Two passenger trains collided head on near Munich, West Germany, killing 38 people.
It would land on Venus on October 22 at 13:12 Venus solar time (0513 UTC) and transmit data for 53 minutes.
The Venera 9 space probe was launched by the Soviet Union to explore the planet Venus.
Born: Allen Iverson, American NBA player, 2001 MVP, 4-time scoring leader, 3-time steals leader in Hampton, Virginia.
All of the votes were by members of the ruling Nea Dimokratia (New Democracy) party, as members of the other parties boycotted the vote in protest over the power given to the President.
A new constitution was adopted for Greece by a 208-0 vote in the Vouli ton Ellinon, the 300 member Greek Parliament, formally replacing the monarchy with a republic.
General Paul Strehlin, former French Air Force Chief of Staff, was run over by a bus in Paris, hours after being revealed to have secretly been on the payroll of the Northrop aircraft manufacturing company.
Died: Larry Blyden, 49, American game show host of What's My Line?, was killed in an auto accident in Morocco.
Remling was re-captured two days later in Leslie, Michigan.
A helicopter landed inside the grounds of the Southern Michigan Prison at Jackson at 11:05 am, picked up long time inmate Dale Remling, and departed again.
Died: Paul Keres, 59, Estonian chess grandmaster.
In the first yes-or-no referendum ever held in the United Kingdom, the electorate voted to stay in the European Community by a margin of 17,378,581 to 8,470,073.
Because there were still mines left in the waters from 1967, the American guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock made the first transit, sailing from Port Said, where Egypt's President Sadat oversaw the celebration, to Ismailia.
The Suez Canal opened for the first time since the Six-Day War eight years earlier.
Russell Brand, English comedian and actor, in Grays.
Julian Marley, Jamaican reggae musician, in London.
Angelina Jolie, American film actress, as Angelina Joline Voight, in Los Angeles.
Israel completed its promise to withdraw half of its occupying troops from Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
Ozzie Nelson, 69, American actor best known for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Eisaku SatÅ, 74, Prime Minister of Japan 1964-72, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.
Uganda's President Idi Amin declared the nationalization of all land within the boundaries of Uganda.
Sultan Alimirah Hanfere, leader of Ethiopia's Afar people and of the Afar Liberation Front, declared war on the Ethiopian government.
The new rules ended separate phys ed classes for boys and girls, and prohibited schools from excluding pregnant students from the classroom.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
New federal regulations, set to go into effect on July 21, were sent to Congress by the U.S.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that Israel would remove tanks, troops and weapons from the Suez Canal as a peace gesture to Egypt.
President were seen again and again, giving Ford a reputation for being clumsy, both physically and in his handling of the presidency. Ford arrived in Salzburg, Austria for a meeting with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, and slipped and fell on the stairway while descending from Air Force One.