World News

- Pop:  3.706 billion

- Nobel Peace Prize: Norman E. Borlaug (U.S.)

   for efforts to eradicate world hunger

- Biafra surrenders after 32-month fight for

   independence from Nigeria

- U.S. troops invade Cambodia

- Egyptian President Nasser dies and is

   replaced by Anwar Sadat

National News

- 4 students are killed by National Guard

   troops at Kent State University in Ohio

   while protesting the U.S. incursion into

   Cambodia

- An explosion aboard Apollo 13 forces

   the emergency return of the damaged

   spacecraft and it's crew

- Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin

   Resolution

- The Environmental Protection Agency

   is created

- The U.S. voting age is lowered from

   21 to 18

- The new Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet" makes

   its first trip across the Atlantic

- The first Earth Day is held on April 21st

- The first NYC Marathon is run on

   September 23rd

- "All My Children" debuts on ABC

U.S. Statistics

- President: Richard M. Nixon

- Vice-President: Spiro T. Agnew

- Pop: 205,052,174

- Life Expectancy: 70.8 years

- Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 39.8

- Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 36.2

- Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 8.3

Cost of Living

- New house: $23,400

- Average income: $9,357 per year

- New car: $3,979

- Average rent: $140 per month

- Movie ticket: $1.50

- Gasoline: $0.36 per gallon

- U.S. postage stamp: $0.06

Economics

- U.S. GDP (1998 dollars): $1,035.60 billion

- Federal Spending: $195.65 billion

- Federal Debt: $380.9 billion

- Consumer Price Index: 38.8

- Unemployment: 3.5%

Sports

- Super Bowl: Kansas City d. Minnesota (23 - 7)

- World Series: Baltimore d. Cincinnati (4 - 1)

- NBA Championship: New York d. LA Lakers

                                     (4 - 3)

- Stanley Cup: Boston d. St. Louis (4 - 0)

- U.S. Open Golf: Tony Jacklin

- Wimbledon:

             Women: Margaret Court d. B. J. King

                                (14-12 11-9)

             Men: John Newcombe d. K. Rosewall

                          (5-7 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-1)

- Kentucky Derby Winner: Dust Commander

- NCAA Basketball Championship:

   UCLA d. Jacksonville (80 - 69)

- NCAA Football Champs: (3-way tie)

   Nebraska, Texas, Ohio St.

- Heisman Trophy: Jim Plunkett (Stanford)

- World Cup: Brazil d. Italy (4 - 1)

- Sonny Liston dies

(Play me after opening track ends)

Entertainment

- Beatles break up

- George C. Scott wins Best Actor Oscar for

   role in Patton and refuses the statuette

- Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin die

- Monday Night Football debuts on ABC with

   Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford and

   Don Meredith in the booth

- Doonesbury comic strip debuts

Movies

- M*A*S*H, Love Story, Kelly's Heroes,

   Patton, Little Big Man,

   Airport, Five Easy Pieces

Oscar Awards

- Picture: Patton

- Actor: George C. Scott (Patton)

- Actress: Glenda Jackson (Women In Love)

- Supporting Actor: John Mills

                                  (Ryan's Daughter)

- Supporting Actress: Helen Hayes (Airport)

- Director: Franklin Schaffner (Patton)

Grammy Awards

- Record of the Year:

  Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In

  Fifth Dimension

- Album of the Year: Blood, Sweat and Tears

  Blood, Sweat and Tears

- Song of the Year: Games People Play

  Joe South (songwriter)

Emmy Awards

- Outstanding Dramatic Series:

   Marcus Welby, MD

Tony Awards

- Best Play: Borstal Boy

- Best Musical: Applause

Miss America

Pamela Anne Eldred (MI)

Books

- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  by Maya Angelou

- Love and Fame by John Berryman

- Bech: A Book by John Updike

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

- Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

- No Place To Be Somebody

   by Charles Gordone

Nobel Prize for Literature

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (USSR)

Science

- IBM introduces the Floppy Disk

- Bar Codes introduced for retail and

   industrial use in England

- The LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is invented

   by Hoffmann-LaRoche (Switzerland)

- Lithium is approved by the FDA for

   treatment of manic-depression

- Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to:

     - Hannes Alfven (Sweden) for

       theories in plasma physics

     - Louis Neel (France) for discoveries in

       antiferromagnetism and ferromagnetism

Births

- Mariah Carey (singer)

- Ricky Schroder (actor)

- Jennifer Connelly (actor)

- Kirk Cameron (actor)

- Heather Graham (actor)

- Ethan Hawke (actor)

- Andre Agassi (tennis player)

Deaths

- Bertrand Russell (philosopher, mathematician)

- Tammi Terrell (singer)

- Herb Shriner (actor, TV personality)

- Joe Pyne (controversial talk show host)

- Gypsy Rose Lee (Burlesque entertainer)

- Inger Stevens (actor)

- Billie Burke (actor: "Glenda" Witch of the North, "The Wizard of Oz")

- E. M. Forster (writer: "Where Angels Fear To Tread", "Howards End")

- Erle Stanley Gardner (writer: Perry Mason mysteries)

- Dr. Samuel Sheppard (convicted and later cleared of murdering his wife;

   basis for "The Fugitive" TV series and movie)

- Ed Begley (actor: juror in film "Twelve Angry Men")

- Jimi Hendrix (rock guitarist)

- Janis Joplin (rock singer)

- Frank Silvera (noted black character actor: Mexican bandit in "Hombre")

- Sukarno (1st President of Indonesia)

- Vince Lombardi (legendary NFL football coach; Super Bowl trophy namesake)

- Edward Everett Horton (popular character actor & "voice")

- Charles de Gaulle (French military hero & President)

- Rube Goldberg (famous cartoonist of wacky inventions)

- Charlie Ruggles (actor)