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

Sep 09 Detroit Red Wings hockey star Gordie Howe retires.

Sep 10 Shoe-slapping statesman Nikita Krushchev, former Premier of Russia, dies.

Sep 21 John Lennon & Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest

Sep 04 ABC-TV pulls the plug on The Lawrence Welk Show after 13 seasons.

Sep 13 Police storm the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, ending a four-day siege that killed 43 people.

Sep 16 Six Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses

Sep 09 1,000 convicts seize Attica, NY prison

Sep 13 9 hostages & 28 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison

Sep 13 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR

Sep 04 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)

Sep 03 John Lennon leaves the UK for NYC, never to return

Sep 03 Qatar regains complete independence from Britain

Sep 09 Forty-three people are killed when prisoners seize control of New York's Attica prison.

Sep 03 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office

Sep 13 The World Hockey Association is founded.

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