| 1967 | Iberia Flight 062 crashes in Blackdown, West Sussex, killing all 37 people on board including British actress June Thorburn. |
| 1970 | Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam. |
| 1970 | Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. |
| 1973 | The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis.
Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters. |
| 1979 | Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages. |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter. |
| 1993 | China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport. |
| 1995 | Israel-Palestinian c
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