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OCTOBER 1968 NATO Science Committee sponsored a conference in Garmisch, Germany to examine the issues of developing software 01 "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh 02 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts (1968 World Series) 03 Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Belande Terry in Peru 07 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system 09 Government seizes oil fields in Peru 10 Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series 10 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd 10 Lee Evans of the US sets 400 meter record at 43.86 11 Apollo Guidance Computer made its debut orbiting the Earth on Apollo 7 11 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours 11 Billy Martin named manager of Twins 11 Panama revolts 12 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City 12 Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame 14 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7) 14 Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas 14 J.R. Hines of US runs 100 m in world record 9.95 sec 16 During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute 18 Bob Beamon of USA sets the long jump record (29"2") in Mexico City 18 Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas 18 John Lennon & Yoko Ono fined for marijuana possession 18 Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash 18 Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko's apt 18 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony 19 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars 20 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis 22 Apollo 7 returns to Earth 23 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec) 24 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on bail 25 Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT) 25 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby 26 Soyuz 3 launched 31 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam Top of Page NOVEMBER 1968 05 Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency 08 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John 10 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight 11 John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album 11 Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England 19 Army coup seizes power in Mali 21 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" 22 Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in UK, their only double album 28 John Lennon is fined for unauthorized drug possession DECEMBER 1968 05 Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP 07 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit 07 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 09 Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford 11 US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband 12 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired 13 Playland at the Beach reopens 21 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage 23 1st US case of space motion sickness 23 82 members of US intelligence ship "Pueblo" released by North Korea 23 Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon 24 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis 25 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon 27 Apollo 8 returns to Earth 28 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival 28 Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks 29 Baltimore Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game 29 New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game 30 -48F (-44C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record) 31 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144) Top of Page JANUARY 1969 IPTO awarded a contract to Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) to work on implementing the physical network 03 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey 03 Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress 04 France begins arms embargo against Israel 05 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) 06 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" 07 US Congress doubles presidential salary 09 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England) 10 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland 10 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus 10 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam 11 Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts 11 "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5 12 Superbowl III New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami Superbowl MVP Joe Namath, New York Jets, Quarterback 13 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album 14 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers 14 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later 15 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union 15 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean 16 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space 17 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK 17 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US 17 Soyuz 5 lands 18 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris 19 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-25 19 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 10-7 20 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President 20 U of Arizona reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula) 21 22nd NHL All-Star Game West beat East 3-3 at Montreal 22 Billy Preston becomes the 5th Beatle 22 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit 22 "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City NY for 110 performances 22 Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame 23 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye" 24 Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency 25 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris 27 14 spies hung in Baghdad 27 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria 28 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America 28 2nd ABA All-Star Game West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville 29 Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars 30 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere 31 Beatles perform last live gig (42-minute concert on roof of Apple HQs) 31 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA FEBRUARY 1969 04 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost 05 US population reaches 200 million 05 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins 07 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack - Hialeah, Florida 07 George Harrison of the Beatles, has his tonsils removed 08 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico 09 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight 13 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released 17 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released) 22 Barbara Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track 24 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby 25 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album Top of Page MARCH 1969 01 After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts 01 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium 01 Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball 02 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde 03 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days) 05 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris 10 James Earl Ray pleads guilty of killing Martin Luther King Jr 12 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home 12 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London 13 Apollo 9 returns to Earth 16 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period 17 Golda Meir becomes Israeli PM 19 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention 20 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar 22 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years 25 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam) 26 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched 27 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars 29 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines 31 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are each fined for illegal drugs APRIL 1969 03 First RFC (Request For Comments), "Host Software", was submitted by Steve Crocker 04 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart 12 Simon & Garfunkel release "Boxer" 14 1st major league baseball game outside US played in Montreal, Canada 14 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College 17 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy 17 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert 19 "Oliver," Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn win 51st Academy Awards 21 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon 22 Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zygiewicz in 1:36 23 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy 24 Paul McCartney says their is no truth to the rumours he is dead 28 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France Top of Page MAY 1969 01 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0 03 Unbeaten Majestic Prince wins the Kentucky Derby 04 Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup 05 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 3, for the NBA championship 07 Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers in 2nd ABA championship, 4 games to 1 10 Turtles play the White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times 