Notable Historical Events - 1971
1971 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Cigarette advertisements banned on TV |
Jan 2 |
A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66 |
Jan 3 |
"President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 72 perfs |
Jan 3 |
Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game |
Jan 3 |
Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game |
Jan 4 |
Congressional Black Caucus organizes |
Jan 4 |
Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is |
Jan 4 |
Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims |
Jan 4 |
Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated |
Jan 5 |
1st one-day international, Australia v England at the MCG |
Jan 5 |
Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak |
Jan 5 |
US heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found |
Jan 6 |
Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones |
Jan 6 |
Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate |
Jan 6 |
Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days |
Jan 7 |
-40°F (-40°C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record) |
Jan 8 |
29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, Calif |
Jan 8 |
Voyageurs National Park, Minn established |
Jan 9 |
"Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic NYC after 19 perf |
Jan 10 |
"Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 perfs |
Jan 10 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur |
Jan 10 |
Members of the Irish Republican Army carry out a 'punishment attack' by tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Catholic areas of Belfast |
Jan 11 |
Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves |
Jan 12 |
"All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV |
Jan 12 |
"Soon" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 3 performances |
Jan 12 |
Congressional Black Caucus organizes |
Jan 12 |
Fed grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger |
Jan 12 |
Negotiations over price of petroleum begin in Tehran between 6 OPEC Persian Gulf states and 22 oil companies |
Jan 13 |
"Soon" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 3 performances |
Jan 14 |
John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs |
Jan 15 |
"Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances |
Jan 15 |
Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt |
Jan 15 |
George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" |
Jan 16 |
Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1:58.7) |
Jan 17 |
Super Bowl V: Balt Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Chuck Howley, Dallas, LB |
Jan 17 |
At a party conference in Dublin, Sinn Féin end their 65 year abstentionist policy and agree that any elected representative could take their seat at the Dáil |
Jan 18 |
Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ |
Jan 18 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark attends a meeting in London with British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling |
Jan 19 |
"No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 861 performances |
Jan 19 |
24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston |
Jan 19 |
Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial |
Jan 19 |
NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association |
Jan 20 |
Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8) |
Jan 20 |
John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan |
Jan 21 |
"Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 22 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Power to the People" |
Jan 23 |
-80°F (-62°C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record) |
Jan 23 |
4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina |
Jan 23 |
UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row |
Jan 23 |
Riots break out in the Shankill Road area of Belfast, North Ireland |
Jan 24 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6 |
Jan 25 |
Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders |
Jan 25 |
Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state |
Jan 25 |
Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada |
Jan 25 |
Phila mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar |
Jan 25 |
WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 25 |
The 170 delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) call for the resignation of Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark |
Jan 26 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts law against limitation of war crimes |
Jan 27 |
Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru' |
Jan 27 |
The body of a man who had been shot dead is found in Belfast |
Jan 29 |
Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide |
Jan 30 |
"Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances |
Jan 30 |
Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England |
Jan 30 |
UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak |
Jan 31 |
"My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart |
Jan 31 |
Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands |
Jan 31 |
Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey |
Jan 31 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
Jan 31 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich |
Jan 31 |
& Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 2 |
Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda |
Feb 3 |
KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast |
Feb 3 |
There is a series of house searches by the British Army in Catholic areas of Belfast, resulting in serious rioting and gun battles |
Feb 3 |
OPEC mandates "total embargo" against any company that rejects 55 percent tax rate |
Feb 4 |
Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks |
Feb 4 |
British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt |
Feb 4 |
Government exhibit under construction in Brazil collapses, kills 65 |
Feb 4 |
National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC |
Feb 4 |
Lieutenant-General Vernon Erskine-Crum becomes General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland |
Feb 5 |
Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs |
Feb 6 |
1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard) |
Feb 6 |
Bernard Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army (BA) during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast |
Feb 6 |
The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die during the 'Troubles' |
Feb 6 |
James Saunders (22), a member of the IRA, is shot and killed by the British Army during a gun battle near the Oldpark Road, Belfast |
Feb 7 |
Switzerland votes in women's suffrage |
Feb 8 |
Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ |
Feb 8 |
South Vietnamese troops invade Laos |
Feb 8 |
The Nasdaq stock market index debuts. |
Feb 9 |
Apollo 14 returns to Earth |
Feb 9 |
Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family |
Feb 9 |
Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 & causes over $½B damage |
Feb 9 |
Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF |
Feb 9 |
5 men are killed near a BBC transmitter on Brougher Mountain, County Tyrone, in a landmine attack carried out by the Irish Republican Army |
Feb 10 |
American Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York |
Feb 10 |
Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees) |
Feb 10 |
John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in NYC |
Feb 10 |
Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa |
Feb 11 |
Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal |
Feb 11 |
US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons |
Feb 12 |
Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England |
Feb 13 |
12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos |
Feb 13 |
Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2 |
Feb 14 |
Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television |
Feb 14 |
Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House |
Feb 14 |
Tehran agreement signed; oil companies accept 55 percent tax rate, immediate increase in posted prices, and further successive increases |
Feb 15 |
After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons 12-shilling system for the decimal currency |
Feb 15 |
A British soldier dies 7 days after being mortally wounded in an Irish Republican Army attack in North Ireland |
Feb 17 |
England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win |
Feb 19 |
Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK |
Feb 19 |
Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game |
Feb 20 |
Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season |
Feb 20 |
Maj General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda |
Feb 20 |
Natl Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes |
Feb 21 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic |
Feb 21 |
Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117 |
Feb 21 |
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. |
Feb 22 |
Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria |
Feb 23 |
Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak |
Feb 23 |
George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year |
Feb 23 |
Lt Calley confessed & implicates Captain Medina |
Feb 24 |
Algeria nationalizes 51 percent of French oil concessions |
Feb 25 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances |
Feb 25 |
P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in NYC |
Feb 25 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark holds a meeting with Catholic Cardinal of Ireland William Conway, the first such meeting between men holding these offices since 1921 |
Feb 26 |
Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day. |
Feb 26 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army while on a mobile patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, North Ireland |
Feb 27 |
Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati. |
Feb 28 |
WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville, KY (IND) begins broadcasting |
Feb 28 |
53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA Natl FL Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam |
Feb 28 |
A British soldier dies in Derry after his vehicle had been attacked with petrol bombs (he died as a result of inhaling chemicals from fire extinguisers that were used to put out the fire) |
Mar 1 |
Bomb attack on the Capitol in Wash DC |
Mar 1 |
Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM |
Mar 3 |
South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles |
Mar 3 |
Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa |
Mar 4 |
"City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey |
Mar 6 |
Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain |
Mar 7 |
Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire |
Mar 8 |
Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title at Madison Sq Garden |
Mar 8 |
Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record) |
Mar 8 |
Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" |
Mar 8 |
Gun battle between Official Irish Republican Army and Provisional IRA leave 1 man was killed; the feud between the two wings of the IRA had been developing since the split in 1970 |
Mar 9 |
J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain |
Mar 9 |
Three off-duty Scottish soldiers are killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 4000 shipyard workers take to the streets to demand internment in response |
Mar 10 |
US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18 |
Mar 10 |
Three members of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (a regiment of the British Army) are killed by members of the Irish Republican Army |
Mar 12 |
Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president |
Mar 12 |
Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army |
Mar 12 |
Thousands of Belfast shipyard workers march demanding the introduction of Internment for members of the Irish Republican Army |
Mar 13 |
Live at Fillmore East recorded |
Mar 14 |
Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV |
Mar 14 |
South Vietnamese troops flee Laos |
Mar 14 |
The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes |
Mar 15 |
Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet |
Mar 16 |
13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win |
Mar 16 |
KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting |
Mar 16 |
Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway. |
Mar 16 |
Muddy Waters wins his first Grammy Award, Hollywood |
Mar 16 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Chichester-Clark meets with British PM Heath to disucss the security situation in Northern Ireland |
Mar 18 |
200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru |
Mar 19 |
Phila 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half |
Mar 20 |
Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game |
Mar 20 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark resigns in protest at what he views as a limited security response by the British government |
Mar 21 |
Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown |
Mar 21 |
Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Mar 21 |
Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2" |
Mar 21 |
WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 22 |
Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland |
