![]() Cameron A140 was the first hot air balloon flight over Alps piloted by Donald A.E-mail was invented by a US computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson.Eugene Cernan became the eleventh person and the last man to walk on the moon.– The Airbus A300 established by the U.K., French, German and Spanish companies took its maiden flight.– Terrorist attack by a Palestinian group known as ‘Black September’, killed 9 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.– Two passenger trains collided head-on, killing 76 people in Spain.Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA Championship over Baltimore Bullets with a score of 4-0.Lee Trevino (for Golf) and Evonne Goolagong (for tennis) were awarded the Athlete of the year by the Associated Press.Baltimore Colts won the Super Bowl V over Dallas Cowboys with a score of 16-13.Best-selling books: QB VII by Leon Uris, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, Wheels by Arthur Hailey and The Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone.Academy award-winning movies: The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show and Nicholas and Alexandra.All-time favorite TV series – All in the Family, Masterpiece Theater and The Electric Company were premiered on television.Invention of cellular phone battery was witnessed.CAT (Computerized Axial Tomography) scanning - which was the most important medical breakthrough since the X-ray - was introduced. ![]() Chat rooms on the Internet made its debut.Arcade video games were set up, with the Galaxy Game being the first coin-operated video game.The microprocessor was introduced which was the foundation of all computers.Floppy Disk Drives and Pocket Calculators were invented.Bangladesh was created from East Pakistan.The country United Arab Emirates was created.Voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in the United States.– The Soviet Union and NASA sent probes to Mars.– Grand opening of Walt Disney World took place.– Andrei Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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