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November 16, 1972 (Thursday)

1. At the 17th convention of UNESCO, United Nations members signed the "Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage", otherwise known as the World Heritage Convention.

2. The infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to an end as the U.S. Public Health Service ceased further operations of "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male".

3. A protest by 100 students at historically black Southern University, in Louisiana, was broken up with tear gas by 55 sheriff's deputies and 30 state troopers. Two students, Leonard Brown and Denver Smith, both 20, were killed by a shotgun blast, apparently by one of the deputies, but the shooter was never identified.

4. The Pepsi Cola Company announced a deal with Soyuzplodimport for Pepsi to be bottled and sold in the Soviet Union, making the drink the first American cola (and consumer product) to be made in the U.S.S.R.

5. Vera Karalli, 83, Russian ballerina, choreographer and actress died.

 
January 27, 1972 (Thursday)

1.) The first home video game system, Odyssey, was introduced by Magnavox. Designed by Ralph Baer, the console could be hooked up to a television set for two players to play a tennis-like game, similar to Nolan Bushnell's game Pong.

2.) In a meeting at the office of U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell, G. Gordon Liddy presented the "Gemstone Plan" to Mitchell, John Dean, and Jeb Magruder. Mitchell was also the Director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP), and Liddy was CRP's chief lawyer. Liddy suggested budgeting $1,000,000 for mugging and even kidnapping "leaders of anti-Nixon demonstrations"; hiring prostitutes to solicit during the Democratic National Convention; and break-ins and installation of electronic surveillance as necessary. Mitchell rejected the plan, but retained Liddy to suggest new ideas.

3.) After hijacking Mohawk Airlines Flight 452 and landing in Poughkeepsie, New York, Heinrick Von George, a debt-ridden father of seven, was given, as demanded, a duffel bag with $200,000 in cash and a getaway car. As he prepared to drive away with his money and his hostage, Von George was killed by a shotgun blast fired by an FBI agent.

4.) Born: Mark Owen, English singer (Take That), in Oldham; Keith Wood, Irish rugby star, in Killaloe, County Clare

5.) Died: Mahalia Jackson, 60, African-American gospel singer; Richard Courant, 84, mathematician

 
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The Ulster Defence Association shoots dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace, a petrol station on Kennedy Way, Belfast. On the same day the UDA kills a 15-year-old Catholic civilian in a drive-by shooting at Falls Road/Donegall Road junction, Belfast, and the Provisional IRA shoots dead UDA member Francis 'Hatchet' Smith in west Belfast; Smith was rumoured to have led the group that shot the teenager.

The Miss Dominican Republic 1973 contest is won by Liliana Maritza Fernández González.

Born: Jason Schmidt, American baseball pitcher, in Lewiston, Idaho.

Noteworthy: My Mustang was built 2 days after the United States officially ended its involvemnt in the Viet Nam war, and 9 days after President Richard Nixon was sworn in for his second term as president!

 
On July 6, 1972, my wife (then girlfriend) had her 18th birthday and my car was built.

 
December 7, 1971

Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.

The Wings release their first album "Wild Life"

The Grateful Dead play at the Madison Square garden

Adult star Chasey Lain was born.

 
A legend ( my car!) was built, and a life-long friendship was about to begin!

 
My coupe was built on the day before 72 R Codes girlfriends' 18th birthday :p


July 5, 1972....one day ahead of schedule... and...In San Francisco, a team of FBI agents stormed a hijacked Pacific Southwest Airlines jet, and killed the two men who had been holding 86 persons on board Flight 710 hostage. One passenger, E.H. Stanley Carter of Quebec, was killed in the crossfire and two other men were wounded, including actor Victor Sen Yung, who portrayed Hop Sing on the TV series 'Bonanza'. According to Wikipedia....

 
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27th April 1971

Historical Events

- The first number of Il Manifesto is issued in Italy

- Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark

- Eight members of the Welsh Language Society ( The Society wishes to preserve the Welsh Language and part of that was to include all signs in Wales to be bilingual ) they are accused of conspiring to damage, remove or destroy English language road signs in Wales.

Several Tornadoes including two F4s

April 27, 1971

Counties: Ohio (from McLean and Hopkins)

F-scale: F1

Deaths:

Injuries:

Path width:

Path length: 34 miles

Time: 5:45pm

Storm Data says the tornado touched down near Slaughters in Hopkins County, proceeded to Sacramento in McLean County, and then went on to Prentiss in Ohio County.

Counties: Ohio, Butler

F-scale: F3

Deaths:

Injuries:

Path width:

Path length: 11 miles

Time: 6:10pm CST

Notes: Will not disagree with the official strength ranking of F3, but it sounds like this tornado was a minimal F3 at best.

Counties: Harrison IN

F-scale: F1

Deaths: 0

Injuries: 2

Path width: 50 yards

Path length: 15 miles

Time: 6:30pm

Grazulis narrative: Moved east from three and a half miles east of Mauckport to west of Laconia. A barn was destroyed and the debris was carried a quarter mile. Four other farm buildings were damaged. A trailer was carried 30 yards, then dropped and smashed. Two people were hospitalized. Minimal F2.

Counties: Butler, Warren (from Muhlenberg)

F-scale: F3

Deaths: 1

Injuries:

Path width:

Path length:

Time: 7:20pm

Grazulis narrative: Skipped east-southeast from four miles east of Drakesboro, to near Ennis, South Hill, and Riverside. A six room brick veneer home was completely destroyed, as were several large trailers. There were two injuries in one, and a death in another. Many homes sustained damage. South Hill, where several people were injued and trailers were swept away, and Dunbar were especially hard hit. Cherry Chapel Church near Richardsville was destroyed. Damage was found along Stringtown Road in Butler County.

