An energy crisis in the USA prompted President Nixon to initiate daylight saving time four months early.
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Mother Teresa arrived in India to help some of the country's poorest.
The Iraqi Army was formed.
The Sex Pistols punk rock band was fired by EMI for their bad behavior in public.
The Pyrenean ibex went extinct after the last surviving member of the species was killed by a falling branch.
A state of emergency was declared in California after a gas leak.
