I could have sworn we had a thread for this, but it seems to no longer exist, if it ever did at all.

June 20, 1969 - Neil Armstrong became the first to walk on the moon.

I just realized this was the wrong board.  :-[ Even worse, it won't let me delete it. Please disregard.

Don't worry, in 6 1/2 months, "50 years ago" will start pointing to the 1970s, so the old thread will be locked and we can continue with this one.

And by the way, it was July 20th, not June 20th, when Neil Armstrong made his historic moonwalk. You're off by one month.

Now we can start using this thread actively.

January 1, 1970, was the defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.

January 5th 1970: An earthquake registering Mw 7.1 struck Tonghai County in southern China, killing at least 10,000 people and eventually spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.

January 12th 1970 - Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage.

January 13th 1970, Steel Mill, (featuring Bruce Springsteen) played at The Matrix in San Francisco, California. Boz Scaggs was the scheduled headliner but he cancelled at that last minute due to illness. Rock critic Philip Elwood, who turned up intending to review Scaggs ended up writing a highly favorable review of Steel Mill for The San Francisco Examiner.

January 14th 1970 - A display of John Lennon's erotic "Bag One" lithographs opened in London. 2 days later Scotland Yard seized prints as evidence of pornography.

January 16th 1970 - Buckminster Fuller, the designer of the geodesic dome, was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.

January 16th 1970 - Colonel Muammar al-Quaddafi became virtual president of Libya.

January 21st 1970 - The Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight from New York to London for Pan American.

January 22nd 1970, Steel Mill, (featuring Bruce Springsteen) opened for The Elvin Bishop Band at The Matrix in San Francisco, California. Steel Mill were paid only $5 for the gig, The Elvin Bishop Band received $90 as headliner.

February 13, 1970 - Black Sabbath releases its self-titled debut album. Featuring such classics as "N.I.B.," "The Wizard," and the tritone-heavy title track, it birthed heavy metal as we know it.

February 13, 1970 - Black Sabbath releases its self-titled debut album. Featuring such classics as "N.I.B.," "The Wizard," and the tritone-heavy title track, it birthed heavy metal as we know it.
...released on a Friday,  Friday the 13th.

February 13th 1970 - National League offices begin move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed February 23).

February 18th 1970 - The Chicago Seven defendants were found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.

February 18th 1970 - US President Richard Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine".

February 27th 1970 - New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance.

March 5th 1970 - Three SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th Steet in New York City, New York.

March 5th 1970 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it.

March 5th 1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.

March 10th 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.

March 11th 1970, Deja Vu, the first album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, (and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash), was released. It topped the pop album chart for one week and spawned three US Top 40 singles: 'Teach Your Children', 'Our House', and 'Woodstock'.

March 12th 1970, James Browns backing band The J.B.'s were formed after most of the members of his previous band walked out on him over a pay dispute. The J.B.'s initial lineup included bassist William "Bootsy" Collins and his guitarist brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins, formerly of the obscure funk band The Pacemakers.

March 15th 1970 - The musical "Purlie" opened on Broadway in New York City.

March 17th 1970 - The U.S. Army charged 14 officers with suppression of facts in the My Lai massacre case.

March 18th 1970 - The NFL selected Wilson to be the official football and scoreboard as official time.

March 26th 1970, Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary pleaded guilty to 'taking immoral liberties' with a 14 year old girl in Washington D.C. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months in jail. Just days earlier, the trio had won a Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children for their album, 'Peter, Paul and Mommy'.

March 26th 1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945.

March 26th 1970 – South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy

March 30th 1970 - USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship.

March 31st 1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit

March 31st 1970 - The U.S. forces in Vietnam down a MIG-21, it was the first since September 1968.

April 1st 1970: U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon general be placed on cigarette packages.

April 1st 1970, 50 musicians recorded the orchestral scores for The Beatles tracks 'The Long And Winding Road' and 'Across The Universe' for the Phil Spector produced sessions. The bill for the 50 musicians was £1,126 and 5 shillings, ($1.914).

April 1st 1970 - The U.S. Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in the My Lai massacre.

April 2nd 1970 - The 52nd Annual New York Automobile Show is held in New York, USA. Chevrolet unveils the experimental transverse mid-engined XP-882 Corvette prototype. Ford shows its Pantera, and American Motors shows its AMX/3, both mid-engine prototypes.

April 4th 1970, Brinsley Schwarz's promotion company sent 133 UK journalists, by plane to New York to see the band supporting Van Morrison at the Fillmore East, at a cost of £120,000 ($204,000). The event turned into a disaster. The group planned to leave a few days before the show to rehearse, but were denied visas on a technicality. They were finally given visas on the morning of the show, and arrived hours before the concert. The plane carrying the journalists developed a mechanical fault, delaying the flight and when the journalists arrived In New York 18 hours later, they were all hung over. Brinsley Schwarz gave a underwhelming live performance, resulting in a flood of scathing reviews.

April 7th 1970 - 42nd Academy Awards - Midnight Cowboy, Maggie Smith and John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in "True Grit." He had been in over 200 films.

April 7th 1970, On this week's US Top 5 singles chart; No.5, 'Bridge Over Trouble Water' by Simon and Garfunkel, No.4, 'Spirit In The Sky', Norman Greenbaum', No.3, 'Instant Karma!' by John Lennon, No.2, 'ABC' The Jackson Five and at No.1, 'Let It Be', The Beatles.

April 8th 1970 - US Senate rejects President Richard Nixon's nomination of Carswell to the Supreme Court.

April 10th 1970, Doors singer Jim Morrison was dragged off stage by keyboardist Ray Manzarek during a concert in Boston, after Morrison asked the audience, 'Would you like to see my genitals?'. Theater management quickly switched off the power. Morrison had been arrested in Miami a year earlier for "lewd and lascivious behavior" during a performance.

April 10th 1970, 27 year-old Paul McCartney issued a press statement, announcing that The Beatles had split, (one week before the release of his solo album). McCartney said, "I have no future plans to record or appear with The Beatles again, or to write any music with John". John Lennon, who had kept his much-earlier decision to leave The Beatles quiet for the sake of the others, was furious. When a reporter called Lennon to comment upon McCartney's resignation, Lennon said, "Paul hasn't left. I sacked him."

April 10th 1970, 27 year-old Paul McCartney issued a press statement, announcing that The Beatles had split, (one week before the release of his solo album). McCartney said, "I have no future plans to record or appear with The Beatles again, or to write any music with John". John Lennon, who had kept his much-earlier decision to leave The Beatles quiet for the sake of the others, was furious. When a reporter called Lennon to comment upon McCartney's resignation, Lennon said, "Paul hasn't left. I sacked him."

A somewhat dismal day in pop music history, that's for sure. I was just realising this.

A somewhat dismal day in pop music history, that's for sure. I was just realising this.


My God, I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember the photo they used in the newspaper and everything. Newspapers being pretty much our primary source of news back then.

April 10th 1970, 27 year-old Paul McCartney issued a press statement, announcing that The Beatles had split, (one week before the release of his solo album). McCartney said, "I have no future plans to record or appear with The Beatles again, or to write any music with John". John Lennon, who had kept his much-earlier decision to leave The Beatles quiet for the sake of the others, was furious. When a reporter called Lennon to comment upon McCartney's resignation, Lennon said, "Paul hasn't left. I sacked him."



A somewhat dismal day in pop music history, that's for sure. I was just realising this.


A dismal day indeed  :(


My God, I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember the photo they used in the newspaper and everything. Newspapers being pretty much our primary source of news back then.


I don't recall the newspaper photo, but I'm sure I saw it at the time.

And today marks the 50th anniversary of the launching of Apollo 13, which was ultimately aborted due to an oxygen tank failure.

And today marks the 50th anniversary of the launching of Apollo 13, which was ultimately aborted due to an oxygen tank failure.


A "successful" failure, if there ever was one!  :)  I like the movie, too.

My God, I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember the photo they used in the newspaper and everything. Newspapers being pretty much our primary source of news back then.
I think I can recall a b/w photo with Paul  in the foreground holding his hand out the camera.

Now that is my homework for the day, find that photo online.

A dismal day indeed  :(

I don't recall the newspaper photo, but I'm sure I saw it at the time.

I think I can recall a b/w photo with Paul  in the foreground holding his hand out the camera.

Now that is my homework for the day, find that photo online.
So far, I cannot find the photgraph I was looking for, but have found the front page of the Daily Mirror printed telling the announcement of the split in The Beatles.

https://www.beatlesbible.com/wp/media/daily-mirror-paul-quits-the-beatles_01-438x580.jpg

April 12th 1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.

April 12th 1970 - New York Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio.

So far, I cannot find the photgraph I was looking for, but have found the front page of the Daily Mirror printed telling the announcement of the split in The Beatles.



Great find! The one I remember (I think) was of an annoyed looking bearded Paul leaving some official place after "filing a writ" to "dissolve" the Beatles. I remember I had to look up what a "writ" was.  ???

And today marks the 50th anniversary of the launching of Apollo 13, which was ultimately aborted due to an oxygen tank failure.

A "successful" failure, if there ever was one!  :)  I like the movie, too.
April 13th 1970 - Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to the Moon.

April 16th 1970, The Led Zeppelin single 'Whole Lotta Love' was certified Gold in the US after selling over a million copies. The single peaked at No. 4 on the US singles chart. In the UK Atlantic Records had expected to issue the edited version themselves, and pressed initial copies for release on 5th December 1969. However, band manager Peter Grant was adamant that the band maintain a 'no-singles' approach to marketing their recorded music in the UK, and he halted the release.

April 17th 1970, While performing at the White House at the invitation of President Richard Nixon, Johnny Cash was asked to perform "Okie From Muskogee". Cash declined because it was not his song, but had been a hit for Merle Haggard. Instead, Cash sang his No.1 hit, 'A Boy Named Sue'.

April 17th 1970 - Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely after an on-board accident with an oxygen tank.

April 17th 1970, Santana began sessions for what would be their breakthrough album Abraxas at Wally Heider Recording Studio, San Francisco, California. When released in September of this year, Abraxas peaked at No.1 on the US chart.

April 18th 1970, Steel Mill, (featuring Bruce Springsteen) played in the Main Gym at Ocean County College in New Jersey. Tickets cost $2.00.

April 21st 1970, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spooky Tooth, Jackie Lomax, Elton John (making his solo concert debut) and Heavy Jelly all appeared at The Roundhouse, London, tickets cost 25 shillings.

April 21st 1970 - Sportscaster Curt Gowdy receives the George Foster Peabody Award for achievement in radio and television, the first sports broadcaster to receive the honor.

April 22nd 1970 - First “Earth Day” held internationally to conserve natural resources; largest single protest in American history.

April 22nd 1970 - First “Earth Day” held internationally to conserve natural resources; largest single protest in American history.

O0

Happy Earth Day! :)

The Google homepage even honored it today.

April 22nd 1970 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller signs into law a package of revenue aids for New York City, including off-track betting.

April 24th 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.

April 24th 1970 - The People's Republic of China launched its first satellite.

April 28th 1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

April 30th 1970, Twiggs Lyndon, the road manager for The Allman Brothers Band was arrested for murder after he stabbed a club manager during an argument over a contract. At the ensuing trial, Lyndon's lawyers argued that he had been temporarily insane at the time of the incident and that touring with the Allman Brothers would drive anyone insane. Lyndon was acquitted.

May 8th 1970 - Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City's Wall Street.

Also May 8, 1970 - The Beatles release their "final" album, Let It Be. Although recorded before Abbey Road, the Fab Four were dissatisfied with the Let It Be and hired Phil Spector to fix it up. In the meantime, they released Abbey Road.

Let It Be also had an accompanying documentary film. From these sessions spawned the legendary rooftop performance.

May 11th 1970, The triple soundtrack album Woodstock was released in the US, going gold within two weeks. The album featured tracks by; Canned Heat, Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Santana and others. The couple on the album cover are Bobbi Kelly and Nick Ercoline.

May 12th 1970 - Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on the US Supreme Court.

May 12th 1970 - Ernie Banks, of the Chicago Cubs, hit his 500th home run.

May 13th 1970, The world premiere of The Beatles film 'Let It Be' took place in New York City. The film which was originally planned as a television documentary features an unannounced rooftop concert by the group, their last performance in public. Released just after the album, it was the final original Beatles release.

May 14th 1970 – Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of The Red Army Faction.

May 15th 1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army generals.

May 15th 1970 - South Africa excluded from the Olympics.

May 21st 1970: Willi Stoph, the head of government of East Germany, became the first East German leader to travel to West Germany.

May 25th 1970 - Boeing Computer Services was founded.

May 26th 1970 - The final episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired.

May 26th 1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.

May 31st 1970: The 7.9 Mw  Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794–70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.

June 3rd 1970, The Kinks Ray Davies was forced to make a 6,000 mile round trip from New York to London to record one word in a song. Davies had to change the word 'Coca- Cola' to 'Cherry Cola' on the band's forthcoming single 'Lola' due to an advertising ban at BBC Radio.

June 3rd 1970, Deep Purple released their fourth studio album 'Deep Purple In Rock'. This was the first album to feature the classic Mk II lineup of - Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.

June 6th 1970: Two masterpiece paintings, Paul Gauguin's "A Still Life of Apples and Grapes" and Pierre Bonnard's Les Deux Sauteuils ("The Two Chairs"), were stolen from the North London home of a British philanthropist Mathilda Marks-Kennedy, Sir Mark Kennedy, creating a mystery that would remain unsolved for the next 43 years. Sold for US$25 at a police auction in Turin in 1975 after being abandoned by the burglars in a railway station, the paintings would be found in 2014 in the home of an Italian auto worker who was unaware of their value. In 1970, the Gauguin was valued at £120,000 (US$228,000) and the Bonnard at £35,000 (US$84,000).

June 7th 1970: Rock music was performed for the first time at "The Met", New York's Metropolitan Opera House, when The Who performed their rock opera, Tommy.

June 13th 1970: "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

June 21st 1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.

June 21st 1970 - Brazil won the last Jules Rimet Trophy (world) football championship beating Italy 4-1.

June 21st 1970 - Tony Jacklin became the second British golfer in 50 years to win the U.S. Open golf tournament.

June 22nd 1970, Led Zeppelin appeared at Laugardalsholl Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland on the group's one and only visit to Iceland. It is suggested that Robert Plant was inspired to write the lyrics to 'Immigrant Song' during this trip."

June 23rd 1970 -  "The Red Skelton Show" last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV

June 24th 1970 - The movie "Myra Breckinridge" premiered at the Criterion Theater in New York.

June 25th 1970 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.

July 16th 1970, Pink Floyd recorded a show at the BBC Paris Cinema, in London, England for broadcast on the John Peel Sunday Concert, on BBC Radio 1 (broadcast 19 July of this year.)

July 21st 1970: Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed, opens for service.

July 25th 1970:

The U.S. Navy postponed its first ever submarine launch of the multiple-warhead Poseidon missile, the day after a Soviet Russian fishing trawler came within 200 yards (180 m) of the American sub USS James Madison during a trial run. The encounter came in international waters 30 miles (48 km) east of Florida; the "fishing boat" was believed by the U.S. to have electronic equipment used to gather data on the submarine and the new missile.
Emilio Colombo was asked by Italy's President Giuseppe Saragat to form a new government, after the failure of Giulio Andreotti to create a coalition that would include the same four parties that had been in Mariano Rumor's government. Colombo, Italy's Minister of the Treasury for the past seven years, would form a cabinet of ministers from his own liberal Christian Democrat party and other parties on the right and left.

July 26th 1970, Jimi Hendrix played in his hometown of Seattle for the last time when he appeared at Sicks Stadium.

August 15th 1970 - Mrs. Pat Palinkas became the first woman to play in a pro football game when she held the ball for the Orlando, FL, Panthers.

August 16th 1970, The final day of the three day UK Yorkshire Folk, Blues & Jazz Festival at Krumlin, Yorkshire took place featuring The Kinks, Mungo Jerry, Yes, Ginger Bakers Air Force and Edgar Winter. Weekend tickets, £3.

August 23rd 1970: Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike — the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history — begins.

August 24th 1970: Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.

August 26th 1970: The 50th anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.

September 1st 1970 - The last episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV. The show premiered on September 18, 1965.

September 5th 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.

September 6th 1970, Jimi Hendrix made his final live appearance when he appeared at the Isle Of Fehmarn in Germany. The guitarist died 12 days later on 18th Sept 1970 after choking on his own vomit.

September 13th 1970: The first New York City Marathon was staged. While it would become second only to the Boston Marathon as the most famous U.S. long distance running race, the first run was described by wire services as a city Department of Recreation event where "Central Park joggers will get their chance for glory". With 126 men and women running, the first 26.219 miles (42.195 km) race consisted of a little more than four laps around New York's Central Park's walking paths and was won by Gary Muhrcke, an FDNY fireman. The race is now routed through the streets of all five boroughs of the city and attracts more than 30,000 runners every year.

September 18th 1970 - Jimi Hendrix was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in London at the age of 27 after choking on his own vomit. Hendrix left the message 'I need help bad man', on his managers answer phone earlier that night. Rumors and conspiracy theories grew up around Hendrix’s death. Eric Burdon claimed Jimi had committed suicide, but that’s contradicted by reports that he was in a good frame of mind. In 2009, a former Animals roadie published a book claiming that Jimi’s manager had admitted to him that he arranged the murder of Hendrix, since the guitarist wanted out of his contract.

September 19th 1970 - Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.

September 19th 1970 - Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.


Technically, the first Glastonbury festival in 1970 was called the "Pilton Festival' and admission was £1. Performers included Tyrannosaurus Rex (shortly before they became T. Rex),  Steamhammer, Quintessence, Stackridge, Al Stewart and Keith Christmas and was attended by 1500 people. The 1971 Festival was called Glastonbury Fair (or Fayre) and featured David Bowie, Joan Baez, Traffic, Fairport Convention, Gong, Hawkwind,  and Melanie, among others. David Bowie appeared onstage at 5 AM. An estimated 12,000 people showed up and admission was free.  A movie was made of that one. There wasn't another Glastonbury Festival until 1979 which featured Peter Gabriel, Steve Hillage, Alex Harvey Band, Sky and the Footsbarn Theatre. Attendance was again 12,000 and tickets were £5. Later on it would go on to be a much larger event, but the first two were smallish hippie gatherings.

Bowie arriving at Glastonbury Fayre 1971:

http://i0.wp.com/www.bowiebible.com/wp-content/media/7106-glastonbury_03.jpg?w=241&h=467&ssl=1

September 24th 1970 - Jordan's new prime minister, General Mohammad Daoud Al-Abbasi, resigned along with the rest of his cabinet after only nine days in office.

October 5th 1970 – The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of the FLQ, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.

October 5th 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.

October 8th 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.

October 12th 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.

October 16th 1970 - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.

November 3rd 1970 - In U.S. midterm elections, California governor Ronald Reagan (R) is reelected.

November 4th 1970: Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.

November 9th 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

November 10th 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

November 17th 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.

November 18th 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.

November 26th 1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.

December 10th 1970 - A nationwide strike of United States railroad workers began at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, while the U.S. Senate was meeting after midnight in order to join the House of Representatives in approving legislation to halt the walkout. The Senate approved the House bill by voice vote, and President Richard M. Nixon then signed it into law at 2:30 in the morning. By evening, the walkout was called off by order of United Transportation Union president C. L. Dennis, who was complying with a federal court order to enforce the legislation.

December 14th 1970:

U.S. President Nixon announced that former Texas Governor John B. Connally, who had switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, would be the new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, replacing David M. Kennedy.
Singer-songwriter Beth Orton was born, in England.

December 15th 1970 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

December 23rd 1970: The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.

Also on that day, The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world (at the time).

Who would have thought that three decades later it would get toppled? :\'( :\'(

December 26th 1970: The prototype of China's lightweight supersonic fighter, the Nanchang J-12, made its first flight. The aircraft, designed by Lu Xiaopeng, would be tested for three years but never put into service.

January 1st 1971 - Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.

January 2nd

66 people died and 140 were injured at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow. A crush developed on a staircase as fans exited the football ground.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/B0cJMZS3B1/Fiveboys

January 8th 1971: The New Andy Griffith Show, a situation comedy unrelated to the popular sitcom about the fictional town of Mayberry, premiered on CBS at 8:30 as comedian Andy Griffith's second attempt to reprise his earlier TV success.

January 12th 1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.

January 14th 1971 - Brazil released 70 political prisoners shortly after midnight and flew them to Santiago, Chile, in order to secure the release of Switzerland's Ambassador to Brazil.

January 12th 1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.

Also on that day, the TV sitcom All In The Family premiered on CBS.

January 16th 1971 - The 1971 Five Nations Championship in rugby union began between England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In the opening games, Wales beat England, 22-6 at Cardiff, and France beat visiting Scotland, 13-8, at Colombes. (Wales was the only team to win more than one game, winning all four of its matches during the round robin, ending with its 9-5 win at France on March 27.)

January 22nd 1971 - The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.

January 25th 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.

January 27th 1971, David Bowie arrived in the US for the first time; he couldn't play live because of work permit restrictions, but attracted publicity when he wore a dress at a promotion event.

January 27th 1971, David Bowie arrived in the US for the first time; he couldn't play live because of work permit restrictions, but attracted publicity when he wore a dress at a promotion event.

Wow! :o :o Sounds like something that would definitely catch one's eye.

January 31st 1971: Apollo 14 was launched; astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.

February 2nd 1971 - Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.

February 3rd 1971: New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.

February 4th 1971, The British luxury car and jet engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce declared bankruptcy, after sustaining financial losses in developing the engine for the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar jumbo jet under a misjudged price contract agreement.

February 5th 1971, Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.

February 7th 1971: In a referendum in Switzerland, male voters approved giving Swiss women the right to vote in national elections and the right to hold federal office, by a margin of 65.7% to 34.3%.

February 8th 1971, The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.

February 9th 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.

February 9th 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.


On that very same day, a powerful earthquake rocked the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, being centered in Sylmar, although the quake has been referred to as the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake. (San Fernando, which is its own municipality shares a border with Sylmar, which is part of L.A. city.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_San_Fernando_earthquake

My parents, who were both in their teen years at the time, both experienced it.

And here is one more thing that happened 50 years ago today:

Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.

February 11th 1971 – Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.

February 15th 1971: The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.

February 15th 1971: The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
A day I remember well, I was rushing around town in my bike, collecting the new coinage.

A day I remember well, I was rushing around town in my bike, collecting the new coinage.


Splendid! O0

February 19th 1971: The Canada/USSR Agreement on Co-operation in Fisheries in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean off the Coast of Canada, entered into force, allowing fishing vessels of the USSR to conduct fishing with trawls in specified areas between 3 and 12 miles of the territorial sea of Canada.

February 20th 1971 - The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert. :o

February 21st 1971: The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

February 21st 1971: The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.


That sounds like a fun convention. Maybe the Grateful Dead played.  ;D  ;D

That sounds like a fun convention. Maybe the Grateful Dead played.  ;D  ;D

It doesn't say. ;)

Edit: In reading the Wiki article about it, it wasn't a convention having to do with music. In fact, it was a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and psychedelics signed in Vienna, Austria.

It doesn't say. ;)

Edit: In reading the Wiki article about it, it wasn't a convention having to do with music. In fact, it was a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and psychedelics signed in Vienna, Austria.


I know.  ;D  ;D

It doesn't say. ;)

Edit: In reading the Wiki article about it, it wasn't a convention having to do with music. In fact, it was a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and psychedelics signed in Vienna, Austria.
Groovy baby!

