The United Kingdom became an oil producing nation as the first oil was produced in the North Sea's Argyll field.
The U.S House of Representatives voted 209 to 187 to reject President Ford's proposal for a .23 per gallon federal fuel tax Ford saw as a way of ending US dependency on imported oil by 1985.
Alice Olson, the widow of Frank Olson, learned for the first time that her husband had been the subject of secret CIA experiments with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of the illegal clandestine program MKUltra. Olson had leaped to his death in 1953. The CIA was hoping to find drugs that could be used for interrogation purposes.
Vietnam sent an order to all "puppet soldiers" of Army of the Republic of Vietnam to attend three days of "re-education" (hoc tap), and for former officers to bring supplies for one month of training. Most officers who reported were held for more than one month.
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