1972

1972

The first episode of the Doctor Who serial Day Of The Daleks broadcast. Nilsson In Concert, Everybody's Revolution: The Car, The Plane & Us and Film Night's Third Anniversary broadcast on BBC2. West Ham United thrashed Manchester United three-nil in the First Division. Leeds united closed the gap at the top to two points with a two-nil victory at Liverpool. Struggling West Bromwich Albion won three-two at Ipswich Town. Queens Park rangers three-one defeat of Burnley in the Second Division featured on Match Of The Day. Mickey Burns scored a hat-trick in Blackpool's five-nil demolition of Watford. Arthur Horsfield and Don Rogers both scored twice as Swindon Town won four-two at Fulham. Norwich City remained four points clear at the top, David Cross and Graham Paddon on-target in a two-nil win at Oxford United. Phil Boyer netted three in AFC Bournemouth's four-nil thumping of Wrexham in the Third Division. Phil Holme hit three and Alan Beer netted a fourth as Swansea City enjoyed a four-one victory at Toruqay United. Thunder In The Air broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Kurt Waldheim became the fourth Secretary General of the United Nations, succeeding U Thant. After he became President of Austria, in 1986, the world learned that Waldheim had been a Nazi officer who was investigated by the UN War Crimes Commission. Philippe Brottet's Endless Night - starring Alice Arno, Velly Beguard and Johnny Cacao - premiered. The UFO episode Confetti Check A-OK broadcast on LWT.
Walt Disney: The Wonderful World Of Colour broadcast, featuring Julie Andrews singing 'When You Wish Upon A Star,' It's A small World' and 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' from The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World. Don Taylor's Paradise Restored broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The first Royal Institution, London Christmas Lecture to Young People by Professor Charles Taylor, Sounds Of Music broadcast on BBC2. The Men Who Hunted Heads broadcast in The World About Us strand. Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, announced his new campaign, Authenticité, to remove all traces of the former Belgian Congo's colonial past in favour of 'Africanised' names, customs and dress. Having changed his own name from Joseph-Desire Mobutu, the President required citizens with 'European-sounding names' to change them to 'something more authentic.' Serial killer John Wayne Gacy committed the first of at least thirty three murders, stabbing sixteen-year old runaway Timothy McCoy to death. The first episode of The Intruder and The Midsummer Dream Of Chief Inspector Blossom broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Mandog broadcast. Not Counting The Savages broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Missing Link broadcast in the Horizon strand. The first episode of Radio 4's Test Of All The Talents broadcast. Mariner 9 began the first mapping of Mars, after dust storms on the red planet which had lasted for several months ceased. The first episode of The Challengers broadcast on Thames.
Lee Kuan Yew Of Singapore broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Kinks performed 'Have A Cuppa Tea' and 'Schizophrenia Paranoia' and Muddy Waters was interviewed by Mike Raven on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Wizz Jones were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. The Responsible Society broadcast on Radio 4. The first electronic pocket calculator, the HP-35 was introduced by Hewlett-Packard. Although hand-held electronic machines, that could multiply and divide (such as the Canon Pocketronic) had been made since 1971, the HP-35 could handle higher functions including logarithms and trigonometry. And, spell 'BOOBIES' if you held it upside down, obviously.
The Great Bear broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Organorganisation Man broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. President Nixon announced that the United States would develop the Space Shuttle as the next phase of the American space program, with five-and-a-half billion dollars allocated to the first reusable spacecraft. 'It would transform the space frontier of the 1970s into familiar territory,' said Nixon, 'easily accessible for human endeavour of the 1980s and 1990s.' Chelsea reached the League Cup Final, drawing two-two wth Tottenham Hotspur and winning five-four on aggregate. The replay of the other Semi-Final, between Stoke City and West Ham United, ended goalless.
The first episode of The Shadow Of The Tower broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Brighton Belle broadcast. David Storey's Home broadcast in the Play For Today strand.
Bernard Cribbins read The Emperor's New Clothes on Jackanory. Crackerjack featured appearances by Syd Little, Eddie Large and Elaine Page. Christian Science: Such A Practical Religion broadcast on BBC2. The Goodies episode Charity Bounce broadcast. John Peel's first Friday evening Sounds Of The Seventies show broadcast featuring sessions by Keef Hartley, Gentle Giant, Miller Anderson and Anne Briggs. David Bowie's 'Changes'/'Andy Warhol', Wheels' 'Take Me Home Country Roads'/'She Don't Mean It', Ronnie Hilton's 'The Ballad Of Billy Bremner'/'The Lads Of Leeds', 'The Tale Of Johnny Giles', The Bloomfields' 'The Loner'/Heads Hands & Feet's 'Homing In On The Next Trade Wind' and Badfinger's 'Day After Day'/'Sweet Tuesday Morning' released. At a press conference given by telephone to seven journalists assembled in Universal City, California, billionaire weirdo Howard Hughes discredited the alleged 'autobiography' that Clifford Irving had claimed to help him write. Cliff Owen's adaptation of Steptoe & Son - starring Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett and Carolyn Seymour - premiered. Having recently been critical of both his own form and Manchester United's (and, reportedly, having received death threats), George Best went missing, failing to turn up for training. Instead, he spent his time with his currently girlfriend Miss Great Britain, Carolyn Moore. The first episode of Who Do You Do? broadcast on LWT. Inflicting Freddie Starr on an unsuspecting world.
