Sep 23 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth

Sep 16 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop

Sep 03 The US spacecraft Viking 2 successfully lands on Mars

Sep 28 Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium

Sep 25 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park

Sep 15 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days

Sep 01 Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)

Sep 09 Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung dies in Beijing at age 82.

Sep 01 NASA launches space vehicle S-197

Sep 13 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight (5m28s)

Sep 03 The unmanned NASA spacecraft Viking Two makes a successful Mars landing to begin its mission of sending color photos back to Earth.

Sep 20 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion

Sep 07 US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagarism (He's So Fine)

Sep 24 Rhodesia accepts an American and British plan for majority rule

Sep 10 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard

Sep 24 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter

Sep 23 Ford-Carter TV debate

Sep 20 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women

Jun 12 The Navy phased out the last C-117 (Douglas DC-3), perhaps the most famous transport plane of all time. The last C-117 was flown from Pensacola to Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, the boneyard for obsolete military aircraft

Jun 16 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa

Jun 23 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens

Jun 10 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome

Jun 03 Queen's Bhoemian Rhapsody goes gold

Jun 14 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)

Jun 04 Canada declares 370 km (200 nautical mile) offshore fisheries jurisdiction zone, effective Jan 1, 1977

Jun 19 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth

Jun 05 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)

Jun 29 Seychelles gains independence from Britain

Jun 03 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta

Jun 30 A Naval Aviator tradition came to an end when brown shoes were stricken from the officers' and chiefs' uniforms. The tradition initially distinguished the Brown Shoe Navy of the aviators from the black shoes of the surface officers.

Dec 20 Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns

Dec 13 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur

Dec 13 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m)

Dec 21 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child

Dec 12 QB Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet

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