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May 28th - The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
May 29th - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
May 30th - "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
May 30th - Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
May 31st - At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
May 31st - KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
May 31st - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open
Jun 1st - "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
Jun 1st - Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
Jun 1st - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
Jun 1st - Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
Jun 3rd - 1st artificial gene synthesized
Jun 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
Jun 4th - 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
Jun 4th - SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
Jun 4th - Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
Jun 4th - WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
Jun 4th - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
Jun 5th - KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jun 5th - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Jun 6th - 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
Jun 7th - 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire
Jun 7th - Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win
Jun 7th - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
Jun 7th - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
Jun 8th - Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
Jun 9th - Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongania
Jun 9th - Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton U
Jun 9th - Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Jun 11th - US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
Jun 12th - Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
Jun 13th - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
Jun 13th - Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
Jun 13th - Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
Jun 14th - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
Jun 15th - 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn
Jun 16th - Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
Jun 16th - Race riots in Miami Florida
Jun 17th - Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
Jun 19th - A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
Jun 19th - Conservatives win British parliamentary election
Jun 19th - Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
Jun 19th - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
Jun 19th - The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
Jun 20th - "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV
Jun 20th - British govt of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
Jun 20th - Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
Jun 21st - 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn
Jun 21st - Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City)
Jun 21st - Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
Jun 21st - Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
Jun 22nd - Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
Jun 22nd - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
Jun 22nd - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
Jun 23rd - "Red Skelton Show," last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
Jun 23rd - Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
Jun 23rd - Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
Jun 24th - "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
Jun 24th - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
Jun 24th - Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
Jun 24th - Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Jun 26th - Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
Jun 28th - Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
Jun 29th - US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
Jun 30th - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
Jun 30th - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
Jul 1st - Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11
Jul 1st - FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht
Jul 1st - Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)
Jul 2nd - 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
Jul 2nd - NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
Jul 3rd - 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
Jul 3rd - 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9)
Jul 3rd - British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
Jul 3rd - Calif Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
Jul 4th - 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
Jul 4th - 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
Jul 4th - Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
Jul 4th - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
Jul 5th - 25th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
Jul 5th - Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
Jul 6th - California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
Jul 6th - Italian Rumor govt resigns
Jul 8th - SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
Jul 9th - In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
Jul 12th - 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St Andrews
Jul 12th - Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
Jul 12th - Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
Jul 12th - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atl Ocean in "Ra" docks in Barbados
Jul 13th - Building begins of Amsterdam metro
Jul 14th - 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
Jul 14th - All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
Jul 15th - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
Jul 16th - Iraq's constitution goes into effect
Jul 16th - Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
Jul 17th - 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
Jul 18th - "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
Jul 18th - Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
Jul 18th - Giants Willie Mays hits 3,000 homers
Jul 18th - Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
Jul 18th - WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Jul 18th - Willie Mays, is 10th to get 3,000 hits
Jul 19th - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
Jul 20th - Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
Jul 21st - Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt
Jul 21st - Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
Jul 21st - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 21st - Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits & Padres lose, 3-0
Jul 23rd - Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur.
Jul 24th - Intl Law Tennis Assn institutes 9 point tie break rule
Jul 24th - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 25th - "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
Jul 26th - Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton
Jul 27th - Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
Jul 27th - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
Jul 27th - L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, & Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame
Jul 29th - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
Jul 30th - -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas
Jul 30th - 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
Jul 31st - 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
Jul 31st - Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
Jul 31st - Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
Aug 1st - EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
Aug 1st - KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
Aug 1st - Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
Aug 2nd - Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
Aug 2nd - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
Aug 2nd - Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif
Aug 3rd - 4 day NFL strike ends
Aug 3rd - Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist," premieres in London
Aug 3rd - Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
Aug 3rd - Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
Aug 4th - Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
Aug 5th - Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves," premieres in London
Aug 5th - US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
Aug 6th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Aug 7th - 1st computer chess tournament
Aug 7th - Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
Aug 7th - WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
Aug 7th - 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
Aug 8th - NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)
Aug 9th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
Aug 9th - Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
Aug 10th - Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
Aug 11th - Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
Aug 11th - Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront
Aug 12th - Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
Aug 14th - City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
Aug 14th - Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
Aug 15th - Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)