Jan 01 "Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater New York City NY after 1281 performances

Jan 01 "Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater New York City NY after 1281 performances

Jan 05 NASA announced its plans for a new space vehicle, the shuttle

Jan 06 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR

Jan 30 Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die

Jan 06 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR

Jan 01 International Book Year begins

Jan 23 Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi

Jan 07 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

Jan 31 US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)

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

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

Jan 30 British soldiers shoot and kill 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland. This inspired the U2 song Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

Jan 26 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute

Jan 06 US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley

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

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

Jan 21 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory

Jan 07 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

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

Jan 07 Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice

Jan 31 US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)

Jan 05 NASA announces development of space shuttle

Jan 30 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth

Jan 09 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire while at anchor in Hong Kong

Jan 31 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana

Jan 15 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels

Jan 06 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

Jan 06 US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley

Jan 01 International Book Year begins

Jan 10 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK

Jan 31 Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal

Jan 23 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest

Jan 31 Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral

Jan 19 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame

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