Jun 22 Skylab 2's astronauts land

Jun 15 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC

Jun 30 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse

Jun 25 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee

Jun 24 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"

Jun 27 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"

Jun 19 Pete Rose &Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000

Jun 18 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants

Jun 01 Greece becomes a republic, scrapping its monarchy

Jun 10 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit

Jun 09 Secretariat becomes the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes.

Jun 06 Canada bans US oil tankers from Canadian waters to reach planned oil refinery at Eastport, Maine.

Jun 23 The Pope opens the vatican gallery of modern art

Jun 21 Nixon and Brezhnev sign arms limitation agreement

Jun 22 George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World"

Jun 01 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"

Dec 15 Pirates of Caribbean opens at Disneyland

Dec 26 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth

Dec 07 Wings release "Band on the Run"

Dec 15 Jean Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive in southern Italy five months after his kidnapping.

Dec 01 Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea

Dec 16 O.J. Simpson becomes first NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season

Dec 26 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours

Dec 18 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days

Dec 06 Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew

Dec 23 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices

Dec 24 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200

Dec 03 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)

Dec 05 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album

Dec 11 Karen and Richard Carpenter received a gold record for their single, Top of the World.

Dec 30 The first picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)

Dec 25 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)

Dec 22 Pierre Berton quoted in Canadian Magazine as saying, "A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe."

Dec 21 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva

Dec 28 Gulag Archipelago, an expose' of the Soviet prison system, is published by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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