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1.2 February

February 9 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
February 10 - Greek poet and writer, Nikos Kavvadias dies from a stroke.
February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.
February 21 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison
February 27 - Movement 2 June kidnaps Peter Lorenz , Christian Democrat Union candidate for mayor of the West Berlin. They demand release of 7 left-wing terrorists within three days. Six of them are released and taken to Yemen. Movement 2 June releases Lorenz in March 4
February 28 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

1.3 March

March 1 - Color television transmissions begin in Australia
March 4 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
March 6 - Algiers Accord - Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
March 6 - A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of the Springer Press . "6 March Group" (connected to Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the "Baader-Meinhof group"
March 7 - the body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, kidnapped seven weeks earlier by the Black Panther is discovered in Staffordshire, England
March 8 - United Nations begin sponsoring the International Women's Day.
March 9 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins
March 10 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout , South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
March 15 - In Brazil, the Estado da Guanabara (State of Guanabara) merges with the state of Rio de Janeiro, under the name state name of Rio de Janeiro. The state's capital moves from the city of Niteroi to the city of Rio de Janeiro.
March 25 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness - killer is beheaded on June 18.

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