12 Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH 15 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from Supreme Court 16 The Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault 16 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere 17 Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to the AFC in the NFL 17 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus 18 Apollo 10 launched toward lunar orbit 21 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over the NY Mets 22 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface 23 The Who release the rock opera "Tommy" 24 Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks 26 Apollo 10 returns to Earth 26 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) 27 Walt Disney World construction begins (Florida) 31 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" 31 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore" JUNE 1969 01 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV 02 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74. (South Vietnam) 04 Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group 05 Race riot in Hartford Connecticut 07 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special 07 Tommy James & the Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion" 08 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG) 09 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice 11 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity" 13 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones, replacing Brian Jones 15 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS TV 16 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House 19 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances 20 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear 21 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525" 22 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance 23 Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title 23 Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice 25 Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon 27 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival 27 Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against the police, it lasts 3 days 29 1st Jewish worship service at White House 30 Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34 Top of Page JULY 1969 01 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales 01 John & Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash 03 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI 03 Rolling Stones' Brian Jones is found dead in his swimming pool at his Cotchford Farm home 04 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK 04 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin 04 Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbledon Ladies championship 05 Rod Laver wins his 4th Wimbledon championship 05 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park 07 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English language 08 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam 10 NL votes to split into 2 divisions 11 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" 13 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon 14 "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins 15 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader 15 Rod Carew ties the record with his 7th steal of home in a season 16 Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched 18 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL 18 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Ted Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge 19 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit 20 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 21 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT) 21 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits 22 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite 23 NL beats AL 9-3 in 40th All Star Game (RFK Stadium, Washington) for 7th consecutive time 24 Apollo 11 returns to Earth 24 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game 24 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal 25 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival 26 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific 29 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars 30 Barbra Striesand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas 31 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, LA AUGUST 1969 01 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival 04 Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium 05 Mariner 7 flies past Mars 06 Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals) 09 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders 12 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million 14 British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland 14 NY Mets fall 9 games back, later to win the pennant 15 Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) 17 Hurricane Camille hits Gulf Coast near mouth of Mississippi River, claims 255 lives, $322 million in damages 19 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0 23 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912) 25 Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo) 30 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival 30 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival at Tenino, Washington 30 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida 31 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival Top of Page SEPTEMBER 1969 Creation of ARPANET - first successful linking of 4 computers (network) 01 Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris 10 NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time 15 Phillies Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game 22 SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit HR # 600 24 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins 26 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album 28 Joe Kapp (Minn Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14) 29 "Love American Style," premiers on ABC 29 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6 29 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver Broncos OCTOBER 1969 04 United Nations starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters 04 Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 & Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings 05 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal 09 The Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together" 11 Soyuz 6 is launched 12 Soyuz 7 is launched 13 Soyuz 8 is launched 14 Race riots in Springfield Mass 15 Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars) 15 Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a world series (World Series #66) 15 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war 16 100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5 18 Federal govt bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners 27 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization dubbed Nader's Raiders by the Washington Post 31 George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK 31 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida NOVEMBER 1969 Victor Scheinman's Stanford Arm made a breakthrough as the first successful electrically powered, computer-controlled robot arm 01 Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks 02 NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each 06 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Baltimore & Denny McLain, Detroit) 07 John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK 10 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV 11 Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in the UK 11 Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by the FBI for drunkenness 13 VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depths of bias & distortion 14 Apollo 12 launched for 2nd manned Moon landing 15 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam War 15 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indecent language in Tampa, FL 19 Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon 20 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal 24 Apollo 12 returns to Earth 25 John Lennon returns his Member of the British Empire medal to protest Britain's involvement in Biafra & Vietnam 29 Beatles' "Come Together," single goes #1 DECEMBER 1969 AT&T Bell Laboratories programmers Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed the UNIX operating system on a spare DEC minicomputer. UNIX combined many of the timesharing and file management features offered by Multics, from which it took its name 01 US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II 03 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar 06 300,000 attend the Altamont CA, rock concert feature Rolling Stones 15 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones 16 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko" posters begin appearing 17 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show 17 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings 18 Britain abolishes death penalty 19 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released 22 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots Top of Page January 1970 ARPANET network expanded from first 4 computers to thirteen (then 23 by April 1972) 01 "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) 02 Dutch premiere of the musical "Hair" in Amsterdam 02 US population is 204,000,000; Black population 22,600,000 (11.1%) 03 Marxist government takes over in