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JANUARY -
I—All cigarette commer
cials are barred from TV.
7— Series o f bombings
and demonstrations harass
Soviet diplomats m New
York City.
8— Angela Davis, black
militant, declares inno
cence at San Rafael, Calif.,
arraignment on charges of
murder and kidnaping.
12 —U.S. troops openly
defy some officers’ orders
in Vietnam.
15—Egypt’s Aswan High
Dam is dedicated.
19— President Nixon halts
further construction of
Cross-Florida Barge Canal.
Two tankers collide, oil
spill fouls beaches around
San Francisco.
20— New U.S. Postal
Service fires some workers
and cuts mail service to op
erate in black.
23—United States pours
war supplies into Cambo
dia to bolster its defenses.
25— Charles Manson and
his three “girls” are found
guilty of first-degree mur
der in the Tate-Laßianca
killings.
26— Mose ow says it
landed unmanned space
craft on Venus.
FEBRUARY -
3 —Baseball Hall of Fame
honors Negro stars Josh
Gibson and Satchel Paige.
Rolls-Royce, Ltd., de
clares bankruptcy.
s—Apollo 14 astronauts
Alan B. Shepard Jr. and
Edgar D. Mitchell make
safe landing on moon.
BERRY’S WORLD
"Vessir, she's a teal cream putt
—only driven once for a few
miles by a little al' earthling!"
8— South Korea announces
its troops will defend en
tire 755-mile armistice line
in wake of reduction of
U.S. forces.
9— Major earthquake rips
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CANONERO 11, an import from Venezuela, captured both the Kentucky Derby
and the Preakness before being beaten in the Belmont Stakes in his attempt to
take racing’s Triple Crown.
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BALTIMORE COLT place-kicker Jim O’Brien
(80), gets set to boot the last-minute field goal
that gave the Colts a 16-13 win over the Dallas
Cowboys in a blunder-full Super Bowl.
through southern Califor
nia, killing 67 and causing
$1 billion damage.
Apollo 14 makes safe
landing in Pacific.
10— Sou t h Vietnamese
; forces penetrate 25 miles
into Laos, seize major
enemy supply center at
Sepone.
12— Retail tycoon J. C.
Penney dies at 95.
15—Great Britain scraps
1,200-year-old currency sys
tem, breaking the pound
into decimal change.
21—Some 100 tornadoes
rip through Mississippi and
Louisiana, killing 84 and
leaving hundreds homeless.
Robert N. Manry, who
sailed 13%-foot boat, Tink
erbelle, across the North
Atlantic solo in 1965, dies
at 52.
25—Chile cuts off copper
I dealing through U.S. firm,
sells direct to Red China.
MARCH -
1— Bo m b explodes in
, U.S. Capitol, extensively
damaging Senate side of
building.
2— Supreme Court rules
that persons too poor to
pay fines cannot be sent to
jail as a substitute.
Claude L. Fly, U.S. farm
expert kidnaped by Uru
guayan guerrillas last
August, is freed, suffering
from a heart attack.
1 3—Eight U.S. helicopters
are shot down in Laos, big
gest one-day loss in cam
paign against Ho Chi Minh
Trail.
Robbers seize $600,000
from Palm Beach bank
holding bank president’s
wife and daughter hostage
until the getaway.
4—T urk i s h extremists
kidnap four U.S. airmen
but release them after
United States refuses to
pay $400,000 ransom.
6—Motorcycle gang. bat
tle in Cleveland leaves five
persons dead. 20 injured.
8— Harold Lloyd, great
comedy star of silent mov
ies, dies at 77.
9— Earthslide causes
mountain lake in Peru to
i flood mining camp, killing
I hundreds.
11— Whitney M. Young
Jr., National Urban League
director, dies in Nigeria
surf.
13— Rockwell Kent, noted
artist, dies at 88.
17—President Nixon signs
into law 10 per cent in-
crease in Social Security
benefits.
26—Civil war breaks out
in East Pakistan.
29— Jury decides Charles I
Manson and three women
associates convicted in
Tate- Laßianca murders,
must die in gas chamber.
31—Lt. William L. Calley
Jr. is sentenced to life im
prisonment for 1968 My Lai
murders.
APRIL - -
I— Fierce war rages be
tween West Pakistan and
East Pakistan.
BERRYS WORLD
"I'm madly in love with you, and
I want you to be my wife. Will
you marry me —righf after the
'freeze'?"
3—Joseph Valachi, who
bared Cosa Nostra work
ings, dies in federal pen.
Chicago’s Mayor Daley
wins re-election.
B—Total U.S. dead in In
dochina now 44,876.
ll— Civil strife rages in
Ceylon.
Charles Coody wins 35th
, Master golf title.
Red China lifts 22-year
ban, admits three U.S. re
porters to cover tour of
U.S. table tennis team.
12—More than 6,000 are
reported killed in East Pak
; istan war.
, 14—President Nixon re-
laxes 20-year-old embargo
on trade with Red China.
21—Son Jean Claude suc
ceeds to Haiti rule after
death of Francois Duvalier
who ruled 14 years.
24—Some 200,000 antiwar
. marchers make peaceful
’ protest march from White
, House to Capitol grounds.
’ 27—President Chung Hee
, Park of South Korea wins
' third term.
30— Bolivia expropriates
rich zinc deposits worked
I by U.S. firm.
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I—Amtrak, new national
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A JUBILANT Steve Blass hugs Pittsburgh Pirate team
mate Bob Robertson after the Pirates had won the 1971
World Series by defeating the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in
the seventh game of a seesaw struggle.
railroad passenger service,.
begins operations.
Canonera II wins Ken
tucky Derby.
2— Washington policemen
scatter 30,000 antiwar dem-1
onstrators from Potomac
encampment.
3— Walter Ulbricht steps
out as East German Com
munist party chief, is suc
ceeded by Erich Honecker.
4— North Vietnamese at
Paris peace talks reject
plan to have POWs of both
sides interned in Sweden.
5— Massive cave-in at St.
Jean Vianney, 115 miles
north of Quebec, sucks 35
homes into sea of mud,
killing 31.
6— Americans are warned
to stop eating swordfish be
cause of mercury contam
ination.
7— East Pakistan refu
gees swarming into India
now total 2 million.
13—Thirteen Black Pan
thers accused of conspiracy
to bomb buildings and mur
der policemen are acquit
ted in New York.
16—Postal rates are in
creased.
19—Canadian Prime Min
ister Trudeau and Soviet
Premier Kosygin sign sur
prise friendship pact.
21— Sicily’s Mt. Etna does
sl6 million damage in 46-
day eruption.
22— Lyndon Johnson Li
brary ($18.6 million) is
dedicated at University of
Texas.
23— Explosion and fire
aboard Norwegian cruise
ship Meteor leaves 32 dead
and missing in waters near
Vancouver: 109 are res
cued.
29—Al Unser wins second
straight Indy 500 race.
31—Audie Murphy, World
War II hero, and five others
die in Virginia plane crash.
Bodies of 23 transient
workers are dug up on Cal
ifornia property of Juan
Corona, farm labor re
cruiter.
JUNE - -
3—C hole r a epidemic
takes toll of 2,000 East Pak
istan refugees in India.
6—DC6 airliner and Navy
jet crash near Los Angeles,
killing 49.
12—Tricia Nixon and Ed
ward Finch Cox are wed at.
White House.
15—Court orders New
York Times to halt publica-
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JEAN BELIVEAU, with “C” (for “captain") on his uniform, led the Montreal
Canadlens to pro hockey’s Stanley Cup championship in a grueling play-off drive
that took the Canadiens past both the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Black Hawks.
tion of secret Pentagon
study of Vietnam policy.
17—J ap a n and United
States sign treaty restoring
Okinawa to the former.
19—Mrs. Le n Brodrick |
gives birth to nine babies
in Sydney, Australia, but,
all die.
21—Lee Trevino wins sec
ond U.S. Open golf title.
23 Claude Vealcy pleads
guilty to 1969 murder of
United Mine Workers’ lead
er Joseph Yablonski.
25—“ The Death of Actae
on,” 400-year-old painting
by Titian, sells for $4,032
million.
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg is in
dicted on charges of having
stolen and given to the
press the secret study on
Vietnam policy.
29— Three Russian cos
monauts are dead upon ar-'
rival after completing work
on outer space platform.
Turkey bars opium pro
duction after 1972.
30— hI o becomes 38th I
state to ratify vote for 18-'
year-olds and make it the
Constitution’s 26th amend
ment.
Supreme Court rules two
newspapers are free to pub
lish secret Pentagon report
on Vietnam.
JULY - -
4—Robert Lee Jackson, |
36, Navy deserter, is held
by Argentine police after!
hijacking 707 airliner to I
Mexico, collecting SIOO,OOO
ransom for passenger-hos
tage and then forcing plane
crew to fly to Buenos Aires.
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"Sir, would you please stop flirt
ing with me—l'm a GUY!"
6—Typhoon Harriet, with
115-m.p.h. winds, sweeps
into Vietnam, washes out
war activity.
Louis “Sachmo” Arm
strong, noted jazz trum
peter. dies at 71.
B—Small “lost” tribe still
living in the Stone Age is
discovered in Philippines’
mountain forests.
Earthquake rocks Chile,
killing 90.
12—President Nixon signs
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KAREEM JABBAR stuffs another one en route
to a spectacular season in which he led the
Milwaukee Bucks to a National Basketball
Association championship and won the NBA
Most Valuable Player award.
$2.5 billion emergency em
ployment act, the first such
since 1930 s WPA.
13—American League
wins All-Star game, 6-4.
15—President Nixon says
he has accepted invitation
to visit Red China in 1972.
23—President William
Tubman of Nigeria dies at
75 after surgery.
Actor Van Heflin, 60, dies
after suffering heart attack
while swimming.
29— Yugoslavia’s Presi
dent Tito, 79, is re-elected
to 5-year term but rejects
offer of presidency for life.
30— Two crewmen from,
Apollo 15 become fourth
landing party on moon.
Worst air disaster in his
tory : 162 persons die in col
lision in Japan.
AUGUST - -
I— New agreement with
nine major firms averts na-i
tionwide steel strike hours 1
before deadline.
Month-old West Coast
dock strike effects put
squeeze on Hawaii.
4— Soviet Union and the
United States agree on
draft of treaty to ban bio
logical weapons.
5— Maj. Alfred Worden, I
Apollo 15 commander
makes safe space walk 196,-
000 miles out.
6— Chay Blyth, adventur
ous Scot, docks 56-foot boat
in England after complet
ing first solo, nonstop sea
voyage around world east
to west in 292 days.
7— Apollo 15 crew splashes
down safely north of Ha
waii.
ll— N e w York’s Mayor
Lindsay defects from Re
publicans to Democrats.
15— President Nixon or
ders 90-day freeze on wages
and prices.
16— Nixon economic
edicts depress foreign mar
kets.
23—Bernadette Devlin,
Northern Ireland firebrand,
gives birth to daughter, re
fuses to name father.
26—Women’s Lib marks
51st anniversary of right to
vote with nationwide dem
onstrations.
31— Cuba’s Castro re
vokes airlift which in six
years has brought 250,000
refugees to the United
States.
SEPTEMBER -
8— John F. Kennedy Cen
ter for the Performing Arts
(SBO million) opens in
Washington.
11—N1 kll a Khrushchev,
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former Russian premier,
dies at 77.
Miss America: Laurie
Lea Schaefer, 22, of Bexley,
Ohio.
12— More than 6,000 Cath
olics demonstrate in Bel-,
fast to protest mass arrests
of suspected terrorists.
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your bra today—so what?"
13— Siege of Attica State
Prison (N.Y.) ends with
deaths of 37 persons when
1,000 officers storm the
prison.
15— Fist ee n die when
bomb rips Saigon night club.
16— President Nixon ac
knowledges U.S. complicity
in 1963 of South Vietnamese
President Ngo Dinh Diem.
18—Rocket fire exchange
across Suez Canal breaks
13-month cease-fire.
17— J a m e s Plumeri, re
puted Mafia chief, is found
murdered in New York.
21— Military conscription
is reinstituted until middle
of 1973.
22— Capt. Ernest Medina
is acquitted of all charges
in My Lai massacre.
24—Britain expels 90 So
viet diplomats because of
espionage activities.
26—President Nixon flies
to Alaska for meeting with
Japan’s Emperor Hirohito.
28—Josef Cardinal Mind
szenty ends 15 years of self
imposed exile in Budapest’s
American embassy.
OCTOBER -
1— East Coast and Gulf
Coast longshoremen strike
as West Coast dockers go
into fourth month of walk
out.
Some 80,000 miners walk
out, shutting down bitumin
ous coal industry.
2— British jetliner crashes
in Belgium, killing 63.
3— Vietnamese President
Thieu wins re-election.
6—lsrael honors founding
father, David Ben-Gurion,
on 85th birthday.
10—The 140-year-old Lon
don bridge is rededicated
at Havasu City, Ariz.
12—Former Secretary of
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cision to Joe Frazier.
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job, was suspended,
traded.
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JIM RYUN lost to Marty
Liquori in classic mile
run.
ADOLPH RUPP lost his
starting center to pros’
“hardship draft.”
CURT FLOOD, lost in
comeback try while wag
ing legal battle against
baseball.
! State Dean Acheson dies.
Supercolossal celebration
! marks 2,500th anniversary
of Persian empire (now
I Iran).
16— H. Rap Brown, black
militant, is shot and cap-
i tured on Manhattan rooftop
after he and three others
, hold up bar.
17— Pittsburgh Pirates
. defeat Baltimore Orioles in
I World Series.
18— Soviet Premier Kosy
gin is physically assaulted
by Hungarian emigre while
! strolling in Ottawa.
20—West German Chan
cellor Willy Brandt is
awarded 1971 Nobel Peace
prize.
25—U.N. General Assem
bly votes overwhelmingly
to seat Red China and ex
pel Nationalist China.
28—Parliament votes to
, take Britain into European
I Common Market.
NOVEMBER
3—FDA recalls 20,000 tins
I of crabmeat deemed adul
; terated.
i 6—C anni ki n hydrogen
bomb test is successfully
1 executed in Aleutians.
7— Muscovites mark 54th
anniversary of Bolshevik
revolution.
8— Pay board rules pay
raises may not exceed 5%
per cent a year.
12— Aubran Martin is
found guilty in slaying of
United Mine Workers insur
gent Joseph Yablonski, his
' wife and daughter.
13— Mariner 9 rockets
into orbit around Mars.
15—Red China debuts in
United Nations with vitriolic
attack on United States.
19— S o m e 1,800 rioting
youths are arrested in mas
sive Tokyo demonstration
demanding complete U.S.
withdrawal from Okinawa.
20— President Sadat tells
troops Egypt has decided
to go to war.
21— Gangster Al Capone’s
bulletproof 1928 Cadillac is
sold for $37,000.
The United States relin
■ quishes three tiny Swan Is
lands to Honduras.
23—Indian troops invade
East Pakistan.
28—Jordan Prime Minis
ter Wasfi Tell is assassi
nated in Cairo.