Pierre E. Trudeau announced that he would step down as Prime Minister of Canada following a 109 to 109 tie between the Liberal Party and the Progressive Conservatives. The New Democrats would have thrown their 30 seats in with the Liberals, which Trudeau knew at the time.
Period banner of the Liberal Party.
The American Indian Movement took over the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. The organization had been formed in 1968.