Mar 23 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Mar 25 |
Boston Patriots become New England Patriots |
Mar 25 |
European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers |
Mar 25 |
Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold |
Mar 25 |
James Callaghan speaks at a rally of the Northern Ireland labour movement, but rejects calls for the Labour Party to open membership to those living in N. Ireland |
Mar 26 |
"Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings |
Mar 26 |
"Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV |
Mar 26 |
Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence |
Mar 27 |
33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title |
Mar 27 |
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) holds its first Annual Conference in the Ulster Hall in Belfast |
Mar 28 |
25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win |
Mar 29 |
1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre |
Mar 29 |
Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines |
Mar 29 |
Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor |
Mar 29 |
Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced |
Mar 29 |
WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 31 |
South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion |
Mar 31 |
William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre |
Apr 1 |
US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere |
Apr 1 |
United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership |
Apr 2 |
Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run |
Apr 2 |
Libya concludes 5 weeks of negotiations with Western oil companies in Tripoli |
Apr 4 |
"Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances |
Apr 4 |
Marine clay under houses liquefies in St-Jean-Vianney, Quebec, 31 die |
Apr 5 |
Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole |
Apr 5 |
Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy |
Apr 5 |
US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life |
Apr 5 |
WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 5 |
In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. |
Apr 6 |
During a debate at Westminster on Northern Ireland, Harold Wilson of the Labour Party claimes that a draft Bill for the imposition of direct rule exists |
Apr 7 |
Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by |
Apr 7 |
Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free |
Apr 7 |
WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals |
Apr 8 |
1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York) |
Apr 9 |
Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK |
Apr 10 |
1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1 |
Apr 10 |
US table tennis team arrives in China PR |
Apr 10 |
The Republican commemorations is held in Belfast of the Easter Rising (in 1916 in Dublin), revealing conflicts between the two wings of the Irish Republican Army |
Apr 11 |
"Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater NYC for 1 performance |
Apr 11 |
35th Golf Masters Championship: Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279 |
Apr 11 |
WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting |
Apr 14 |
Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site |
Apr 14 |
President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China |
Apr 14 |
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies" premieres in NYC |
Apr 14 |
Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation |
Apr 15 |
"70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances |
Apr 15 |
43rd Academy Awards - "Patton", George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win |
Apr 17 |
Egypt, Libya & Syria form federation (FAR) |
Apr 17 |
People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman |
Apr 18 |
Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd inning v WI after 124 in 1st |
Apr 18 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic |
Apr 19 |
75th Boston Marathon won by Alvaro Mejia of Colombia in 2:18:45 |
Apr 19 |
Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder) |
Apr 19 |
Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day) |
Apr 19 |
USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit |
Apr 20 |
Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun" |
Apr 20 |
US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation |
Apr 21 |
Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland |
Apr 22 |
Soyuz 10 launched |
Apr 23 |
Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike |
Apr 23 |
Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station |
Apr 24 |
"Frank Merriwell" opens and closes at Longacre Theater NYC (1 performance only) |
Apr 24 |
Soyuz 10 returns to Earth |
Apr 25 |
About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington |
Apr 25 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
Apr 25 |
US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire |
Apr 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 25 |
The Northern Ireland census is held |
Apr 26 |
Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs |
Apr 26 |
SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy |
Apr 26 |
Turkey state of siege proclaimed |
Apr 27 |
Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark |
Apr 28 |
Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election |
Apr 28 |
Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy |
Apr 29 |
Bill Graham closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East |
Apr 29 |
Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration |
Apr 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 30 |
25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Balt Bullets in 4 games |
May 1 |
97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2 |
May 1 |
Amtrak Railroad begins operation |
May 1 |
Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar" |
May 2 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
May 3 |
"All Things Considered" premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations |
May 3 |
Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
May 3 |
National Public Radio begins programming |
May 3 |
Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days |
May 3 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) |
May 5 |
"Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances |
May 5 |
Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC) |
May 8 |
"Earl of Ruston" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 5 performances |
May 9 |
23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton win |
May 9 |
Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) |
May 9 |
Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes |
May 9 |
Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history |
May 9 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open |
May 10 |
US special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents |
May 11 |
Cleveland's Steve Dunning becomes last AL pitcher to hit grand slam |
May 13 |
Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident |
May 15 |
"70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances |
May 15 |
97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54 |
May 15 |
Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed |
May 15 |
Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast |
May 16 |
1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents) |
May 16 |
Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave" premieres in Aldwych London |
May 16 |
Bulgaria adopts its constitution |
May 17 |
Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell" premieres off-Broadway |
May 17 |
Washington State bans sex discrimination |
May 18 |
4th ABA Championship: Utah Stars beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3 |
May 18 |
Bulgarian constitution goes into effect |
May 18 |
Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus |
May 18 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 |
May 18 |
Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found |
May 19 |
USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
May 20 |
Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia |
May 21 |
Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens |
May 21 |
National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn |
May 22 |
A British soldier is killed by members of the Official Irish Republican Army in Belfast |
May 23 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale |
May 23 |
Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands |
May 24 |
A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard |
May 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 25 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army throw a time bomb into Springfield Road British Army base in Belfast, killing British Army Sergeant Michael Willetts and wounding seven officers |
May 27 |
23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11 |
May 27 |
UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship |
May 28 |
Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram" |
May 28 |
USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars |
May 29 |
Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61 |
May 29 |
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins in 3:10:11.545 (253.850 km/h) |
May 30 |
36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice |
May 30 |
Train crash at Duivendrecht, Netherlands, 5 die |
May 30 |
US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched |
May 30 |
Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored |
May 31 |
WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 1 |
"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs |
Jun 1 |
Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS |
Jun 2 |
Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1 |
Jun 3 |
Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0 |
Jun 3 |
Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, v Engl at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19) |
Jun 4 |
J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO |
Jun 4 |
Oakland A's beat Wash Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings |
Jun 4 |
Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours |
Jun 5 |
103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6 |
Jun 6 |
"Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV |
Jun 6 |
Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die |
Jun 6 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC |
Jun 6 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jun 6 |
Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station |
Jun 6 |
WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, GA (CBN) begins broadcasting |
Jun 6 |
Willie Mays hits record 22nd & last extra inning HR |
Jun 7 |
Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut |
Jun 8 |
North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam |
Jun 8 |
White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign |
Jun 8 |
General Officer Commanding the British Army Harry Tuzo, then claims that a permanent military solution to the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland could not be achieved |
Jun 9 |
Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan |
Jun 9 |
Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold |
Jun 10 |
11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill |
Jun 10 |
44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon |
Jun 11 |
US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan |
Jun 11 |
US ends ban on China trade |
Jun 13 |
17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
Jun 13 |
The New York Times begin publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam |
Jun 13 |
In defiance of a government ban, members of the Orange Order march through the mainly Catholic town of Dungiven, County Londonderry causing a riot |
Jun 15 |
Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League |
Jun 16 |
Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen |
Jun 16 |
Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida |
Jun 18 |
Social Democratic and Labour Party and Nationalist Members of Parliament refuse to attend the state opening of Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) |
Jun 19 |
Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance |
Jun 20 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open |
Jun 21 |
50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana |
Jun 21 |
71st US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore PA |
Jun 21 |
Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf |
Jun 21 |
Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia |
Jun 22 |
a Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States. |
Jun 23 |
Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 4-0 |
Jun 23 |
WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 25 |
Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From" |
Jun 26 |
"Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 perfs |
Jun 26 |
Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines) |
Jun 27 |
"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" closes at Golden NYC after 31 perfs |
Jun 27 |
26th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner |
Jun 28 |
Fillmore East closes |
Jun 28 |
Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds |
Jun 28 |
US Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali |
Jun 29 |
