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| President Nixon Visits
China And Russia Later In The Year, President Nixon Is Reelected President In A Near-Record Landslide Police Arrest Five Men Inside The Democratic National Headquarters In The Watergate Complex At Years End Fewer Than 24,000 American Troops Remain In Vietnam Governor George Wallace Of Alabama Is Shot And Partially Paralyzed Duke Of Windsor, Former King Edward VIII Or Great Britain Dies A U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Effectively Prohibits Capital Punishment "Fiddler On The Roof" Is Longest Running Broadway Show In History Tom OHorgan Directs "Jesus Christ Superstar" Tom Moore Directs "Grease" In New York The "French Connection" Wins Academy Award, As Does Gene Hackman For Best Actor Michelngelos "Pietà" Is Seriously Damaged By A Hammer-Wielding Fanatic Apollo 16 And Apollo 17 Astronauts Spend 70+ Hours On The Surface Of The Moon Richard Leakey And Glynn Isaac Discover A 2.5-Million-Year-Old Human Skull In Northern Kenya Mark Spitz Captures Recorrd 7 Gold Medals At The Munich Summer Olympics Clifford Iving Concocts His Howard Hughes Biography Militant Angela Davis Is Acquitted Of Murder-Conspiracy Charges Bobby Fischer Wins World Chess Title From Boris Spassky Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirate Superstar, Becomes 11th Player To Reach 3,000 Base Hits |
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