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Results 1 - 55 of 55

1st - 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
1st - Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1st - Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
1st - KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
2nd - Cleve Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
3rd - "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs
3rd - Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
3rd - Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
3rd - Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile
4th - Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
4th - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
6th - Boog Powell wins AL MVP
6th - Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
7th - "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
7th - Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
8th - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
9th - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
10th - "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
10th - Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
10th - R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two," premieres in NYC
11th - Balt Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
12th - 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
12th - Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
12th - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
13th - Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
13th - Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
13th - Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
13th - VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
14th - DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed
14th - Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
17th - British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
17th - Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
17th - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
18th - Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
18th - Johnny Bench wins NL MVP
18th - Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
18th - Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
18th - Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
19th - Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
19th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
20th - UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
21st - NY Knicks 1st game against Cleve Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG
23rd - KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
24th - 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB)
25th - Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
25th - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
26th - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record.
27th - Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
27th - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
27th - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
27th - Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh v England, Brisbane
28th - 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10
29th - Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
29th - Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250)
30th - George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"