The first episode of BBC2's Way Of Seeing broadcast. The first Uk broadcast of San Francisco International in the Hollywood Premiere strand. Mott The Hoople and John Martyn appeared on Radio 1's In Concert which returned to its traditional Saturday slot. Cadwallader Rides Again broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. First Division highlights included Newcastle United's four-two victory over Coventry City (John Tudor scoring twice against his former club), Wolverhampton Wanderers three-one win at Old Trafford where Manchester United were without the still-missing George Best and Derby County's two-one defeat of Southampton at The Dell after Brian Clough had publicly accused his players of being 'no big enough and strong enough to dish it out when it needs to be!' Birmingham City defeated Portsmouth six-three in the Second Division, Orient thrashed Sunderland five-nil and Charlton Athletic won three-nil at bottom-of-the-table Watford (Keith Peacock scoring twice). Derek Rickard hit three in Plymouth Argyle's four-nil walloping of York City in the Third Division. Fourth Division leaders Brentford hammered Darlington six-two. The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi announced his 'World Plan', with the goal of establishing over three thousand meditation centres. By 1976, however, interest in Transcendental Meditation began to decline and the plan was never realised. The first episode of Who Do You Do? and the UFO episode Flight-Path broadcast on LWT.
The first episodes of Englebert With The Young Generation - featuring comedy inserts from The Goodies - and Boomph With Becker broadcast. Journey To The High Arctic broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. The first Radio 1 documentary series, The Elvis Presley Story, narrated by Wink Martindale broadcast. Britain's two hundred and eighty thousand miners walked out in the first nationwide miners' strike since 1926. As the strike dragged on, Britain was forced to go to a Three-Day Week. The RMS Queen Elizabeth (QE2), largest ocean liner ever built, was destroyed by a fire in Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. Fielder Cook's Eagle In A Cage - starring Kenneth Haigh, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Billie Whitelaw, Moses Gunn, Ferdy Mayne Lee Montague and Georgina Hale - premiered.
The first episode of Sounding Out featured turgid prog-rock dinosaurs Yes broadcast. Uncle Rollo broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Navajo - The Last Red Indians broadcast in the Horizon strand. A sheepish George Best returned to Manchester United after being missing-presumed-in-bed for a week. Frank O'Farrell ordered Bestie to move out of his luxury Manchester groovy sex-pad and back into digs for the rest of the season to sort his shit out. He was also fined two weeks wages and ordered to train morning and afternoon all week to be fit for the weekend. Birmingham's Sunday Mercury broke the story of toxic waste dumping in the Midlands and the government's seeming indifference to complaints. The public outcry which followed would lead to the passage of environmental legislation on 30 March. The World In Action episode Working The Land broadcast.
The first UK broadcasts of Motor Mouse and It's The Wolf. The first episode of The British Empire: Echoes Of Britannia's Rule broadcast. Fairport Convention performed 'The Time Is Near' and 'The Hanging Song' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Drummer Dave Mattacks wore a t-shirt with 'Miming' written on it! Osibisa were in session on Sounds of The Seventies: John Peel.
Michael Barratt looked at the BBC's Sports Coverage in Talkback. Norman Dennis's Durham: A Man's Life broadcast in BBC2's Man In His Place. Could Do Better broadcast in the Man Alive strand.
The first episode of The Adventures Of Sir Prancelot broadcast. Julia Jones's Still Waters broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Tony Bennett Sings broadcast in BBC2's Show Of The Week strand. Alabama Governor and right-wing segregationist loon George Wallace announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. The day before, the Internal Revenue Service had dropped its investigation of Wallace's brother, Gerald.
Graham Chapman and Bernard McKenna's Idle At Work - starring Ronnie Barker - broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The Groans Of Gormenghast bhroadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Goodies episode The Baddies broadcast. Jeff Beck, Barcley James Harvest, Medicine Head and Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Chicory Tip's 'Son Of My Father'/'Pride Comes Before A Fall', Giorgio's 'Son Of My Father'/'I'm Free Now', David Bowie's 'Changes'/'Andy Warhol', The Bee Gees' 'My World'/'On Time', Keith Mansfield Orchestra & Chorus's 'Face On The Wind'/'All For You', Jeff Beck Group's 'Got The Feeling'/'Situation', Walter Carlos's 'March From A Clockwork Orange'/'Theme From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)', The Partridge Family's ' It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)'/'One Night Stand', The Fuzz's 'Pig In The Middle'/'Funny Face', Neil Sedaka's 'I'm A Song (Sing Me)'/'Silent Movies', Paper Lace's 'In The Morning (Morning Of My Life)'/'Elsie', The Enticers' 'Calling For Your Love'/'Storyteller', Sandra Richardson's 'I Feel A Song (In My Heart)'/'The Ring' and Michael Jackson's 'Got To Be There'/'Maria (You Were The Only One)' released. Bob Kellett's Up The Chastity Belt - starring Frankie Howerd - premiered.
The first UK TV showing of The Intruders in the Hollywood Premiere strand. A Clockwork Orange was reviewed on BBC2's Film Night. David Gates In Concert broadcast. Kevin Ayers featured in Radio 1's In Concert. Highlights of the FA Cup Third Round included Sunderland's three-nil victory agaist Sheffield wednesday, Arsenal's two-nil victory at Swindon Town (one of the rather low-scoring ties featured on Match Of The Day), Carlisle United's one-all draw at Tottenham (Stan Bowles scoring for The Cumbrians), Blyth Spartans two-two draw with Reading (Ian Nixon and Eddie Adler netting for Spartans), Leeds United's four-one win over Bristol Rovers and Liverpool's three-nil victory at Oxford United (Kevin Keegan hitting two). Portsmouth won one-nil at Boston United, Milwall knocked out First Division strugglers Nottingham Forest three-one and another top flight side, Sheffield United, lost to second tier opponents, Cardiff City, two-one at Bramall Lane. Crystal Palace and Everton drew two-two at Selkhurst Park. Palace's Big John Hughes was sent-off and the game was almost abandoned after seventy minutes due to a pitch invasion. Joe Frazier retained his World Heavyweight title by knocking out Terry Daniels in the fourth round in New Orleans. Christopher Plummer featured on Desert Island Discs. David Greene's Madame Sin - starring Bette Davis and Robert Wagner - premiered. The UFO episode The Dalotek Affair broadcast on LWT. Claudia Anne Irena Winkleman born in London.