Rolling Stones Mick Jagger & Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense |
Jun 29 |
Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days |
Jun 30 |
Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment |
Jul 1 |
Britain & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands |
Jul 1 |
Debt raised to build San Franisco's Golden Gate Bridge paid off |
Jul 1 |
State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination |
Jul 2 |
78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats Margaret Smith (64 61) |
Jul 2 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Jul 3 |
85th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64) |
Jul 4 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Jul 5 |
26th amendment to the US constitution certified (reduces voting age to 18) |
Jul 5 |
Simon Gray's "Butley" premieres in London |
Jul 6 |
Barend Biesheuvel government forms in Netherlands |
Jul 6 |
Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi |
Jul 6 |
White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks |
Jul 6 |
A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland |
Jul 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 8 |
During street disturbances, British soldiers shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Free Derry; as a result, riots erupted in the city and the Social Democratic and Labour Party withdraws from Stormont in protest |
Jul 9 |
Henry Kissinger visits China PR |
Jul 10 |
100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale |
Jul 10 |
Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed |
Jul 11 |
Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines |
Jul 11 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
Jul 11 |
Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row |
Jul 11 |
The Irish Republican Army set off a number of bombs in the centre of Belfast injuring a number of people |
Jul 12 |
Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders |
Jul 13 |
42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit |
Jul 13 |
All star MVP: Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles) |
Jul 15 |
Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China |
Jul 16 |
Franco appoints prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain |
Jul 16 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie |
Jul 17 |
Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship |
Jul 18 |
Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France |
Jul 19 |
Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees |
Jul 21 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 21 |
Sam Giancana returns to the United States after spending seven years of exile in Mexico |
Jul 22 |
Sudanese military counter-coup under premier Numeiry |
Jul 23 |
The British Army carry out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people |
Jul 24 |
WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 25 |
Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
Jul 26 |
Apollo 15 launched (Scott & Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon |
Jul 28 |
16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning |
Jul 28 |
Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie" |
Jul 30 |
38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289) |
Jul 30 |
George Harrison releases "Bangladesh" |
Jul 30 |
Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 |
Jul 30 |
US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon |
Jul 31 |
Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car ride on Moon |
Jul 31 |
Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms |
Jul 31 |
Venezuela's Hydrocarbons Reversion Law mandates gradual transfer to government ownership of all "unexploited concession areas" by 1974 and "all their residual assets" by 1983 |
Aug 1 |
CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII |
Aug 1 |
George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC |
Aug 1 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
Aug 3 |
Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings |
Aug 4 |
US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft |
Aug 5 |
WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 5 |
The British Parliament debate the security situation in Northern Ireland |
Aug 7 |
Apollo 15 returns to Earth |
Aug 7 |
A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast |
Aug 8 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Aug 8 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
Aug 8 |
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army in Belfast |
Aug 9 |
Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame |
Aug 9 |
Operation Demetrius (or Internment) is introduced in Northern Ireland allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial; the security forces arrested 342 people suspected of supporting paramilitaries |
Aug 10 |
16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research |
Aug 10 |
Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st |
Aug 10 |
During the internment round-up operation in west Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kill 11 unarmed civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy massacre |
Aug 11 |
Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome |
Aug 11 |
Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501 |
Aug 11 |
4 people are shot dead in separate incidents in Belfast; three of them by the British Army, as violence continues following the introduction of Internment and Operation Demetrius |
Aug 12 |
Syriam Pres Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan |
Aug 13 |
Paul & Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car" |
Aug 14 |
Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule |
Aug 14 |
British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland |
Aug 14 |
Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0 |
Aug 14 |
France performs nuclear test |
Aug 15 |
Bahrain gains independence from Britain |
Aug 15 |
Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0) |
Aug 15 |
KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins |
Aug 15 |
US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents |
Aug 15 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open |
Aug 15 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party announce a campaign of civil disobedience in response to the introduction of Internment in Northern Ireland |
Aug 16 |
Over 8,000 workers go on strike in Derry, Northern Ireland, in protest at the introduction of Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial) |
Aug 18 |
New Zealand Prime Minister Keith Holyoake announces in Parliament that New Zealand's combat force would be withdrawn from Vietnam before the end of the year, coinciding with a similar announcement by the Australian government |
