares and the Japanese oil tanker Yuyo Maru killed 33 sailors, all but one of them on the freighter. The Pacific Ares had departed from
Kawasaki with cargo for
Los Angeles and was 4 miles (6.4 km) out to sea when it encountered the incoming Yuyo Maru. Rescue boats saved 34 survivors, and 19 bodies were found, but 14 other sailors listed as missing were not recovered.[79][80]
Two days after putting down a revolt in
Bolivia, President
Hugo Banzer suspended the activities of all political parties, labor unions, employer organizations and professional associations and canceled plans for democratic elections until at least 1980. Banzer dismissed his civilian cabinet and formed a new "national reconstruction government", commenting that "Here and now, a new history will begin for Bolivia." The move came after the military leadership of Bolivia, led by Air Force General
Oscar Adriazola, informed President Banzer in a memo that the generals were "categorically and definitely not in agreement with holding elections or returning to the parliamentary system while the critical period the country is going through internally is not yet over."[81]
A bomb exploded on the second floor of the
Organization of American States headquarters in
Washington, D.C. No one was injured.[83] A previously unknown group called "Cuba Movement C-4" claimed responsibility for the bombing, stating its opposition to the Cuban regime of
Fidel Castro.[84]
Nine people, ranging in age from 2 to 44 years old, were killed in the crash of a single car when their vehicle broke through a guardrail on
Interstate 20 near
Longview, Texas, and fell 50 feet (15 m), landing upside down.[85] All of the persons killed were residents of
Midwest City, Oklahoma, who were traveling to a family reunion when the driver fell asleep and the car went out of control.[86]
Workmen hose down USS Pegasus on the day before launch
Richard McCoy Jr., 31, an American who had been convicted for the 1972 hijacking of United Airlines Flight 855, and had escaped from the federal prison in
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania on August 10, was killed in a shootout with FBI agents who had located him at a house he had been renting in
Virginia Beach, Virginia. FBI agents also arrested Melvin Dale Walker, who had escaped from prison with McCoy.[89]
Soviet Head of State
Nikolai V. Podgorny said in a speech that any artwork in the Soviet Union that "departed even slightly from the principles of
socialist realism" would be considered unacceptable by the Soviet Ministry of Culture. Podgorny's remarks came at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of Moscow's Maly Theater.[93]
Haile Selassie, who had been the
Emperor of Ethiopia until being deposed from office on September 12 and placed under arrest, was transported by the Republic of Ethiopia's revolutionary council to the National Palace, where he had once maintained offices. Since his arrest, he had been detained in the Ethiopian Army's 4th Division barracks at the quarters reserved for the Division's commanding general. Selassie had lived at the Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa until his overthrow.[94]
Günter von Drenkmann, 64, German lawyer, president of the "Kammergericht" (West Berlin district court), was murdered on his 64th birthday by a group of men who appeared at his home in
Charlottenburg. Judge von Drenkmann was shot four times when he answered his doorbell. Authorities were unable to rule out a link with Holger Meins' death the previous day.[90][97]
A previously unknown subatomic particle, the
J/psi meson, was discovered independently by two different groups of researchers. The discovery led to rapid changes in
high-energy physics which collectively became known as the "November Revolution".[99]Burton Richter and
Samuel C. C. Ting received the 1976
Nobel Prize in Physics "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind."[100]
The crime that would lead to the arrest and execution of Pakistan's Prime Minister
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took place after the Nawab judge
Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri was shot to death during an apparent attempt to assassinate his son, Pakistan National Assembly representative
Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri. Prime Minister Bhutto would be arrested in 1977 on suspicion of ordering the assassination of Ahmad Kasuri and hanged in 1979.[101]
After more than three months of fighting between the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, invading from North Vietnam) and the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN, defending South Vietnam), and hundreds of deaths on both sides, the Communist PAVN won the
Battle of Thuong Duc, but the ARVN was able to prevent the Communists from capturing the South Vietnamese city of
Da Nang.[102] South Vietnam would fall to the Communists less than six months later.
The Greek Cypriot President of Cyprus,
Glafkos Clerides, and the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community in northern Cyprus,
Rauf Denktash, agreed that 1,600 elderly Greek Cypriots in the Turkish zone would be allowed to be transported to the Greek Cypriot zone.[103]
The
United Nations General Assembly voted, 91 to 22, to suspend
South Africa from participation in participation in Assembly matters for the remainder of the 1974-1975 session.[115] The suspension would remain in effect for almost 20 years until the end of
apartheid on June 23, 1994.
Jack Teich, a wealthy 34-year-old U.S. executive and an owner of the Acme Architectural Products company, was
kidnapped from his home at
Kings Point, New York, and held for captive until a record ransom of $750,000 (worth more than $4.5 million dollars in 2024) was paid for his safe release on November 19.[120][121]
William Flowers, a 19-year-old student at
Monmouth College in
New Jersey, died of suffocation during a hazing ritual for pledges of the Delta Rho Chapter of the
Zeta Beta Taufraternity. The pledges were forced to dig "graves" in beach sand and lie in them, and Flowers' "grave" collapsed in on him. Flowers was the first black student to pledge for Zeta Beta Tau at Monmouth.[122][123] The national fraternity subsequently suspended the Monmouth chapter as a result of the incident.[123]
Member nations of the
Organization of American States (OAS), meeting in
Quito in
Ecuador, voted, 12 to 9, to end the 10-year-long embargo against
Cuba, but fell two votes short of the two-thirds majority required by the OAS.[124]
In
Paris, the
International Energy Agency was formed by representatives of 16 nations— the U.S., the UK, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey— in a cooperative agreement to pool the combined oil supplies of the members in the event of another embargo by oil-producing nations.[141]
Portuguese Army Major General
Mário Lemos Pires took office as the last colonial governor of
Portuguese Timor, a colonial possession of Portugal since
1702.[142] Granted independence by Portugal in 1975, the area on the island of
Timor was quickly annexed by
Indonesia.
Jane Lauren Alpert, a former member of the U.S. left-wing terrorist group
Weather Underground and a fugitive for four-and-a-half years after posting a bail bond and failing to appear for her sentencing in 1970 for conspiracy to bomb two U.S. government buildings, voluntarily surrendered at the federal prosecutor's office in New York City.[143] She would be released in 1977 after 27 months' imprisonment.
In
Egypt, 50 people drowned when an overloaded sailing craft sank in the
Nile near the town of
Desouk.[150]
Ethiopia's Head of State, General
Aman Andom, Chairman of the
Derg, angered other Derg members, including Lieutenant Colonel
Mengistu Haile Mariam, when he sent a message to all military units critical of the Derg government.[citation needed] Andom would be executed eight days later in the Derg's purge of former government and military officials.[151]
Secretariat, the racehorse who had won the
American Triple Crown in 1973, became a sire for the first time with the birth of his first foal, which would be named First Secretary.[161][162]
The
radio telescope at the
Arecibo Observatory on
Puerto Rico sent
an interstellar radio message towards
Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in the area of
the constellation Hercules in the stellar view from Earth.[168] Transmitted multiple times at irregular intervals, the "Arecibo message" contained 1,679 (73 x 23) bits of binary code with the hope that if it reached another intelligent civilization, scientists would not only see it as evidence of Earth intelligence, but eventually display the message in picture form on a 73-row and 23-column grid.[169] The message will reach its destination around the year
27,000 CE.
Four Egyptian passenger ships entered the
Suez Canal, the first commercial vessels to do so since the
Six-Day War in 1967.[170]
Serial killer
Paul John Knowles, who had murdered 18 people since his escape from jail on July 26, was captured by a civilian in
Henry County, Georgia. David Clark, a Vietnam War veteran and hospital maintenance worker, had been on a hunting trip when he encountered Knowles, who was fleeing police, and held him at gunpoint until officers could arrive at the scene.[183] The day before, Knowles had kidnapped and murdered his last two victims, a Florida state trooper and a motorist whom he had taken hostage.[184] Knowles himself would be shot to death on December 18 after attempting to disarm a sheriff.
Napoleon Lechoco, the head of the Filipino Political Action Committee in Washington, D.C., held
Eduardo Romualdez, the
Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States, hostage at gunpoint for over 10 hours at the
Philippine Embassy on
Embassy Row, demanding that his 16-year-old son in
Manila receive an exit visa. This was believed to be the first time a foreign ambassador was held hostage in the United States. Lechoco released Romualdez and surrendered to police after
Philippine PresidentFerdinand Marcos gave assurances that his son could leave the country. Lechoco's son departed the Philippines for the United States on November 19.[189][190]
An explosion killed two members of a team investigating
a tunnel in the
Korean Demilitarized Zone, U.S. Navy Commander Robert M. Ballinger and a South Korean officer, and injured six other military personnel, five American and one South Korean.[201]
In
Birmingham, England,
two pubs on New Street were bombed, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others, many of them seriously, in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the
Provisional Irish Republican Army. At 8:17 in the evening, a time bomb exploded at the Mulberry Bush pub, killing 10 people, two of whom had been walking past the establishment. Ten minutes later, at 8:27, another bomb detonated at the Tavern in the Town and killed 11 others. The bombings were the deadliest terrorist acts in the Britain in the 20th century.[211][212]
The bombings were wrongly blamed on the "
Birmingham Six", six men from Northern Ireland who were longtime residents of the city, who were coerced by police abuse into signing confessions to a crime that they had not committed. The six men— Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Joe Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power and Johnny Walker— would be sentenced to life imprisonment on August 15, 1975, until their convictions were overturned by an appellate court on March 14, 1991.[213] Later, a witness would identify
Mick Murray as the organizer of the bombings.[214]
Japan's Ministry of Transport issued its "Ministerial Ordinance for Partial Revision of Safety Standards for Road Transport Vehicles" to require all motor vehicles manufactured in Japan to include a
speed chime that would begin ringing if the vehicle exceeded 105 kilometres per hour (65 mph). Under pressure from other car-producing nations, the requirement would be removed in 1986.[216]
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3236 was enacted by a vote of 89 in favor, 8 against and 37 abstentions. The resolution declared its reaffirmation (after a 1948 resolution) of "the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in Palestine, including...the right to self-determination without external interference; the right to national independence and sovereignty [and] the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted." In a separate resolution, the General Assembly granted the
Palestine Liberation Organizationobserver status as a representative of the
Palestinian people in and around
Israel.[223]
Aldo Moro took office as the
Prime Minister of Italy. Moro, who had served as Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968, replaced
Mariano Rumor, whose government collapsed on October 3 after the ministers could not agree on how to manage a rising inflation rate.[231][232]
The first "double heart" transplant on a human being was performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, by Dr.
