Winter of Terror
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1974 Fire season begins in central Australia, deadly tornado year in US Midwest, Huancavelica landslide (Americas), Nixon resigns after Watergate, Cyclone Tracy hits Australia, Hurricane in Honduras, Flood in Brazil, end of famine in Mali, storm on English Channel, Earthquake in Kashmir India, Cyclone hits Darwin Australia * Future Seventy D. Todd Christofferson helps investigate Watergate – first to hear Nixon tapes, Fords spend three days in Utah and meet with Church leaders, President Ford appoints Brent Scowcroft as national security advisor to replace Henry Kissinger, Rex Lee appointed Assistant Attorney General, four Mormon secretaries, and numerous other LDS appointments, Reagan visits Utah on political visit, Dec - Cyclone Tracy hits Darwin, Australia, Apr - 148 tornadoes hit the Birmington, AL area, but residents were forewarned, Xenia OH tornado, May - Dust devil in New Mexico destroys mobile homes, Jun - National Weather Service office in OK hit by tornado, Hank Aaron hits #715, breaking Babe Ruth’s record, Nixon resigns, “Lucy” discovered, APA removes homosexuality from list of mental disorders, Ford pardons Nixon, Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago", Giorgio Armani begins production and popularizes Italian suits, death of Hollywood film producer Samuel Goldwyn, death of German writer Erich Kastner, American Christine Chubbuck news reporter commits suicide on live television in FL, film: “The Godfather II”, Popular Songs: artists include Lynyrd Skynrd, BTO (Bachman Turner Overdrive), Grand Funk, Gladys Knight and the Pipps, Billy Joel (Piano Man), Television: Chico and the Man” “The Jeffersons” reach top TV show status Start of worldwide inflation and stagnated growth - Dow Jones falls to 663 – lowest level since 1970, All price and wage controls end in US, Yitzhak Rabin named to head Israeli cabinet when Golda Meir steps down, W German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns as a close aid exposed as W German spy – Helmut Schmidt leads, British Prime Minister Edward Heath resigns – Harold Wilson the Labour leader succeeds him, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau of Canada wins reelection, Bloodless coup deposes Portuguese dictatorship and democratic reforms begin, Kissinger persuades Syria and Israel to agree to cease fire on Golan Heights, President Nixon visits Egypt Saudi Arabia, Syria and Israel – later USSR, death of Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan, death of Juan Peron of Argentina – wife Maria Estella presides, Terrorism in Northern Ireland and England – Tower of London and Parliament bombed, Greek-led Cypriot rebels overthrow the government – archbishop Makarios flees – Turkish forces invade island and control much of Cyprus, Watergate aides conficted and sentenced – Nixon must pay back taxes – White House tapes damage presidency – early involvement and coverup result in resignation – Gerald R Ford presides, Nelson Rockefeller named as vice president, Greek Military government resigns – former premier Constantine Caramanlis returns from exile to become premier, death of Russian WWII hero Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, Workmen begin clearing the Suez Canal which was closed since war of 1967, wide-spread drought in Africa, floods kill over 2500 in Bangladesh, US and E Germany establish formal relations, death of New Zealand Prime Minister Norman E Kirk, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie peacefully deposed after 58 years of rule, President Ford pardons Nixon under widespread protests – also grants limited amnesty to draft evaders and military deserters, death of U Thant Secretary General of the UN (former), death of Soviet commander during WWII Nikolai Kuznetzov, death of US Army General Creighton W Abrams (tank), Portuguese GUiney granted independence as Guinea-Bissau, Grenada declares independence from Britain, US General Alixander Haig appointed Supreme Commander of NATO, WRITE: Patrick White, Thomas Pynchon, Harry Edmund Martinson, Eybind Johnson, KPjm :e Carre. Peter Benchley (Jaws), Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, WH