Dec 22 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC

Dec 22 Olive Diefenbaker dies; wife of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.

Dec 16 George a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months

Dec 31 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run

Dec 15 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when the ship runs aground

Dec 16 Government halts swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis

Dec 26 In St. John's Newfoundland a nursing home fire kills 21 elderly residents.

Dec 07 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for 2nd 5 yr term

Dec 04 Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner)

Aug 16 In the Mindanao area of the Philippines, a 7.9 earthquake occurred near the west coast of Mindanao, about 950 kilometers south of Manila. A tsunami was generated in the Moro Gulf causing considerable damage and loss of life. It is estimated that the earthquake and tsunami killed 5,000 to 8,0000 people

Aug 11 Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami

Aug 27 British MP John Stonehouse resigns following his conviction for theft and fraud

Aug 18 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon

Aug 09 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth

Aug 12 First approach and landing test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise

Aug 19 Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention

Aug 30 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show

Aug 30 USS Oriskany, the last of the Essex-class attack carriers, was decommissioned at San Francisco and placed in the mothball fleet. Oriskany saw extensive action in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

Aug 01 Trinidad and Tobago independence

Aug 13 An HU-16 Albatross, the Navy's last operational seaplane made its final water landing in Pensacola Bay

Aug 07 Scientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars

Aug 24 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth

Aug 07 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth

Oct 12 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight

Oct 04 TV audiences watched as Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the ABC Evening News for the first time

Oct 20 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince

Oct 06 Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"

Oct 30 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of the United Church of Christ

Oct 06 John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world and cycling 50,600 miles

Oct 21 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 12 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party

Oct 10 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7 33

Oct 10 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33

Oct 25 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight

Oct 14 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking

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