Congo 03 "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 84 performances 03 "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 1508 performances 04 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios 04 Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game 04 Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game 04 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary 05 Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC 07 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock" 11 Superbowl IV Kansas City Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP Len Dawson, Kansas City, Quarterback 12 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria 12 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage 16 AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3½" from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed 16 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4) 16 Colonel Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya 17 Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s 18 Hasse Börjes skates world record 500 meters in 38.9 seconds 19 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 19 Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) 20 20th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia 20 23rd NHL All-Star Game East beat West 4-1 at St Louis 20 Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano 22 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, New York to London in 6½ hours 23 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California) 23 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1 23 Dolle Mina burns her bra in Amsterdam 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 24 3rd ABA All-Star Game West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana 24 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 seconds) 25 Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres 27 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG" 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 31 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges February 1970 Fairchild introduced the first 256-bit static RAM called the 4100, while Intel announced the first 1024-bit dynamic RAM, called the 1103, in the same year 02 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points 10 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hotel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths. (Val d'Isere, France) 11 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit 13 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi 15 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo 16 Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown 17 Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter 17 Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall) 19 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite 24 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) 26 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album 27 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance 28 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge Top of Page March 1970 SRI International's Shakey became the first mobile robot controlled by artificial intelligence 01 End of US commercial whale hunting 01 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released 01 White govt of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain 02 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 04 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game 04 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out 05 3 SDS Weathermen killed when bomb explodes in NYC townhouse 05 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect 06 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK 10 Barbra Striesand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It" 13 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer 15 Expo '70 World Fair opens in Osaka, Japan 17 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England) 18 NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time 25 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) 26 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945 26 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl 27 Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey" 28 1,300 die when 7.1 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey) 30 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship 31 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee April 1970 Vietnam War protesters attacked university computer centers. At the University of Wisconsin, the toll was one human and four machines. 02 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in the world 08 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court 09 Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles 11 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days 11 Beatles' "Let it Be," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks 12 Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio 13 Billy Casper wins the Masters golf tournament 13 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon 17 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help 17 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" 20 Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record 22 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources 22 NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher 22 NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19 22 Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings 24 China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red" 25 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold" 25 Melanie releases "Lay Down" 30 US troops invade Cambodia Top of Page May 1970 Citizens and Southern National Bank in Valdosta, GA installed the country's first automatic teller machine 02 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump) 04 T.H. Williams wins Pulitzer Prize for his biography, Huey Long 04 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State 06 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest 08 Beatles release "Let it Be" album 08 Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99 for their 1st NBA championship 10 Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup 11 Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise 12 Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run 12 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on the Supreme Court 12 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops) 13 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premiers 14 Harry A Blackmun appointed to the Supreme Court 15 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 in racial disturbance at Jackson State College 17 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits 17 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra 20 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam 20 2 die in a NYC subway accident 21 National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State U 22 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus 22 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0 23 Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of the US (England) 24 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult 25 Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars in 3rd ABA championship, 4 games to 2 27 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I 31 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru leveled by earthquake. (50-70,000 die) June 1970 McNeese offered their first Computer Science course (with Fortran IV)... That's "how I spent my summer vacation" in 1970. 01 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days 07 The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center 09 Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice 13 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks 13 Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks 16 Race riots in Miami Florida 19 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published 20 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR 21 Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship 22 Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18) 23 Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana possession 24 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs 24 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 26 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2 29 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia 30 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City July 1970 03 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival 03 Calif Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 04 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ 05 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109 08 SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) 12 Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky 14 National League wins the Major League Baseball All-Star game 41 15 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship 17 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC 18 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily 18 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time 18 Willie Mays hits # 3,000 20 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island 29 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct 30 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct 31 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report" Top of Page August 1970 03 4 day NFL strike ends 03 Hurricane "Celia" (hit Corpus Christi) becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history 03 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try 