| 1974 | The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. |
| 1974 | M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England.
Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed. |
| 1975 | Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. |
| 1976 | In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000. |
| 1977 | A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history. |
| 1992 | A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez. |
| 1997 | En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73. |
| 1997 | The Bojnurd earthquake measuring Mw 6.5 strikes Iran.
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