February 24th 1971 – The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.

February 26th 1971: U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.

February 27th 1971: Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.

March 6th 1971: Italy sustained the coldest recorded temperatures in its history, with a low of −34.6 °C (−30.3 °F) measured in Plateau Rosa and a snowstorm shutting down Rome and surrounding cities. :o

March 7th 1971: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day - Bangladesh), delivered the famous "7 March Speech" at the infield of the Ramna Race Course at Dhaka, to over two million people, calling on the masses to be prepared to fight against West Pakistan for Bengali independence. The inspirational speech lasted only 18 minutes but was the cornerstone for the Bangladesh Liberation War that began on March 25.

March 8th 1971, The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences, with Frazier winning in 15 rounds.

March 8th 1971, The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences, with Frazier winning in 15 rounds.


Yes, I remember that day. I won a small bet.

The 1971 Bandy World Championship, played on March 14th of that year, was won by the Soviet Union in a tournament that involved the four nations in the world that had a team that played bandy, a game that uses the ball and sticks of field hockey, and the skates and ice of ice hockey. In the final, the Soviets (4-1-0) faced Sweden (4-0-1) and won, 2 goals to 1.

March 20th 1971, James Chichester-Clark resigned as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, after being frustrated at the lack of control allowed to him by the rest of the United Kingdom in troops provided by Great Britain. Chichester-Clark was replaced three days later by Brian Faulkner, who would be the last Northern Ireland Prime Minister before the position was abolished in on March 30, 1972.

March 26th 1971 - East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan as Bangladesh, beginning the Bangladesh Liberation War.

April 2, 1971 - The final episode of Dark Shadows, Episode 1275, aired on ABC. It was the 1,225th episode overall. Bramwell and Catherine try to break the curse of Collinwood.

To this day, only one episode of Dark Shadows is lost, Episode 1219, Bramwell and Daphne's wedding.

April 2, 1971 - The final episode of Dark Shadows, Episode 1275, aired on ABC. It was the 1,225th episode overall. Bramwell and Catherine try to break the curse of Collinwood.

To this day, only one episode of Dark Shadows is lost, Episode 1219, Bramwell and Daphne's wedding.


Yes, I remember the day they aired that final episode. They tied up the final "parallel time" storyline , but none of the others, which was frustrating. In more recent times history would repeat itself when HBO abruptly cancelled it's supernatural "Carnivale" show which I thought was an excellent program. They didn't tie up ANYTHING.

April 10th 1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.

April 12th 1971, Palestinians retreated from Amman to the north of Jordan.

April 17th 1971, The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed.

April 21st 1971 - Prime Minister Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone was inaugurated as the first president of the West African nation as the new constitution was ratified by the parliament.

April 24th 1971 - One of the least successful musicals in Broadway history, Frank Merriwell, or Honor Unchallenged opened at the Longacre Theatre and closed the same evening. The critics' reviews the next day, which both noted that the show had closed after its single performance, and included comments like "the music is the least admirable aspect of a modestly deplorable adventure" and "all too forgettable" and "incredibly silly" and "there is no trace of imagination".

May 12th 1971 - Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St. Tropez Town Hall, divorced in 1978.

May 12th 1971 - Jerry Lee Lewis was granted a divorce from his cousin Myra.

May 13th 1971 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane crashed her Mercedes into a wall near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and was hospitalised.

May 15th 1971, Two weeks after winning the Kentucky Derby, Venezuelan racehorse Canonero II won the Preakness Stakes, setting a record of completing the one and 3/16ths mile race in 1 minute, 54 seconds, and raising the possibility that a horse would win the U.S. triple crown for the first time in more than 20 years.

May 23rd 1971, Jackie Stewart won the Monaco Grand Prix that year.

May 26th 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Sunday, May 30th 1971: Mariner 9 was launched by the U.S. toward Mars at 6:32 p.m. local time from Cape Kennedy, 11 days after the Soviet Union had launched Mars 2. Exactly 24 weeks later, on November 14, it became the first spacecraft from Earth to orbit another planet, when it reached Mars and took photographs, but no attempt to land a probe was made.

May 31st 1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.

May 31st 1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.

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Yep, that's when it officially became an observance.

The same act also made Presidents' Day an official holiday in February.

Saturday, June 5th 1971:

The Six Flags Over Mid-America theme park was opened in St. Louis, Missouri.
American actor, musician, and film producer Mark Wahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sunday, June 6th, 1971: During the Vietnam War, Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.

Friday, June 11th, 1971: The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.

Sunday June 13th 1971: The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.

Friday, June 18th 1971:
The Washington Post independently began its own publication of the "Pentagon Papers" that have been provided to it by Daniel Ellsberg, even though The New York Times had been enjoined from publishing. The Post received a call from William Rehnquist, at the time the head of the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.

Also, my dad graduated from high school.

Monday, June 21st 1971: Golfer Lee Trevino won the U.S. Open in an 18-hole playoff against Jack Nicklaus, after both players had identical scores of 280 the day before. Trevino had 68 and Nicklaus 71 in the 3-stroke win.

Thursday, July 1st 1971: The semi-independent United States Postal Service (USPS) began administration of U.S. postal delivery of letters and packages through thousands of post offices, succeeding the cabinet-level United States Post Office Department. Winton M. Blount continued as United States Postmaster General, but was no longer a member of the Presidential cabinet nor part of the presidential line of succession.

Saturday, July 3rd 1971: The first national election in 16 years in Indonesia took place for all 360 seats of the lower house of Indonesia's parliament, the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR). Preparation for election day had taken several months because Indonesia's 992 inhabited islands (out of 13,667) are spread out over a width of 3,000 miles (4,800 km) along the Equator.

Saturday, July 3rd 1971: The first national election in 16 years in Indonesia took place for all 360 seats of the lower house of Indonesia's parliament, the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR). Preparation for election day had taken several months because Indonesia's 992 inhabited islands (out of 13,667) are spread out over a width of 3,000 miles (4,800 km) along the Equator.

Also on that day, rocker Jim Morrison, frontman of the American rock band The Doors, passed away at the age of 27, likely from an unintentional heroin overdose (but to this day, no one knows for certain what exactly killed him). :\'(

July 5th 1971 – The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

July 5th 1971 – The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.


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This meant that both of my parents gained voting eligibility that very day. (My mom was 19 1/2, not quite 20; my dad turned 18 earlier in the year.)

July 7th 1971 - Karen and Richard Carpenter hosted "Make Your Own Kind of Music" on NBC-TV. The show was a summer series.

July 9th 1971 - The funeral of Louis Armstrong, who died three days earlier, was attended by 500 people at the Corona Congregational Church in New York City. "When the Saints Go Marching In", his theme tune, was played at the service, and Peggy Lee sang The Lord's Prayer. A crowd of 2,000 people gathered outside the church for what The New York Times described as "to ogle the invited celebrities".

July 13th 1971 - The CBS TV network airs the last Hee Haw TV show in the USA.

July 17th 1971:

Italy and Austria signed a treaty that ended their dispute over South Tyrol
Jackie Stewart won that year's British Grand Prix motor race at Silverstone.

July 24th 1971:
Dieter Glemser and Alex Soler-Roig won the 24 Hours of Spa race (an endurance racing event for cars, held in Belgium) in a Ford Capri RS. Belgian driver Raymond Mathay was killed in the race.

July 26th 1971, saw the Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.

July 28th 1971:
- The United States announced that it would discontinue further airplane surveillance flights over the People's Republic of China, after years of flying SR-71 spy planes and sending unmanned reconnaissance drones into Chinese airspace.
- Mikhail S. Solomentsev was named as the new Premier of the Russian SFSR, upon the retirement Gennadi I. Voronov, as part of the opening of the new session of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet legislature. Voronov, a member of the 15-man Soviet Communist Party Politburo was apparently demoted by being reassigned to the job of chairman of the People's Control Committee after disagreeing with the economic policies of Communist Party First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Solomentsev was promoted from being the CPSU Party Secretary for Heavy Industry.

July 29th 1971:
- The United Kingdom opted out of the Space Race, with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.
- A flood and subsequent landslide in Afghanistan destroyed a village in the Khinjan District in the northeast part of the kingdom, and reportedly killed more than 1,000 people. The disaster occurred near the Khinjan Pass.

July 31st 1971 - Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.

August 1st 1971:
The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

August 5th 1971, The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

August 14th 1971: The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, the group's only album to top the UK charts.

August 21st 1971 - Six people were killed during an escape attempt and riot at California's San Quentin State Prison; the subsequent trial of six inmates was the longest in state history at the time.

October 12th 1971 - The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.

October 25th 1971 - The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations. (Note: China is one of the charter members of the United Nations and is one of five permanent members of its Security Council. The moniker was changed to the People's Republic of China, that's all.)

November 11, 1971: A man-made earthslide at Kawasaki, Japan, killed fifteen people.

December 22nd 1971, The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.

New Year's Day 1972: Kurt Waldheim of Austria became the fourth Secretary General of the United Nations, succeeding U Thant. Waldheim served two five-year terms. It would only be after he became President of Austria in 1986 that the world would learn that Waldheim had been a Nazi officer being investigated by the UN War Crimes Commission.

Sunday January 2nd 1972, U.S. First Lady Pat Nixon arrived in Liberia for the beginning of an 8-day tour of Africa, which also included Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

January 8th 1972 - Following Pakistan's defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison in response to international pressure.

January 14th 1972 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.

January 18th 1972 - Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.

30 January 1972...

The Troubles: On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot 26 civil-rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least 13 people. :\'( :-[

February 6th 1972: Over 500,000 (yes, a half-million) pieces of irate mail arrived at the mail room of CBS-TV, when word leaked out that an edited-for-TV version of the X-rated movie, The Damned, would be shown.

February 13th 1972: The film Cabaret, directed by Bob Fosse, based on John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical of the same name, starring Liza Minnelli and Michael York, premiered in theaters.

16 February 1972: The Republic of the Maldives hosted tourists for the first time since its independence in 1965, as 22 Italian visitors arrived at an airstrip on Hulhulé Island, and were taken to accommodations at three guest houses in Malé.

February 21st 1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.

February 28th 1972: Before departing the People's Republic of China following an historic visit, President Nixon of the United States signed the Shanghai Communiqué with and Premier Zhou of China, setting out agreements to improve diplomatic relations and to prevent the hegemony of any nation (including the Soviet Union) over the "Asia-Pacific Region".


The very next day, Leap Day: "We now have evidence that the settlement of the Nixon administration's biggest antitrust case was privately arranged between Atty. Gen. John Mitchell and the top lobbyist for the company involved", was the opener to Jack Anderson's syndicated column. Also, actor Antonio Sabato Jr. was born in Italy.

March 2nd 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.

March 3rd 1972 - After almost 49 years, the carving of the bas relief sculpture on Stone Mountain (near Atlanta) was completed under the direction of Walker Hancock. The 90-foot-high representation of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson had been started on June 23, 1923, by Gutzon Borglum.

March 6th 1972:

The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party adopted a resolution condemning Tbilisi city authorities in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic for corruption, failure to meet economic goals, and liberalism in personnel policies. The action was the beginning of the end of the rule of Georgian First Secretary Vasil Mzhavanadze, and his replacement in that job by Eduard Shevardnadze.
United States immigration authorities revoked the visa of John Lennon.

The following notable people were born:

Shaquille O'Neal - American pro basketball star
Katrina Szish - American TV personality who currently serves as a QVC program host

March 11th 1972:

Carnival Cruise Lines made its very first voyage, as the Mardi Gras departed Miami for an 8-day cruise ... and ran aground on a sandbar. The 530 passengers, most of whom were travel agents and their families, continued to enjoy themselves until tugboats dislodged the ship the next day, and the new company received national publicity from the incident.
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Zack Wheat passed away at age 83.