Auden (posth), ALeksandr I Solzhenitsyn (also stripped of Soviet citizenship and exiled), Russian ballet dancers (the Panovs) immigrate to Israel, Deaths Lydia Sokolova (ballet), Jack Cole (USA), Par Lagerkvist (SWE), Marcel Achard (FRA), Anne Sexton (USA), Cyril Connolly (ENG), Eric Linklater (ENG), David M Jones (WEL), Pulitzer Prizes not awarded this year, Pope Paul VI canonizes Teresa Ibars the Spanish nun, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty the exiled cardinal of Hungary removed by Pope Paul VI, Dr. Frederick Donald Coggan Archbishop of York named Archbishop of Canterbury to succeed Reverend Michael Ramsey, death of Dr. Horace Kallen – educator, death of Jean Wahl – existentialist, Four US Episcopal bishops defy church law and ordain 11 women as priests, Gallup poll shows Roman Catholic attendance down and only 40% of adults in US attend weekly church, death of US-Jewish philosopher Nima H Adlerblum, death of American political columnist Walter Lippmann, ARTS: Paul Mazursky (produces film), Roman Polanski (produces “Chinatown”), David W Rintels (writer) and John Houseman (director) for “Clarence Darrow), death of Vittorio de Sica (ITA director), Godfather II released by Francis Ford Coppola, Deaths: Samuel Goldwyn – producer (US), Louis I Kahn (US architect), Agnes Moorehead (US actress), Davis A SIqueiros (MEX muralist), Katharine Cornell (US actress), Jack Benny (US actor), Pietro Germi (ITA director), Films: “The Sting”, best actor Jack Lemmon, Music Deaths: Tex Ritter, Duke Ellington, Darius Malhaud (FRA), Cass Elliot (USA), Ross Parker (ENG), David Oistrakh (RUS), Frank Martin (SWI), Josef Krips (AUS), SCIENCE: Skylab 3 sets space record, death of aviation pioneer Erret Lobban Cord, US Mariner 10 satellite transmits pictures of Venus and Mercury – venus well sheltered with haze and Mercury has atmosphere, USSR space probe detects larger than expected amount of water vapor on Mars, India explodes nuclear device, death of American physicist Edward U Condon, death of British scientist Jacov Bronowski, death of Charles A Lindbergh, death of Sir James Chadwick – discoverer of neutrons, death of Russian born American scientist Alexander P de Seversky, US jet reaches speeds of 2000 mph in flight over the US, Medicine Nobel Prize for work in ethnology, Chemistry frize for work with polymers, Nobel prize for work in radioastronomy, American scientists detect the psi or J meson which is interpreted as a charmed quark and charmed antiquark, death of John C Garand the gun designer of M-1 rifle, Gasoline shortage in US – year-round daylight saving time adopted and later repealed, Muhammed Ali defeats Joe Frazier and George Foreman, 170 die as fire sweeps through Sao Paolo Brazil high-rise bank, Turkish jetliner crashes near Paris killing 345, Kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst announces she will join her captors in the Symbionese Liberation Army, Henry (Hank) Aaron betters Babe Ruth’s record, Smallpox epidemic in India kills 10-20k, “Streaking” fad in US, Little League Baseball Inc. votes to allow girls to play, Dizzy Dean the 1930s baseball great dies, Frank Robinson becomes first Black manager of major league baseball team, AT&T bans discrimination against homosexuals, death of Amy Vanderbilt the US columnist on ettiquette, Johanson and team discover Australopithecus afarensis “Lucy” with upright stance, Jim Jones starts building Jonestown in Guinea, Nixon pardoned, Betty Ford mastectomy – she uses it to create awareness for breast cancer, DC Temple dedicated, Church gives up hospital ownership, “Lengthen Your Stride”, Coup in POR ousts dictator Marcello Caetano, POR frees AFR colonies including Guinea-Bissau, Military coup in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique gain independence, Nixon resigns, Greek-Turkish conflicts in Cyprus, 1975 Terrible fire season in central Australia ends, totally disposable razor invented, End of Vietnam War, Nigeria becomes leading oil producer in Africa, Revolutionary regime in Ethiopia until 1991, Angola and Mozambique gain independence from Portugal, Khmer Rouge takes over Cambodia – rename Year