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== Events ==
*January 15 - End of the [[Nigerian Civil War]].
*May - The [[United States Radium Corporation]] becomes defunct.
*May 4 - The [[Kent State shootings]] take place when Ohio National Guard soldiers open fire and kill four people and wound nine others at Kent State University. The shooting was in response to student-lead protests against the expanding involvement of the [[Vietnam War]] into neutral Cambodia by the United States.
*May 19 - [[Richard Nixon]] launches [[Operation Freedom Deal]].
*June - The [[United Fruit Company]] is dissolved after being purchased by Eli M. Black and merged with Black's AMK to form the United Brands Company.
*August 7 - Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and Egyptian President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] sign a ceasefire agreement to end the War of Attrition.
*September 16 - [[Black September]] is founded.
*September 25 - The Houston Mass Murders begin when [[Dean Corll]] kills 18-year old college freshman Jeffrey Konen.
*September 28 - [[Anwar Sadat]] is named President of Egypt following the death of [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]].
*October 9 - [[Lon Nol]] declares the formation of the Khmer Republic.
*October 22 - The Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, René Schneider, is [[Assassination of René Schneider|assassinated]] while traveling in his car to the Defense Ministry by a group of far-right terrorists led by [[Roberto Viaux]] and [[Camilo Valenzuela]], with supposed support from [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Henry Kissinger]].
*December 1 - [[Luis Echeverría]] of [[Institutional Revolutionary Party|PRI]] is elected President of Mexico, succeeding [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]]. 
*December 1 - End of the [[North Yemen Civil War]].
*December 7 -  [[Avanguardia Nazionale]] begins a coup in a bid to install a new government in Italy under [[Junio Valerio Borghese]]. After receiving a telephone call from an unknown person early the next morning, Borghese calls the coup off.
*December 20 - [[Władysław Gomułka]] resigns as First Secretary of the [[Polish United Workers' Party]].
*Unknown - The [[Black Liberation Army]] is founded by disillusioned former members of the Black Panther Party.

== Births ==

=== Villain births ===
*January 2 - [[Robert John Bardo]]
*January 20 - [[Mark Wayne Rathbun]]
*February 11 - [[William Devin Howell]]
*March 5 - [[Aleksandar Vučić]]
*April 10 - [[Robert Gleason]]
*April 18 - [[Yoo Young-chul]]
*April 30 - [[Hiroshi Miyano]]
*May 4 - [[Karla Homolka]]
*May 17 - [[Tsui Po-ko]]
*May 23 - [[Yigal Amir]]
*June 8 - [[Kwame Kilpatrick]]
*July 17 - [[Gavin McInnes]]
*July 18 - [[Jonathan Schmitz]]
*July 24 - [[Stephanie Adams]]
*August 5 - [[Michael Drejka]]
*August 11 - [[Paul Durousseau]]
*September 5 - [[Santiago Cúneo]]
*September 8 - [[Nidal Malik Hassan]]
*October 13 - [[Carl Williams]]
*December 17 - [[Igor Strelkov]]
*December 19 - [[Jennair Gerardot]]
*Unknown - [[Beatrice Munyenyezi]]

=== Victim births ===
*May 8 - Darcie Frackenpohl
*September 15 - Eric Garner
*October 9 - Cary Ann Medlin

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
*June 21 - [[Sukarno]]
*July 27 - [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]
*September 28 - [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]
*October 15 - [[Leonarda Cianciulli]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*September 25 - Jeffrey Konen
*October 22 - René Schneider