March 13, 1972: On United States television, The Merv Griffin Show returned as a syndicated program after two years at the CBS Network's 11:30 time slot, and began a successful and award-winning run that ended in 1986.

Also on March 13th 1972, the Academy of Country Music Awards were first televised (on ABC). Freddie Hart won three awards (Entertainer Of The Year, Male Vocalist Of The Year, and Song Of The Year). Loretta Lynn won the award for Female Vocalist Of The Year.

March 21st 1972 - The United States Supreme Court struck down, as unconstitutional, a Tennessee law requiring one year's residency in the state before a person could register to vote. For the 6–1 majority ruling, Thurgood Marshall wrote "30 days appears to be an ample period of time for the State to complete whatever administrative tasks are necessary to prevent fraud – and a year, or three months, too much". At the time, all but a few states required at least six months' residency. The ruling, made in Dunn v. Blumstein (405 U.S. 330) effectively opened the way for as many as 5.5 million people to become eligible to register

March 25th 1972, the 254th and last original episode of the TV series Bewitched was broadcast, ending a run that had started on September 17, 1964.

March 29th 1972: For the first time since 1966, authorities in East Germany opened the Berlin Wall for an eight-day period in order to allow visitors from West Germany during the Easter holidays, and tens of thousands of Westerners received permission to travel to East Berlin. For the first time since 1952, the Communist government permitted visitors to go beyond the capital and into the countryside as well. The visits were permitted for one whole week; that is, until April 5th.

March 30th 1972 - During the Vietnam War, The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

April 2nd 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

April 5, 1972: A tornado killed six people in Vancouver, Washington, an area generally immune from twisters. :o

April 7th 1972 – Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.

April 13th 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

April 13th 1972 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.

April 14th 1972, David Bowie released 'Starman' as a single in the UK, which became his first hit since 1969's 'Space Oddity' three years before. The song was a late addition to the album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars included at the insistence of RCA’s Dennis Katz, who heard a demo and loved the track, believing it would make a great single. The lyrics describe Ziggy Stardust bringing a message of hope to Earth's youth through the radio, salvation by an alien 'Starman'.

April 17th 1972:

The Ford Motor Company announced the recall of all of its 1972 model year Ford Torino and Mercury Montego automobiles—436,000 cars in all—to correct a defect in the rear axles. The following week, the company ordered a second recall of the vehicles for further repairs.
The following notable people were born:
- Jennifer Garner (American actress)
- Gary Bennett (American baseball player; caught for various teams in MLB from 1995-2008, with a gap in 1997 when he was in the minor leagues; in 2006 he was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals team that won the World Series)

April 18th 1972 – East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 43. :\'(

April 19th 1972 - The first organized storm chasing took place when a team, led by Rodger Brown of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, drove toward a mesocyclone near Davis, Oklahoma, to collect data. The Tornado Intercept Project was created by the NSSL and the University of Oklahoma.

April 20th 1972 – Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.

April 25th 1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.

May 2nd 1972:

In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers. :\'(
American wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was born.

May 4th 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".

May 8th 1972 - During the Vietnam War, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.

10th May 1972 - Tomas Ledin makes his Swedish television début at the age of 20.

12th May 1972 - The Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine (IAFM) was founded; and registered under Societies Registration Act 1860 at Panaji (GOA), India.

May 15th 1972 - The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U.S. occupation government was abolished.

May 21st 1972 - The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Faces, Family, Curved Air, Atomic Rooster, The Kinks, Rory Gallagher, Uriah Heep, Country Joe McDonald, Buddy Miles, Status Quo, Brinsley Schwarz, Spencer Davis, The Strawbs and Humble Pie all appeared at the 2nd British Rock Meeting, Insel Grun, Germersheim, West Germany. The festival was due to take place in Mannheim, West Germany, but after protests from the locals, the concert actually took place in nearby Germersheim.

May 21st 1972 - The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Faces, Family, Curved Air, Atomic Rooster, The Kinks, Rory Gallagher, Uriah Heep, Country Joe McDonald, Buddy Miles, Status Quo, Brinsley Schwarz, Spencer Davis, The Strawbs and Humble Pie all appeared at the 2nd British Rock Meeting, Insel Grun, Germersheim, West Germany. The festival was due to take place in Mannheim, West Germany, but after protests from the locals, the concert actually took place in nearby Germersheim.


Also, the late rap musician Notorious B.I.G. was born. :\'(

May 22nd 1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

May 26th 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

May 29th 1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev concluded their summit conference, with the signing of a joint declaration of long-range plans to avoid a military confrontation and to eventually disarm.

May 30th 1972: Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Operations, killing over 20 people and injuring almost 80 others. :\'( :\'(

June 1st 1972 - Pablo Picasso completed his final painting, The Embrace, at his home in Mougins, France. This was ten months before his death at the age of 91.

June 4th 1972, the Dodgers baseball team retired its first three uniform numbers:

32, in honor of Sandy Koufax
39, in honor of Roy Campanella
42, in honor of Jackie Robinson

June 21st 1972 - The first Stonehenge Free Festival was held at Stonehenge, England culminating on the summer solstice. Staged between 1972 and 1984, acts who have appeared include Hawkwind, Gong, Doctor and the Medics, Flux of Pink Indians, Buster Blood Vessel, Crass, Selector, Dexys Midnight Runners, Thompson Twins, The Raincoats, Amazulu, Wishbone Ash, Man, Benjamin Zephaniah, The Enid, Roy Harper, Jimmy Page, Ted Chippington, Zorch and Ozric Tentacles.

23 June 1972 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

June 28th 1972 - The Simla Summit took place at Simla, capital of India's Himachal Pradesh, as two enemy nations worked to resolve future disagreements without war. India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi hosted Pakistan's President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for five days.

On July 1st 1972, The first Gay pride march in England takes place.

July 10th 1972 - A total solar eclipse was visible over northeastern Asia and northern America.

July 11th 1972 - The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

July 12th 1972 - The "Intersputnik" Treaty took effect, formally creating the "Organization for Cooperation of Socialist Countries in Telephone and Postal Communications". The agreement, which included sharing of communications and satellite technology between Communist nations, had been signed eight months earlier - on November 15, 1971 - by representatives from Albania, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, the USSR, and North Vietnam.

July 13th 1972 - At the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, delegates formally nominated George McGovern as their candidate for President of the United States. McGovern was not able to find a running mate until late in the afternoon, when U.S. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri agreed to join the ticket. The formal nomination of Eagleton as the Democratic candidate for Vice-President went on throughout the evening and past midnight, with frivolous votes being cast, and Eagleton did not officially receive the nomination until 1:51 the next morning. As a result, Senator McGovern was not able to deliver his acceptance speech on live national television until after most viewers had gone to bed.

July 23rd 1972:

The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
American comedic actor Marlon Wayans was born.

July 24th 1972: Pharmacologist David Wong of Eli Lilly and Company tested Bryan Molloy's chemical compound #L-110,140 and found that it inhibited uptake of serotonin without uptake of norepinephrine. The compound, fluoxetine was first tested on human volunteers in 1976, given U.S. patent No. 4,314,081 in 1982, and put on the market in 1988 as the antidepressant drug Prozac.

July 27th 1972, test pilot Irving Burroughs flew the first F-15A jet fighter, at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

August 1st 1972 - Air Botswana, the national airline of the southern African nation, began passenger service with a single Fokker F-27, flying a route covering Gaborone, Manzini, Johannesburg, and Salisbury (now Harare).

August 3rd 1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

August 9th 1972 - Idi Amin, the President of Uganda, summoned Britain's representative and other diplomats to his residence, and announced a decree that all Asians, who were not Ugandan citizens, would have to leave Uganda within 90 days. Between 40,000 and 80,000 of Uganda's Asian residents had opted to keep British citizenship when the former British colony had attained independence.

August 10th 1972, A meteor came within 58 km (36 mi) of the Earth, entering the atmosphere over Utah at 20:28:29 GMT and departing 101 seconds later at 20:30:10 over Canada, before skipping back out. The fireball was visible in daylight, with the occurrence happening at 2:28 pm local time. :o

August 11th 1972: During the Vietnam War, the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.

August 17th 1972 - On Indonesia's Independence Day, President Suharto decreed changes in the spelling of the Indonesian language in Djakarta, starting with the change of the name of the capital to Jakarta.

On Saturday, August 19th 1972: The Midnight Special was shown for the first time on television, beginning at 1:00 in the morning on most NBC stations. NBC's experiment, aiming an early morning program at the 18- to 35-year-old audience that might stay up late on Friday nights, proved a success, and the rock concert series ran until 1981.

August 25th 1972 - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. first began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On its opening day, the price closed at $33 per share.

September 2nd 1972 - The Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival was held over three days on Bull Island, near Griffin, Indiana. The Promoters expected over 50,000 music fans, and over 200,000 attended the festival. Many bands pulled out as the festival drifted steadily into anarchy. Bands that did appear included Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids, Black Oak Arkansas, Cheech and Chong, Foghat, Albert King, Brownsville Station, Canned heat, Flash, Ravi Shankar, Rory Gallagher, Lee Michaels and Frosty, The Eagles, The Amboy Dukes, and Gentle Giant. Three concert goers drowned in the Wabash River and as the festival ended, the remnants of the crowd burned down the music stand.

September 4th 1972, TV game show The Price Is Right premiered on CBS with Bob Barker as the emcee.

Bob's tenure as host would last 35 years before he retired in 2007; he was replaced by Drew Carey, who still hosts the show today.

September 6th 1972 – Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.

:\'( :\'( :\'(

September 9th 1972 – In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.

September 10th 1972 — Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and became, at age 25, the youngest Formula One world champion.

September 11th 1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.

September 17th 1972 - The television series M*A*S*H began an eleven-season run, eight years longer than the Korean War which provided its setting.

September 17th 1972 - The television series M*A*S*H began an eleven-season run, eight years longer than the Korean War which provided its setting.


And it also outlasted the Vietnam War, which it was as really about.

September 20th 1972, Paul and Linda McCartney were arrested for the second time in four weeks for possession of cannabis this time at their Scottish farmhouse in Campbeltown.

September 21st 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos begins authoritarian rule by declaring martial law.

September 22nd 1972 - David Bowie kicked of the North American leg of his Ziggy Stardust world tour at the Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio.

October 2nd, 1972 - Voters in Denmark approved the Treaty of Accession in a referendum, with 63.5% voting in favor of joining the European Common Market. One week earlier, voters in neighboring Norway had rejected the treaty.

October 8th 1972: Prescott Bush - former US Senator from Connecticut (served from 1952-1963) - passed away at the age of 77. He was the father of George HW Bush (the 41st President of the US) and the paternal grandfather of George W Bush (the 43rd President of the US).

October 11th 1972 - The World Hockey Association opened its first season in Ottawa, Canada, as the Alberta Oilers defeated the Ottawa Nationals, 7–4, before a crowd of 5,006 and a Canadian national television audience. Ron Anderson of the Oilers scored the first WHA goal. The last WHA goal would be scored in 1979 by Dave Semenko of the Edmonton Oilers.

October 13th 1972 was a Friday the 13th (the only one for that calendar year).

Marie Osmond turned 13 that day! >:D (How neato (for lack of a better word) is that: turning 13 on Friday the 13th!)

Born that day: Summer Sanders - an American competition swimmer/Olympic champion at Barcelona in 1992 and later a sports commentator/reporter.

October 15th 1972: Jackie Robinson made his last public appearance, throwing out the first pitch at Game 2 of the 1972 World Series, in Cincinnati. Before a national television audience, the first African-American to break Major League Baseball's color line 25 years earlier said "I am extremely proud and pleased", "but I'm going to be tremendously more pleased and proud when I look at that third base coaching line one day and see a Black face managing the ball club." Robinson, who had accepted MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's invitation in return for a pledge to recruit African American managers, died nine days later.