Zero, Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia, Political crisis in Australia as appointed governor-general deposes elected body, Asian immigration to Australia increases sharply, Earthquake in Liaoning China predicted by strange animal behaviors but 10k die, * Elder Benson represents Church at White House Forum on Domestic Policy – President compliments Church for placing Vietnam refugees, Reagan visits Utah on political visit, Feb - Unusual animal behavior alerts Chinese to evacuate citizens before major earthquake, Feb - Nighttime tornadoes and snow hit OK, "Chicago" "The Wiz" and "A Chorus Line" debut on Broadway, Microsoft founded, Quakes CA 5.8 – HI 7.2 - WY – Yellowstone 6.1, Banqiao Dam rupture kills 231000 in China – Super Typhoon Nina causes flooding leading to disease, The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Great Lakes drowning 29, Harvard establishes the WEB Du Bois institute, Voyager lands on Mars, first Concorde flight, Khmer Rouge takes power in Cambodia, Helsinki Accords codify human rights, Charles H Revson dies – maker of Revlon cosmetics, FootLocker opens, death of English comic writer PG Wodehouse, death of Irish statesman Eamon de Valera, death of English composer Sir Arthur Bliss, death of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, death of Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola, death of German composer Boris Blacher, death of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, first sighting of Morgawr the monster off Cornwall ENG, films: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, Popular Songs: artists include KC & the Sunshine Band, John Denver, AWB (Average White Band), Patti LaBelle (Lady Marmalade), US government cuts off aid to Turkey, Turkish Cypriotes set up separate state in Cyprus – denounced by President Makarios of Cyprys, Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of British Conservative Party succeeding Edward Heath, Fierce fighting erupts between Ethiopians government and secessionist guerrillas in Eritrea, Maurice H Stans pleads guilty to violating campaign laws, John N Mitchell Erlichman and Haldeman of Nixon Administration convicted and sentenced,for Watergate – Mardian also convicted - Dean Kalmbach and Magruder released with Colson and McCord 0 Hunt and Liddy continue without shortened sentences, death of Czech Communist Antonin Novotny, Portugal imposes constitution that gives power to armed forces, death of former President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, death of former USSR Premier Nikolai Bulganin, death of US Treasurer Ivy Baker Priest, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated bu nephew who is beheaded – new king Khalid brother of Faisal, Cambodian President Lon Nol flees Phnom Penh before Communist takeover – US leaves and Khmer Rouge sets up headquarters – forced marches follow, Nguyen Van Thieu resigns as President of S Vietnam – Communists take over and take Saigan – refugee aid set up by US, Nobel Peace Prize by Sakharov the Russian physicist who developed USSR H Bomb, Sikkim abolishes monarchy and becomes Indian state, Egypt reopens Suez Canal, Daniel P Moynihan named US Ambassador to UN, Cambodian naval ship seizes US merchant ship which is retrieved by US forces, death of Chiang Kai-shek of China, Communist-led Pathet Lao controls Laos, US withdraws from Taiwan, death of former Premier of Japan Eisaku Sato, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago wins sixth term, Fighting between Christians and Moslems in Beirut – fighting forced to halt, norther Mariana Islands vote to become US citizens and to become commonwealth (territory since 1925), Italy’s Communists and Socialists register large gains in elections, death of Eamon De Valera of Ireland, death of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Greek cabinet commuted death sentence of former President George Papadopoulos to life, 35 nations sign charter of the Helsinki accord, Islamic nations vote to kick Israel out of UN, Malcolm Fraser becomes Prime Minister of Australia, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain dies and Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon sworn in as King Juan Carlos