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President Ford takes his first swim at the new White House pool. Reporters are on hand to document.

Ruffian, American champion thoroughbred racehorse, races against Foolish Pleasure, 1975 Kentucky Derby winner, as part of a nationally-televised “Challenge of the Sexes” between the two thoroughbreads. Ruffian fractures his right foreleg in the race and has to be euthanized

Filming begins for new British science fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth in New Mexico, USA. David Bowie, the star, is heavily abusing cocaine at the moment, and the production company compels him to sign a document saying that he will refrain from the drug while shooting

Children on a field trip to the Lenin memorial in Ulyanovsk, Russia.

Hungarian students conscripted for national service head off to camp.

1,434 new cadets arrive at the US Military Academy at West Point to begin their four years as the West Point Class of 1979.

In retaliation for the lynching of Guatemalan landlord José Luis Arenas one month ago today, the Guatemalan Army lands helicopters in the marketplace of Ixcán, seizes 30 civilian men, loads them in the helicopters, and then, to the town’s horror, pushes them out over the jungle.

The state of Alaska registers its highest temperature in history as Juneau reaches 90° (32° C). Even Fairbanks records 86°. In contrast, Miami Beach reaches a high of 89° today.

Roy Jennings Beard, a 57-year-old transient in Portland, Oregon, sets fire to the Pomona Hotel, killing 12 people and injuring 26.

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An earthquake in the ancient city of Bagan, Burma, damages hundreds of 13th-century structures and 80% of the city’s Buddhist temples.

Dictators Idi Amin gives British workers in Uganda an ultimatum: accept a 40% reduction in pay immediately or leave the country within 30 days.

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden visits Queen Elizabeth at Holyroodhouse.

The 1975 IBM International Chess Championship opens in Amsterdam.

London taxi drivers bring traffic to a standstill as they stage a demonstration in demand of higher wages.

A fire erupts at 1,300ft (420m) on the newly-completed CN Tower in Toronto. The fire was caused when a welder’s torch fell into a vat of tar. Four welders are injured.