Operation End Sweep, the de-mining of North Vietnam's waters by the U.S. Navy, came to an end after having been underway since February.
Carol Tipton became the first woman to graduate from the Toledo police force training cycle as a conventional, rather than separate female, policeman. Female police officers were very rare in the US, and indeed everywhere, until the 1970s.
Nixon canned White House Counsel John Dean and requested the resignations of H.R. Halderman, his Chief of Staff, John Ehrlichman, is domestic affairs advisor, and Richard Kleindienst, his Attorney General. All due tothe Watergate Scandal.
Things were clearly not going well.
May 1:
The British Trade Union Congress called a day long, Labour Day, work stoppage which was honored by 1,600,000 workers in order to protest the government's anti inflation policies.
Japan repaid $175,000,000 in food assistance aid funds which were extended during the post World War Two occupation of the country. The payment was made in one lump sum at the request of the US, which needed the money due to its growing concern over the imbalance in deficit payments.
Sweden's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister accused President Nixon of violating the Paris Peace Accords and of bombing refugees in Cambodia in May Day speeches.
President Nixon announced the suspension of offensive actions in North Vietnam, effective January 27, in anticipation of a successful conclusion of the Paris Peace Talks. Effectively, this was the declaration of an impending ceasefire. The U.S. Navy, however, hit fourteen North Vietnamese bridges on this day.
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France signed a treaty with the Comoro Island guarantying them independence with five years, subject to a referendum approving the same.
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Four Watergate defendants accepted plea bargains. Remember, this was a trial regarding an even that had happened quite recently, showing that justice really did move a lot more swiftly in the pre late Bomber era.
Lê Đức Thọ confronted Henry Kissinger in anger about the Christmas bombings, yelling at Kissinger for more than an hour. Somewhat ironically for a country that was heir to the Viet Minh effort against the French, particularly for a former prisoner of the French, he did so in French.
The Brazilian government kidnapped six left wing opponents of the military regime and murdered them. While it in no way excuses what occurred, at least one of those murdered was a left wing extremist with a long history in left wing movements in South America.
Mexican television networks Telesistema Mexicano and Televisión Independiente de México, merged to create a Televisa.
Operation Linebacker II was halted after a total of eleven days, following the North Vietnamese agreement to return to the negotiating table.
Harry S. Truman died at age 88.
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220 American aircraft hit targets over North Vietnam over a fifteen-minute period. A missile assembly facility together with airbases and radar installations were destroyed.
Truman was the last U.S. President who did not hold a university degree. He had a fairly difficult early life, in no small part due to the economic conditions that prevailed in Missouri and his humble beginnings. His service in World War One, which he entered through the Missouri National Guard and in which he became an officer, started his rise to later office. Indeed, in no small way, the Missouri artilleryman of World War One would not have become President but for that experience.
This set the stage, combined with airstrikes over the next three days, for a return by North Vietnam to the Paris Peace Talks.
The Soviets changed the name of nine cities in Siberia that had been seized by Imperial Russia from China in the 1860. The prior names, the Soviets thought, sounded too Chinese.
