1965 International Cooperation Year begins

1965 Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms

1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City NY subway

1966 All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"

1966 Military coup by Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa in Central African Republic

1966 Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1

1967 Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots

1967 St Helena adopts constitution

1967 Tonga revises constitution

1968 ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp & FM)

1968 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Cæsar's Palace Fountain

1968 Netherlands gets color TV

1970 "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)

1970 Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established

1970 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect

1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV

1972 "Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater New York City NY after 1281 performances

1972 International Book Year begins

1972 People's Republic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebulic of China

1973 47th Australian Women's Tennis Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75)

1973 Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market

1973 West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

1974 World Population Year begins

1975 Establishment of the Office of Australian War Graves to take over the responsibilities of the Anzac Agency

1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime

1975 International Women's Year begins

1975 Sweden adopts constitution

1976 Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall

1976 NBC replaces the peacock logo

1976 Venezuela nationalizes oil fields

1977 Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596

1977 Czech intellectualus & chinas begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77

1977 First woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means)

1978 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213

1978 President Ford signs first major revision of copyright law since 1909

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