Sep 24 The first Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16

Sep 27 The final broadcast of The Original Amateur Hour occurs on CBS-TV. During its 22-year run, the show appeared on all three major networks.

Sep 19 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers

Jun 07 The Who's Tommy is performed at NY's Lincoln Center

Jun 23 Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession

Jun 04 Tonga independence

Jun 19 A Nikolayev &V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9

Jun 30 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze

Jun 04 Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)

Jun 28 USS James Madison (SSBN-627) completes conversion to Poseidon missile capability

Jun 16 Kenneth A Gibson elected first black mayor of Newark, NJ

Jun 01 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days

Jun 06 The Black Watch of Canada regiment is retired from battle order(more history gone)

Jun 22 Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)

Jun 24 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Jun 29 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

Jun 13 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 &stays #1 for 4 weeks

Jun 11 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya

Jun 30 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City

Jun 17 Polaroid camera patented

Jun 16 Race riots in Miami Florida

Jun 19 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published

Dec 01 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

Dec 02 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Director: William Ruckelshaus)

Dec 28 Paul Rose, his brother Jacques Rose, and Francis Simard captured at 4;30 am in tunnel under farmhouse near Montreal; suspected FLQ terrorists, kidnappers and murderers of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte

Dec 07 The Canadian Royal Commission on the Status of Women released its report calling for legal reforms

Dec 24 9 Jews are convicted in Lenningrad of hijacking a plane

Dec 31 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles

Dec 16 The first successful landing on Venus (USSR)

Dec 12 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays

Dec 24 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released

Dec 02 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Director William Ruckelshaus)

Dec 27 "Hello, Dolly!" closes on Broadway after a record 2,844 performances

Dec 17 The Beach Boys played to royalty at Royal Albert Hall in London. Princess Margaret was in attendance and shook the royal jewelry to such classics as Good Vibrations, I Get Around and Help Me, Rhonda.

Dec 15 Soviet Venera 7 is first spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)

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