I, Oil prices raised 10% by OPEC, Two assassination attempts made on life of President Ford in CA, Peru’s President Juan Valasco Alvarado ousted in military coup and replaced by Premier General Francisco morales Bermudez, King Savang Batthana of laos abdicates and a people’s democratic republic established, Justice William O Douglas retires and John Paul Stevens named to US Supreme Court, Portugal grants independence to colonies: Angola Mozambique Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe –a also the Comoro Islands declare independence from France – Papua New Guinea becomes independent and Surinam becomes independent of Netherlands, WRITE: John Updike, Richard Adams (Watership Down), Robert Stone, David Storey, Lanford Wilson, Ed Bullins, Peter Shaffer (Equus), Edward Albee, Michael Shaara, Gary Snyder, Sylvia Plath letters, Iris Murdoch, Wallace Shawn, Fugard Kani and Ntshona, Peter Matthiessen, CP Snow, Eugenio Montale, Irving Stone, Aleksandr I Shlzhenitsyn, Agatha Christie, Emile Ajar, Larry Woiwode, Will and Ariel Durant, Robert Nozick, Deaths: Per Wahloo (SWE), Carlo Levi (ITA), PG Wodehouse (ENG-USA), St. John Perse, Ivo Andric, Pavel P Virsky (RUS), Rex Stout (USA), Thornton Wilder (USA), Marguerite Steen (ENG),Cardinal Josef Mindszenty (HUN exile), Elijah Muhammad (formerly Poole – leader of Black Muslims), Hannah Arendt (USA), Ivan Maisky (RUS), Loonel Trilling (USA), Thomas Mann’s notebooks opened 20 years after his death, Anglican Church in CAN ordains women, James Joyce unpublished work found at U of Padua, Rugby (English public school) admits women, first American-born saint canonized Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, four US women ordained to Episcopal priesthood – former 11 women declared invalid, Fifth assembly of World Council of Churches in Nairobi KEN calls for a transformation of civilization, Five saints canonized, NYC Council of Churches rejects membership application of Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, ARTS: Deaths: Frank Sully (US actor), Rod Serling (US television), Susan Hayward (US actress), Thomas Hart Benton (US painter), Richard Conte (US Actor), Ethel Griffies (ENG actress), Michel Simon (SWI-FRA actor), Donald M Oenslager (US stage design), George E Marshall (US director), Josephine Baker (US performer), George Stevens (US director), Fredric March (US actor) Francine Larrimore (US actress) Barbara Hepworth (ENG sculpt), Academy Awards: The Godfather II, Films: “Jaws” “Nashville” “Hearts of the West” “The Story of Adele H” “The Sunshine Boys” (George Burns) Television: Three major networks agree to family hour without violence and sex, Saturday Night Live premiers “Rich Man, Poor Man” “Laverne and Shirley” and “The Bionic Woman” among top TV, Six thousand life-sized pottery figures from 3rd century BC found in NW China, MUSIC: Michael Bennett Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (A Chorus Line), George Rochberg, Dominick Argento, Beverly Sills (sings at Met), George Crumb, Deaths: Dimitri Shostakovich (RUS), Robert Stolz (GER), Leroy Anderson (USA), Sir Arthur Bliss, Lionel Tertis (ENG), Richard Tucker (USA), Charles Weidman (US), VIttorio Gui (ITA), Bernard Herrmann (USA), Sarah Caldwell becomes first woman conductor of Metropolitan Opera, Musicians’ strike on Broadway for 25 days, SCIENCE: US Viking ship seeks for life on Mars, US Apollo and Soviet Soyuz 19 link in space – first international, First regular supersonic plane is USSR Tupolev-144, Linus Pauling receives US medal of Honor, Deaths: Norwegion meteorologist Jakob AB Bjerknes, ENG biologist Julian Huxley, American X-ray man William D Coolidge, Edward L Tatum US biochemist, GER physicist FUstav Hertz, ENG physicist George P Thompson, US economist Alvin H Hanse, American physicist (U-235) John R Dunning, SWE_USA engineer Ernst Alexanderson, US geneticist Theodosius Dobzhanzky, After 100 years Atlantic salmon return to CT River (restocked in 1973) and sturgeon to Hudson River, Kidnappings by leftists radicals and terrorists in Argentina W Germany Italy Somalia Tanzania and others, Dr. Kenneth C Edelin found guilty of manslaughter in death of male fetus in “legal” abortion, Charlie