The United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark entered the European Economic Community.
The addition of the UK in particular would have global economic impacts, as it seriously undercut the economic arrangement of the British Commonwealth.
The EEC was the predecessor to the EU, which of course the UK left recently.
I can very dimly recall this news story from when I was a kid.
Exxon came into being with the merger of Standard Oil and Humble Oil.
The Rose Bowl was of course played, with the USC Trojans beating the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Zambia officially became a one party state.
Sergei Kourdakov, age 21, who had been a KGB officer who had been involved in raids on Christian communities, but then converted to Christianity as a result of the reading material he found in them, and then defected to Canada, was found dead from a gunshot wound in a ski resort hotel in Canada. The firearm was his own and the death was ruled accidental, but suspicions remain regarding it.
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