Winter of Terror
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1970 Deadliest cyclone hits Bhola Bangladesh killing 500 k, end of Biafran War in Nigeria and famine, severe droughts on edge of deserts of Africa, Khmer Rouge forces take over Cambodia, Tonga and Fiji gain independence from Britain, Chimbote Peru quake, two cyclones hit Philippines, cyclone hits E Pakistan (Bangladesh), Earthquake in China * Nixon visits Utah for Pioneer Day and Halloween, Tabernacle Choir performs for lighting of nation’s Christmas tree, Apr - Four tornadoes hit Amarillo area, Jul - CO experiences baseball-sized hailstones, Sep - Tropical Storm Norma causes flooding in AZ, Nov - 75 people, including Marshall University football team dies when plain crashes in rain and fog over WV, Dec - National Christmas Tree in Washington DC toppled by high winds, earthquakes in Peru and Colombia 70k dead, 10,000 frogs in Malasia attempt mating and many frogs end up dead, Jackson 5 tops charts, Peter Lloyd composes, US Supports "Dirty Wars in S America” (-1980), Halston (Roy Halston Frowick) produces fashion, death of English philosopher Bertrand Russell (age 98), death of English novelist EM Forster, death of French soldier and statesman Charles de Gaulle, death of Austrian mathematician and atomic physicist Marietta Blau, death of American novelist and artist John Roderigo Dos Passos, death of musician Jimi Hendrix, Biafra capitulates to federal Nigerian government – end of civil war, Albania and China reach trade agreement, Wilson and Nixon meet in DC, President Pompidou of France goes to Washington, Dubcek becomes Czech ambassador to Turkey – later suspended, Gambia proclaimed republic within British Commonwealth, Conservatives win British election ans Edward Heath succeeds Harold Wilson, Israel and UAR agree to truce along Suez Canal, USSR and W German sign friendship treaty, King Hussein of Jordan escapes assassination attempt in Amman, Arab commandos hijack three jets bound for NY from Europe, US troops in Vietnam reduced to 400k troops, Student protests against Vietnam War result in killing of four at Kent State un OH, Yugoslav President Tito announces that he will be succeeded by collective leadership, death of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Golda Meir visits London, Haile Selassie makes first official visit to Italy since Italian takeover of Ethiopia in 1935, death of de Gaulle, Assassination attempt on Pope Paul VI in the Philippines, Gomulka the Polish Communist Party first secretary resigns after 14 years, Paris peace talks end without progress in Vietnam, Salvador Allende a Marxist elected President of Chile, Nixon appoints Harry A Blackmun to Supreme Court, death of American labor leader Walter P Reuther, WRITE: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Thomas Berger, Ernest Hemingway (posth), Philip Kunhardt, William Saroyan, William Meredith, Iris Murdoch, Michael Arlen, Muriel Spark, CP Snow, Pamela Hansford-Johnson, Storm Jameson, Romain Gary Michael Tournier, F Nourissier, Zoe Oldenburg, Peter Weiss, Rolf Hochhuth, Galsworthy (Forsyte Saga televised by BBC gains popularity), Christopher Hampton, David Mercer, Ronald Millar, Peter Schaffer, Anthony Schaffer, Robert Bolt, William Douglas-Home, Ionesco, John Mortimer, David Storey, Neil Simon (Last of the Red Hot Lovers), Roland Bainton, Miles Copeland, John Kimche, Georges Christian, James MacGregor Burns, Theodore Roszak, Angus Wilson, Christopher Hill, Anthony Grey, Charles de Gaulle, AJ Ayer, Eliot Deutsch, R Klibansky, “Life” publishes supposed reminiscences of Nikita Khrushchev, In Mont El Dore Guatemala archaeologists unearth five-foot Buddha-like statue from 700-300 BC, Pope Paul VI declares priestly celibacy to be fundamental to Catholic Church, Roman catholic and Jewish leaders meet in Rome, Deaths: SY Agnon (ISR), Billie Burke (USA), John Dos Passos (US), EN Forster (ENG), Erle Stanley Gardner (USA – creator of Perry Mason), Francis Parkinson Keyes (USA), Gypsy Rose Lee (USA), Francois Mauriac (FRA), John O’Hara (USA), Erich Maria Remarque (GER-USA), Max Lincoln Schuster (USA), Nelly Sachs (GER), Louise Borgan (USA), Jean Giono (FRA), Rudolf Carnap (USA), Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston, John Gunther, Bertrand Russell, Hjalmar Schacht (GER), Joseph Wood Krutch (USA), ART: Dame Maggie Smith