The first episode of Hugh Leonard's adaptation of The Moonstone broadcast. The first episode of Up Sunday broadcast as a spin-off from Late Night Line-Up. The Jolly-Rodgered Sea broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand.
Willis Hall's They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. How Much Do You Smell? broadcast in the Horizon strand. Stephen Stills featured on Sounding Out. Police in Chicago arrested two college students, Allan Schwandner and Stephen Pera, who had planned to poison the city's water supply with typhoid and other bacteria. Schwandner had founded a terrorist group, RISE while Pera collected and grew cultures from the hospital where he worked. The two fled to Cuba after being released on bail. The World In Action episode The Thirty Million Power Game broadcast.
The Face Of Fu Manchu shwon in the High Adventure strand. Bell & Arc, John & Beverly Martyn and Steve Howe featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. John Hickton scored the only goal of the game as Middlesbrough knocked Manchester City out of the FA Cup in a replay.
Highlights of Manchester United's four-one victory over Southampton in the FA Cup Third Round replay (in which Geotge Best scored twice) were broadcast on Sportsnight With Coleman. Peter Harman scored three in Reading's six-one hammering of Blyth Spartans in another replay. We Are The Masters Now broadcast in BBC2's Man In His Place strand. The Statue Man broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. The Republic of Minerva was proclaimed by Michael Oliver of the Phoenix Foundation and a group of entrepreneurs who had built an island by towing sand onto the underwater Minerva Reefs, located in the South Pacific Ocean, two hundred and sixty miles west of Tonga. The micronation came to an end when Tonga annexed the reefs in June. The first episode of Tightrope broadcast on Thames.
Tom Clarke's Stockers Copper broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Schooling Of Apes broadcast in BBC2's The Shadow Of The Tower strand. The scheduled release of The Autobiography Of Howard Hughes, written by Clifford Irving, was postponed by LIFE Magazine (which had planned to serialise it) and McGraw-Hill. Proven later as a - not particularly elaborate - hoax, the would-be bestseller was never released. Hughes Airwest Flight 8800 was hijacked as it taxied for a take-off from McCarran International Airport. Imitating DB Cooper, passenger 'D Shane' demanded fifty thousand dollars in cash and two parachutes after threatening to explode a bomb and after releasing the passengers and stewardesses, ordered the DC-9 to fly eastward. Shane - later identified as Richard Charles LaPoint - bailed out over the Rockies and landed twenty miles North of Akron, Colorado, where he was captured by state police, along with the ransom money. LaPoint received a forty-year federal prison sentence for his naughty hijacking ways.
And Whose Side Are You On? broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Pigeons & Paint broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Andy Roberts & Adrian Henri, Stray, The Keith Tippett Trio and, making their Radio 1 debut, Roxy Music ('Remake/Remodel', BOB Medley', 'Would You Believe?', 'If There Is Something') were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. T Rex's 'Telegram Sam'/'Cadilac', 'Baby Strange', Don McLean's 'American Pie (Parts 1 & 2)', Henry Mancini & His Orchestra's 'Theme From Nicholas & Alexandra'/'Two For The Road' and Sammy Day & The Comic Strip's 'Love Is Bigger Than Football'/'You Can't Trust Leaves' released. Brian Hutton's Zee & Co - starring Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine and Susannah York and Alois Brummer's Gefährlicher Sex Frühreifer Mädchen - starring Jutta Dorn, Gabriel Duppel, Brigitte Bucher and Christine Noack - premiered. The first UK broadcast of Shirley's World and the first episode of Spyder's Web on LWT.
The first UK TV showing of Berlin Affair in the Hoolywood Premiere strand. It's All Been Done Before broadcast in the Film Night strand. Gordon Lightfoot In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Rory Gallagher and Nazareth featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Richard Ingrams appeared on Desert Island Discs. In the First Division, Derby County drew three-all at West Ham, Newcastle beat Tottenham Hotspur three-one, Stoke defeated Southampton by the same score, Chelsea won one-nil at Manchester United and Everton beat West Bromwich Albion two-one. Leeds United went top, Allan Clarke scoring the only goal against Sheffield United. Rodney Marsh scored twice in Queens Park Rangers four-two victory over Oxford United in the Second Division. Veteran Frank Large netted three in Northampton Town's four-two defeat of Chester. In the first expansion of the European Economic Community since its founding by six members in 1952, a Treaty of Accession was signed at Brussels, by the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and Norway. Subsequently Norwegian voters did not approve the treaty, but the other three nations joined the Common Market in January 1973. The UFO episode Court-Martial broadcast on LWT.
Summer & Smoke broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Tom Mangold's The File On The Tsar broadcast. Flamenco Triangle broadcast in The World About Us strand. Formula 1 champion Jackie Stewart began the defence of his title by winning the Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires. On completion of the race, he learned that his father, Robert, had died earlier in the day. The first episode of Adam Smith broadcast on LWT.
William Trevor's The Penthouse Apartment broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Blue Mink featured in the Sounding Out strand. Southern League Hereford United drew two-two at First Division Newcastle United in a - much delayed - FA Cup Third Round tie. After hiding for more than twenty seven years, Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi was discovered on Guam by two hunters, Manuel de Garcia and Jesus Duenas. One of nineteen thousand Japanese soldiers occupying the island during World War II, Yokoi had disappeared into the jungle near the Talofofo River after American forces recaptured Guam in 1944.