Aug 20 |
FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr |
Aug 22 |
Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out |
Aug 22 |
Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
Aug 22 |
J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. |
Aug 22 |
Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial) |
Aug 23 |
WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 24 |
India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms |
Aug 25 |
Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Fitt presents a number of allegations of brutality by the security forces in Northern Ireland to representatives of the United Nations |
Aug 26 |
Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia |
Aug 26 |
NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975 |
Aug 26 |
Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game |
Aug 26 |
Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history |
Aug 28 |
The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time. |
Aug 30 |
WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 31 |
Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30) |
Aug 31 |
An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced |
Sep 1 |
John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open |
Sep 1 |
Qatar declares independence from Britain |
Sep 1 |
Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein |
Sep 1 |
The Irish Republican Army set off a series of bombs across Northern Ireland injuring a number of people |
Sep 2 |
Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer |
Sep 2 |
Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches |
Sep 2 |
NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business |
Sep 2 |
There are further Irish Republican Army bombs set off across the region, including one in Belfast which wrecked the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party |
Sep 3 |
John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return |
Sep 3 |
Manlio Brosio resigns as secretary general of NATO |
Sep 3 |
Qatar regains complete independence from Britain |
Sep 3 |
Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office |
Sep 3 |
A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland |
Sep 4 |
Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) |
Sep 5 |
Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win |
Sep 5 |
NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet |
Sep 6 |
Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
Sep 6 |
British Prime Minister Edward Heath meets with Irish Prime Minister/Taoiseach Jack Lynch at Chequers in England to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland |
Sep 6 |
William Craig and Ian Paisley speak at a rally in Belfast before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people and call for the establishment of a 'third force' to defend 'Ulster' |
Sep 8 |
John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington DC |
Sep 9 |
1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison |
Sep 9 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) |
Sep 9 |
John Lennon releases "Imagine" album |
Sep 9 |
NHL great Gordie Howe retires |
Sep 10 |
KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
"2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances |
Sep 11 |
Egypt adopts its constitution |
Sep 11 |
Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972 |
Sep 12 |
85th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76) |
Sep 12 |
91st US Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76) |
Sep 13 |
11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison |
Sep 13 |
Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR |
Sep 13 |
Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow |
Sep 13 |
WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 13 |
World Hockey Association forms |
Sep 13 |
Two North Ireland Loyalists are mortally injured when the bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely in a house in Bann Street, Belfast |
Sep 14 |
Cleve Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings |
Sep 14 |
Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
Sep 15 |
1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV |
Sep 16 |
6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses |
Sep 16 |
West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet president Brezhnev |
Sep 16 |
A number of Unionists resign over the proposed tripartite talks involving Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Republic of Ireland |
Sep 18 |
19th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 18½-13½ at Old Warson Country Club (St. Louis, Missouri, US) |
Sep 19 |
1st NYC Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22 |
Sep 19 |
2nd NYC Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54 |
Sep 21 |
AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers) |
Sep 22 |
OPEC directs members to negotiate price increases to offset the devaluation of the US dollar |
Sep 22 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 23 |
John Vermeer's painting "The Liefdesbrief" stolen |
Sep 23 |
2 members of the Official Irish Republican Army are killed in a premature bomb explosion |
Sep 24 |
90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying |
Sep 24 |
Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament |
Sep 24 |
Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings |
Sep 26 |
Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season |
Sep 26 |
Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
Sep 26 |
WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 26 |
MP David Bleakley resigns in protest over the introduction of Internment and the lack of any new political initiatives by the Northern Ireland government |
Sep 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 27 |
Tripartite talks involving the prime ministers of Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) of the Republic of Ireland take place at Chequers, England |
Sep 28 |
Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary took refuge in US Embassy in |
Sep 28 |
NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music |
Sep 28 |
Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile & flies to Rome |
Sep 28 |
UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis. |
Sep 29 |
"McMillan & Wife" debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 |
Sep 29 |
Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched |
Sep 29 |
Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season |
Sep 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 30 |
-11/6] Rome: 3rd bishop synod |
Sep 30 |
Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field |