Chaplin and PG WOdehouse knighted by Queen Elizabeth, Bobby Fischer gives up world chess championship due to terms of match, doctors strike in NY as malpractice rates quadruple, NYC appeals to Federal Government for cash to avoid default, London subway crash kills 41, US Bicentennial starts, Junko Tabei of Japan becomes first woman atop Everest, American Air Force cargo jet crashes killing over 100 Vietnamese orphans aboard, death of Chicago Mafia leader Sam Giancana, British inflation rises dramatically, Internation Woman’s Year world conference, death of Aristotle S Onassis GRE-ARG magnate, Unemployment rate in US reaches 9.2% - highest since 1941, Patty hearst captured (see 1974), JJames Ro Hoffa firmer Teamsters president disappears, Earthquake destroys Great Temples of Pagan in Burma, mauna Loa erupts for first time since 1950, Eastern Airlines jet crashes inNY killing 113, Worlds largest airport opens in Montreal, WT Grant stores fail and file bankruptcy, Animal encephalitis outbreak in US, WA “Tony” Boyle head of United Mine Workers dentended to jail for murder of union official Joseph A Yablonski, Kent State officials and military exonerated of responsibility, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert win titles, 3 cent stamp price increase shows level of inflation, First Women’s Bank in NYC, Death of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad age 78, King and Wilson show DNA differs from Chimp by one percent, homosexuality removed from APA list of psychological disorders, pet rocks hit market selling for $3.95 (equivalent of $15 in 2010), Wepner lasts 15 rounds against Muhammed Ali inspiring Rocky to be written by Sylvester Stallone, Temples announced in Sao Paulo, Tokyo and Seattle, Auxiliary Conferences discontinued, 1st Quorum of the 70 organized and role of assistants to 12 diminished, Renovations and rededications of St George and Mesa temples, Communists overrun south Vietnam and unify country, riots and unrest in POR – POR colonies of Angola and Mozambique independent, Franco dies and Juan Carlos King of Spain, South Vietnam surrenders to North – end of war. Communist victory in Cambodia, Franco dies in Spain – Juan Carlos rules as king, 1976 Earthquake hits Tangshan killing 242,000, schoolchildren spark uprisings in Soweto, S Africa, Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong die- fall of “Gang of Four”, Helsinki convention of Human Rights adopted, Big Thomson River flood in Colorado, Earthquake in Guatemala kills 23k, emergence of Ebola in Africa, Tsunami hits Philippines, Earthquake in China kills 255k, * Ford begins celebration of Bicentennial with President Kimball Jul 3, Ford wins UT vote – loses nationally, LDS “Mo” Udall defeated by Carter in Wisconsin primary by one percent, Senator Orrin Hatch elected, Reagan visits Utah on political visit, Deadly Cyclone moves across Bay of Bengal, killing 100,000, Nov - Record snowstorm hits Washington D.C., "Annie" debuts, Philippines quake and tsunami kills 5-8k, Saudis attempt to import iceberg at a cost of 90 million, Roman bronze coin found in Heavener OK originally from Antioch Syria in 63 AD, Alex Haley publishes Roots, School children killed in Soweto uprising in S Africa, death of musician and actor who recorded several spiritual numbers American Paul (Leroy) Robeson, death of French writer Andre Malraux, death of British architect Basil Spence, death of English composer Benjamin Britten, films: “Rocky”, Ebola Zaire outbreak first noted in Africa, Death of Abdul Razak Premier of Malasia - Hussein Onn leads, death of Chou En-lai Premier of China, Venezuela nationalizes petroleum, Maria Estela Martinez de Peron President of Argentina overthrown and Lt. General Jorge VIdela becomes president, death of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery British leader who defeated Germans at El Alamein EGY, Daniel P Moynihan resigns as UN ambassador – William W Scranton replaces, death of Nobe Prize winning French jurist Rene Cassin, Spain relinquishes colonial control of Spanish Sahara - Morocco and Mauritania divide the territory ignoring claim of independence, US and USSR limit size of undergbround nuclear explosions, Lebanon’s