Jun 18 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118

Jun 05 UN Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm

Jun 02 Dion & the Belmonts reunion concert at Madison Square Garden

Jun 09 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 200

Jun 23 Nixon &Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate

Jun 15 75,000 attend gathering of religious leader Billy Graham, in Texas

Dec 30 President Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks

Dec 23 Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua

Dec 22 Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell receives a gold record for her album, For the Roses; includes the single, You Turn Me on, I'm a Radio.

Dec 29 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101

Dec 03 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die

Dec 18 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam

Dec 27 Former Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester B. 'Mike' Pearson 1897-1972 dies at age 75;

Dec 02 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)

Dec 21 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany

Dec 07 Phillippine first lady Imelda Marcos stabbed and wounded by an assailant

Dec 13 An HC-1 Detachment Five SH-3G Sea King helicopter, stationed aboard Oriskany, rescued a VFP-63 pilot involved in operations in the Tonkin Gulf while on Yankee Station. This was the fifteenth pilot rescued by HC-1

Dec 16 Miami Dolphins become first undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)

Dec 11 Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on the Moon

Dec 26 Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the U.S., dies in Kansas City, Missouri.

Dec 27 New North Korean constitution comes into effect

Dec 12 Captain Eugene A. Cernan, USN, commander of Apollo 17, walks on the Moon. Commander Ronald E. Evans, USN, was the Command Module Pilot. The mission lasted 12 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes. Recovery by HC-1 helicopters from USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14).

Dec 30 The US stops the bombing of North Vietnam.

Dec 19 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth

Dec 23 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70 days, survived by cannibalism

Dec 17 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan

Dec 07 Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon series, launched

Aug 12 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam

Aug 21 First hot air balloon flight over the Alps

Aug 24 Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame

Aug 21 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach

Aug 02 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London

Aug 31 Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics

Aug 17 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game

Aug 18 Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney $800 in Sweden cannabis possession

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