October 16th 1972 - Direct deposit by electronic funds transfer made its debut, as a service of several California banks.

October 17th 1972:

The American Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program was approved by Congress, providing monthly social security benefits for disabled and aged persons who had not worked long enough to receive standard benefits from the Social Security Administration. The measure was a compromise, rejecting a proposal by President Nixon for a federal "Family Assistance Program" (FAP) that would have paid a minimum monthly amount to all households.
Male rap musician Eminem was born in St. Joseph, Missouri.

October 21st 1972 - Siad Barre, the President of Somalia, implemented a program to have the Somali language written using a standardized Latin alphabet in place of Arabic orthography, and, as part of a nationwide campaign against illiteracy, to make Somali the only official language for government and education.

October 22nd 1972 - As Rollie Fingers struck out three batters in a row in the ninth inning, the Oakland Athletics beat the Cincinnati Reds, 3–2, to win the winner-take-all Game Seven of the 1972 World Series.

This would be the first of three consecutive titles (in as many years) for the A's.

October 23rd 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ended after five months.

October 24th 1972 - Baseball star Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in pro baseball, died at the age of 53. :\'(

October 29th 1972 – The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.

November 6th 1972:

The first intercollegiate game of ultimate frisbee was played between Rutgers University and Princeton University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on the site of the first intercollegiate football game (and the 103rd anniversary of that game) which had matched Princeton and Rutgers. Rutgers won, 29–27.
The comic strip Frank and Ernest, by Bob Thaves, made its debut. In the first strip, Frank's punchline was "Maybe the battery's getting weak, Ernie", and the sight gag was a curved flashlight beam.
Rebecca Romijn (American actress of Dutch descent) was born in California.

November 7th 1972 - Richard Nixon was reelected as President, winning by a landslide.

November 11th 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

November 14th 1972:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 (specifically, at 1,003.16) for the first time in its history. The Dow had fluctuated above 1,000 five other times, but had never finished the day at four figures before the decimal point.

November 23rd 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at launching the N1 rocket.

November 30th 1972 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.

December 11th 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

December 12th 1972: MCA Inc. unveiled Disco-Vision, a videodisc system to rival RCA's SelectaVision. The picture quality was poor and the system never went on sale.

December 13th 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.

December 16th 1972 - The Apollo 17 orbiter began its return to Earth, as the America became the last manned spacecraft to orbit the Moon.

December 17th 1972 - Running back Dave Hampton became the first player for the Atlanta Falcons to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, as Atlanta closed its season against the Kansas City Chiefs. However, on his next carry, Hampton was tackled for a five-yard loss, and finished 1972 with 995 yards rushing.

December 18th 1972 - Then-US Senator-elect Joe Biden (who is now the President of the United States) lost his first wife, Neilia, and their daughter Naomi, in a vehicular accident. :\'( His two sons, Beau and Hunter, survived but suffered injuries.

December 18th 1972 - Then-US Senator-elect Joe Biden (who is now the President of the United States) lost his first wife, Neilia, and their daughter Naomi, in a vehicular accident. :\'( His two sons, Beau and Hunter, survived but suffered injuries.


The President over the years has put out the false story that his family was the victim of a drunken commercial truck driver.  The reality of the situation was that Mrs Biden unfortunately pulled out in front of the truck and got broadsided.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-lie-wife-killed-drunk-driver/

All of which is why trucking companies these days all have dash cams... to combat false accusations...

The President over the years has put out the false story that his family was the victim of a drunken commercial truck driver.  The reality of the situation was that Mrs Biden unfortunately pulled out in front of the truck and got broadsided.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-lie-wife-killed-drunk-driver/

All of which is why trucking companies these days all have dash cams... to combat false accusations...

Well I do know (from reading about it) that it involved a collision.

December 19th 1972 – Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.

December 20th 1972: At the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, Neil Simon's play The Sunshine Boys was first performed.

December 22nd 1972 - Roberto Canessa and Fernando Parrado emerged from the Andes mountains to give the news that they and 14 others had survived the October 13 Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes. A Chilean Air Force helicopter picked up six of the men, and the other eight were rescued the next day.

December 23rd 1972 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, killing more than 10,000. :o :\'(

December 25th 1972 - Yuri Andropov, the Director of the KGB, recommended that the Soviet Politburo allocate $100,000 in U.S. currency to influence the March parliamentary elections in Chile. The Politburo ultimately approved the transfer on February 7, 1973.

On the day after Christmas in 1972, former U.S. President Harry Truman passed away at the age of 88.

December 27th 1972 - New Korean constitutions took effect, independently of each other, in both South Korea and North Korea.

December 28th 1972 was the last scheduled day for induction into the military by the Selective Service System. Due to the fact that President Richard Nixon declared this day a national day of mourning due to former President Harry S Truman's death, approximately 300 men were not able to report due to most Federal offices being closed. Since the draft was not resumed in 1973, those men were never drafted.

January 1st 1973 – Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.

I almost forgot.. yesterday marked 50 years since the death of Roberto Clemente, who was killed in the accident of a plane that was en route to aid earthquake victims in Nicaragua. :\'(

January 2nd 1973 - Rafael Hernández Colón began his first term as Governor of Puerto Rico.

January 7th 1973: The CBS television network became the first U.S. network to broadcast a game of the new World Hockey Association, after having been outbid by the NBC network for the TV rights to National Hockey League for the 1971-72 NHL season.

January 8th 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

January 11th 1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.

January 14th 1973 – Elvis Presley's concert “Aloha from Hawaii” via Satellite was broadcast live to audiences in Asia and Oceania.

Also on this day in 1973, Super Bowl VII was played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The AFC champion Miami Dolphins defeated the NFC champion Washington team by a score of 14-7.

Also on this day in 1973, Super Bowl VII was played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The AFC champion Miami Dolphins defeated the NFC champion Washington team by a score of 14-7.


The half time entertainment was provided by the University of Michigan Marching Band, jazz clarinetist Woody Herman, and renowned crooner Andy Williams. The theme was "Happiness Is".

January 15th 1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.

January 20th 1973, Richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second presidential term.. which would ultimately be cut short.

January 22nd 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark 7–2 decision in Roe v. Wade, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.

Also, former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson passed away at age 64. (The most recent occurrence of a President dying before age 70.)

Also on this date in 1973: The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.

24 January 1973 - SAIL, the Steel Authority of India, Ltd., was incorporated by the government of India as a state-owned steel producer administered from New Delhi by India's Ministry of Steel and Mines.

January 27th 1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.

January 30th 1973: Bass guitarist Gene Klein and rhythm guitarist Stanley Eisen, members of the heavy metal band Wicked Lester, introduced their reimagined format, wearing face makeup and playing before a group of 10 customers Popcorn Club, a bar located in the borough of Queens in New York City. Klein renamed himself Gene Simmons while Eisen became Paul Stanley. With two other members, this ensemble became known as KISS.

February 1st 1973:

Jean Poiret's farce La Cage aux Folles, was premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
Metropolitan State University, established in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a night school college for working adults, had its first graduates, a class of 12 of the 50 students admitted in 1972.

February 2nd 1973 – Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer injured his hands when his piano rigged to explode as a stunt, detonated prematurely during a concert in San Francisco.

February 12th 1973 - Ohio became the first U.S. state to use the metric system, with an experiment to post distances on road signs on Interstate 71 in both miles and kilometers.

February 13th 1973 - Australia and Indonesia signed a treaty confirming the division of jurisdiction over the island of New Guinea in half, primarily along the 141st meridian east (141° E), with the exception of a portion along the Fly River. The eastern half is now the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, while the western half of the island is now the Indonesian provinces of Papua, Papua Pegunungan, Papua Selatan, all on the border, and West Papua|Papua Barat and Papua Tengah.

February 25th 1973 - A Little Night Music, a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, premiered on Broadway and would run for 601 performances, winning the 1973 Tony Award for Best Musical

February 26th 1973 - The month after the end of the Vietnam War, Australia established diplomatic relations with North Vietnam. (Five months later, on July 28, the Australian Embassy would be opened in Hanoi with Bruce Woodberry as the charge d'affaires.)

February 26th 1973 - The month after the end of the Vietnam War, Australia established diplomatic relations with North Vietnam. (Five months later, on July 28, the Australian Embassy would be opened in Hanoi with Bruce Woodberry as the charge d'affaires.)


The Vietnam War didn't really end in 1973. The 1973 January peace accords neither ended the war nor restored the peace. It ended on April 30, 1975 with the fall of Saigon.

The Vietnam War didn't really end in 1973. The 1973 January peace accords neither ended the war nor restored the peace. It ended on April 30, 1975 with the fall of Saigon.

Good point. I should have not assumed what I saw on Wiki. Thanks.

So I guess I will save and repost the true "end of the Vietnam War" on this thread on April 30th 2025.

March 1st 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

March 1st 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

Also on that day, the British rock band Pink Floyd released their hit album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Also on that day, the British rock band Pink Floyd released their hit album The Dark Side of the Moon.
... which was recorded at the EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London.

March 3rd 1973 - Hurricane Smith performed "Oh Babe What Would You Say" and "Who Was It" on TV's American Bandstand.

March 4th 1973: The first round of voting took place in France the elections for the 490-seat National Assembly, with followup voting for races where no candidate had initially received a majority.

March 6th 1973 - An attempt to bring Elvis Presley to the UK for shows at London's Earl's Court failed. Promoters had hoped that Elvis would be available during the summer but were told that Elvis now had US tour and filming commitments.

March 8th 1973 - Paul McCartney was fined £100 ($170) for growing cannabis at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. McCartney claimed some fans gave the seeds to him and that he didn't know what they would grow.

March 13th 1973 - Voting began for the new President of Turkey, to be chosen by the electors of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. No candidate received the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot, and more voting took place until a winner could be found. President Cevdet Sunay's term expired on March 28 with no successor receiving the necessary majority, and a winner was not selected until the 15th ballot on April 6, 1973.

March 13th 1973 - The NBC TV premiere of pilot episode of "Police Story", based on Los Angeles Police Dept. Joseph Wambaugh's writings.

March 21st 1973 - Pieces of Moon rock samples from the Apollo 17 mission were sent by U.S. President Nixon to all 50 of the United States and to all the nations of the world, displayed on wooden plaques.

March 26th 1973: The long-running daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless premiered on the CBS television network in the U.S., described as involving "the intertwining fortunes of two families in a small city in upper Mid-America, Genoa City".

Also on March 26th 1973, The $10,000 Pyramid, a game show, made its debut. Dick Clark hosted, and the first celebrity guests were Rob Reiner and June Lockhart.

March 27th 1973 - Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession

March 29th 1973:

– Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.

– Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.

March 29th 1973 - Dr Hook And The Medicine Show got their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine after their hit, 'The Cover of Rolling Stone' reached No. 6 on the US singles chart. According to members of the group, they really did buy five copies for their mothers, just like the song said.

March 31st 1973 - Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali and future heavyweight champ Ken Norton fought the first of three bouts against each other, with Ali sustaining a broken jaw in the second round and continuing to go the distance for the full 15 rounds. Norton won in a split decision by the judges, giving Ali only his second loss in his professional boxing career up to that time.

April 2nd 1973:
- Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
- Actress Roselyn Sánchez was born in Puerto Rico.

April 3rd 1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

4 April 1973 – The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.

28 years later, they would be no more :\'(

April 3rd 1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
Last Monday the BBC showed the report from back then explaining what is a mobile phone and what it could do, it seemed very primitive to today's standard.

April 6th 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.

April 6th 1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

April 8th 1973 – The Norwegian Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo.

April 8th 1973 – The Norwegian Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo.

Also, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso passed away. :\'(

April 8th 1973 - "Paper Moon" film starring Ryan O'Neal and his daughter, Tatum O'Neal, directed by Peter Bogdanovich premieres in Hollywood, California; Tatum O'Neal becomes youngest (age 10) Academy Award winner (Supporting Actress).

