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Pasadena: U.S.C. over Michigan 10-3 in Rose Bowl. |
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Israeli pilots ("Moshe's Marauder's") attack military targets in Egypt. |
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Quarterback Len Dawson holds as Jan Stenerud kids a field goal in this year's Super Bowl. The Chiefs vanquished coach Bud Grant's Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in New Orleans for football's highest honors. |
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NASA announces it will cut 50,000 jobs |
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces defense reductions will cut 1.25 million jobs. |
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Tripoli: Col. Muammar Khadafy becomes primier of Libya. |
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Pan Am flies 747 New York to London first time, with 330 passengers. |
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Paris: Playwright Eugene Ionesco elected to French Academy. |
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Jerusalem: High court rules children may be registered by nationality rather than religion. |
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Philadelphia: Nixon gives Medal of Freedom to conductor Eugene Ormandy. |
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Manila: Mrs. and Mrs. Marcos attacked by protesters throwing stones, bottles. |
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U. S. Senate passes bill allowing FBI to enter without warning or ID during drug raids. |
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DEATH - Erich Heckel, German Expressionist painter b. 7/31/1883 |
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Egypt: Israeli jet attack suburbs of Cairo. |
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Arthur Ashe, third ranking tennis player in the U.S. has been denied a visa to play in South Africa because of the black athlete's view on apartheid. |
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Israel: Cabinet reverses court ruling allowing definition of Jew by nationality. |
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Manila: Two killed as 2,000 storm presidential palace protesting corruption in Marcos government |
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Louisiana: LSU star Pet Maravich breaks collegiate basketball scoring record. |
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France reports eight high school students have immolated selves in protests this month. |
Source: Daniel, Clifton, Editor in Chief, Chronicle of the 20th Century. © Chronicle Publications, Mount Kisco, N.Y. ISBN 0-942191-01-3
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