Apr 24 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth

Apr 26 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs

Apr 20 Barbra Striesand records "We've Only Just Begun"

Apr 28 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes first black admiral in US Navy

Apr 26 SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy

Apr 04 "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances

Apr 19 USSR Salyut 1 launched; first manned lab in orbit

Apr 18 Kingston penitentiary inmates stage four-day riot, holding five guards hostage; two convicts murdered, 11 injured.

Apr 19 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day)

Apr 05 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole

Apr 01 HM-12, the Navy's first helicopter squadron devoted exclusively to mine countermeasures was established at NAS Norfolk

Apr 25 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire

Apr 02 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run

Apr 01 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership

Apr 05 US Lieutenant Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life

Nov 13 Mariner 9, first to orbit another planet (Mars)

Nov 01 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation

Nov 29 First pro golf championship at Walt Disney World

Nov 23 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council

Nov 24 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ

Nov 19 Fort Wilderness opens

Nov 29 The U.S. 23rd Division (Americal) ceases combat operations and begins its withdrawal from South Vietnam.

Nov 04 USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launches a Poseidon C-3 missile in first surface launch of Poseidon missile.

Nov 24 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000

Nov 10 US table tennis team arrived in China

Nov 27 Soviet Mars 2 becomes first spacecraft to crash land on Mars

Dec 02 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Umm ak Qiwain form the United Arab Emirates

Dec 22 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-general

Dec 06 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice

Dec 25 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul

Dec 01 John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US

Dec 10 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice

Dec 14 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure

Dec 16 Pakistan army surrenders to Indian army in Bangladesh

Dec 02 Soviet Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars

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