May 15 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims (Minia Egypt)

May 10 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77

May 28 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate

May 01 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)

May 18 "Me & The Chimp" last airs on CBS-TV

May 26 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

May 01 "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances

May 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 02 Lieutenant General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

May 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 22 Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka

Jan 14 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV

Jan 10 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan

Jan 31 Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal

Jan 05 US president Richard Nixon gives the go-ahead for the NASA space shuttle program.

Jan 07 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

Jan 31 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana

Jan 21 Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union

Jan 05 US president Richard Nixon gives the go-ahead for the NASA space shuttle program.

Jan 09 Billionaire Howard Hughes speaks to reporters by phone, stating that a biography of him by author Clifford Irving is phony.

Jan 05 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle

Jan 17 Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd

Jan 21 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh territory

Jan 05 New York City NY transit fare rises from 30¢ to 35¢

Jan 21 Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms

Jan 02 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars

Jan 07 Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice

Jan 02 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars

Jan 05 NASA announces development of space shuttle

Jan 05 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed

Jan 01 People's Republic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebulic of China

Jan 11 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh

Jan 25 World's first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant carried out in London

Jan 31 Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral

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