Jan 20 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood

Jan 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Jan 07 U.S. postage rates increase today; it now costs six cents to send an ounce of first class mail.

Jan 01 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Cæsar's Palace Fountain

Jan 09 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon

Jan 30 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"

Jan 30 Vietcong launch Tet-offensive

Jan 01 ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp & FM)

Jan 31 Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins

Jan 06 Dr N E Shumway performs the first US adult cardiac transplant operation

Jan 17 Soyuz 4 & 5 completed first docking of 2 manned spacecraft

Jan 15 In Sicily a 6.0 earthquake in several s in western Sicily were destroyed by this strong shock. It toppled houses, hospitals, medieval castles, and churches

Jan 01 Netherlands gets color TV

Jan 30 Communist forces launch a series of surprise attacks against South Vietnamese targets on the first day of the Tet Offensive.

Jan 07 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon

Jan 12 Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV

Jan 13 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)

Jan 06 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon

Jan 18 The United States and Soviet Union agreed on a draft of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Jan 31 Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia

Jan 20 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

Jan 07 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV

Jan 01 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Cæsar's Palace Fountain

Jan 31 Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins

Jan 01 Netherlands gets color TV

Jan 11 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)

Jan 13 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam

Jan 19 A C-130 Hercules of VR-24 and helicopters from NAF Sigonella delivered food, clothing and medicine to the west coast of Sicily to aid some 40,000 persons made homeless by an earthquake in the region of Montevago.

Jan 25 Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in New York City NY

Jan 04 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas

Jan 06 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon

Jan 10 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho

Jan 05 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia

Jan 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

Jan 04 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas

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