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Top Song(s)
• Archies - Sugar Sugar
• The Beatles - Get Back
• Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
• The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
Top Film(s)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• The Wild Bunch
• Army of Shadows
• Z
• Midnight Cowboy
Best Selling Book(s)
• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Godfather - Mario Puzo
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
Famous Deaths
• January 6 – Shalva Nutsubidze, Georgian philosopher, historian, rustvelologist, literary critic, translator
• February 18 – Dragisa Cvetkovic, 13th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
• March 28 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States
• April 27 – René Barrientos, Bolivian general and statesman, 47th President of Bolivia
• May 2 – Franz von Papen, 22nd Chancellor of Germany and 26th Prime Minister of Prussia
• June 11 – John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America
• August 9 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 22 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Lithuania
• October 31 – Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, 26th President of Ecuador, leader during World War II
• December 5 - Claude Dornier, German airplane builder, founder of Dornier Flugzeugwerke
Medical/Science/Technology
• International adoption of the diagnostic term 'Sudden infant death syndrome'.
• Herbert Saffir and Bob Simpson develop the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
• Thomas D. Brock and Hudson Freeze of Indiana University publish their findings on hyperthermophilic bacteria.
• Last Przewalski's Horse sighted in the wild, in Mongolia.
• Marked decline in common whitethroats due to Sahel drought draws attention to effects of climate on migratory species.
• Dorothy Hodgkin and colleagues at the University of Oxford determine the structure of insulin.
• The B programming language is developed at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
• CCD invented at AT&T Bell Labs, used as the electronic imager in still and video cameras.
• The condition diffuse panbronchiolitis is named, in Japan.
• Surgeons Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta implant the first temporary artificial heart.
Political
• January 7 - US Congress doubles presidential salary.
• January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th president of the United States.
• February 27 - President Nixon visits West Berlin.
• April 7 - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
• May 21 – Shirley Chisholm appears before Congress to speak about prejudices facing women in the workforce.
• June 23 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
• July 25 – U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine.
• November 3 – President Richard Nixon addresses the nation, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity.
• November 21 - Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sat? agree in Washington, D.C., to the return of Okinawa to Japanese.
• November 21 - The United States Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth
National
• January 16 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• February 5 - Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair the SEALAB III habitat.
• February 9 – The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight, from Paine Field at Everett, Washington.
• March 10 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.
• July 14 – The $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills are officially removed from circulation.
• July 20 – Apollo program Moon landing: At 3:17 pm ET Apollo 11's Lunar Module Eagle lands on the Moon's surface.
• August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the era's top rock musicians.
• September 2 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
• October 31 – Wal-Mart incorporates as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut.
Worldwide
• February 8 - The Allende meteorite explodes over Mexico.
• March 17 - Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.
• March 31 – The Barroterán coal mine disaster kills 153 coal miners in Mexico.
• May 16 – Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 5 lands on Venus.
• June 5 – An international communist conference begins in Moscow.
• July 26 – A 6.4 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Yangjiang destroying thousands of homes and killing 3,000 people.
• August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria.
• September 23 – China carries out an underground nuclear bomb test.
• October 1 - The Beijing Subway begins operation.
• December 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, Italy, kills 17 people and injures 88.