Sep 30 |
Ian Paisley and Desmond Boal launch the [Ulster] Democratic Unionist Party |
Oct 1 |
Joseph Luns becomes secretary-general of NATO |
Oct 1 |
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens |
Oct 2 |
Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race |
Oct 3 |
Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000 |
Oct 4 |
Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World |
Oct 4 |
KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Oct 4 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Oct 5 |
A new sitting of the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont begins, though the Social Democratic and Labour Party remain absent due to its continuing protest against Internment |
Oct 7 |
Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida |
Oct 7 |
T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?" premieres in NYC |
Oct 7 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Brian Faulkner meets with British Prime Minister Edward Heath; they agree to send an additional 1,500 British Army troops to Northern Ireland |
Oct 8 |
John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine" |
Oct 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 9 |
Japanese emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands |
Oct 9 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 10 |
First game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1 |
Oct 10 |
5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins |
Oct 10 |
Fenholt & Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" premieres in NYC |
Oct 10 |
Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962 |
Oct 11 |
60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2) |
Oct 11 |
Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times |
Oct 11 |
Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show |
Oct 11 |
Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam |
Oct 12 |
"Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 711 perfs |
Oct 13 |
1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) |
Oct 13 |
WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting |
Oct 14 |
2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances |
Oct 14 |
John & Yoko appear on "Dick Cavett Show" |
Oct 15 |
The start of the 2,500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia. |
Oct 16 |
Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in SF |
Oct 17 |
Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens |
Oct 17 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic |
Oct 17 |
Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series |
Oct 17 |
It is estimated today that approximately 16,000 households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland |
Oct 19 |
Last issue of "Look" magazine is published |
Oct 19 |
A group of f Northern Ireland Members of Parliament begin a 48 hour hunger strike against the policy of Internment |
Oct 20 |
"Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per |
Oct 20 |
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 20 |
The Nepal stock exchange collapses. |
Oct 20 |
Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland |
Oct 21 |
"To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 173 perfs |
Oct 21 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda |
Oct 21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 21 |
William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan |
Oct 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Oct 23 |
WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (ABC) begins |
Oct 23 |
Two female members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are shot dead by the British Army in the Lower Falls area of Belfast |
Oct 23 |
Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry, County Down |
Oct 24 |
Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds) |
Oct 24 |
Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21 |
Oct 24 |
President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O'Brady, then (SF), address a SF Ard Fheis in Dublin, claiming that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as first step in achieving a united Ireland |
Oct 24 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb attack in Belfast |
Oct 25 |
Belgium & China PR establish diplomatic relations |
Oct 25 |
General Meeting of UN agrees to admit China PR |
Oct 25 |
Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World |
Oct 25 |
UN votes to expel Chinese Nationalist-ruled Taiwan & admit Red China |
Oct 25 |
A man dies two days after being shot during an Irish Republican Army attack on the British Army in Belfast |
Oct 26 |
UN votes to replace Taiwan with China |
Oct 26 |
An Assembly, attended only by Nationalist politicians, and acting as an alternative to Stormont, meet in Dungiven Castle |
Oct 27 |
Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire |
Oct 27 |
Gerard Newe becomes the first Catholic to serve in any Northern Ireland government since 1920; Newe was appointed to try to improve community relations |
Oct 28 |
Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit |
Oct 28 |
John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC |
Oct 31 |
"On the Town" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 65 performances |
Oct 31 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explode a bomb at the Post Office Tower in London |
Nov 1 |
Eisenhower dollar put into circulation |
Nov 2 |
"Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Nov 2 |
Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0 |
Nov 3 |
"Play Misty For Me" premieres |
Nov 5 |
Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping |
Nov 5 |
NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak |
Nov 6 |
"Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances |
Nov 6 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
Nov 9 |
David Storey's "Changing Room," premieres in London |
Nov 9 |
John List kills family & moves to Colorado |
Nov 10 |
Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP |
Nov 10 |
US table tennis team arrived in China |
Nov 11 |
Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15 |
Nov 11 |
Neil Simon's "Prisoner of Second Avenue" premieres in NYC |
Nov 13 |
Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars) |
Nov 14 |
Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria |
Nov 15 |
Intel advertises 4004-processor |
Nov 16 |
The Compton inquiry is published, acknowledging that there was ill-treatment of internees, but rejected claims of systematic brutality or torture (Northern Ireland) |
Nov 16 |
The US increase air activity to support the Cambodian government as fighting neared Phnom Penh |
Nov 18 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Nov 18 |