Counties: Green, Adair

F-scale: F4

Deaths: 6

Injuries: 58

Path width: 100 yards

Path length: 15 miles

Time: 8:30pm

Notes: Moved east-southeast from Bramlett, passing three miles northeast of Columbia, to Vester and Christine. Six people were killed when the tornado demolished a number of homes in the Mount Pleasant Church area on KY 551. The church itself was leveled. A total of 51 homes, 33 barns, three churches, four trailers, and 100 other buildings were destroyed, and fifty more homes had major damage.

Counties: Russell (to Pulaski)

F-scale: F4

Deaths: 2

Injuries: 72 (70 in Russell County, 2 in Pulaski County)

Path width: 100 yards

Path length: 14 miles

Time: 9:53pm

Grazulis narrative: Moved east from east of Russell Springs, to Salem, and to Faubush. At Gosser Ridge two people were killed on a farm as most of the buildings were swept away. Along the path, 35 homes, four trailers, 60 barns, and 79 other buildings were destroyed. There was major damage to 105 more homes. The Salem School was damaged. At one point, there were two distinct paths, as two funnels moved parallel to one another.

 
How rare is a 1971 Mach 1 with a c4 transmission and standard interior?

The only option my car had was power steering.

 
March 1, 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

In Paris - The major world powers sign an agreement to guarantee peace in Vietnam but the ceremony was jarred by an unexpected denunciation of South Vietnam by Chinese foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei.

North Vietnam assures the United States that it intends to fully carry out the prisoner release provisions of the peace agreement, which would include freeing at least 120 more U.S. POW’s this week.

Communist officials break a tense deadlock and announce that 136 American prisoners of war and six foreign captives would be set free this weekend.

Black September Arab terrorists seize the U.S. ambassador in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, and held him and four other diplomats hostage. Two of the diplomats were killed.

President Nixon promises that, “there will not be another devaluation” of the dollar and blamed the run on U.S. currency in foreign markets on “international speculators who make great sums of money through such activity.

Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray discloses that he had turned over to the White House copies of FBI investigative interviews in the Watergate case while the agency’s investigation – which touched White House aides – was under way.

Army Spec 5 Gary Guggenberger – a former prisoner of war says in an interview that one of his worst days in prison was the day he learned that Richard Nixon had been reelected president. “We knew that McGovern was gong to win and that we would be coming home. We thought Nixon was screwing up by the numbers. I thought we were dead – that we’d never last it out – after hearing that George McGovern lost.”

Mayor John Lindsay of NY says he will not seek a third term.

Speaking for all congressional democrats – Sen. William Proxmire charges President Nixon with fueling inflation, permitting excessive unemployment and allowing a further evaluation of the dollar in world trade.

Gallup - 67% of those polled oppose amnesty for draft evaders.

An amended version of the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate bugging suit is filed asking for $6.4 million in damages – twice the previous amount and adding two defendants – Jeb Stuart Magruder and Herb Porter – both officers of President Nixon’s reelection committee were added.

In New York - A criminal court judge declares the hard-core pornographic “Deep Throat” to be the “nadir of decadence” and found it “indisputably obscene by any legal measurement.”

 
Ummmm.... my Mustang was built. :p

I haven't gotten the Marti yet... so I have no idea exactly which day it was built. {insert smilie with the forehead 'L' here}

 
May 16, 1972 (Tuesday)

The first financial derivatives exchange, the International Monetary Market (IMM), opened on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. With greater fluctuation of currency exchange rates, the IMM opened a new era in trading by allowing purchase of futures on three currencies. The first trades were for the British pound, the Deutschmark, and the Japanese yen.[41]

The National Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act was signed into law by President Nixon.[42]

Born: Derek Mears, American actor/stuntman, in Bakersfield, California

 
September 4th, 1970 was a Friday

29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record)

George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single

Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum

Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile

The number-one hit song in the U.S. at the day was War by Edwin Starr as compiled by Billboard Hot 100 (September 5, 1970)

Led Zeppelin performed at the LA forum on September 4, 1970

The Rolling Stones Release 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert'

James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39

On September 4th, 1970, the closest available weather station to Dearborn, MI (DETROIT METRO AP, MI), reported the following conditions:

High Temp: 84.9F

Low Temp: 68F

Average Temp: 75.1F

Dewpoint: 65.9F

Wind Speed: 12 Knots

Precipitation Amount: 0 Inches

Snow Depth: n/a

Observations: n/a

 
On July 6, 1972, my wife (then girlfriend) had her 18th birthday and my car was built.
Talk about your all time "meant to be's"!!! That's awesome!

The real question is do you remember your car's birthday because its the same as your wife's, or your wife's birthday because its the same as your car's??? :p

 
On July 6, 1972, my wife (then girlfriend) had her 18th birthday and my car was built.
Talk about your all time "meant to be's"!!! That's awesome!

The real question is do you remember your car's birthday because its the same as your wife's, or your wife's birthday because its the same as your car's??? :p
I actually did not know the exact date the car was built until last year when she bought me an elite marti report. I knew about when it was built because I ordered it new. There was a delay and I was told at the time that they were waiting for the engine.

 
Speaking of "meant to be": my birthday and my Mustangs built date aren't the same but if you write them down, it's exactly the same 5 digits in the same order. :)

 
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