There Was A Lad - Robert Burns broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Orville & Wilbur in BBC2's World Television Theatre strand. Curtis Mayfield performed 'Keep On Keeping On' and 'Gotta Have Peace' on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Soper At Large In Town broadcast. The Foreign Legion: Beau Geste & Since broadcast in the Man Alive strand. A Croatian terrorist organisation planted a bomb on a JAT Yugoslav flight, which exploded over Czechoslovakia, killing twenty seven of the twenty eight people on board. Remarkably, a stewardess Vesna Vulović, who was in the tail section of the DC-9, survived despite falling more than six miles, landing near Srbská Kamenice. She was subseqeuntly hospitalised for sixteen months. On the lawn in front of the Australian Parliament in Canberra, four men - Michael Anderson, Billy Craigie, Gary Williams and Tony Coorey - erected a tent that they called The Aboriginal Embassy, a symbol of the feeling that the indigenous Australians were treated as foreigners in their homeland. Soon, the four were joined by others, until nearly two thousand supporters encamped in front of the Parliament. The embassy was torn down six months later. Peter Yates's The Hot Rock premiered. In the League Cup Semi-Final second replay, at Old Trafford, Stoke City overcame a West Ham United side forced to make Bobby Moore their stand-in goalkeeper after Bobby Ferguson was injured clashing with Terry Conroy. Stoke won three-two. Airdrieonians and Derby County shared a goalless draw in the first leg of the Texaco Cup Final. Patrick, Dear Patrick broadcast on Thames.
Piers Paul Read's The House On Highbury Hill broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. A meeting occurred in the US Attorney General John Mitchell's Washington, DC, office. White House Plumber Gordon Liddy described, in detail, a proposed plan to disrupt the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach and preventing any disruption of the Republican National Convention, then scheduled to take place in San Diego. Liddy's proposals - Operation Gemstone - would cost approximately a million dollars. Among the various elements of Gemstone were plans to kidnap specific 'radical' leaders and hold them in Mexico until after the Convention was over. According to the other participants of the meeting - White House counsel John Dean and Mitchell's CRP deputy, Jeb Magruder - Mitchell declared, with some sarcasm, 'Gordon, that's not quite what I had in mind.' Appearing before The Ervin Commission in 1973 when Mitchell was asked why when, in the office of America's leading law officer, illegal activities had been discussed Mitchell had not simply thrown Liddy out of the room, Mitchell replied: 'I should have thrown him out of the window!' 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. Andrew Sinclair's adaptation of Under Milk Wood - starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips - premiered.
Jack Popplewell's Born Every Minute broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The End Of The Wells? broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The trial of Clifford Irving for fraud over his alleged 'biography' of Howard Hughes commenced. Carpenters' 'Hurting Each Other'/'Maybe It's You', Slade's 'Look Wot You Dun'/'Candidate', Colin Blunstone's 'Say You Don't Mind'/'Let Me Come Closer', Tristar Airbus's 'Willie Morgan'/'Travellin' Man', Tony Hazzard's 'Blue Movie Man'/'Abbott Of The Vale' and The Sweet's 'Poppa Joe'/'Jeanie' released. David Bowie appeared in session on Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel ('Ziggy Stardust', 'Queen Bitch', 'I'm Waiting For The Man', 'Lady Stardust'). Manfred Mann's Earth Band also featured. Sadly, so did Genesis.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Peladon broadcast. The Night the Bridge Caught Fire broadcast. Front Line Archaeology broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Man featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Mister Sydney Smith Coming Upstairs broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. In the First Division, Chelsea thrashed Everton four-nil, Liverpool beat struggling Crystal Palace four-one, Southampton defeated Nottingham Forest by the same score and Manchester City won five-two against Wolves (Francis Lee scoring a hat-trick). Arsenal enjoyed a five-nil victory at Sheffield United. West Bromwich Albion beat Manchester United two-one (featured on Match Of The Day)- it was United's fourth straight defeat in the league. In Huddersfield Town's goalless draw with Newcastle United, The Magpies' centre-back Ollie Burton sustained the knee injury which would ultimately end his career. Blackpool won four-three at relegation-threatend Cardiff City in the Second Division with Mickey Burns, Alan Suddick and Keith Dyson all on the score-sheet. Bob Latchford scored twice in Birmingham City's four-one hammering of Swindon Town. Hartlepool raised themselves off the foot of the Fourth Division with a three-one victory over Bury. The NBC TV movie The Screaming Woman - starring Olivia De Havilland - first broadcast in the US. The UFO episode Reflections In The Water broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of Man Of Straw broadcast on BBC2. A Modern Turn Of Mind broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Troops from the First Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, fired into a crowd of unarmed Catholic protesters in Derry during a Civil Rights march. Thirteen people were killed and another fourteen wounded. Outrage over what became known as Bloody Sunday, followed by the subsequent exoneration of the paratroopers in The Widgery Report, fuelled the growth of support for the Irish Republican Army in The Province.
Richard Wattis read Parcel For Henry on Jackanory. BB King featured in the Sounding Out strand. An Affair Of Honour broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Parasite Of Paradise broadcast in the Horizon strand. MP Bernadette Devlin slapped Home Secretary Reggie Maulding across his wobbly chops in the House of Commons when he claimed - wrongly, as it turned out - that the Paras had fired 'in self-defence' during the previous day's outrages in Derry.

Irma Kurtz reviewed Roman Polanski's Macbeth on Film '72. From The North East broadcast in the Tomorrow's World strand. David Dimbleby presented a discussion on the setting up of a tribunal under the Lord Chief Justice to investigate the events of Bloody Sunday on Twenty Four Hours. The first UK broadcast of The Andersonville Trial in BBC2's World Television Theatre strand. Four days after Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld had found that Klaus Barbie was living in Bolivia (as Klaus Altmann), the French government requested his extradition. Barbie was not brought to justice until 1983. Neu!'s self-titled debut LP released. In a White House meeting between Billy Graham and President Nixon, Graham voiced his concern that the Jewish 'stranglehold' on the US media 'has got to be broken.' Graham was forced to grovellingly apologise for his sick anti-Semitic remarks after a tape of the conversation was released by the National Archives in 2002.
X-Ray Stars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. UFOs broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Rose & Thistle Show broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand.