the English actress emerges as stage personality, Ada Louise Huxtable wins Pulitzer, Minoru Takeyama designs the Ichi-Ban-Kan building, death of Mark Rothko (USA), death of Reuben L (Rube) Goldberg US cartoonist, Boris Karloff autobiography published, US actor Elliot Gould most successful of the year, Hollywood companies taken over by conglomerates, Films: “Catch 22) “Paint Your Wagon” “True Grit” (John Wayne), “Woodstock” “Topaz” (Hitchcock), MUSIC: Burt Bacharach emerges as popular musical personality for “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” and score of Butch Cassidy, Mikis Theodorakis (GRE) once arrested for political activities released to Paris, Pablo Casals conducts all-cello ensemble, Eugene Ormandy conducts in Philadelphia, Hans Werner Henze composes, Mahler, Duke Ellington gives concert of sacred music, Musical plays “Company” “Applause”, death of Sir John Barbirolli, death of Dame Adeline Genee (DAN), death of Alfred Newman, death of George Szell (AUS-USA), death of Kerstin Thorborg (SWE), SCIENCE: Apollo 13 launched and nearly ends in disaster, 448 Colleges or universities on strike, first gene synthesized, Luna 16 returns with moon rock to Soviets – Luna 17 powers vehicle on moon, Venera 7 lands on Venus from USSR, death of PI Belyayev USSR astronaut, death of British physicist Hans Kronberger, AI Mikoyan Societ aircraft designer dies, death of German biochemist OH Warburg, James Finley of St. Paul sues federal government for $500k when treatment at hospital turns him from black to white, France and Britain insert nuclear-powered heart pacemakers, Kitt Peak Observatory in AZ opens also the Cerro Tololo Chile observatory, Gold prices fall below $35 an ounce, Japan world Expo, death of German Chancellor Heinrich Bruning, death of French politician Edouard Daladier, Russian politician AF Kerenski, British politician Ian Macleod, Peter II ex-king of Yugoslavia, James Bouton writes “Ball Four” about baseball, Joe Frazier wins heavyweight boxing, Dance hall in St. Laurent du Pont FRA kills 146, British stamp from 1856 sells for $280k, World bear market reaches bottom – Dow Jones drops to 631, Cyclones and floods kill 500k in E Pakistan, 30k die in earthquakes floods and landslides in Peru, Popular Music: artists include Jackson Five, Carpenters, Jackson Five, Diana Ross, Elvis Presley, Television: Monday Night Football debuts, FCC regulations require split in ownership of Film and TV, Top shows: “Marcus Welby MD” :The Flip Wilson Show” “Here’s Lucy” “Ironside” “Gunsmoke” networks allow people of color and Flip Wilson show rates #2, Tony Orlando and Dawn trio on television, Death of Jimi Hendrix age 28, US troops enter Cambodia, Kent State students burn down ROTC building, soldiers fire on crowd killing students. David Mancuso hosts “Love Saves the Day” (LSD) party starting modern discotheque, Barry Manilow and Bette Midler perform in bathhouses in New York , first New York Marathon, Phil Donahue show goes nationwide, President Joseph Fielding Smith sustained, Monday evening set aside for Family Home Evening, 500th stake created, Expo ’70 in Japan has 6 million visiting Church booth, 5000th Ward, 5000th ward created, French Spanish and Portugese territories in Africa become independent, ICE joins European Free Trade Association, Bunnyman of Virginia reported as wielding an axe – police question him and he indeed wears the bunny suit, US invades Cambodia, Fiji becomes Dominion within British Commonwealth, Biafra ssurrenders ending Nigerian war, Civil war in Jordan between government troops and Palestinian guerillas, voluntary prayers banned in school 1971 Bangladesh independence, Avalanche in Lima Peru, Typhoon hits Hong Kong, Cyclone hits Australia, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice present "Jesus Christ Superstar" on Broadway, earthquakes in CA and Turkey, North Vietnam flood on Hanoi and Red River Delta kills 100,000, Basra Iraq receives wheat and barley coated with toxins to prevent rot – meant only for farming, but stolen and given to poor poisoning min 459 but probably 6000 with 100000 damaged, Jesse Jackson founds Operation PUSH for black empowerment, Intel and Ti introduce the silicon chip, CAT scanner invented, Peter Lloyd composes, Lemon v. Kurtzman revisits separation of church and state, E Pakistan breaks with W Pakistan, becomes