Memories

--	Best Picture: *Midnight Cowboy*.
--	Best Record: *Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In, 5th Dimension; Best Album: Blood, Sweat* & Tears, Blood Sweat & Tears; Best Song: *Games People Play*, Joe South, songwriter.
1 Jan	Ian Fleming writer (*James Bond*), dies at 80.
20 Jan	Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President.
5 Feb	U.S. population reaches 200 million.
9 Feb	World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight.
25 Feb	Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars.
28 Mar	Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th pres., dies in Washington at 78.
2 Mar	1st test flight of supersonic Concorde.
13 Mar	Apollo 9 returns to Earth.
20 Mar	Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
2 Apr	Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor).
24 Apr	Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead.
28 Apr	Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.
26 May	Apollo 10 returns to Earth.
27 May	Walt Disney World construction begins.
31 May	Stevie Wonder's My Cherie Amour released. Song made it to number four on the pop music charts on July 26 and stayed on the nation's radios for eleven weeks. *My Cherie Amour* was not the original title of the song. Wonder had named the song, Oh My Marcia, for a former girlfriend.
7 Jun	Tommy James & the Shondells release *Crystal Blue Persuasion*.
9 Jun	Warren Burger confirmed as U.S. Chief Justice.
15 Jun	*Hee Haw* with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS-TV.
21 Jun	Zager & Evans release *In the Year 2525*.
22 Jun	Singer-actress Judy Garland died in London at age 47.
23 Jun	Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice.
8 Jul	U.S. forces in Vietnam began withdrawal.
11 Jul	Rolling Stones release *Honky Tonk Woman*.
18 Jul	Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D. Mass) & Mary Jo Kopechne plunge off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Is., Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Kopechne , a 28-year-old secretary drowned.
20 Jul	U.S. astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, became first man to set foot on moon.
23 Jul	Three Dog Night received a gold record for the single, *One*. It was the first of seven million-sellers for the pop-rock group.
29 Jul	Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars.
9 Aug	Sharon Tate actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang.
15 Aug	Woodstock Music and Arts Fair opens in New York State.
1 Sep	Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris.
29 Sep	*Love American Style*, premiers on ABC-TV.
9 Oct	Supremes release *Someday We'll Be Together*.
27 Oct	Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders.
1 Nov	Last album of The Beatles reached #1 on the album chart. Abbey Road was the top LP for eleven weeks (nonconsecutively).
1 Nov	Warner Brothers Records added Faces, to its roster. They fared OK, but even better when lead singer Rod Stewart stepped out to become a superstar on his own. The group's former label, Mercury, capitalized on the fact by releasing Maggie Mae and three other Faces tunes before Stewart went solo for Warner, exclusively.
3 Nov	President Nixon set Vietnamization policy.
10 Nov	*Sesame Street* premieres on PBS-TV.
15 Nov	Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations reached peak in U.S.; some 250,000 marched in Washington, D.C.
16 Nov	U.S. reports massacre of hundreds of civilians at Mylai, South Vietnam in 1968.
19 Nov	Apollo 12's Charles Conrad, Jr & Alan Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon.
26 Nov	Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall).
1 Dec	U.S. government holds its 1st draft lottery since World War II.
17 Dec	50 million TV viewers watch singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky on *Tonight Show*.