The US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine – the US Asian allies must now take care of their own military defense.

The four day long Libyan–Egyptian War ends.

The International Whaling Commission announces a ban on commercial whaling by 1985-86.

King Edward I of England’s army defeat William Wallace’s Scottish army during the Battle of Falkirk.

Israeli Mossad in Norway agents kill a waiter whom they wrongly believed was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.

Falun Gong is banned in China.

The 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics are opened in Finland.

Nadia Comaneci is the first athlete in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.

In Papua New Guinea, a tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages and kills an estimated 3000 people.

The Coronation of Richard II of England.