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast |
Nov 19 |
Disney's Fort Wilderness opens |
Nov 20 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 21 |
NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
Nov 21 |
Richard Baker becomes teacher of SF Zen Center |
Nov 21 |
Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. |
Nov 22 |
"Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 144 performances |
Nov 22 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh |
Nov 23 |
China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council |
Nov 23 |
Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement |
Nov 24 |
Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 24 |
Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000 |
Nov 24 |
Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey |
Nov 24 |
A woman is killed after members of the Irish Republican Army carry out an attack on British soldiers in Strabane, County Tyrone |
Nov 24 |
A British Army bomb-disposal specialist is killed by a bomb in Lurgan, County Armagh |
Nov 25 |
"Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington |
Nov 25 |
37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (QB) |
Nov 25 |
Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson proposes that Britain should work towards a withdrawal from Northern Ireland, with the consent of Protestants, after a period of 15 years; as part of the proposal the Republic of Ireland would rejoin the British Commonwealth |
Nov 27 |
Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
Nov 27 |
Two Customs officials are shot by an Irish Republican Army sniper firinge upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a Customs Post near Newry, County Armagh |
Nov 28 |
"Me Nobody Knows" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 587 perfs |
Nov 28 |
59th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-11 |
Nov 29 |
1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World |
Nov 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 30 |
TV movie "Brian's Song" airs for 1st time on ABC-TV |
Nov 30 |
The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights |
Dec 1 |
Cubs release Ernie Banks & sign him as a coach |
Dec 1 |
Galt MacDermot/John Guare's "2 gentlemen of Verona" opens at St James Theater NYC for 613 perfs |
Dec 1 |
John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US |
Dec 1 |
Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. |
Dec 2 |
Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars |
Dec 2 |
United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) declares independence from UK |
Dec 2 |
Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates |
Dec 2 |
Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes pres of UAE |
Dec 3 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
Dec 3 |
US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term |
Dec 3 |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. |
Dec 4 |
The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan. |
Dec 4 |
The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. |
Dec 4 |
McGurk's Bar bombing: the UVF explode a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen others; this was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during 'the Troubles' |
Dec 5 |
KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Dec 5 |
Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession |
Dec 6 |
Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
Dec 6 |
A woman dies trying to salvage property from the Salvation Army Citadel in Belfast after bomb which started a large fire in an adjoining building |
Dec 7 |
"Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC |
Dec 7 |
Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life" |
Dec 7 |
An off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment is shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
Dec 9 |
Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court |
Dec 10 |
West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace |
Dec 10 |
William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
Dec 11 |
The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed. |
Dec 11 |
A bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were killed and nineteen wounded |
Dec 13 |
John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed |
Dec 14 |
Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure |
Dec 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Dec 16 |
Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan |
Dec 16 |
Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released |
Dec 16 |
India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders |
Dec 17 |
"Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US |
Dec 17 |
Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir |
Dec 17 |
Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting |
Dec 18 |
1st Candlelight Processional at the EPCOT Center, Disney World |
Dec 18 |
CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts |
Dec 18 |
People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic |
Dec 18 |
US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245) |
Dec 18 |
Three members of the Irish Republican Army die when the bomb they were transporting explodes prematurely in King Street, Magherafelt, County Derry. |
Dec 19 |
"Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances |
Dec 19 |
CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons) |
Dec 19 |
NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp |
Dec 19 |
Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres |
Dec 20 |
Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns |
Dec 21 |
UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General |
Dec 21 |
A publican is killed as he tried to remove a bomb from his pub, Northern Ireland |
Dec 22 |
KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 22 |
UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General |
Dec 22 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Dec 23 |
British Prime Minister Edward Heath visits Northern Ireland and expresses his determination to end the violence |
Dec 24 |
Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later |
Dec 25 |
Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24 |
Dec 25 |
Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson |
Dec 25 |
Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul |
Dec 28 |
Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet |
Dec 30 |
Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders) |
Dec 30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Dec 30 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin. |
Dec 31 |
KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting |