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Results 1 - 59 of 59

1st - "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1st - Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
1st - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1st - Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
3rd - 1st artificial gene synthesized
3rd - Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban
4th - 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
4th - SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
4th - Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
4th - WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
4th - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
5th - KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
5th - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
6th - 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
7th - 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire
7th - Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win
7th - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
7th - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
8th - Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
9th - Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongania
9th - Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton U
9th - Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
11th - US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
12th - Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
13th - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
13th - Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
13th - Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
14th - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
15th - 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn
16th - Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
16th - Race riots in Miami Florida
17th - Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
19th - A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
19th - Conservatives win British parliamentary election
19th - Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
19th - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
19th - The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
20th - "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV
20th - British govt of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
20th - Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
21st - 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn
21st - Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City)
21st - Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
21st - Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
22nd - Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
22nd - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
22nd - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
23rd - "Red Skelton Show," last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
23rd - Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
23rd - Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
24th - "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
24th - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
24th - Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
24th - Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
26th - Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
28th - Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
29th - US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
30th - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
30th - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2