Oct 25 The United Nations votes to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China.

Oct 11 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of the Today Show

Oct 01 Disneyworld opens in Orlando, Florida

Oct 25 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World

Oct 02 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race

Oct 28 John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC

Oct 26 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China

Oct 27 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan

Jul 01 Golden Gate Bridge paid for but toll is still being collected

Jul 30 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"

Jul 28 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning

Jul 26 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #1836 Komarov

Jul 09 In Chile a 7.5 quaked killed 84 people, 447 injured, and 40,000 made homeless by this earthquake. The earthquake was centered 75 miles northwest of Santiago

Jul 12 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders

Jul 26 Apollo 15, a manned lunar expedition, is launched.

Jul 06 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks

Jul 11 Carleton Young actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64

Jul 15 Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China

Jul 19 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka

Jul 05 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)

Jul 03 Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in France

Jul 06 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 70

Jul 30 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162

Jul 30 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon

Mar 06 Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain

Mar 26 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence

Mar 10 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18

Mar 23 USSR performs underground nuclear test

Mar 14 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos

Mar 14 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes

Mar 26 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings

Mar 31 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion

Mar 12 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President

Mar 04 Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church; first Prime Minister to marry while in office; couple divorce in 1984

Mar 01 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington DC

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