parliament elects Christian leader Elias Sarkis as president, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns – James Callaghan succeeds him, Khieu Samphan named Chairman in Cambodia – Pol Pot (Tol Saut) appointed Premier, US celebrates bicentennial, N and S Vietnam reunited as one country with Hanoi as capital and Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City, Seychelles declare independence from Britain, General Antonio Ramalho Eanes elected President in Portugal, Portuguese Timor votes to become province of Indonesia, Thailand’s government falls in military coup, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt wins reelection in W Germany, Blacks in S Africa battle armed palice against apartheid, Ford and Carter debate three times on national television, Sweden’s Premier Olof Palme resigns after Social Democratic Party defeated, Republic of Transkei proclaimed 0 first South African black homeland to attain independence, Cearbhall O Dalaigh resigns as President of Ireland – Patrick J Hillery reigns, Senators Mondale and Robert Dole meet in TV debates as vice president, Mao Tse-tung of China dies, Parti Quebecois formed to promote independence, Civil war in Angola causes 9k refugees to flee to Namibia, Jimmy Carter elected, Hua Kuo-feng appointed Premier in China – coup attempt on Mao’s widow and counterrevolutionaries, Takeo Fukuda elected Prime Minister of Japan, Kurt Waldheim of Austria wins approval for second term as UN secretary general, Jose Lopez Portillo becomes President of Mexico in place of Luis Echeverria Alvarez, E Germany issues restrictions on emigration to the West, death of Richard J Daley Mayor of Chicago, Central African Republic renamed Central African Empire with President Jean Bedel Bokassa, death of Soviet Chief of Armed Forces Marshal Ivan I Yakubovsky, death of former Brasil presidents Juscelino Kubitschek and Joao Goulart, WRITE: Saul Bellow, Michael Bennett, John Ashbery, Enid Bagnold, William Luce, Alan Ayckbourn, Tom Stoppard, David Rabe, William Gaddis, Patrick Grainville, Lillian Hellman, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, Leon Uris, John Hawkes, Kurt Vonnegut, Alex Haley, Gore Vidal, Hedrick Smith, Michael Henry, Donald Barthelme, Gilbert Highet, Michael J Arlen, Deaths: Rilliam Sansom (ENG), Paul Gallico (USA), Richard Hughes (ENG), Stuart Cloete (S AF), Paul Robeson (USA), Margaret Leighton (ENG), Dame Agatha Christie (ENG), Paul Morland (FRA), Same Sybil Thorndike (ENG), Henri Bosco (FRA), Eyvind Johnson (SWE), Mikhail K Lukonin (RUS), Andre Malraux (FRA), Dadme Edith Evans (ENG), Martin Heidegger (GER), Samuel Eliot Morison (USA), Lin Yutang (CHI), Kathryn Kuhlman (US faith healer), Rudolf Bultmann (GER), Arnold Toynbee (ENG), Gilbert Ryle (ENG), US copyright laws revised, Episcopal Church approves ordination of women to be priests sand bishops – Anglican Church of Canida ordains six women as priests, French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre suspended by Pope Paul VI for rejecting reforms by Second Vatican Council – continues to day Latin Mass and ordains 13 deacons at his seminary in Econe SWI, Roman catholic Church accuses Brizilian military government of violating human rights, Pope Paul VI asks Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski to continue as Poland’s Catholic leader, Reverend Moon ends US ministry with rallies – parents protest against brainwashing of young members, US Lutherans split over interpretation of Bible and administration, ARTS: Deaths: Adolf Zuckor (USA), Alvar Aalto (FIN), Max Ernst (GER), Josef Albers (USA), Lee J Cobb (USA), Luchino Visconti (ITA), Mark Tobey (USA), Rosalind Russell (USA), Man Ray (USA), Jean Gobin (FRA), Fritz Lang (AUS), Laexander Calder (USA), Leo Kerz (GER), Alastair Sim (ENG), Aquiles Badi (ARG), Films: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” “All the President’s Men” “Rocky” “Taxi Driver” (De Niro), “Face to Face”, Television: NBC Broadcasts “Gone with the Wind” with high ratings, “Happy Days” and “Charlie’s Angels” among top tv, MUSIC: Carlisle Floyd, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Deaths: Geza Anda (HUN-SWI), Elisabeth Rethberg (USA), Alexander Brailowsky (RUS), Meyer Davis (USA), Rudolf Kempe (GER), Jean Martinon (FRA), Lily Pons (USA), Percy Faith (USA), Guy Lombardo (USA), Roland Hayes (USA), Benjamin Britten (ENG), Walter Piston (USA), Rosina Lhevinne (RUS-USA), Lotte Lehmann (GER-USA), Gregor Piatigorsky (RUS-USA), Gina Bachauer (ENG), Popular Songs: artists include: Wild Cherry, Four Seasons, KC & The Sunshine Band, Starland Vocal Band, Lou Rawls, SCIENCE: Soyuz spacecraft docks with Salyut space station, New atomic particle detected known as upsilon particle – family of psions, Deaths: RUS mathematician Nikolai I Muskhelishvili, Danish biochemist Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Werner Heisenberg of Germany, George Hoyt Whipple US pathologist, American chemist Lars Onsager, Swiss chemist Leopold Ruzicka, National Academy of Science proposes aerosols harm ozone layer, detailed radar observations on the surface of Venus, Landing vehicles from Viking I and II set down on Mars, MIT scientists construct synthetic gene, Arcaeologists discover civilization of Ebla in N Syria, death of Russian geneticist Trofim D Lysenko, Milton Friedman wins Nobel Prize for Economics, Richter and Ting wiand Lipscomb win nobel prizes, along with Blumberg and Gajdusek, death of Alexander S Wiener discoverer of Rh blood factor, death of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, LDS – “Mormon Will” of Howard Hughes supposedly going to Melvin Dummar ah Utah gas station operator, Argentina devalues peso and British and Italian currency fall against US dollar, 12th Winter Olympics at Austria, Concordes take off from London and Paris to Washington – regular service begins, death of publisher Roy Herbert Thomson (CAN-ENG), Israeli commandos rescue hostages in Uganda taken by Pro-Palestinian hijackers, US Air Force Academy admits 155 women, death of American oil billionaire J Paul Getty, worst British drought on record, Hurricane Belle hits US east coast, Summer Olympics in Montreal, Mysterious illness kills 29 American Legion members in Philadelphia – named Legionnaire’s Disease, “Smokey (the) Bear” US symbol of fire prevention dies at Nantional Zoo in Washington DC, death of NY Mafia boss Carlo Gambino, Orient Express ends Istanbul-to-Paris run, 176 die in crash of two airliners over Yugoslavia, Violent earthquakes in northeastern Italy Peking and Tientsin in China Mindanao in Philippines eastern Turkey Bali and Guatemala, Hank Aaron retires, manslaughter abortion case overturned by MA court, Tanker “Argo Merchant” runs aground off Nantucket MA spilling oil, video game “Odyssey” introduced, Alex Haley’s Roots published. Woese proposes kingdoms reclassified as bacteria, archaea and eukarya, approximate end of Chinese Cultural Revolution with arrest of Gang of Four, Jim Jones of People’s Temple admits atheism, but under guise of religion expands communist cult, Mondale praises People’s Temple, Rocky movie released, only 30-40% of Americans claim to be “born again” but after Carter proclaims the number increases, Revelations added to Doctrine and Covenants, MTC in Provo opens, riots and unrest in POR, Mao of China dies, Race riots in South Africa, Rhodesian whites accept black majority rule in principle, Papua-New Guinea independent from Australia, the word “God” banned from writings or references of any board of education Directory: lifeboat -> PEACH-PROGRESS -> alreadyDone lifeboat -> February 2010 vol. 2: 93 lifeboat -> October 2005 vol. 2: 42 lifeboat -> The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund lifeboat -> Selsey rnli's Lifeboat Week ended on a high note when the weather held fair for launch day lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station june 2006 vol. 2: 50 newbiggin’S 155th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station july 2009 vol. 2: 87 newbiggin’S 158th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station april 2007 vol. 2: 60 newbiggin’S 156th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station march 2010 vol. 2: 94 newbiggin’S 159th year of lifesaving PEACH-PROGRESS -> 1800 earthquake in California est at 6 Download 334.74 Kb. 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