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The Honda Civic is imported to the U.S. for the first time.
President Nixon signs a bill authorizing a $5.5 billion, 6-year program, to develop a Space Shuttle craft.
The U.S. Surgeon General reported that cigarettes are severely harmful to health.
President Nixon arrives in Beijing and meets with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai, ending U.S. hostility toward the People’s Republic of China.
U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate George Wallace is shot and paralyzed in Maryland.
U.S. police arrest five men planting electronic bugs at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision in Furman vs. Georgia that the death penalty in the United States is considered “cruel and unusual punishment” and is unconstitutional.
Ms. Magazine begins publication in July, with former Look editor, Patricia Carbine, as publisher, and feminist Gloria Steinem as editor.
Last U.S. ground troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
The Olympic Games at Munich are marred by the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the hands of Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists.
Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of PONG, the first game to achieve commercial success.
British inventor Clive Sinclair launches his pocket calculator, the first to be widely available.
Magnavox develops “Odyssey,” the first video arcade game.

Top 10 Hits
1. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
2. Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
3. American Pie - Don McLean
4. Without You - Nilsson
5. The Candy Man - Sammy Davis Jr.
6. I Gotcha - Joe Tex
7. Lean on Me - Bill Withers
8. Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
9. Brand New Key - Melanie
10. Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton

Top 10 TV Shows
1. All in the Family
2. Flip Wilson Show
3. Marcus Welby, M.D.
4. Gunsmoke
5. ABC Movie of the Week
6. Sanford & Son
7. Mannix
8. Funny Face
9. Adam 12
10.Mary Tyler Moore Show

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