American musician Herbie Hancock releases his 14th album, Thrust.

Frank W. Buxton, editor of the Boston Herald from 1922 to 1961, dies in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 90.

Teenagers Brooks Bracewell (12) and Georgia Caroline Geer (14) are kidnapped from a UtoteM convenience store off Interstate 45 in Texas.

On approach to Brandi Airport, Indonesia, a Garuda Indonesia Airways Fokker F27 Friendship strikes a building and crashes, killing 33 of the 36 people on board.

Portugal signs an accord in Lusaka, Zambia, that guarantees independence to its African colonies no later than December 1975.

Finnish President Urho Kekkonen flies to Moscow and meets with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.

In Atlantic City, New Jersey, 21-year-old Shirley Cothran, Miss Texas, wins the Miss America Pageant.

During an air show at Naval Air Station South Weymouth in Massachusetts, 31-year-old stunt pilot Sharonw Leithoff is killed in the crash of her biplane in front of a crowd of 100,000 people.

Devlin, an animated television series based on the life and exploits of daredevil Evel Knievel, premieres on ABC as a promotion for Knievel’s Snake River Canyon jump tomorrow.

Thai Prince Dhani Nivat dies in Bangkok. He was 88.

A bomb explodes aboard TWA Flight 841, a Boeing 707 traveling from Tel Aviv to New York City. The plane plummets into the Ionian Sea and all 88 passengers and crew are killed. The Palestinian Fatah takes responsibility.

An article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reveals that the CIA spent $8 million to influence political parties and media in Chile to destabilize the government of Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a coup on September 11, 1973.

President Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for all crimes that he has committed, or “may have committed” while he was President. This is an unpopular move; a Gallup poll today finds that only 38% of Americans think Nixon should have been pardoned.

Six French climbers and Sherpas are killed in an avalanche while attempting a post-monsoon ascent of Mt. Everest. Among the dead is French mountaineer Gérard Devouassoux. The mountain has now claimed 36 lives.

The far-right National Front holds a demonstration in London. The police break it up and several protestors are trampled.

4,000 people attend an anti-desegregation rally on Boston City Hall Plaza. Senator Ted Kennedy attempts to urge the demonstrators to disperse, but one unplugs his microphone and the rest boo him offstage, throwing tomatoes and eggs, forcing a disheveled Kennedy to retreat.