04 Jim Morrison (The Doors) arrested for drunkenness 07 1st computer chess tournament 07 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) 08 NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 09 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes 11 Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues 15 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) 17 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus 24 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison 28 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970 29 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed) 31 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted 31 US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup September 1970 03 Vince Lombardi football coach, dies in Washington DC at 57 12 USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility 13 IBM announces System 370 computer 15 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million 18 Jimi Hendrix rock guitarist, dies at 27 in London 19 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers 20 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample 21 "Monday Night Football" on ABC premiers (Browns beat Jets 31-21) 22 Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses 24 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16 27 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error 28 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup 28 Nasser Egyptian Pres, dies of a heart attack at 52 replaced by Sadat Top of Page October 1970 04 Janis Joplin rock singer from Port Arthur, Texas, dies at 27 04 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma 05 PBS becomes a network 13 Angela Davis arrested in NYC 15 Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series 23 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph) 24 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show 26 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers 28 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts November 1970 01 Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die 02 Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Philadelphia 141-87) 07 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida 08 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal 09 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins 10 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched 13 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh 13 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs" 14 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV 17 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon 21 Elvis Presley meets President Richard Nixon at the White House and receives a Drug Enforcement Agency badge December 1970 Norman Abrahamson develops ALOHAnet at University of Hawaii. ALOHAnet provided the background for the work which later became ethernet 02 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Director: William Ruckelshaus) 16 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR) 24 9 Jews are convicted in Lenningrad of hijacking a plane 24 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released 27 "Hello, Dolly!" closes on Broadway after a record 2,844 performances 31 Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin 31 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles Top of Page January 1971 01 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV 03 Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game 03 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game 04 Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected Governor of Virgin Islands 04 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims 04 Congressional Black Caucus organizes 05 Harlem Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak 05 US heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found 06 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate 06 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones 07 -40F (-40C), Hawley Lake, Arizona (state record) 08 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island CA 11 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK 12 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV 12 Fed grand jury indicts Reverend Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger 15 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" 16 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1 58.7) 17 Super Bowl V Baltimore Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Superbowl MVP Chuck Howley, Dallas, Linebacker 19 Beatles' Helter Skelter is played at the Charles Manson trial 19 24th NHL All-Star Game West beat East 2-1 at Boston 20 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan 20 Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1 18.8) 21 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV 22 John & Yoko record "Power to the People" 23 -80F (-62C), Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record) 23 UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row 23 4th ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina 24 NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 27-6 (1st Pro Bowl after NFL-AFL merger) 25 Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders 25 Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar 26 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes 29 Dawn single "Knock Three Times" hits #1 30 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak 31 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands 31 Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey & Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame 31 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn 31 US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich February 1971 04 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC 04 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks 04 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil 05 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro. Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell walk on Moon for 4 hrs 06 1st time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard) 07 Women win the right to vote in Switzerland 09 Apollo 14 returns to Earth 09 Earthquake shook Los Angeles, 64 die 09 Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 26 & causes over $billion damage 09 Satchel Paige becomes 1st Black-league player elected to baseball Hall of Fame 10 American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY 10 Bill White becomes the 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees) 11 Montreal Canadian John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal 11 US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons 13 Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2 14 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House 14 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television 19 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK 19 Walt Wesley becomes the 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game 20 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes 21 Series of tornadoes cut through Mississippi & Louisiana killing 117 23 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year 23 Lt Calley confessed & implicates Captain Medina 28 Jack Nicklaus completes his 2nd golf grand slam Top of Page March 1971 03 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles 07 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease-fire 08 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" 08 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden (1st to beat Ali) 08 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record) 10 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18 13 Live at Fillmore East recorded 14 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV 14 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes 18 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru 19 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half 21 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2" 25 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots 26 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence 27 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title 29 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My-Lai massacre April 1971 01 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership 01 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere 02 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run 03 Temptations hit #1 with "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" 05 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy 08 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York) 09 Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK 10 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 10 US table tennis team arrives in China PR 15 43rd Academy Awards presented (Best Picture: "The French Connection") 19 Russia launches its 1st Salyut space station 19 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit 20 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation 20 Barbra Striesand records "We've Only Just Begun" 23 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike 23 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station 24 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth 26 SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy 28 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy 29 Bill Graham closes down the Fillmore & Fillmore East 29 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration 30 Milwaukee Bucks sweep Balt Bullets for NBA championship with the fewest points in NBA History May, 1971... The