Bangladesh, Vietnam War spreads to Laos and Cambodia, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel dies, Levi’s traded publicly, death of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, death of English Arthur AP Herbert, death of Russian statesman Nikita Khrushchev, death of musician Jim Morrison, Battle of Longewala – Indo Pakistani War results in 120 Indians defeating thousands of Pakistanis, Jerome Irving Rodale dies while being interviewed on Dick Cavett Show, death of paroled conflict Nathan Leopold (see 1924), US planes bomb Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia – fighting in Indoochina spreads to Laos and Cambodia – US conducts large-scale bombing raids against N Vietnam, Canada and China exchange diplomatic envoys – Mainland China hosts US table tennis and start of US-CHI relations 0 Henry Kissinger visits China to arrange Nixon visit 0 UN admits China, Major General Idi Amin becomes Ugandan strongman, Women vote in SWI, Whitney Young US civil rights leader dies, Lt. William L calley found guilty of premeditated murder in Mylai (VIET) massacre, death of US politician Thomas E Dewey, death of Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier, first “Pentagon Papers” in “NY Times”, 26th amendment lowers voting age to 18, Violence worsens in N Ireland after Britain institutes restrictive policies, Nixon orders freeze on wages and prices to curg inflation, Lewis F Powerll and William H Rehnquist named to Supreme Court, W German Chancellor Willy Brandt wins Nobel Peace Prize, India and Pakistan go to war, Mao’s heir-apparent Lin Piao dies in mysterious air crash after unsuccessful coup, Austrian diplomat Kurt Waldheim chosen UN Secretary General, death of US diplomat Dean Acheson, Wladyslaw Gonulka former Polish Communistleader suspended from Party’s Central Committee, US and USSR ban nuclear weapons on ocean floor, Algeria takes vontrol of French oil and gas interests within its borders – promises reparations, US Congress votes to stop funding supersonic flight, Korean President Chung Hee Park reelected to third term, Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as head of E Ger Communists, Japan announces self-imposed quota on textile exports, Cyclone and tidal wave kill estimated 10k in Bengal, WRITE: Erich Segal (Love Story), Alixander I Solzhenitsyn (distributed secretly in USSR), Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar – (posth.)), John Updike, EM Forster *posth), Herman Wouk, Edward Albee, Paul Zindel, Alwin Nikolais, Bernard Malamud, William Irwin Thompson, Deaths: Gilbert M (Bronco Billy) Anderson who acted in “The Great Train Robbery”, St. John Ervine (ENG) Tyrone Guthrie (ENG), Bennett Cerf (USA Random House), Gyorgy Lukacs (HUN), John Marshall Harlan (USA), Revival of “No No Nanette”, Pablo Neruda Chilean poet wins Nobel, Synod of Catholic bishops reaffirm role of celivacy and agree on definition of Eucharist with Church of England, “The Jesus Movement” becomes popular religion un US, Federal aid to parochial schools declared unconstitutional, ART: Deaths: Rockwell Kent, Harold Lloyd (USA), Paul Terry (Mighty Mouse), Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens, Conceptual art becomes craze, Movies “Patton” “Women in Love” “Clockwork Orange” “Claire’s Knee” The French Connection” “The Conformist” “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion” MUSIC: Leos Janacek, Krzyszlof Penderecki, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Deaths: Igor Stravinsky, Louis Armstsrong, Rock legend Bill Graham closes Fillmores East and West, “Fiddler on the Roof” becomes longest running Broadway musical to date, SCIENCE: Apollo 14 and 15 explore lunar surface, Earl W Sutherland wins Nobel for Medicine, Physics: Dennis Gabor, US satellite Mariner 9 orbits Mars, Three Russian cosmonauts die when Soyuz 11 leaks when reentering atmosphere, USSR lands capsule on Mars, largest ship built in Japan, U CA Dr, Choh Hao Li synthesizes growth hormone, US astronomers discover two new galaxies, US explodes H bomb beneath AK, Cigarette ads banned on US television, death of Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel (FRA), Rolls-Royce Ltd. Declares bankruptcy, death of William G Wilson of AA fame, death of James Cash Penney (JCPenney), death of US WWII hero Audie Murphy, Hank Aaron reaches 600 Home runs, US devalues