The 1972 Winter Olympics opened in Sapporo, Japan, with a thousand athletes from thirty five nations marching in the opening ceremony at Makomanai Stadium. Schoolboy Hideki Takada lit the Olympic flame. In The Beautiful Caribbean broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The first episode of Six From Rix broadcast. A Good Place To Die broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. Vernon Sewell's Burke & Hare - starring Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards and Yootha Joyce and Franco Rossetti's Una Cavalla Tutta Nuda premiered.
Maurice Chevalier: A Farewell Performance broadcast. Tom Stoppard was profiled on BBC2's Review strand. Mick Adrahams and Lindisfarne ('Dancing Jack Peel', 'Together Forever', 'No Time To Lose', 'Alright On The Night', 'Meet me On The Corner', 'Poor Old Ireland') were in session on Sounds Of The Seventie: John Peel on the day that Lindisfarne's 'Meet Me On The Corner'/'No Time To Lose', 'Scotch Mist' was released. As was The O'Jays' 'Working On Your Case'/'Hold On'. Dara Ó Briain born in Bray, County Wicklow. The White House Plumbers, at this stage still assigned to the Committee to Re-Elect the President, had become frustrated at the lack of additional assignments they were being asked to perform and that any plans and proposals they suggested - notably Project Gemstone - were being rejected by CRP. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt took their complaints to The White House – most likely to Hunt's boss Charles Colson - and requested that the White House start putting pressure on CRP's deputy director Jeb Magruder to assign them new operations. It is likely that both Colson and White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman did so, starting the chain of events that would ultimately led to the Watergate break-ins a few months later. This narrative was confirmed in the famous 'Cancer on the Presidency' conversation between Nixon and White House Counsel John Dean on 21 March 1973. Kenneth Kaunda, the President of Zambia, moved to turn the African democracy into a one-party state after the new United Progressive Party had won a by-erection in December. Simon Kapwepwe, who had been Kaunda's Vice-President until founding the UPP in 1971, was arrested, along with other party members. Kaunda's United National Independence Party then became the only legal party. Sven Methling's Takt Og Tone I Himmelsengen - starring Dirch Passer, Axel Strøbye, Clara Pontoppidan, Lone Hertz and Judy Gringer - premiered.
Ronnie Radford scored 'the goal of the Century' as Hereford knocked Newcastle out of the FA Cup. And, of course, it was on Match Of The Day. Well, it would be, wouldn't it. The Third Round replay had already been postponed several times because of a waterlogged pitch and took place on the day that the Fourth Round occurred. Elsewhere, Liverpool and Leeds United drew nil-nil at Anfield, Manchester United won two-nil at Preston North End (Alan Gowling scoring twice), Arsenal had a two-one victory at Reading, Derby County defeated Notts County six-nil (Alan Durban netting a hat-trick) and Chelsea beat Bolton Wanderers three-nil. Bob Latchford scored the only goal as Birmingham City knocked out Ipswich Town. Hull City won one-nil at Coventry City and Orient alkso defeated First Division opposition, leciester City, winning two-nil at Filbert Street. Tony Field scored three in Blackburn Rovers' four-nil walloping of Barnsley in the Third Division (John McNamee hit the otehr goal). The first episode of In Praise Of Watercolour broadcast on BBC2. The Strawbs and Jonathan Kelly appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. David Hockney featured on Desert Island Discs. Ninety one people were hurt and one hundred and twenty two arrested as mounted police bravely charged Ulster civil rights protesters in London and things got a bit tasty.
Sir John Barbirolli: Glorious John broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: Secrets Of The Sunken Caves broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Two of the Britain's biggest brewers - Watneys and Courage - announced a rise in the price of beer. The miners strike continued and power-cuts were threatened as NUM pickets were arrested in pithead battles in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Britain officially recognised Bangladesh as an independent state. Both A Clockwork Orange and The French Connection opened in UK cinemas. In Rhodesia, the daughter of former Prime Minister Todd, Judith, went on hunger strike protesting at being held in prison without charge. The Bishop of Southwell, made a speech extolling the virtues of discipline. '[It's] almost a dirty word these days. The more acceptable word seems to be "permissiveness."' Millwall fan Roger Holmes celebrated the birth of his son, Spencer, by giving him nineteen middle names, those of the entire first team squad of The Lions. 'They're a great team' noted Roger. Whether Spencer agreed, we just don't know.
Colin Jeavons read Jemima & The Welsh Rabbit on Jackanory. Mister Fox featured in the Sounding Out strand. The Day It Rained Periwinkles broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Ron Berry's But Now They Are Fled broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Van Guylder's Hollywood Babylon premiered.
David Bowie & The Spiders performed 'Queen Bitch' and 'Five Years' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. (A version of 'Oh! You Pretty Things' was also filmed but remained unbroadcast for many years.) The first episode of The Space Between Words broadcast. The first Uk broadcast of The Assassin in BBC2's World Television Theatre. Viewpoint: In Search Of Belief broadcast. Barcley James Harvest and Steeleye Span were in session on Sounds Of The Seventie: John Peel. A State of Emergency was declared in the UK as the coal miners' strike continued and coal stocks dwindled.
The first episode of Unsolved Mysteries broadcast. A Conversation With The Duke featured an interview with Duke Ellington. Bail Refused broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Tin Miner They Couldn't Kill broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. In the FA Cup Allan Clarke scored twice as Leeds United beat Liverpool two-nil in a Fourth Round replay and Stoke City defeated Tranemer Rovers by the same score whilst Third Round giant-killers Hereford United produced another impressive result, a goaless draw with West Ham United.
Don Shaw's Ackerman, Dougall & Harker broadcast in the Play For Today strand. And Now For Something Completely Different broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. The blockade of Saltley Coke Works in Birmingham by striking miners began. David Bowie opened his latest concert tour with his new alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust, starting at the Toby Jug Pub in Tolworth. The first episode of Radio 4's Living Language, Here I Discovered Water and Noël Coward Talks To Edgar Lustgarten broadcast.