Month We Graduated: Hoff's inspiration was the world's first microprocessor, the 4004, where the '4's were used to indicate that the device had a 4-bit data path. The 4004 was part of a four-chip system which also consisted of a 256-byte ROM, a 32-bit RAM, and a 10-bit shift register. The 4004 itself contained approximately 2,300 transistors and could execute 60,000 operations per second 01 Amtrak railroad begins operation 01 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar" 03 National Public Radio begins programming 03 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days 05 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn, NY 09 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history 10 US special delivery rates go from 45¢ to 60¢ 12 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall 13 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident 15 2nd anniversary of People's Park demo, "instigated" by Daily Cal, leads to Daily Cal moving off Berkeley campus 16 1st class postage now costs 8¢ (was 6¢) 18 Montreal Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup 18 President Nixon rejects the 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus 18 Utah Stars beat Ky Colonels in 4th ABA championship, 4 games to 3 18 Vampire rapist Wayne Boden's last victim found 19 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars 20 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia 21 National Guard mobilized to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tenn 23 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands 24 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard 28 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram" 28 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars 30 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drank LSD apple juice 30 US Mariner 9, 1st satellite to orbit Mars, launched 30 Willie Mays hits his 638th homerun, setting a National League record of 1,950 runs scored 31 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 31 GRADUATION DAY! ~\o/~ 389 of us! (I know because I was #389 alphabetically:) Top of Page June 1971 Kenbak-1, the first personal computer, (designed by John V. Blankenbaker) advertised for $750 in Scientific American (256 byte memory) 03 Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0 04 Oakland A's beat Wash Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings 06 Ed Sullivan's final TV show 06 Air West flight 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die 06 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station 07 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut 09 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold 10 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill 12 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House 13 NY Times began publishing "The Pentagon Papers" 16 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida 19 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance 21 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana 23 Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 4-0 28 Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds 28 Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali 29 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days 30 Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve of lower the voting age to 18, thus ratifying the 26th amendment 30 3 cosmonauts die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry July 1971 01 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?) 03 Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris 05 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18) 06 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong died 06 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks 07 Rod Stewart explodes into stardom with "Every Picture Tells a Story" Album ("Maggie May") 11 Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row 12 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders 13 AL beats NL 6-4 in 42nd All Star Game (Tiger Stadium, Detroit) 15 President Nixon announces he would visit People's Republic of China 26 Apollo 15 launched to the Moon 28 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning 30 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh" 30 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 30 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon Top of Page August 1971 01 George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC 03 Paul McCartney announces the formation of his group Wings 04 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft 07 Apollo 15 returns to Earth 09 Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame 11 Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome 11 Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501 15 President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents 13 Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on the Moon 13 Paul & Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car" 14 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule 14 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland 14 St Louis Cards Bob Gibson no-hits Pitts, 11-0 15 Bahrain gains independence from Britain 17 My 18th Birthday... Plantation House for lunch, then a crawfish boil for dinner :Þ~ 20 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr 26 NY Giant football team announces its leaving the Bronx for NJ in 1975 26 Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game September 1971 02 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer 03 John Lennon leaves the UK for NYC, never to return 03 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office 04 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, Alaska; kills 109 08 John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington DC 09 1,000 convicts seize Attica, NY prison 09 John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on the Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) 09 John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album 09 NHL great Gordie Howe retires 13 9 hostages & 28 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison 13 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR 13 World Hockey Association formed 14 Cleveland Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings 16 Hurricane Edith causes widespread devastation 16 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses 21 John Lennon & Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest 21 AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers) 24 Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings 30 Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs, fans rush the field Top of Page October 1971 01 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens 02 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race 03 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000 04 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World 08 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine" 13 1st world series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) (World Series #68) 14 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances 17 Pitts Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series 21 Nixon nominates Lewis F Powell & William H Rehnquist to US Supreme Court, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan 22 Cajun Renaissance man, "Coozan" Dudley "HADACOL" LeBlanc died in Abbeville 24 Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21 25 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World 25 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan 26 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China 27 Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Zare 28 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit 28 John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC November 1971 01 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation 05 NBA's Los Angeles Lakers start a 33 game consecutive victory streak 13 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars) 21 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period 24 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000 24 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ 27 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars 29 1st Pro Golf Championship at Walt Disney World December 1971 Intel's process of miniaturization, "microprocessors" proved capable of performing the millions, then billions, of humble "on-off" switches that are at the very heart of a computer's operation, marking the definitive turning point in processing power ARPANET grew to 15 nodes which included 26 nodes: UCLA, SRI, UCSB, University of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIUC, CWRU, CMU, and NASA(Ames) 01 John & Yoko release "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" in US 02 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars 07 Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life" 13 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed 14 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure 16 Pakistan army surrenders to Indian army in Bangladesh 17 Cease-fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir 18 1st Candlelight Processional 18 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chicago 19 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp 21 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general 24 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later 25 Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24 25 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul [most news information from Scope Systems Today In History the rest found searching the Web...]   |