doller, death of US golfer Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, Charles Manson and three codefendants found guilty, LA earthquake kills 60 and causes one billion in damage, Postal strike in Britain, Leagalized offtrack betting in NY, Amtrak begins to operate US passenger railroads, Tricia Nixon marries Edward Finch Cox, “Look” magazine folds, Twenty bodies buried in Yorba Linda and Juan Corona accused of murders, five-day uprising in Attica prison leaves 32 prisoners and 10 guards dead, Popular Songs: artists include James Taylor, Three Dog Night, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven), John Lennon, Television: “All in the Family” debuts, ABC Movie of the Week numbered a top show, Death of Jim Morrison Age 28, wall lizards mobbed to new island in Croatia and larger heads and wider diets observed, Pentagon Papers leak – government shown to not be able to win war, “An American Family” becomes first reality tv show – son comes out of closet – wife divorces to have career – aired 1973. Church magazines limited to three, DC temple started, LDS health missionaries called, Church reaches 3 million members, Area Conference in England, Civil war in Pakistan – intervention from India leads to formation of Bangladesh, Swiss women finally get the vote, E Pakistan becomes independent as Bangladesh after civil war, Taiwan wxpelled from UN as China joins 1972 Begin major drought in Sahel (13 years?), “Bloody Sunday” in Londonderry Ireland as troops fire on civil rights marchers, Northern Ireland parliament suspended and direct rule introduced, Flash floods in Rapid City SD, Hurricane Agnes hits Wilmington, DE, Earthquake in Nicaragua, Storms in Mexico, Quake in Iran, Flooding in Punjab India, Tornadoes in Bangladesh, Drought in India, Flooding in S Korea * Nixon wins in every county in Utah, Feb - heavy rain over heavy snow creates a wall of water that destroys town in WV, Feb - 83 degrees recorded in Kansas City, MO, Jun - Hurricane Agnes devastates parts of PA, Sep - Tropical Depression Hyacinth hits Los Angeles County, "Grease" debuts as musical, Carnival cruise line sets sail, HBO launched, UT – Richard McCoy lives in Provo – suspected of being “D.B. Cooper”, blizzard in Iran kills 4000, India – Chandka Forest Elephant Stampede kills 224, Quake Nicaragua kills 15-20k, Stevie Wonder releases hits, first black hole discovered 6000 light years from earth, Peter Lloyd composes, Richard Nixon sponsors space shuttle creation, 100+ nations sign weapons treaty, Munich Olympics and massacre of five Israeli athletes, Watergate scandal, N. Ireland Bloody Sunday, Nike Shoes begin production, death of French philosopher Jacques Maritain, death of English author Compton Mackenzie, Death of Danish film star Asta Nielsen, death of US President Harry S Truman, death of American poet Ezra Pound, death of French Revue star Maurice Chevalier, death of Edward VIII of England, death of J Edgar Hoover, US returns Okinawa to Japan, Bangladesh (E Pakistan) established as sovereign state with Sheik Mujibur Rahman prime Minister, King Frederick IX of DEN dies, deatho f American diplomat Llewellyn E Thompson, Nixon visits China and Russia, DC police arrest five inside Democratic National headquarters in the Watergate complex – coverup ensuses, Governor George C Wallace of AL shot by Arthur Bremer and partially paralyzed, , Nixon reelected while McGovern who was put on the ticket when Eagleton shown to have depression resigns, Lon Nol takec control of Cambodian government, Britain imposes direct role on N Ireland following violence, “ITT-Dita Beard memo” shows Dept. of Justice settled antitrust suit in exchange for campaign contribution, Phase II economic measures continue to control prices, death of Ghanaian independence leader Kwame Nkrumah, death of J Edgar Hoover, Canada moves to establish limited control over foreign investments, Vietnam peace talks continue – US mines N Vietnamese ports and Kissinger makes “peace is at hand” speech, Ireland Britain and Denmark agree to fill membership in EEC (Common Market) – Norway voters reject entry, Ceylon becomes republic and changes name to Sri Lanka, death of Duke of Windsor the former King Edward VIII, Kakuei Tanaka elected Premier of Japan, death of Belgian Premier and founder of Common Market Paul Henri Spaak, Arab terrorists kill two Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich and later nine others killed also in shootout, Arab-Israeli violence continues, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law due to “Communist rebellion” – Marcos becomes near dictator, Chilean Marxist president Salvador Allende Gossens nationalizes large industry, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau’s Liberal Party fails to win majority in House of Commons, New Zealand’s Labour Party ends 12 years of rule of National Party, Australian’s Labour party ends 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule, death of Harry S Truman #33, Managua Quake kills 10k, Start of US petroleum shortage, WRITE: Heinroch Boll of GER wins Nobel, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Sylvia Plath (posth – poetry), Joseph Papp produces, Tom O’Horgan directs “Jesus Christ, Superstar”, Tom Moore directs “Grease”, Deaths: John Berryman (USA),, Marianne Moore (USA), Bronislav Nijinska (RUS), Cecil Day Lewis (ENG), Edmund Wilson (USA), EF Delderfield (ENG), Jules Romains (FRA), Charles Correll (Amos ‘n’ Andy), Mark Van Doren (USA), Henri de Montherlant (FRA), Ezra Pound, Copton Mackenzie (ENG), Eugene Cardinal Tisserant (FRA), Athenagoras I (Eastern Orthodox Patriarch), Joseph Fielding Smith (10th), Lord Fisher of Lambeth – Archbishop of Canterbury, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (USA), Fiddler on the Roof closes on Broadway, Dimitrios I elected Patriarch of the Faith of the Eastern Orthodox Church, supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary written, Supreme Court ruling prohibits capital punishment – sends more power to states, ART: Death: Maurice Chevalier (FRA), Jane Morgan, Wesley Ruggles, Jerome Cowan, Betty Blythe, Brian Donlevy, Asta Nielson, Dame Margaret Rutherford (ENG), George Sanders (ENG), Brandon de Wilde (USA), John E Costigan (USA), Max Fleischer creator of “Popeye”, William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Mitchell Leisen, Michaelangelo’s “Pieta” seriously damaged by hammer-wielding fanatic, Films: “The French Connection with Gene Hackman and Jane Fonda, “Cabaret” with Liza Minnelli, “The Godfather” with Marlon Brando and Francis Ford Coppola, “Frenzy” (Hitchcock), “Play It Again, Sam” (Woody Allen), “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (Bunuel), MUSIC: Shostakovich, Leonard Bernstein, Deaths: Robert Casadesus (FRA), Jean Claude Casadesus killed in auto accident, Mahalia Jackson *USA), Stefan Wolpe (USA), Oscar Levant (USA), Lale Anderson (GER), Richard Crooks (tenor), Mezz Mezzrow (USA), Rudolf Friml (USA-Bohemia), Goeran Gentele, Television: “Sanford and Son” “Hawaii Five-O” “Maude” “Briget Loves Bernie” and NBC Sunday Mystery Movie among the top shows, SCIENCE: Apollo 16 and 17 reach moon, Stone Age tribe the Tasadays discovered living in caves in th southern Philippines, Richard Leakey and Glynn Isaac discover 2.5 million-year-old human skull in Kenya, death of Louis SB Leakey English anthropologist, death of Russian aviator Andrei N Tupolev, death of Russian aviator Igor I Sikorsky, Soviet Venus 9 lands on Venus, strict antihijack measures in US, 11th Winter Olympics held in Japan, SUmemer games in Munich – Mark Spitz wins record seven gold medals, Clifford Irving concocts Howard Hughes “biography”, 47 day strike cripples Britain, death of “Pie” Traynor the baseball great, Harold SA Beneen of ITT receives $1.6 million a year, Star of Sierra Leone – largest diamond ever discovere unearthed in Sierra Leone, Militant Angela Davis acquitted of murder-conspiracy charges, Hurricane Agnes causes 1.7 billion in damages, death of American restaurateur Howard Johnson, Bobby Fisher wins world chess titlefrom USSR, military draft phased out and forces become all-volunteer, death of historic baseball player Jackie Robinson, Dow-Jones index closes above 1000 for first time, “All in the Family” leading TV show in US, “Life” magazine ceases publication, death of Charles Atlas the bodybuilding promoter, Television: M*A*S*H premiers, HBO becomes first paid cable network, NIMH proposes violence on television leads to aggression in children, The Waltons, “Sanford and Son” reach top TV shows, Popular artists include Gary Glitter, Don McLean (American Pie), Bill Withers (Lean on Me), Led Zeppelin, Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, WattsStax