1967 had been a fascinating 12 months with many things that it could be commemorated for. 1967 started off on January 1 with Canada opening a year-long party of the 100th anniversary of their Confederation. On January 23 the court case starts for Wilhelm Harster who had been charged with the murder of 82,856 Jews (including the author Anne Frank) as he headed German security forces through the German occupation of the Netherlands. He ended up being in the end sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. The Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed on January 27th after fire starts in the Apollo spacecraft during the launch pad trial. In the southern area of Tasmania, in Australia, major bush fires on February 7 claim 62 lives, and also destroys 2,642.7 sq kms (653,025.4 acres) of land. The United states labor union head Jimmy Hoffa commences his 8-year sentence on March 7 for attempting to bribe a jury. On March 14th, 9 executives of the German pharmaceutical corporation Grunenthal are charged for violating German drug laws because of thalidomide. The actual court case was eventually dropped. On April 14 and 15, there were substantial demonstrations taking place against the Vietnam War in New York along with San Francisco. The coup by a gang of army officers in Greece on April 21st creates a army government that’s led by Georgios Papadopoulos. The dictatorship would not finish right up until 1974. On April 27 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Expo 67, the World’s Fair which coincides along with the Canadian Confederation celebration is formally opened. The Expo closes on October 29th following being attended by over 50 million visitors in the six months it was opened. The boxer Muhammad Ali declines army service on April 28 and is removed of his boxing titles as well as banned from professional fighting for the next 3 years.

There was a whole lot that went on in 1973. The year commenced with the expansion of the European Economic Community with the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland plus Denmark joining on January 1. The European Economic Community down the road turns into the European Union. Peace negotiations carried on from 1972 during the war within Vietnam. On January 15 the US President, Richard Nixon announces the suspensions of war action within North Vietnam citing progress with the peace negotiations. By March 17, almost all of the remaining US military continue to depart Vietnam. On January 22nd, the boxer George Foreman overcame Joe Frazier in one of the all-time classic battles to get the heavyweight world boxing championship. In the Chinese province of Sichuan on February 6th, a 7.6 quake kills 2200 individuals and injuring 2700 people. On April 1 the UK starts the Value Added Tax (VAT) in to the tax system.

The year of 1970 was a fascinating year for a variety of reasons. Perhaps it is most memorable because of the wide variety of calamities which occurred, several big and several small. Initially on January 5th these was a 7.1 magnitude Tonghai quake which affected Tonghai County, within the Yunnan province in China, having an approximated 10,000 and 15,000 people killed and over 26,000 injured. On February 1 the Benavídez railway catastrophe close to Buenos Aires in Argentina occured with the derailing of a train killed 236 individuals. An avalanche at Val-d’Isère in France on February 10 killed 41 travellers to the vicinity. On April 11 one more avalanche above a TB respite hospital in the French Alps killed 74 individuals, many of them being adolescent boys. On March 4, the France sub Eurydice imploded whilst undertaking a training dive in the Mediterranean Sea killing all on board. In Osakain Japan on April 8th, a natural gas explosion at a metro construction site killed 79 people and injured over 400. On May 31st a 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Ancash, in Peru accompanied by a landslide buried the town of Yungay. It was determined that in between 66,000 and 70,000 individuals were killed. On July 3 all 112 individuals on board Dan-Air Flight 1903 were killed when the British De Havilland Comet plane crashes into mountain tops north of Barcelona in Spain. Yet another crash on July 5th occurred with Air Canada Flight 621 crashing close to Toronto Airport, Toronto, in Ontario killing all 109 passengers and crew on board. In Melbourne, Australia on October 15th a part of the new West Gate Bridge fell into the river beneath, killing 35 building workers. On October 15 a cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul in Turkey that later develops on October 28th to east Slovakia leading to Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia. On November 13, a 120-mph tropical storm hits the heavily populated Ganges Delta region in East Pakistan (in what is currently known as Bangladesh), kills an estimated 500,000 individuals which makes it the 20th century’s most severe cyclone disasters. On December 12th there had been a landslide in western Colombia which left 200 people dead.

There had been plenty of interesting things that came about in the year of 1972, and not really all of them were of any great historic importance but were of interest. The year had been selected ae The International Year of the Book by the United Nations. At the beginning of 1972 Kurt Waldheim, a politician and diplomat from Austria, starts as the Secretary-General of the U. N.. He remains in the job until 1981. There was a calamity in New Delhi in India on January 21 when a bootlegger distributed some wood alcohol for a marriage party and a one hundred of them die from getting poisoned. On the 24 January, a Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam in which he’d spent twenty-eight years concealed in the rainforest after he failed to surrender after World War 2 as he had not been prepared to affirm that Japan had given up. Later in Japan Shoichi turn out to be a popular television personality and an advocate of a uncomplicated living lifestyle. By the end of the month, on the 30th there was Bloody Sunday in which the British Army killed fourteen unarmed nationalist civil rights protestors in Derry, Northern Ireland. This further inflamed tensions between Northern Ireland and the English. The Winter Olympic games come about from February 3rd-13th around Sapporo, Japan. On February 17th, a landmark is achieved by the Volkswagen Beetle as their product sales overtook the ones from the Ford Model Tautomobile when the 15,007,034th VW Beetle was released.

The calendar year of 1966 had been memorable for a number of significant occurrences. Essentially the most noteworthy had been the ongoing warfare in Vietnam along with the continuous protests regarding the war in the USA. The effort of the U.S. with the war had been opposed by a sizeable proportion of the USA people. President Lyndon Johnson promised that the USA must remain in South Vietnam until the Communist hostility there is stopped. In March, the United States announces that it will substantially boost the number of its soldiers in Vietnam. The USSR president, Leonid Brezhnev subsequently demanded that the USA military leave Vietnam. In May, 4500 soldiers from Australia joined the USA effort. During June, the USA raises their airborne bombing effort above cities in North Vietnam. The year additionally introduced a radical alteration of criminal legal requirements in the U.S.. In Miranda v. Arizona the Supreme Court squashed the sentence on June 13th of a confessed rapist, ruling that the 5th Amendment to the Constitution limited the prosecutors by using a person’s statements made in response to interrogation within police custody as evidence in a trial except if they’re able to demonstrate that the individual was advised of the right to consult with an attorney before and throughout the actual interview. It also verified the right towards self-incrimination prior to police questioning, and that the defendant not only comprehended these types of rights, but also under your own accord waived them. Furthermore, in the US in 1966, the USA Department of Transportation was created. In June, Ronald Reagan moved into national politics becoming the governor of California. Reagan eventually served as being the fortieth president of the USA from 1981 to 1989.

The twelve months of 1949 ended up being remembered by a few critical occurrences. The year began with a UN supported cease fire understanding to deliver a conclusion to the Indo-Pakistani conflict that started in 1947. This resulted in a stalemate which divided Kashmir and those sectors as well as tensions still continue on today together with the periodic short quarrels. On January 20th, Harry Truman is sworn in as the President of the US. This is Truman’s second term and the 41st inauguration ceremony. This was the first televised US presidential inauguration and the 1st that had an air parade.