January
1
China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
January 2
Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
January 5
NASA announces development of space shuttle, New York City transit
fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents, President Nixon signs a bill
for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
January 7
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice, Los Angeles
Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record), William Hubbs Rehnquist,
sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
January 8
NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
January 9
Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake, Passenger
ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
January 10
Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
January 11
East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
January 13
Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball,
initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire
January 17
Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd
January 23
Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
January 26
Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
January 30
Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry,
13 die, Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth
January 31
Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral, Military coup
ousts civilian government of Ghana, U.S. launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary
observations (396/244,998)
February 1
1st scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, introduced for $395,
Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
February 4
6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria,
Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
February 5
U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage
February 10
BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
February 14
John and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week,
Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon
February 17
British Parliament votes to join European Common Market, President
Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China
February 18
California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
February 21
Richard Nixon becomes 1st U.S. president to visit China
February 26
Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, kills
125
February 29
Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust
charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party
March 3
Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson
are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
March 8
1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa), 1st flight of
the Goodyear blimp
March 10
1st black U.S. political convention opens in Gary, Indiana, Gen Lon
Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
March 16
John and Yoko are served with deportation papers
March 17
Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
March 19
India and Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
March 21
U.S. Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
March 22
Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
March 24
Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
March 27
Venera 8 launched to Venus
March 30
North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
March 31
Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down
April 4
1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
April 6
Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
April 9
U.S.S.R. and Iraq sign friendship treaty
April 10
7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars,
U.S., U.S.S.R. and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
April 16
Two giants pandas arrive in U.S., from China, Apollo 16 launched;
5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
April 19
Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
April 20
Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
April 21
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
April 27
New York City Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
April 30
"Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio
May 1
Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
May 2
Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg, Idaho)
May 11
John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show
May 15
George Wallace, governor of Alabama, shot and left paralyzed by Arthur
Bremer in Laurel, Maryland
May 18
John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
May 22
Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
May 22
U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow
May 26
Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord
May 28
White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ
at Watergate
June 1
Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
June 3
1st female U.S. rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
June 4
Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
June 6
Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London, U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam;
1000s killed
June 7
Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
June 9
14" of rain in 6 hours burst Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns
237
June 10
Elvis Presley records a live album at New York's Madison Square Garden
June 11
31 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
June 12
John Lennon's political "Sometime in New York City" released
including "Woman is the Nigger of the World," "Attica
State," and "Luck of the Irish"
June 14
Hurricane Agnes kills 117
June 17
Five arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
June 19
40,000 pilots strike against naval officer, Hurricane Agnes, kills
118 in New York and Florida making it the costliest natural disaster
in American history
June 23
Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate, President
Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
June 24
Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of U.S., U.S. Air Force,
Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention
June 25
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
June 26
IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
June 29
Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual,
U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
July 1
Ms. magazine begins publishing. 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan
Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce)
July 7
Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
July 8
U.S. sells grain to U.S.S.R. for $750 million
July 9
1st tour of Paul McCartney and Wings, France
July 10
Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida, McGovern
July 14
Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
July 16
Smokey Robinson and Miracles final live performance
July 18
200,000 attend Mt. Pocono rock festival in Pennsylvania
July 18
Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
July 21
Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast, In New York, 57 murders
occur in 24 hours, 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, state
record.
July 22
10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record),
Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
July 23
1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
July 31
Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
August 1
1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
August 2
Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
August 4
Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
August 5
Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin," Uganda president
Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians
August 10
1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada, Paul
and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
August 11
"Cheech and Chong Day" in San Antonio, Texas
August 12
Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
August 14
Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13
August 18
Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis
possession
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August 21
1st hot air balloon flight over Alps, Grace Slick maced by police
when a band official called cops, pigs, Republican convention opens
in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus
launched
August 22
International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
August 23
Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but
not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
August 27
U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
August 30
John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
September 5
John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
September 9
Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973
September 11
BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
September 13
1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS
September 16
1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie, Penny Marshall
appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"
September 17
"M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV
September 20
Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm
September 21
Marcos declares martial law in Philippines
September 22
Dictator Idi Amin throws 8,000 Asians out of Uganda
September 25
Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber, Norway votes to
join common market
September 26
Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
September 28
David Bowie sells out his 1st show in New York Carnegie Hall, Japan
and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
October 2
Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
October 11
Panama adopts constitution
October 12
46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, Mariner
9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
October 16
Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up
October 23
Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
October 26
Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin, Henry Kissinger
declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
October 27
Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
October 30
Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
November 1
1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
November 2
Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
November 7
President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
November 11
Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time, U.S. Army turns over
Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
November 14
Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
November 17
Juan Peron returns to Argentina
November 22
U.S. ends 22 year travel ban to China
November 27
Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
December 2
"December Giant" largest sinkhole in U.S. collapses (Alabama)
December 7
Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched, Philippine's
1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed and wounded by an assailant
December 8
United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
December 11
Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on Moon
December 18
US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
December 21
Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
December 22
6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
December 23
16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70 days, survived by cannabalism,
6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
December 28
Martin Bormann's (Hitler's deputy) skeleton found in Berlin
December 29
Life magazine ceases publication
December 30
Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks
