1976 ~ USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR. Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon.
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1976 ~ USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR. Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon.
1975
After the Viet Cong flag was raised in Saigon, South Vietnam surrendered. It signaled the end of a long and bloody battle. President Ford said the whole ordeal "closes a chapter in the American experience."
1974--March 1 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
On a personal note, I would fall three floors down a stairwell and shatter my left ankle. The doctor's would set the bones wrong, leading to surgery the next year.
Sorry for your terrible experience with incompetent doctors, Pen !
1973: The cashpoint is patented on June 4.
1972:
* January 5 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
* February 4 - Mariner 9 sends pictures from Mars
* February 21 - The Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
* March 2 - Launch of Pioneer 10 spacecraft.
* April 16 - Apollo 16 launched
* July 23 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
1971 February 9 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. (Satch was one of my favorite pitchers and might have been the best there ever was!)
1970: Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney (future founders of Atari) begin their attempt to create an arcade version of Spacewar, calling it Computer Space.
1969
The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The improptu concert was broken up by the police.
In France, the first Concorde test flight is conducted.
July 20: First man on the moon!
1968 - Martin Luther King is murdered in a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4.
1967:
October 3 - William J. Knight sets a new airspeed record in a North American X-15, of Mach 6.72 (4,543 mph, 7,297 km/h). This is the fastest flight that the X-15 will make.
1966
March 23 - Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official meeting for 400 years between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches. :angel:
1965 : T.S. Eliot, born 1888, in St. Louis, dies on January 4 in London.
1964 January 11 - United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). :brow:
1963: May 15 - Mercury program: NASA launches the last mission of the program, Mercury 9
1962 - John Steinbeck receives the Nobel prize in literature