The first episode of The Scobie Man broadcast. Three Voices On Their Own broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Third Ear Band were in session on Sounds of The Seventies: John Peel. Marvin Gaye's 'Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)'/'Sad Tomorrows' and The Tony Hatch Orchestra's 'Memories Of Summer'/'Best In Football' released. As the nationwide strike of miners continued, Secretary for Trade and Industry John Davies told the House of Commons that the government was ordering 'a massive shutdown of Britain's industry.' Davies added that 'Many, many people - perhaps millions - will be laid off.'
Henry Lincoln's Chronicle episode, The Lost Treasure Of Jerusalem? broadcast, a piece of speculative nonsense followed by two sequels, several books and which was, ultimately, responsible for The Da Vinci Code. Thanks a bunch, Henry. My Sweet Charlie shown in the Hollywood Premiere strand. A week after their shock defeat to Hereford, Newcastle United played superbly to win two-nil at Old Trafford against Manchester United. Tony Green was instrumental in creating both goals; the first a precision chip to release Stewart Barrowclough to centre for John Tudor, the second a box-to-box solo run which left George Best, among others, on the deck in Green's wake before he crossed for Barrowclough to score. Charlie George hit two as Arsenal beat Derby County two-nil. Brian Clough's reaction was, as usual, priceless! Elsewhere both Sheffield United and Manchester City and Stoke City and Ipswich Town shared three-all draws. The former featured on Match Of The Day as did Aston Villa's two-one victory over AFC Bournemouth in front of a crowd of forty eight thousand in a top-of-the-Third Division clash. Ted MacDougall's 'classic diving header' was one of the goals of the season but the abiding image is of Andy Lochhead scoring the winner and a crombie-coated skinhead racing onto the muddy pitch from the stands to celebrate. In the Second Division, the top two - Norwich City and Millwall- drew two-all at Carrow Road. Peterborough and Lincoln City drew four-all in the Fourth Division. Windows On The Beach broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Osibisa and Claire Hamill featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Bruno Walter: The Face Of Music broadcast in the Omnibus strand. People Of The Seal: Eskimo Winter broadcast in The World About Us strand. Framed For Hanging broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Bob Fosse's Cabaret - starring Lisa Minnelli and Joel Grey - premiered.
The first episode of Fingerbobs broadcast. James Bolam read Tales From Moominvalley on Jackanory. The first episode of Treasure Over The Water, the memorable adaptation of Minnow On The Say by Philippa Pearce, broadcast. Are You Doing This For Me Doctor, Or Am I Doing It For You? broadcast in the Horizon strand. Who Calls The Tune? broadcast on BBC2. Neil Young's Harvest released. Hereford United lost their FA Cup Fourth Road replay against West Ham uNited, three-one, at Upton Park. Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick. The first episode of Home & Away broadcast on Thames.
Robert Baker and Monty Berman's The Hellfire Club shown in the High Adventure strand. Mission To Yenan - The Chance That Was Lost? broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Jellybread were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. The first episode of Radio 4's The Disorderly House Of Hanover broadcast. The first episode of Romany Jones broadcast on Thames.
England and Scotland's Under-Twenty Three sides drew two-two at The Baseball Ground with highlights broadcast on Sportsnight With Coleman. Mich Channon scored twice for the hosts, Kenny Dalglish replied with a brace for the visitors. Nigel Calder's The Restless Earth broadcast on BBC2. Cardiff City beat Sunderland at the third time of asking in the FA Cup, winning three-one at Maine Road.
Willis Hall's The Villa Maroc broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Lulu's Party broadcast in BBC2's Show of The Week strand. Jean Cocteau's La Belle Et La Bête shown in the World Cinema strand. Edward Heath narrowly won a vote in the House of Commons on whether to ratify the treaty for the United Kingdom to join the EEC. Heath turned the matter into a vote of confidence by pledging to resign and to call an erection in the midst of a national energy crisis, saying that 'If the House will not agree my colleagues and I are unanimous that in these circumstances, this Parliament could not sensibly continue.' By a margin of only eight votes, the bill passed. Walter Boos and Ernst Hofbaurer's Schulmädchen-Report 3 Teil - Was Eltern Nicht Mal Ahnen - starring Friedrich von Thun - premiered.
The first episode of Chlochemerle broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of George Best: The Best In Football broadcast. Mick Softley and Stackwaddy were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Lieutenant Pigeon's 'Mouldy Old Dough'/'The Villain', The Chelsea Football Team's 'Blue Is The Colour'/'All Sing Together', Puzzle's 'Houla'/'Do You Feel The Pain?', Phillip Mitchell's 'Free For All (Winner Takes All)'/'Flower Child', Seemon & Marijke's 'Vegetable Stew'/'Twinsouls', Spode's 'Funny Kind Of Feeling'/'Catch It While You Can', Vanity Fare's 'The Big Parade'/'Angel', Supporters United's 'Up For The Cup'/'Saturday', Van Der Graaf Generator's 'Theme One'/'W', Millie Jackson's 'A Child Of God (It's Hard To Believe)'/'You're The Joy Of My Life', Judee Sill's 'Jesus Was A Cross Maker'/'The Phantom Cowboy', Ernie & Ed's 'Beautiful World'/'Indication' and Wings' 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish'/'Version' released. The Lay Clerk's Tale broadcast in Radio 4's The Commuters' Tales strand.

The first episode of The Befrienders broadcast. Poets In A Barren Age broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Barclay James Harvest and Stray appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Michael Parkinson was the guest on Desert Island Discs. Leeds United thrashed Manchester United five-one at Elland Road to move two points behind Manchester City at the top of the First Division. Mick Jones netted three. City defeated Huddersfield one-nil whilst third placed Derby beat Nottingham Forest four-nil. Brighton & Hove Albion won five-three at Shrewsbury Town in the Third Division. Scunthopre United went top of the Fourth Division with a three-nil victory at Brentford. Grimsby Town defeated Northampton Town four-two. 'Live, from Norwich, it's the Quiz of the Week', the first episodes of Sale Of The Century and Both Ends Meet broadcast on LWT. Elton John was the focus of Aquarius. Wim Wenders' Die Angst Des Tormanns Beim Elfmeter - starring Arthur Brauss, Erika Pluhar and Kai Fischer - premiered.
