1970 Joseph Yablonski, presidential candidate for the United Mine Workers, is found murdered at home with his wife and daughter.

1970 Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC

1971 Australia's first one-day international cricket matched played, against England.

1971 Harlem Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak

1971 US heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found

1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle

1972 New York City NY transit fare rises from 30¢ to 35¢

1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle

1972 US president Richard Nixon gives the go-ahead for the NASA space shuttle program.

1972 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed

1973 Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel

1973 Netherlands recognizes German Democratic Republic

1973 Ottawa protests US air raids on Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam.

1974 Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"

1975 "The Wiz," a musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, opens on Broadway.

1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks

1975 A ship called the Lake Illawarra hits the Tasman Bridge across Hobart's Derwent River; seven ship's crew and five motorists die.

1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days

1976 "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS

1976 Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea"

1976 Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies

1976 Halifax born journalist Robert MacNeil teams up with Jim Lehrer to co-host the first MacNeil-Lehrer Report on PBS.

1977 Kenya President Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament

1979 Jazz bassist Charles Mingus dies of a heart attack at age 56.

1981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women

1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation

1982 Elizabeth Bagshaw dies at age 100; one of Canada's first female doctors

1982 Ottawa bans hiring skilled foreign workers in several mining, manufacturing and construction sectors; to protect Canadian jobs.

1983 Roman Catholic Bishops of Canada release New Year's message attacking government economic policy.

1984 Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings

1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission

1987 Canadian author Margaret Laurence takes her own life at age 60, losing a battle with lung cancer;

1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack NJ

1988 Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated

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