27 June – Djibouti receives its independence from France.
10 September – Murderer Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world.
7 December – Launch of the Simca Horizon, a five-door medium-sized hatchback which will also be built in Britain as a Chrysler and the US as a Plymouth and Dodge. It replaces the Simca 1100 in France, and runs alongside the Chrysler Avenger saloon and estate in Britain.[1]
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