The House Un-American Activities Committee was disbanded by the U.S. House of Representatives.
It's roots went back to 1918 and it had investigated a wide range of Communist activities in the US dating back to that time. Often missed, quite a few figures that the committee investigated unsuccessfully prior to World War Two would be again after the war. Many of those whom it suspected of Communist activity would, in fact, prove to have done just that, in spite of the reputation of the committee being tarnished during the McCarthy Era.
It's demise after the Watergate and the Vietnam War was inevitable, but it had a much better track record than is popularly recalled.
Henry Kissinger announced that the Soviet Union was rescinding its agreement to a trade deal with the United States following enactment of the Jackson–Vanik amendment to the Trade Act of 1974.
The Convention on Registration of Launched Objects into Outer Space was signed in New York. It requires the signatories to inform the United Nations of things that are launched into space.
U.S. Vice-President Rockefeller was appointed to head a committee to investigate domestic espionage by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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