Dec 31 Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin

Dec 15 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261

Dec 22 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life in prison

Dec 05 A North Vietnamese newspaper declares that the country will not be intimidated by U.S. bombing threats.

Aug 07 First computer chess tournament

Aug 26 Guitar guru Jimi Hendrix opens his Electric Ladyland recording studio in New York City.

Aug 29 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)

Aug 31 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted

Aug 03 First submerged launching of Poseidon nuclear missile off Cape Kennedy

Aug 03 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try

Aug 04 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness

Aug 31 US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup

Aug 03 Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history

Aug 07 4 killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif

Aug 09 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes

Aug 24 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison

Aug 17 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus

Oct 26 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers

Oct 13 Angela Davis arrested in NYC

Oct 24 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile

Oct 04 Jan Stenerud of Kansas City Chiefs kicks 55-yard field goal

Oct 24 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show

Oct 04 Janis Joplin died from a drug overdose. She was 27.

Oct 15 Collapse of Westgate Bridge, Melbourne kills 35 and injures 17

Oct 09 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence

Oct 04 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Oct 02 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30

Oct 23 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)

Oct 16 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Nasser

Oct 28 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts

Oct 09 Cambodia becomes the Khmer Republic.

Oct 21 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways

Oct 05 PBS becomes a network

Oct 05 Quebec seperatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross

Oct 21 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea

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