1st » Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
8th » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
11th » Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
13th » Sydney Hilton bombing known as Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
16th » The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
17th » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army known as Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant bombing or La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
18th » The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu and is won by Gordon Haller.
19th » Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport named Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces
20th » The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.