Jan 22 Former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) dies at age 64.

Jan 07 British Darts Organization founded in North London

Jan 27 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr

Jan 05 Ottawa protests US air raids on Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam.

Jan 05 Netherlands recognizes German Democratic Republic

Jan 27 The Vietnam peace accords are signed in Paris.

Jan 01 West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

Jan 22 With Roe vs Wade, US Supreme Court legalizes abortion

Jan 11 Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106

Jan 30 KISS plays their first show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)

Jan 08 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs Pakistan at SCG

Jan 01 Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market

Jan 16 USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of the Moon

Feb 21 Israeli jet fighters shoot down a Libyan Airlines passenger plane over the Sinai Desert, killing more than 100 people.

Feb 04 "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances

Feb 06 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution

Feb 13 US dollar devalues 10%

Feb 05 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders

Feb 26 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m

Feb 15 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)

Feb 03 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

Feb 16 West Indies vs Australia at Kingston, first time since 1955 without Sobers

Feb 07 Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

Feb 18 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington

Feb 05 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuts

Feb 21 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out

Feb 22 Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan commercial airliner (106 die)

Feb 02 Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA

Feb 06 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edmonton

Feb 12 American prisoners captured in Vietnam are released

Feb 04 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled

Feb 27 -Airborne mine countermeasures began off Haiphong during Operation Endsweep. This was a "first" in mine warfare

Feb 23 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London

Feb 08 Mushtaq &Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs New Zealand

Feb 05 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War

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