Apr 11 Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks

Apr 24 China becomes the 5th nation to launch a satellite into orbit

Apr 01 John &Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations

Apr 07 J A Bruwer discovers asteroid #1794 Finsen

Nov 01 Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked and 142 die

Nov 14 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV

Nov 13 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh

Nov 30 George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"

Nov 27 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest

Nov 09 General Charles de Gaulle,former leader of the 'Free French'army and President of France from 1958 to 1969,died

Nov 21 The rarest of Ford Mustangs--the Boss 351--debuted at the Detroit Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan.

Nov 17 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon

Nov 13 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"

Nov 03 Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile

Nov 18 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon

Nov 12 Charles de Gaulle is buried in Paris

Nov 23 Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird discloses the November 21U.S. raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp at Son Tay. The raid was conducted almost flawlessly, but no prisoners of war were found in the camp. They had been moved earlier to other locations.

Nov 27 George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"

Nov 10 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched

Nov 08 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal

Nov 13 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup

Nov 09 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins

Nov 19 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark

Sep 04 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single

Sep 21 "Monday Night Football" on ABC premiers (Browns beat Jets 31-21)

Sep 05 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)

Sep 12 USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility

Sep 21 Monday Night Football, with Howard Cosell, Don Meredith and Keith Jackson calling the plays, makes its debut on ABC-TV.

Sep 20 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample

Sep 28 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup

Sep 22 Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses

Sep 07 Donald Boyles sets record for highest paracute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of the 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado

Sep 21 Luna 16 leaves the Moon

Sep 13 IBM announces System 370 computer

Sep 03 Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi dies in Washington DC.

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