April 9th 1973 - Newly signed to EMI Records, Queen played a showcase gig for their new record label at the The Marquee London. They released their debut single 'Keep Yourself Alive' three months later on 6 July 1973.

April 13th 1973 - Bob Marley and the Wailers released Catch a Fire their first album on Island Records and which is now regarded as one of the greatest reggae albums of all time. The album was also groundbreaking as its singles were released as long-playing records as against to the early reggae songs coupled with two sides.

April 26th 1973 - Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist, passed away at the age of 70 1/2.

She is most widely known for her portrayal of Daisy May "Granny" Moses, mother-in-law of Jed Clampett on the long-running TV sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971).

Also on March 1st 1973, the British rock band Pink Floyd released their hit album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Said album reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard chart on April 28th 1973; this would begin a record-breaking 741-week run for the album on the chart. (That's over 14 years!)

Said album reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard chart on April 28th 1973; this would begin a record-breaking 741-week run for the album on the chart. (That's over 14 years!)


I remember when my friend-a big Pink Floyd fan-bought "Dark Side of the Moon" the day it was released and called me to tell me about it.

I remember when my friend-a big Pink Floyd fan-bought "Dark Side of the Moon" the day it was released and called me to tell me about it.

Awesome! O0

April 29th 1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew was the leading candidate among Republicans for the 1976 U.S. presidential election, according to the results of a survey released by opinion pollster George Gallup, with more than one-third (35%) of Republicans surveyed reporting Agnew as their first choice for the nomination, with California Governor Ronald Reagan a distant second at 20 percent.
Little did anyone know that Agnew would no longer be VP less than half a year later.

April 30th 1973 – During the Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.

May 1st 1973 - An estimated 1,600,000 workers in the United Kingdom stopped work in support of a Trade Union Congress "day of national protest and stoppage" against the Government's anti-inflation policy. The strike ended after a day of disruptions to public transportation and the publication of British newspapers.

May 3rd 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon sent his fourth annual "State of the World" address to Congress and warned the government of North Vietnam that "We will not tolerate violations of the Vietnam agreement" made in the Paris Peace Accords in January, and that an invasion of South Vietnam "would risk revived confrontation with us."

May 4th 1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building.

May 5th 1973 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet unbeaten record.

May 8th 1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.

May 14th 1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

May 17th 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate

May 26th 1973 - The BBC's long-running, highly rated magazine show That's Life!, introduced by Esther Rantzen, was broadcast for the first time.

May 29th 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.

Moving on...

May 31st 1973 - The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.

Pol Pot would have been happy :'(

Please keep out of this thread if you have nothing appropriate to add!

June 4th 1973 - A United States patent for the first automated teller machine, the Docutel, was granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.

June 13th 1973 – In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the record of staying together for 8+1⁄2 years.

June 17th 1973 - The submersible Johnson Sea Link research vessel became entangled on the wreckage of the destroyer USS Fred T. Berry, which had been scuttled to create an artificial reef off of Key West, Florida. The submarine was trapped 360 feet (110 m) below the surface of the waters off of the coast of the Florida Keys. The submersible was finally brought to the surface, but two of the four men aboard (E. Clayton Link and Albert Stover) had died of carbon dioxide poisoning. :\'(

June 19th 1973 - Edgar Winter's US No.1 hit 'Frankenstein' was awarded a Gold record. Winter named the song because of how many cuts and patches were contained in the original studio tape.

June 20th 1973 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.

July 3rd 1973 – David Bowie retires his stage persona Ziggy Stardust with the surprise announcement that it is "the last show that we'll ever do" on the last day of the Ziggy Stardust Tour.

July 5th 1973:
Grégoire Kayibanda, the first President of Rwanda, was overthrown 11 years after the central African nation had become independent, in a coup d'état led by his Minister of Defense, Juvénal Habyarimana.
The Isle of Man Post began to issue its own postage stamps.

July 13th 1973 – Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.

July 29th 1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.

August 1st 1973 - Milo Butler was sworn into office as the new Governor-General of the Bahamas, three weeks after the Caribbean islands became an independent nation.

August 4th 1973 - Former Argentine president Juan Perón and his wife Isabel Perón were nominated by the Justicialist Party as candidates for President and Vice President of Argentina in advance of Argentina's presidential election scheduled for September 23. Mr. and Mrs. Peron would accept the nominations on August 18th.

August 5th 1973 – Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.

August 6th 1973 - Skylab 3 astronaut Jack R. Lousma almost doubled the record for a space walk, spending 6 hours and 31 minutes outside of the Skylab space station 270 miles (430 km) above the Earth. Lousma had only expected to spend 3½ hours in deploying a sun shield but encountered difficulties in getting it set up. The previous record had been set on June 7 when Charles Conrad Jr. of Skylab 1 and spent 3 hours and 23 minutes outside the space station.

August 9th 1973 – Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.

August 11th 1973 - Clive Campbell, a Jamaican-born American musician who performed under the stage name DJ Kool Herc, originated the hip hop music genre at a party that he and his younger sister Cindy Campbell had organized, the "Back to School Jam" held at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx in New York City.

August 14th 1973 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, as a new constitution took effect. Bhutto was replaced as president by Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, and the post of Vice President of Pakistan, held by Nurul Amin, was abolished.

Also on August 14th 1973 - The U.S. Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 7½ percent, the highest level up to that time for the minimum interest rate charged to American banks for short term loans of currency. Five days earlier, many major U.S. banks had raised their prime lending rate to a record high of 9¼ percent.

August 19th 1973 - Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson were married in Malibu, California. Kristofferson had just enjoyed a number 1 country hit with 'Why Me', which included Coolidge on backing vocals. The couple divorced near the end of 1979.

August 23rd 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".

August 23rd 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".


Sounds like "Dog Day Afternoon".

Sounds like "Dog Day Afternoon".
Now over the years, that is another film I have not seen.

Now over the years, that is another film I have not seen.


See it. It's a film that could only have been made when it was, during the "New Hollywood" era. 

See it. It's a film that could only have been made when it was, during the "New Hollywood" era. 
It is on my must-see list!!!!

...especially starring Al Pacino.

September 1st 1973 – A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea resulted in the Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.

September 6th 1973 - The first underground subway in North Korea, the Chollima Line of the Pyongyang Metro, began operations.

September 11th 1973 – A coup in Chile, headed by General Augusto Pinochet, topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.

September 18th 1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.

September 19th 1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden was enthroned at the Hall of State of the Royal Palace of Stockholm. He chose the simple title Sveriges Konung (Sweden's King), ending a 400-year tradition of Swedish monarchs using a title that translates to "By the Grace of God King of the Swedes, the Goths and the Vandals".

September 20th 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.

Also, musician Jim Croce was killed with three other people when their light aircraft crashed on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana. :\'(

September 20th 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.


Yeah, that was fun.  I remember all the hoopla.


Also, musician Jim Croce was killed with three other people when their light aircraft crashed on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana. :\'(


Being 13 then, I didn't watch the evening news on a normal basis.  However in this case, it was announced as a "special bulletin" where they cut into normal programming (ala "we interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin..."), used unsparingly in those days.  So I remember hearing of this right away and feeling very sad.  :\'(

This was only a few weeks after we'd heard the news about Stevie Wonder almost dying in an accident (and we hadn't gotten any updates as of September 20); for some reason I recalled that too, and had this fleeting feeling that suddenly all my fave musicians were being killed in accidents.  :-\\

September 20th 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.


Yeah, that was fun.  I remember all the hoopla.
There has been a film made about this, "Battle of the Sexes" in 2017, a biographical sports film directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton and written by Simon Beaufoy. The plot is loosely based on the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. The film stars Emma Stone and Steve Carell as King and Riggs, leading an ensemble cast including Andrea Riseborough, Elisabeth Shue, Austin Stowell, Bill Pullman, Natalie Morales, Eric Christian Olsen, and Sarah Silverman in supporting roles.

Being 13 then, I didn't watch the evening news on a normal basis.  However in this case, it was announced as a "special bulletin" where they cut into normal programming (ala "we interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin..."), used unsparingly in those days.  So I remember hearing of this right away and feeling very sad.  :\'(

This was only a few weeks after we'd heard the news about Stevie Wonder almost dying in an accident (and we hadn't gotten any updates as of September 20); for some reason I recalled that too, and had this fleeting feeling that suddenly all my fave musicians were being killed in accidents.  :-\\


And right at the same time (September 19, 1973) the now legendary Gram Parsons died of a drug overdose in Joshua Tree, California at age 26. Parsons, who had been in the Byrds during their country era, and in the Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as a friend and influence to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones (especially on songs like "Wild Horses"), was far more "underground", one might say, than the highly commercial Jim Croce, so there were no special bulletins. His demise wasn't even mentioned in the mainstream press at all. But Rolling Stone, still an "alternative" publication at the time, covered it extensively, and I was an avid Rolling Stone reader from a very young age. At the time of Parsons' death, what was mainly covered were the bizarre circumstances that occured after his death. His friend and manager Phil Kaufman plus an accomplice actually STOLE Parsons' body from the Los Angeles airport and drove it into the desert at Joshua Tree, CA in an attempt to cremate it there. This was to fulfill a stoned out promise Kaufman once made to Parsons. That if Parsons died, Kaufman would cremate him in the desert rather than letting his step family bury his body in his home state of Georgia. Kaufman did a bumbling, rather half assed job of it, and the partially charred remains of Gram Parsons were recovered in the desert by authorities. And, yes, against his wishes, he was buried in Georgia. There were no laws on the books in California at that time about stealing dead bodies, so Kaufman was fined $200 for theft of the coffin Parsons was in.

Whenever I hear about the desth of Jim Croce I think of Gram Parsons, because it all basically happened in the same week.

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And right at the same time (September 19, 1973) the now legendary Gram Parsons died of a drug overdose in Joshua Tree, California at age 26. Parsons, who had been in the Byrds during their country era, and in the Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as a friend and influence to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones (especially on songs like "Wild Horses"), was far more "underground", one might say, than the highly commercial Jim Croce, so there were no special bulletins. His demise wasn't even mentioned in the mainstream press at all. But Rolling Stone, still an "alternative" publication at the time, covered it extensively, and I was an avid Rolling Stone reader from a very young age. At the time of Parsons' death, what was mainly covered were the bizarre circumstances that occured after his death. His friend and manager Phil Kaufman plus an accomplice actually STOLE Parsons' body from the Los Angeles airport and drove it into the desert at Joshua Tree, CA in an attempt to cremate it there. This was to fulfill a stoned out promise Kaufman once made to Parsons. That if Parsons died, Kaufman would cremate him in the desert rather than letting his step family bury his body in his home state of Georgia. Kaufman did a bumbling, rather half assed job of it, and the partially charred remains of Gram Parsons were recovered in the desert by authorities. And, yes, against his wishes, he was buried in Georgia. There were no laws on the books in California at that time about stealing dead bodies, so Kaufman was fined $200 for theft of the coffin Parsons was in.

Whenever I hear about the desth of Jim Croce I think of Gram Parsons, because it all basically happened in the same week.

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Very sad indeed.  At that time I had no idea - in fact, TBH had you told me about Gram Parson's demise, I likely would've said "who?".  (I didn't read Rolling Stone as a 13 year old girl.)  What a bizarre story involving his stolen body; I'm surprised that in itself got so little press.

Very sad indeed.  At that time I had no idea - in fact, TBH had you told me about Gram Parson's demise, I likely would've said "who?".  (I didn't read Rolling Stone as a 13 year old girl.)  What a bizarre story involving his stolen body; I'm surprised that in itself got so little press.


