== Events ==
* Richard M. Nixon resigns as President of the [[United States]] due to scandal.
* The [[Redjac]] entity, inhabiting a [[Human]] host body, kills five women on [[Earth]].
* A [[neutron star]] in a [[binary star system]] located in the [[Kavis Alpha sector]] explodes.
* The "Arecibo message" is transmitted from the Arecibo Observatory to [[wikipedia:Messier 13|Messier 13]]. <br> An interstellar radio message, it carried basic information about [[human]]ity, and [[Earth]]. <br> Meant more as a demonstration of technological achievement at the time, it was broadcast one time, and carried 1,679 bits of data.
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