The first episode of Anne Of Green Gables broadcast. Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra featured on Music On 2. Wipers Three broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. A Russian Afternoon broadcast on Radio 3.
The first episode of The Regiment broadcast. Brian Finch's An Arrow For Little Audrey broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. How They Sold Doomsday broadcast in the Horizon strand. Richard Nixon became the first US President to visit the People's Republic of China, ending more than twenty years of hostility between the nations. Nixon greeted China's Prime Minister Zhou Enlai with one of the most famous handshakes in history. 'When our hands met,' Nixon would write later, 'one era ended and another began,' while Zhou told Nixon on their trip from the airport, 'Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world - twenty-five years of no communication.'
The first episode of Film 72 hosted by Barry Norman included an interview with Peter Bogdanovich. Alun Owen's Joy broadcast on BBC2. Rick Nelson, Hookfoot and Don McLean appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Gary Wright was in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. In apparent retaliation for Bloody Sunday, the IRA exploded a car bomb outside of a mess hall at the Aldershot headquarters of the Sixteenth Parachute Brigade. Seven people were killed by the bomb - none of them soldiers.
The New Divorcees broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 649 ended in Aden International Airport after Palestinian gunmen released their last hostages, the fourteen member crew. The plane had been seized en route from Delhi to Athens by five gunmen and forced to land in South Yemen, where all one hundred and seventy passengers (including future Congressman Joseph P Kennedy II) were freed. The release came after the government of West Germany paid a five million dollar ransom. After sixteen months in prison, black militant Angela Davis was released on bail when a white farmer posted most of the required one hundred thousand dollars.
Howard Barker's Cows broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Jean Cocteau's Orphée shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The first episode of My Good Woman broadcast on Thames. Brian G Hutton's X, Y & Zee - starring Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York and Mary Larkin - premiered.
Cry Of The City shown in the Tough Guys strand. Girls At War broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Roy Young Band and Budgie were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. The National Union of Mineworkers ended the strike which had crippled the British economy, in return for a twenty per cent pay increase by the National Coal Board. John Dexter's I Want What I Want - starring Anne Heywood, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, Virginia Stride and Rachel Gurney - premiered. The New Seekers' 'Beg, Steal Or Borrow'/'One By One', Joseph & Helen's 'L'-Imhabba'/'Gonna Be A Fun Day', Quincy Jones's 'Theme From Ironside'/'Cast Your Fate To The Wind', Hot Chocolate's 'Mary Anne'/'Ruth', Hartlepool FC's 'Who Put Sugar In My Tea?'/'Never Say Die', Donnie Elbert's 'I Can't Help Myself'/'Love Is Here & Now You're Gone', Focus' 'Tommy Introduced By Pupilla'/'Focus II' and Nick Drake's Pink Moon released.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Sea Devils broadcast. Finders, Keepers & Con-Men? broadcast in the Chronicle strand. John Peel introduced his mates The Faces on Radio 1's In Concert ('Three Button Hand Me Down', 'Miss Judy's Farm', 'Memphis, Tennessee', 'Give Me The Moonlight'-'Too Bad', 'Last Orders Please', 'Devotion', 'That's All You Need'-'Country Honk'-'Gasoline Alley', '(I Know) I'm Losing You', 'Stay With Me', 'Had Me A Real Good Time'-'Underneath The Arches'-Every Picture Tells A Story'). Hammond Innes featured in Desert Island Discs. Orient came from two goals down to beat Chelsea three-two in the FA Cup Fifth Round, Barry Fairbrother scoring a dramatic late winner as featured on Match Of The Day. Spurs won two-nil at Everton, Huddersfield beat West Ham United four-two and Leeds won two-nil at Cardiff City. Jimmy Greenhoff hit two as Stoke City defeated Hull City four-one. In the First Division, Liverpool beat leaders Manchester City three-nil and Newcastle United won two-one at Southampton. Burnley thrashed Sheffield Wednesday five-three in the Second Division (John Sissions scoring three in a losing cause for Wednesday). Arthur Horsfield also hit three in Swindon Town's four-nil defeat of Oxford City. Stan Bowles scored both goals as Carlisle United beat Blackpool two-nil. Oldham Athletic thrashed Barnsley six-nil in the Third Division. York City hammered Tranmere Rovers five-nil. Jennifer Phillip's Arms & Legs broadcast on Radio 3.
The first episode of Paul: Envoy Extraordinary broadcast. Man At The Met broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Twilight Of The Tiger broadcast in The World About Us strand. The New York Times carried on its front page the troublesome forecast of a group at MIT for the century ahead, writing that began 'A major computer study of world trends has concluded, as many have feared, that mankind probably faces an uncontrollable and disastrous collapse of its society within one hundred years unless it moves speedily to establish a "global equilibrium" in which growth of population and industrial output are halted.' Or, in other words, the world was, basically, fucked. The study was soon published as The Limits To Growth. The first episode of Pretenders broadcast on LWT.
Maggie Bell & Stone The Crows featured in the Sounding Out strand. John Hopkins' That Quiet Earth - featuring an early career appearance by David Bradley - broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. For Love Or Money? broadcast in the Horizon strand.