Notice I very carefully used the phrase "the now legendary Gram Parsons". At the time of his death at age 26 (he didn't even make the so-called "27 club") in 1973 he was essentially unknown. The one Byrds album he was part of (and basically responsible for) "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" was not a big seller when it came out in 1968 and was soundly panned. Audiences (both country and rock) didn't understand a straight country album coming from a rock band. While such a thing is no big deal now (largely BECAUSE of this album) back then the two factions were diametrically opposed. "Sweetheart" is now considered one of the more influential albums in both rock and country. The Flying Burrito Brothers were a respectable and very good band but they were not huge. It was only with the passing of years that Parsons' legend grew, and this is as much due to the fact that he died so very young (and the bizarre circumstances surrounding his death) and the fact that he was closely associated with the Rolling Stones (Keith Richards loved him) as it does with his music, which frankly, was so-so. He now gets almost sole credit for creating "country rock" but this is not so. His close partner in the Byrds and Burritos Chris Hillman did much of the heavy lifting while Parsons, a trust fund kid from a wealthy family and not overly professional as a musician, basked in the glory.

September 23rd 1973 - Voters in Argentina's presidential election, the second of the year, overwhelmingly endorsed the return to power of former president Juan Perón, who had been overthrown in 1955, with his wife Isabel Perón as vice president.

September 24th 1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.

September 26th 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.

6 October 1973: Egypt and Syria staged a surprise attack on Israel with an invasion of the Israeli-occupied Sinai peninsula and the Golan Heights, beginning the Yom Kippur War. :o :\'(

October 7th 1973 - Iraq nationalized the holdings of the two U.S. oil companies operating in the Arab nation, Exxon and Mobil, as a show of support for Egypt and Syria in their war against Israel. The Iraqi government urged other Arab nations to immediately halt the export of their oil to the U.S. and to any other nations supporting Israel.

October 8th 1973 - Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.

October 10th 1973:

U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
Hispanic-American actor Mario Lopez was born.

October 12th 1973 – President Nixon nominates House Majority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

October 16th 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

October 16th 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.


If you recall, le Duc Tho refused the prize on the grounds that Kissinger violated the truce and that Vietnam was not at peace.

If you recall, le Duc Tho refused the prize on the grounds that Kissinger violated the truce and that Vietnam was not at peace.

I was not around yet myself, but I have read about it. Thanks.

In fact, the Wiki page goes on to state:
Le Duc Tho refused the prize, however, and informed the Nobel Committee that "When guns are silenced, and peace is really restored in South Vietnam, I will reconsider the acceptance of this prize."

One other thing that occurred that day:

Maynard Jackson was elected as the first African-American mayor of a major city in the Deep South (namely Atlanta, Georgia), as voters overwhelmingly approved him over incumbent mayor Sam Massell in a runoff election.

October 17th 1973 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

October 19th 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

October 20th 1973 – The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.

October 21st 1973 – Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.

October 25th 1973 – Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.

October 30th 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.

November 1st 1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.

November 4th 1973 - The first "no driving Sunday" went into effect in the Netherlands as part of the Western European nation's attempt to conserve fuel during the Arab oil embargo. The only exceptions were emergency vehicles, taxis, public buses and motor vehicles with foreign license plates.

November 7th 1973 – The United States Congress overrides President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.

November 11th 1973 - Egypt and Israel signed a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord brokered by Henry Kissinger.

November 14th 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

November 14th 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.

November 17th 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

November 18th 1973 - At a meeting in Vienna, the oil ministers and administrators of the Arab states said they would postpone their plans for a 5% reduction in oil shipments to eight of the nine Common Market nations.

November 23rd 1973 - The last game of the Atlantic Coast Football League, a minor pro football league founded in 1962, was played. In the championship, the New England Colonials defeated the Bridgeport (CT) Jets, 41 to 17, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The league permanently ceased operations at the end of the season.

November 24th 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit would last only four months.

November 25th 1973 – Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.

December 3rd 1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

December 6th 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)

December 9th 1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.

December 14th 1973: France's Finance Minister (and future President), Valery Giscard d'Estaing, announced that his government had agreed to accept the massive collection of paintings, sculptures, lithographs and pottery accumulated by Pablo Picasso, relieving Picasso's heirs from payment of inheritance tax. The donation did not include the artwork of Picasso himself.

December 15th 1973 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

December 23rd 1973: Irna Phillips - an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent and actress - passed away at the age of 72. :\'(
She is best remembered for pioneering a format of the daytime soap opera in the United States geared specifically toward women. Phillips created, produced, and wrote several radio and television daytime serials throughout her career, including Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and Another World. She was also a mentor to several other pioneers of the American daytime soap opera, including Agnes Nixon, William J. Bell and Ted Corday.

December 24th 1973 – District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.

December 26th 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon became the first sitting American president to fly on a commercial airliner, as he, wife Pat and daughter Tricia Nixon Cox boarded United Air Lines Flight 55 at Washington's Dulles International Airport and traveled across the country to the Los Angeles International Airport. During the flight, Nixon sat in the first class section of the DC-10 and then surprised passengers by walking down the aisle to the back of the aircraft to shake hands.

December 28th 1973 – The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.

January 1st 1974: New Year's Day was celebrated as a public holiday in the United Kingdom for the first time nationwide, as England and Wales joined in making the first day of the year a paid legal holiday. Scotland

January 2nd 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 mph in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

January 6th 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. :o

January 7th 1974: Gasoline rationing began in Sweden, with private vehicles limited to only 100 liters (26 U.S. gallons) of gas for the 53 days from January 7 through February 28, as Sweden became the first Western European nation to begin rationing.

January 13th 1974: Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport (DFW), which would become the second-busiest in the world for passenger service, opened in the U.S. state of Texas for scheduled flights. The first flight to land was a Boeing 727 arriving from Memphis, Tennessee. American Airlines Flight 293 to Los Angeles became DFW's first departure several hours later.

18 January 1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.

January 20th 1974 – China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam.

January 21st 1974 - On the third Skylab mission, astronaut Edward Gibson made the first filmed record of the birth of a solar flare, recording the 23-minute process from the moment that he observed a bright spot on the Sun through the Apollo Telescope Mount, and filming through the moment of its eruption.

February 4th 1974 – American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined, in one of the most well-known cases of Stockholm syndrome.

February 5th 1974 - The U.S. space probe Mariner 10, launched on November 3, made the first successful broadcast to Earth of images of the planet Venus, starting with the transmission of 4,165 photographs.

February 8th 1974 – The crew of Skylab 4, the last mission to visit the American space station Skylab, returns to Earth after 84 days in space.

February 10th 1974:

The Soviet Mars 4 space probe, launched seven months beforehand, flew past Mars at a distance of about 1,300 miles (2,100 km) and took pictures but failed to enter orbit due to a malfunction.
American actress and film director Elizabeth Banks was born.

February 11th 1974: The three-day Washington Energy Conference of oil-consuming nations began to discuss ways of combating the oil crisis.

February 16th 1974 - During a tour of America the members of Emerson, Lake & Palmer were arrested in Salt Lake City after swimming naked in the hotel pool. They were each fined $75 (£44).

February 17th 1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.

February 21st 1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.

February 22nd 1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.

February 23rd 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.

February 28th 1974 – The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Jeremy Thorpe-led Liberal Party achieved their biggest vote share since 1929.

March 1st 1974:

Seven former high-ranking aides to U.S. President Richard M. Nixon were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington.
American actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar was born.

March 3rd 1974: The first episode of the science show Nova was broadcast on television as a production of WGBH-TV in Boston.

March 5th 1974 - The Seagull, a three-act opera by Thomas Pasatieri, with libretto by Kenward Elmslie, premiered at the Houston Grand Opera. Based on an 1896 play of the same name by Anton Chekhov, the opera has been performed on multiple occasions since then.

March 9th 1974 – The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.

10 March 1974: In Israel, members of the Knesset approved a motion of confidence in the new coalition cabinet that had been formed by Prime Minister Golda Meir, with a margin of 62 to 46 in favor, and nine abstentions.

March 13th 1974 - Meeting in Athens, scientists from 13 nations on the Mediterranean Sea warned that the vast body of water between Europe and Africa would "become a dead sea" within 30 years if measures were not taken to reduce water pollution.

March 18th 1974: The U.S. State Department announced that the U.S. and Britain would assist Egypt in clearing mines from the Suez Canal in order to reopen the waterway between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

March 24th 1974 - The last of 120,000 Bangladesh prisoners of war who had been imprisoned in Pakistan were repatriated as a flight brought 206 Bengalis from Karachi in Pakistan to Dhaka in Pakistan.

March 26th 1974 - A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, surrounded individual trees to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement and the practice of tree hugging as a means of environmental protection.

March 29th 1974 – Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.

The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs on April 3rd of that year; it was the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

April 4th 1974 - In Cincinnati, baseball player Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 714th home run on the first swing of his bat to open the 1974 Major League Baseball season; this tied the career record set by Babe Ruth.

April 6th 1974 – In Brighton, UK, the Swedish pop band ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with the song "Waterloo".

April 4th 1974 - In Cincinnati, baseball player Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 714th home run on the first swing of his bat to open the 1974 Major League Baseball season; this tied the career record set by Babe Ruth.

And it was on April 8th 1974 when Hank hit his 715th career home run to become the all-time leader in career home runs.

April 29th 1974  – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.

May 4th 1974 – An all-female Japanese team reached the summit of Manaslu in the Himalayas, becoming the first women to climb a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.

May 9th 1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

May 16th 1974 - Helmut Schmidt was elected as the new Chancellor of West Germany by the Bundestag by a vote of 267 to 225 along party lines.

Also on that day: Dybbuk, a ballet by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, premiered in New York City at the Lincoln Center.

May 24th 1974: Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer, passed away at the age of 75. :\'(

May 28th 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.

May 29th 1974 – SETA, a Finnish LGBT rights organisation, is founded in Helsinki.

May 30th 1974 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.

May 31st 1974 - The Agreement on Disengagement between Israel and Syria, negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for the separation of the two nations' military forces in the Golan Heights, was signed at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, by Major General Herzl Shafir of Israel and Brigadier General Adnan Tayara of Syria.

June 1st 1974 – In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts, commonly known as the Heimlich maneuver, to treat victims of choking.

Also, Canadian alternative rock singer Alanis Morissette was born.

June 2nd 1974 - Voters in the West African nation of Mali overwhelmingly approved a new constitution to allow direct election of the president and a unicameral national assembly.

June 3rd 1974 - Yitzhak Rabin became the fifth Prime Minister of Israel after the Knesset, by a margin of 61 to 51, voted confidence in the ministers selected for his coalition government.

Also on that day, Third-seeded Björn Borg won the men's singles and first-seeded Chris Evert won the women's singles of the Italian Open tennis tournament.

June 9th 1974: The newspaper comic strip Dotty Dripple, written by Buford Tune and similar to the older and more popular Blondie, ended slightly less than 30 years after its June 26, 1944, launch.

June 9th 1974: The newspaper comic strip Dotty Dripple, written by Buford Tune and similar to the older and more popular Blondie, ended slightly less than 30 years after its June 26, 1944, launch.


Absolutely never heard of it. And I used to read the comics (including 'Blondie') in those days.

June 11th 1974 - Bill Clinton, a 27-year-old law professor at the University of Arkansas, won his first election, the Democratic Party runoff for the nomination for U.S. Representative of the Arkansas Third District, defeating state senator Gene Rainwater. Bill would eventually become the 42nd President of the United States.

June 14th 1974 - The Lunar Surface Magnetometers placed on the Moon by the Apollo 12 mission (at the Oceanus Procellarum in 1969) and the Apollo 15 mission (at the Palus Putredinis lava plain on the edge of the Mare Imbrium in 1971) were deactivated by NASA.

June 26th 1974:

One of the most profitable pornographic films in history, the French-language Emmanuelle, was shown in movie theaters for the first time, with a premiere in Paris.
The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
American pro baseball players Derek Jeter and Jason Kendall were born.

June 27th 1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.

June 29th 1974 - Argentinian Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband - President Juan Perón - is terminally ill.

