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

Dec 13 John Sinclair (sentence 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed

Dec 17 Cease-fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir

Dec 17 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting

Dec 18 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic

Dec 07 Wings release their first album "Wild Life"

Dec 13 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed

Dec 21 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general

Dec 24 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later

Dec 26 Air Canada jet on flight from Thunder Bay to Toronto hijacked to Cuba.

Dec 09 Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to the Supreme Court

Aug 14 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule

Aug 15 Bahrain gains independence from Britain

Aug 28 25 people die and 1,150 are rescued when the Greek liner Haleanna catches fire.

Aug 07 Apollo 15 returns to Earth

Aug 15 Hurricane Beth drops 296 mm of rain on Halifax and washes out highways and bridges in Nova Scotia.

Aug 29 Hank Aaron becomes the first player in baseball's National League to drive in 100+ runs in 11 seasons.

Aug 04 The US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft

Aug 14 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland

Aug 27 Humorist and author Bennet Cerf dies.

Aug 31 Dave Scott becomes first person to drive a car on the Moon

Aug 03 Paul McCartney announces the formation of his group Wings

Aug 15 Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents

Aug 13 Paul and Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car"

Aug 04 US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft

Oct 04 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World

Oct 08 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"

Oct 24 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)

Oct 25 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan

Oct 27 Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Za‹re

Oct 28 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit

Oct 01 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens

Oct 14 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances

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