The Greek New Democracy Party won the first Greek parliamentary election since 1964 and the first since the fall of the Greek military junta.
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President Ford launched his "Whip Inflation Now" (WIN) campaign.
There are some very serious lessons from The Great Inflation that have been largely forgotten, not the least of which is that running the massive deficits we currently are inevitably will feed into an inflationary cycle. Neither party, nor the American public in general, have any fiscal restraint.
The campaign was a failure. High inflation would persist until the Reagan administration intentionally through the economy into a recession, which cured it.
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The Franklin National Bank on Long Island failed, the largest bank failure in U.S. History.
Baja California Sur as its 30th state and Quintana Roo were added as the 30th and 31st Mexican states.
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President Ford issued a conditional amnesty to American draft evaders and military deserters provided that they agree to work for 24 months in alternative service.
In my view, this was a mistake.
President Carter would compound the mistake in 1977 by issuing a general pardon to most evaders, but not deserters.
None of this should have been granted. People died in the place of those who deserted and evaded. If a person had a genuine objection, and more than a few did, the honorable thing would have been to refuse to serve and to take the consequences. Muhammed Ali provides an example of this, as does Walt Whitman from an earlier era.
The legacy of the Vietnam War in this regard continues to haunt us. The same generation that reviled their parents, went on to brand their parents "the Greatest Generation", and never made peace with the largescale evadence of the call of duty. Examples of course, abound, including Donald Trump, who was excused priority in the draft due to shin splints, and Joe Biden, who had multiple deferments including health related ones.
The first female Royal Canadian Mounted Police began training.
The Provisional IRA assassinated Martin McBirney QC, 56, and Rory Conaghan, 54, both judges in Northern Ireland.
Argentinian terrorist set off fifty bombs, killing four people.
The Bay Area Underwater Rapid Transit Tube, the first tunnel underneath the San Francisco Bay, opened to the public.
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Portugal recognized the independence of its former colony, Portugese Guinea, which had become the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
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Portugal and FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) recognized independence for Mozambique, with it to formally occur on June 25, 1975. The negotiations took place in Zambia.
FRELIMO, a far left wing political party that was formally Communist, has governed the country continually since that time. It has evolved into a democratic socialist party.
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The United States established diplomatic relations with East Germany.
Gen. Creighton Abrams, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, died at age 59 due to complications following a lung removal surgery. He was a heavy cigar smoker.
All three sons of the general and his wife became Army general officers and all three daughters married Army officers. Raised as a Methodist, he converted to Catholicism in Vietnam.
President Ford appointed George H. W. Bush to be the Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China.
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Time captioned its cover "The Healing Begins.
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South Korean, Japanese born, North Korean sympathizer, Mun Se-gwang attempted to assassinate South Korea's President Park Chung Hee but instead killed Yuk Young-soo, age 48, Park's wife.
After the shooting and Mun's arrest, President Park resumed his address, which hardly seems appropriate.
Park composed the following poem in her honor:
Like a Long Magnolia Blossom Bending to the Wind
Under heavy silence
Of a house in mourning
Only the cry of cicadas
Maam, maam, maam
Seem to long for you who is now gone
Under the August sun
The Indian Lilacs turn crimson
As if trying to heal the wounds of the mind
My wife has departed alone
Only I am left
Like a lone magnolia blossom bending to the wind
Where can I appeal
The sadness of a broken heart
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Turkey invaded Cyprus again, taking 37% of the country, establishing a republic recognized only by it, and dividing the capital Nicosia.
Greece withdrew from NATO"s military command structure as a result of the invasion. The Greek Cypriot paramilitary group EOKAB took Tochni and by the end of the day had murdered numerous people.
The Greek culture on Cyprus goes back to antiquity, although the island was never ruled by Greece. The Turkish presence to 1571 when the Ottomans took the island and began to partially settle it. The troubles of the 1970s, which have lasted to this day, were started by the Greek nationalist military junta, giving another example of the disastrous effects of Greek overreach in regard to Turkey.
The East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front (EAAJAF) attempted to assassinate the Emperor Hirohito with a railroad bomb, but was the plot was discovered and disrupted. The terrorist group was Japanese, in spite of its name, but was in reaction to the Japanese history of aggression, as well as having a far left ideology.
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