Mar 05 The premiere issue of the rock magazine, Creem, is published.

Mar 20 US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970

Mar 07 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Mar 05 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany

Mar 01 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball

Mar 20 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar

Mar 03 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days)

Mar 05 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris France

Mar 02 The first test flight of the supersonic Concorde

Aug 12 Echo, the worlds first communications satellite, launched by the US

Aug 22 Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255

Aug 31 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival

Aug 19 British army takes over policing of Northern Ireland

Aug 17 Hurricane Camille claims more than 250

Aug 04 Willie Stargell is first to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium

Aug 15 Woodstock music festival

Aug 15 Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)

Aug 23 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)

Aug 31 Boxer Rocky Marciano dies in an airplane crash in Iowa, at age 4Aug 31,

Aug 30 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida

Aug 30 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash

Aug 05 Mariner 7 flies past Mars

Aug 09 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders

Aug 12 A three day street battle started in Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Aug 30 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival

Aug 14 British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland

Sep 13 The Plastic Ono Band, featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono, perform in concert for the first time.

Sep 26 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album

Sep 02 North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh dies.

Sep 09 Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82

Sep 24 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins

Sep 29 "Love American Style," premiers on ABC

Sep 23 Northern Star starts rumor that Paul McCartney is dead

Sep 01 Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris

Feb 08 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post, which used to carry Norman Rockwell covers.

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