festival in Los Angeles brings in 100k people,, video game“Pong” introduced, Death Edward VIII of ENG age 36, Gould and Eldredge publish on punctuated equilibrium, Bakker publishes suggesting endothermic dinosaurs, American porn film Deep Throat released receiving only R rating (highest) and seen widely grossing millions of dollars, sexual experimentation becomes widespread and fairly public, 50 million smiley face buttons sell, President Harold B Lee sustained, Ogden and Provo temples dedicated, Scriptures become standard text of Sunday School, International Mission organized, Elder Kimball undergoes surgery by Dr. Russell M Nelson, GBR takes hand in Northern Ireland conflicts, Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka, First video game Pong introduced 1973 Yom Kippur War cuts oil production in middle east, starts economic crisis, Chilean president Allende killed in coup, British and Ireland join European Community, Icelandic Heimaey splits open and erupts, Earthquake in Mexico, Eruption on Iceland * Elder Packard attends presidential inauguration after President Lee was unable to attend, LA, Atlanta and Detroit create Martin Luther King Day, Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Archipelago, Kurtz and Wilson publish Humanist Manifesto II, Roe v. Wade, Nixon signs Endangered Species Act, Kissinger receives Nobel Peace Prize, US stages coup in Chile and Pinochet installed, US withdraws from Vietnam, Israel repels Arab invasion, OPEC causes energy crisis, Chile - Augosto Pinochet becomes dictator in US supported coup, Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow", death of Spanish cellist Pablo Casals, death of Pablo Picasso, death of Israeli statesman David Ben-Gurion, death of English dramatist and composer Noel Coward, Greece expels its king (and Danish prince) Constantine II – change of government next year, death of Gustavus VI of Sweden, death of English poet WH Auden, death of actor Lon Chaney Jr., death of LBJ, film: “The Sting”, Great Britain Ireland and Denmark formally join the Common Market, President Nixon ends wage-price controls except in food healthcare and building industries, Watergate defendants plead guilty – Nixon refuses to turn over tape recordings – impeachment begins – Nixon releases tapes with gaps, Spiro T Agnew resigns due to income tax evasion, Gerald Ford (House of Representatives) named vice president, War in Indochina – End of Vietnam War with cease fire agreement, death of Lyndon B Johnson #36, US devalues dollar, President Georges Pompodou’s Gaullist alliance wins reelection in France, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi nationalizes foreign-operated oil firms in Iran, Fighting breaks out in Middle east between Arabs and Israelis – unstable cease fire, Arab oil-producing nations move to embargo shipments to the west for support of Israel – energy crisis, Both Germanys establish diplomatic relations, “Pentagon Papers” defendants Ellsberg and Russo freed, Premier George Papadopolous announces abolition of Greek monarchy then is ousted in bloodless coup – General Phaedon Gizikis becomes president, Militant American Indians occupy S Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 70 days, Soviet Communist Party leader Brezhnev visits US and Brezhnev and Nixon sign treaty to limit nuclear war, Salvador Allende Gossens the Marxist President of Chile overthrown by military junta and commits suicide, Bahamas granted independence from Britain, 10th Communist Congress of China meets in Peking, death of Swedish King Gustav – crown prince Carl Gustav crowned King Carl XVI, death of WWI flying ace Edward “Capt. Eddie” Rickenbacker, death of East German leader Walter Ulbricht, Argentinian ex=President Juan Peron and new wife Maria Estela Martinez elected president and vice of Argentina, Nnobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger and N Vietnamese Le Duc Tho who refuses award, India begins release of 90k Pakistani prisoners, death of Israeli founder David Ben-Gurion, Nelson A Rockefeller NY Governor resigns to head Commission on Critical Choices, Violence in N Ireland as 250 die, Spanish Premier Luis Carrero Blanco assassinated, WRITE: William Douglas-Home, David Storey, Patrick White, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, David Halberstam, USSR agrees to abide by terms of Universal Copyright