June 30th 1974 – Municipal workers in Baltimore, Maryland, went on strike seeking higher wages and better conditions.

July 7th 1974: In the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final, West Germany defeat the Netherlands 2–1 in the final match at Olympiastadion, Munich, to win the new FIFA World Cup Trophy.

July 15th 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.

July 17th 1974 - The Northern Ireland Act 1974 became effective upon receiving royal assent by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Also on this day in 1974: Baseball pitcher Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals became the first player in National League history, and only the second in Major League Baseball, to strike out 3,000 batters in his career, retiring César Gerónimo of the visiting Cincinnati Reds.

July 19th 1974 - Hospitalized for phlebitis, Spain's dictator Francisco Franco signed a decree appointing Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon as the acting chief of state.

July 20th 1974 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.

23 July 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.

24 July 1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they ordered him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

July 26th 1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

July 27th 1974:

Watergate scandal — The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
American indie rock singer Pete Yorn was born.

July 29th 1974 - In the U.S., the "Philadelphia Eleven", all deacons in their own churches became the first women to be ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church.

Also, musician Cass Elliott passed away. :\'(

July 30th 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

July 31st 1974: In Canada, the Official Language Act (Quebec) (also known as "Bill 22") was passed, making French the official language of government and business in the province of Quebec.

July 30th 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Then he was forced to be impeached.

Then he was forced to be impeached.


Richard Nixon was not impeached. Impeachment proceedings began against him but he resigned before they concluded. So technically he resigned. But, of course, it was due to the impeachment proceedings. It's sort of the equivalent of a boss saying "I will expect your resignation on my desk in the morning". In other words, you're fired but we will let you "resign" to save face.

On August 1st of 1974, White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig came to the home of U.S. Vice President Gerald Ford at 514 Crown View Drive in Alexandria, Virginia, and told him to prepare to assume the presidency.

August 3rd 1974 - The original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music closed after 601 performances.

August 5th 1974 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon, under orders of the US Supreme Court, releases the "Smoking Gun" tape, recorded on June 23, 1972, clearly revealing his actions in covering up and interfering investigations into the break-in. His political support vanishes completely.

August 7th 1974:

French high-wire artist Philippe Petit conducted an unauthorized walk on a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, crossing a 131-foot (40 m) cable at a height of 1,350 feet (410 m).
United Artists released the neo-Western film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, directed by Sam Peckinpah.

August 7th 1974:

French high-wire artist Philippe Petit conducted an unauthorized walk on a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, crossing a 131-foot (40 m) cable at a height of 1,350 feet (410 m).
United Artists released the neo-Western film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, directed by Sam Peckinpah.


The news was just talking about his stunt from 40 years ago on TV.

August 8th 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

August 8th 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.


I watched it on TV as it happened.

August 8th 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.



I watched it on TV as it happened.


I watched it live, too.  I was not a Nixon fan; still, I remember feeling very sad about it.  Even at age 14, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was broken.  I was curious about how things would go with Gerald Ford becoming president, as he was from my home state Michigan.  It wasn't lost on me that he was never elected to be President.  Still, I ended up mostly pleased with Ford in his brief tenure.

I watched it on TV as it happened.

My Mother had this newspaper and it had his resignation but unfortunately, the newspaper turned so yellow that it had to be thrown out.

I watched it live, too.  I was not a Nixon fan; still, I remember feeling very sad about it.  Even at age 14, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was broken.  I was curious about how things would go with Gerald Ford becoming president, as he was from my home state Michigan.  It wasn't lost on me that he was never elected to be President.  Still, I ended up mostly pleased with Ford in his brief tenure.


1974 was the year of the huge CSNY stadium tour. Their first since 1970. I saw it. A few nights after Nixon resigned, Neil Young, on that tour, performed this seemingly improvised song on his banjo. It was never played again. It appears on the 4 CD box set of that tour that came out just a few years ago, although this version, the only one on Youtube, seems to be from an audience bootleg recording. Still, you'll get the idea.

Goodbye Dick

But I saw you walkin
the White House lawn.
Goodbye Dick, goodbye Dick.
Goodbye Rosemary,
goodbye Rosemary.
I saw you take your typewriter
out of the White House door
No one wants you
to type here anymore
Goodbye Rosemary,
goodbye Rosemary.

The reference to "Rosemary" is Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, who claimed responsibility in a 1974 grand jury testimony for "inadvertently" erasing up to five minutes of the infamous "18½ minute gap" on an incriminating 1972 Nixon audiotape.

Neil Young
"Goodbye Dick"
Nassau Coliseum,
Uniondale, New York
August 14, 1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU8eEYP3v14

9 August 1974 – On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amid the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign (and only one to date to do so).

9 August 1974 – On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amid the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign (and only one to date to do so).


Here's the famous photo, taken by Pulitzer prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly, of Nixon departing the White House for the last time, and getting on his plane on the South lawn.

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Here's the famous photo, taken by Pulitzer prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly, of Nixon departing the White House for the last time, and getting on his plane on the South lawn.

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"I am not a crook".

August 26th 1974: Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator, military officer and activist who made the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, died of lymphatic cancer at the age of 72. :\'(

August 28th 1974 - Gerald Ford held his first news conference as President of the United States in the East Room of the White House.

August 30th 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. :o :\'(

September 1st 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).

September 2nd 1974 - A tornado touched down in New York City for the first time since storm records were kept, striking the Bronx. :o

September 4th 1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford named George H. W. Bush, the chair of the Republican National Committee, to be the new Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China, succeeding David K. E. Bruce.

September 8th 1974 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

September 10th 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

September 16th 1974 – U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a presidential proclamation granting conditional amnesty to American draft evaders and military deserters from the Vietnam War era. To be eligible, individuals would need to agree to work for up to 24 months in alternative public service jobs.

September 17th 1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.

September 21st 1974: Walter Brennan, American actor, passed away at the age of 80. :\'(

23 September 1974: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy announced that he would not be a candidate for President or Vice President in the 1976 United States presidential election.

23 September 1974: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy announced that he would not be a candidate for President or Vice President in the 1976 United States presidential election.


Yes I remember that. But he did run in the 1980 Democratic primary campaign for president, but lost to the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter.

September 25th 1974 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John (which is why the surgical operation was named after him).

September 29th 1974: Earl Ross, a resident of Ontario, became the first (and as of 2024, only) Canadian to win a NASCAR Cup Series race, finishing in first place at the Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

October 5th 1974 - Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells went to No.1 for the first time on the UK album chart 15 months after being released. It went on to sell over 10 million copies worldwide. The first album released on Virgin Records saw Oldfield, (who was 19 years old when it was recorded), playing almost all the instruments.

October 8th 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

October 13th 1974 - Ed Sullivan, American journalist and talk show host, passed away at the age of 73. :\'(

October 13th 1974 - Ed Sullivan, American journalist and talk show host, passed away at the age of 73. :\'(


He put on a really good shoe. 

October 13th 1974 - Ed Sullivan, American journalist and talk show host, passed away at the age of 73. :\'(


Krazy Kat's parody of Ed Sullivan. "Ed Solvent".  ;D  ;D

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October 19th 1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.

21 October 1974 - The Wiz, a musical based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but retold in the context of 1970s African-American culture and featuring an all-Black cast, was given its first performance. The show premiered at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore.

21 October 1974 - The Wiz, a musical based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but retold in the context of 1970s African-American culture and featuring an all-Black cast, was given its first performance. The show premiered at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore.


Was that one with Michael Jackson or did that one come later on?

21 October 1974 - The Wiz, a musical based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but retold in the context of 1970s African-American culture and featuring an all-Black cast, was given its first performance. The show premiered at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore.

Was that one with Michael Jackson or did that one come later on?
That was the premier of the stage musical "The Wiz", Michael Jackson appeared in the movie adapation released in 1978 , in which the World Trade Center served as the Emerald City.  :\'(

November 8th 1974 - The NBC television network broadcast an episode of the police procedural series Police Woman involving a lesbian crime ring. In response to protests from gay rights groups, NBC agreed later in the month not to rebroadcast the episode.

November 8th 1974 - The NBC television network broadcast an episode of the police procedural series Police Woman involving a lesbian crime ring. In response to protests from gay rights groups, NBC agreed later in the month not to rebroadcast the episode.

So they were able to broadcast it?

So they were able to broadcast it?

Apparently so…

15 November 1974 - Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 was given its first performance.

November 16th 1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from Puerto Rico.

November 20th 1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

24 November 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

25 November 1974 - U Thant, Burmese lawyer and diplomat who was the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations, died at the age of 65.

Also on November 25th 1974, The first "double heart" transplant on a human being was performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, introducing a new technique of supplementing a diseased heart with a donor heart that "takes the brunt of pumping the blood through the body" while "the blood still passes through the patient's original heart."

26 November 1974 - Anneline Kriel was crowned as Miss World 1974, the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958, when Helen Morgan resigned four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant.

December 7th 1974: The Randolph–Sheppard Act, a United States law titled "Vending facilities for blind in Federal buildings", took effect.

December 8th 1974 – A plebiscite (1974 Greek republic referendum) results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.

13 December 1974 – Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.

December 16th 1974 - The United States Senate unanimously (93 to 0) ratified the Geneva Protocol, officially the "Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare", almost 50 years after it had first been signed.

December 17th 1974: Twin actors Giovanni and Marissa Ribisi were born in Los Angeles, California.

December 17th 1974: Twin actors Giovanni and Marissa Ribisi were born in Los Angeles, California.


I didn't know Giovanni Ribisi was a twin. He's a very good actor. He did a great job as a flipped out soldier in Bob Dylan's avant-garde movie "Masked & Anonymous" in the early 2000s. His part amounted to pretty much a soliloquy. It was like one long speech.


Giovanni Ribisi and Bob Dylan in the back of a bus in "Masked & Anonymous":

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December 18, 1974 - Michail Stasinopoulos of the New Democracy Party was elected President of Greece by vote of the Hellenic Parliament, receiving 206 votes from party members, sufficient for the 151 required for a majority.

December 19th 1974 – Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This ended a four-month vacancy in the office of Vice President.

December 22nd 1974 – Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.

December 24th 1974:
- Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
- American TV-radio personality Ryan Seacrest is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

29 December 1974: The contractual partnership of The Beatles was formally dissolved, more than four years after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr had performed together for the last time.

January 2nd 1975 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.

January 6th 1975 - Pink Floyd started sessions at Abbey Road Studios London for their next album Wish You Were Here. Their ninth studio album was released on 12 September 1975 and features 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' a tribute to Syd Barrett whose mental breakdown had forced him to leave the group seven years earlier.

January 6th 1975 - Pink Floyd started sessions at Abbey Road Studios London for their next album Wish You Were Here. Their ninth studio album was released on 12 September 1975 and features 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' a tribute to Syd Barrett whose mental breakdown had forced him to leave the group seven years earlier.


Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Get it?

January 15th 1975 – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.

January 15th 1975 - The Bee Gees begin recording 'Jive Talkin', which became their second US chart topper and No.5 UK hit. Barry Gibb's inspiration for the song came when his wife commented on the sound their car made while crossing a bridge over Biscayne Bay into Miami. She noted, "It's our drive talkin'."

February 4th 1975:

Louis Jordan - American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s - passed away at the age of 66. :\'(
Natalie Imbruglia - Australian singer - was born.

February 9th 1975 – The spacecraft and crew of the Soviet Soyuz 17 mission returned to earth after 29 days in orbit at the Salyut 4 station.

February 10th 1975 - The Council of the European Community passed the Equal Pay Directive, number75/117/EEC, requiring its member states to follow "the principle of equal pay for men and women".

February 13th 1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.

February 17th 1975 - The Australian heavy metal band AC/DC released its first album, High Voltage, on the Albert Productions label.

February 18th 1975 - The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front was created to fight for the rights of the Tigre people in Ethiopia.

February 21st 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.