Christiaan Barnard, introducing a new technique of supplementing a diseased heart with a donor heart that "takes the brunt of pumping the blood through the body" while "the blood still passes through the patient's original heart." The first recipient, Ivan Taylor, received the donor heart of a 10-year-old girl. Taylor survived for four and a half months, dying on April 5, 1975.[250]
Rosemary Lane (stage name for Rosemary Mullican), 61, American actress and singer and one of the
Lane Sisters, died of complications of pulmonary obstruction and
diabetes.[258]
Japan's Prime Minister
Kakuei Tanaka announced his resignation after an invesigative committee of Japan's House of Representatives, the Diet, was preparing to call Aki Sato as a witness. Tanaka and Ms. Sato had been having a romantic relationship for many years. The announcement was made by
Chief Cabinet Secretary (and future Prime Minister)
Noboru Takeshita.[259][260]
In West Germany, teams of agents from the
GSG 9 special forces made simultaneous raids targeted at arresting suspected members of the
Red Army Faction terror group.[261]
In
Punjab, India, about 100 people were injured in a clash between police and 6,000 student demonstrators.[270]
In
Moscow, plainclothes agents took Soviet physicist and dissident
Andrei Tverdokhlebov, the secretary of the Soviet branch of
Amnesty International, into custody as he walked home with a friend from a movie. Agents also searched Tverdokhlebov's apartment.[271] The following day, Tverdokhlebov would issue a statement about the search of his apartment and the confiscation of various items, concluding, "However, they have not yet taken away my fountain pen."[272]
In one of the closest elections in the history of the United States Congress, a
recount showed that Democrat
John A. Durkin— initially declared to have lost the
November 5 race for U.S. Senator for New Hampshire to Republican
Louis C. Wyman by 355 votes (110,716 to 110,361)[273]— was found to have actually won the race by 10 votes {110,924 to 110,914).[274][275] Wyman filed an appeal to the state's Ballot Law Commission and on December 24, the second recount would show an even closer election.
Brigadier General
Tafari Benti became the new Head of State of Ethiopia after he was named as the Chairman of the
Derg, the military council that had executed the prior leader.[279]
Singer
John Lennon gave his final live musical performance, appearing at New York's
Madison Square Garden as the guest of
Elton John. The two musicians appeared together to sing "
I Saw Her Standing There".[281][282] According to New York Times critic
John Rockwell, "Not that the crowd hadn't given every indication of loving Mr. John and his music. But with Mr. Lennon, there was an electricity that sparked through the crowd long after Mr. Lennon had left the stage."[281]
The first
Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act in the United Kingdom was given royal assent by Queen Elizabeth II, eight days after the Birmingham pub bombings, hours after the measure passed the House of Commons and the House of Lords.[287][288]
The French National Assembly, after a 30-hour debate that included a speech by
Simone Veil, voted 284 to 189 to pass a bill legalizing
abortion in France. The French Senate would ratify the bill on December 1, "making France the first nation of Latin and Catholic background to legalize abortion."[289][290]
U.S. President Ford pardoned 8 men convicted of resistance to the
Vietnam War and granted conditional clemency to 10 others. Most of the men had been in prison for refusal to enter military service.[291]
The National Guard of El Salvador invaded the town of La Cayetanan, near
Tecoluca in the
San Vicente Department, then rounded up and executed six peasants who were members of the Federation of Christian Peasants of El Salvador (FECCAS), and arrested another 13 who were not seen again.[292]
General
Peng Dehuai, 76, Chinese military leader, former Minister of National Defense for the
People's Republic of China (1954 to 1959), died in a prison in
Beijing, where he had been imprisoned during the 1966 Cultural Revolution.[294]
During a preliminary race for the following day's
Macau Grand Prix, West German driver
Dieter Glemser lost control of his car, which ran into the crowd, killing a child and injuring 6 other people.[302]
U.S. Representative
Wilbur Mills of Ohio, Chairman of the powerful
Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, caused an embarrassing scene when he arrived, intoxicated, at
The Pilgrim Theatre in
Boston, and walked on the stage where his mistress,
Fanne Foxe, was performing as a stripper. The scandal followed an October 7 incident where he and Foxe were stopped by police of the U.S. Park Service while he was drunk. Mills stepped down as the Ways and Means Committee Chairman days later and retired from Congress after choosing not to run for re-election in 1976.[305]
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