Convention, Irene revival in New York, Deaths: Elizabeth Bowen (IRI), death of Fyodor V Lopukhov (RUS), Pearl Buck (USA), Noel Coward (ENG), Arna Bontemps (of Harlem Renaissance), William Inge (USA), Conrad Aiken (USA), Pablo Neruda (CHILE), JRR TOlkien (ENG), WH Auden (ENG-USA), Taha Jussein (EGY), Jacques Maritain (FRA), Helen Parkhurst (USA), Gabriel Marcel (FRA), Catherine Drinker Bowen (USA), Charles Evans Whittaker (USA), Harold B Lee (#11), Popular Songs: artists include Marvin gaye (Let’s Get It On), Intruders, O’Jays, Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers Band, Supreme Court rules that states may not prohibit abortions in first two trimesters, Pope Paul VI names 30 new cardinals, Three Cypriot bishops attempt to unfrock Archbishop Makarios after he refuses to resign as President of Cyprus, Television: PBS airs reality series An American Family about a dysfunctional group, ARTS: Deaths: Edward G Robinson (USA actor), Chic Young (“Blondie” comic), Carmine Gallone (ITA), Pablo Picasso (ESP), Edward Steichen (USA), Joseph Coletti (USA), Jaxques Lipchitz (LITH-USA), Jack Hawkins (ENG), Betty Grable (USA), Lon Chaney Jr (USA), Joe E Brown (USA), John Ford (USA), Laurence Harvey (ENG), Sessue Hayakawa (JAP), Walt Kelly of “Pogo” cartoon strip, Lila Lee (silent star), Constance talmadge (silent star), Films “Sleeper” with Woody Allen and “Last Tango in Paris” with Marlon Brando, The Godfather wins best picture, Liza Minnelli wins for Cabaret, NY Corminal Court judge rules motion picture “Deep Throat” as “indisputably and irredeemably obscene”, MUSIC: Benjamin Britten, Deaths: Walter E Rollins (USA Frosty the Snowman), Ted Koehler (I Got the World on a String (USA)), Edward “Kid” Ory the Dixieland jazz trombonist, Lauritz Melchior (DAN), Paul Keltzki (POL-USA), Elmer Snowden (jazz piano), Karel Ancerl (CZE conductor), Francesco Malipiero (ITA), Otto Klemperer (GER), Eddie Condon (jazz), Pablo Casals (ESP), Gene Krupa (jazz drummer), Rosetta Tharpe Morrison (USA gospel), Istvan Kertesz of Cologne, Bruno Maderna (ITA), Henri Busser (FRA), SCIENCE: death of Russian biochemist Andrei Belozersky, American Skylab I-III missions completed and astronauts spend a month in space – Skylab IV sets out for record flight, death of Dr Paul Dudley White US heart specialist, US space probe Pioneer 10 transmits telebision pictures from within 81,000 miles of Jupiter, George Foreman scores a tko as he defeats Joe Frasier, “Secretariat” wins Triple Crown, death of American underworld figure Frank Costello, death of Beverly Hillbillies star Irene Ryan, death of US businesswoman Marjorie Merriweather Post, Energy crisis 0 oil embargo and rise in Japanese use results in major fuel problems, British government orders three-day work week to conserve electricity, OJ Simpson sets rushing record, Musical Artists: Marvin Gaye (Let’s Get It ON), The Intruders, O’Jays, Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers, Death of Gustavus VI of SWE age 23, End of last king of Greece Constantine II as Greece changes governments, Grants begin long-term study of finches on Galapagos detailing evolution, Crick and Orgel suggest somewhat jokingly that aliens may have seeded early earth with DNA, Red-Queen Hypothesis suggested by Van Valen between predator and prey, Yom Kippur war results in US supporting Israel – oil embargo ensues, oil shortages – gas goes from $0.38 to over $1, speed limits created nationwide (costing money in signs), US car manufacturing falls behind Japanese cars, shortages and panics (including Johnny Carson’s accidental toilet paper shortage) ensue, IRS recognizes acupuncture as medical treatment, President Lee dies and President Kimball sustained, Single adult branch started, welfare services starts, US Withdraws from Vietnam, GBR DEN IRE joins EEC founded 1957 – GBR and DEN leave European Free Trade Association, OPEC cuts supplies to US and NET, US withdraws from Vietnam, Oil crisis follows October War, October War between Arab states and Israel, Military coup in Chile, Britain Ireland and Denmark join EEC, US withdraws troops from Vietnam – pease at Paris, Coup in Chile overthrows Marxist Salvador Allende, October War – Arabs attack Israel Directory: lifeboat -> PEACH-PROGRESS -> alreadyDone lifeboat -> February 2010 vol. 2: 93 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