May 09 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman &Jean Stapleton

May 20 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia

May 23 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands

May 18 President Nixon rejects the 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus

May 17 Washington State bans sex discrimination

May 03 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)

May 30 Train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die

May 03 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

May 27 23rd Walker Cup: Great Britain/Ireland 13-United States 11

May 10 US special delivery rates go from 45¢ to 60¢

May 13 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident

Jan 12 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring the first " toilet flush" on TV

Jan 30 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his first Test bowl, vs England

Jan 05 Harlem Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak

Jan 07 -40ºF (-40ºC), Hawley Lake AZ (state record)

Jan 31 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands

Jan 04 Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as first elected Governor of Virgin Islands

Jan 08 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established

Jan 31 "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart

Jan 05 Harlem Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak

Jan 06 Berkeley chemists announces the first synthetic growth hormones

Jan 02 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66

Jan 26 Charles Manson convicted of murder

Jan 25 Philadelphia mint's first trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar

Jan 31 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

Jan 01 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV

Jan 11 The first "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK

Jan 24 Panarctic Oils caps a natural gas well on King Christian Island,NWT that had burned out of control for 3 months

Jan 31 US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich

Jan 25 Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada

Jan 31 "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart

Jan 12 Congressional Black Caucus organizes

Jan 06 Berkeley chemists announces the first synthetic growth hormones

Jan 23 -80ºF (-62ºC), Prospect Creek Camp AK (US record)

Jan 06 In Vancouver BC, Neil Young returns to Canada for his first concerts since pre-stardom days; named best male singer and best composer this year

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