John Hopkins's Walk Into The Dark broadcast on BBC2. The Strawbs featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Barry Norman interviewed Charlton Heston and James Stewart on Film 72. Stealers Wheel were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel ('Late Again', Midnight Rider', Chevrolet', 'I Get By'). 'We now have evidence that the settlement of the Nixon administration's biggest antitrust case was privately arranged between Attorney General John Mitchell and the top lobbyist for the company involved,' was the opening paragraph to Jack Anderson's syndicated column. 'We have this on the word of the lobbyist herself, crusty, capable Dita Beard of the International Telephone and Telegraph Co. She acknowledged the secret deal after we obtained a highly incriminating memo, written by her, from ITT's files.' The subsequent investigation by the Nixon Administration into the source of leaked information was one of seven 'improper activities' cited by the subsequent Watergate Committee in its final report. Manchester United won three-nil at Middlesbrough in an FA Cup Fifth Round replay. Billy Dearden hit a hat-trick in Sheffield United's three-nil defeat of West Ham United in the First Division.
Mars - A Dynamic World broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Right Time To Die broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Manchester City returned to the top of the First Division following a two-one victory over West Bromwich Albion. John Nathan netted three in Sunderland's three-two ni over Portsmouth in the Second Division. The Callan episode That'll Be The Day broadcast on Thames.
Colin Welland's Bank Holiday broadcast in the Scene strand. What Is Happening In Italy? broadcast in the Europa strand. NASA's Pioneer Ten was launched from the Cape Kennedy. Bearing a gold anodised plaque which contained a message for any alien civilisations who might come across it, the probe attained a record speed of more than thirty thousand miles per hour on its way to Jupiter, which it would reach in December 1973. Pioneer Ten became, on 13 June 1983, the first man-made object to depart the solar system, moving toward the star Aldebaran. The last transmissions from Pioneer Ten were received in March 1997 and the last signal was received in January 2003. Gary Glitter's 'Rock & Roll Parts 1 & 2' released. Charlton Heston's adaptation of Antony & Cleopatra and Gordson Hessler's Embassy - starring Richard Roundtree, Ray Milland and Max Von Sydow and Arsevir Alyanak's Gönül Hırsızı - starring Ediz Hun, Feri Cansel and Münir Özkul - premiered. Manchester United signed Martin Buchan from Abverdeen for one hundred and twenty five thousand knicker.
Kiss Me Deadly shown in The Tough Guys strand. William Gerhardie Is Alive & Well broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Peter Atkin and Status Quo were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. John Hilbard's Rektor På Sengekanten - starring Ole Søltoft, Birte Tove, Annie Birgit Garde and Susanne Jagd - premiered. McGuinness Flint's 'Let The People Go'/'Cheeky Chappy', The Drifters' 'At The Club', 'Memories Are Made Of This'/'Saturday Night At The Movies', Bobby Patterson's 'I'm In Love With You'/'Married Lady' and Blue Haze's 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'/'Anna Rosanna' released.
An Empire In Art broadcast on BBC2. The Groundhogs appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. British schoolboy Timothy Davey was jailed in Turkey for selling pot. Five died when the SRN-6 hovercraft capsized in the Solent. Violent demonstrations in the Hague caused the Dutch government to delay the release of the country's three remaining imprisoned war criminals. Trinidad police continued investigations into the murder of Gale Benson following the arrest of Michael X. Britain was to decide whether to keep its bases on Malta following meetings between Maltese Premier Dom Mintoff and Lord Carrington. A leading psychoanalyst stated depressed adolescents should not be told to 'snap out of it' by parents and teachers. Ian Storey-Moore's proposed transfer from rock-bottom Nottingham Forest to Derby County collapsed after Brian Clough had already announced his purchase and introduced him to Derby fans before their two-one victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers in the First Division (Forest, meanwhile, were losing one-nil at West Bromwich Albion in a relegation four-pointer). Leeds United give Southampton a pants-down footballing lesson, winning seven-nil in front of Match Of The Day cameras and, frankly, showing off more than a bit (Peter Lorimer scored three). Manchester United were beaten for the sixth consecutive game in the First Division, two-nil at Tottenham Hotspur. Liverpool beat Everton four-nil, Newcastle United defeated Leicester City two-nil (Malcolm Macdoland scoring his twenty fifth goals of the season in all competitions) and Manchester City remained top, beating Arsenal by the same score (Franics Lee netting twice). George Eastham scored the winner as Stoke City beat Chelsea in the League Cup Final at Wembley. Millwall took over at the top of the Second Division after a two-all draw with Swindon Town (player-manager Dave Mackay scoring for the visitors). Norwich City got thumped four-nil at Birmingham City. Aston Villa won three-nil at Notts County to return to the top of the Third Division. AFC Bournemouth beat Bradford City by the same score. Brighton & Hove Albion enjoyed a five-nil victory at Halifax Town. Walsall defeated Swansea City four=nil (teenage striker Bobby Shinton amongst the scorers).

Norman Jewison - Film Maker broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Treasures Of Chuquisaca broadcast in The World About Us strand. Edward Heath informed the House of Commons that the UK had 'renounced' the use of the five techniques for 'deep interrogation' (hooding, wall-standing, subjection to noise, 'relative' deprivation of food and drink and sleep deprivation), some of which had previously been used in Northern Ireland.
The Oh, What A Beautiful Mourning episode of Steptoe & Son broadcast. Whales, Dolphins & Men broadcast in the Horizon strand. Arthur Hopcraft's Said The Preacher broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Donald McWhinnie's adaptation of Romeo & Juliet broadcast on Radio 4. Manchester City signed Rodney Marsh from Queens Park Rangers for two hundred grand and Manchester United paid Nottingham Forest the same figure for Ian Storye-Moore. United States immigration authorities revoked the visa of John Lennon and told him to pack up his shit and get the fuck out of New York. He refused to comply.
The first episode of The Hidden God broadcast in the Viewpoint strand. Giant Leeks & Magic Brews broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Eric Coltart's The Grievance broadcast. Egg were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. TWA Flight Seven was half-an-hour into its journey from New York to Los Angeles when the airline's officials were notified it had a time bomb on board. The plane landed back at JFK. A trained German shepherd named Brandy sniffed out the explosive, found in an attache case in the cockpit. With five pounds of C4, the device would have destroyed the Boeing 707, with fifty two on board, in midflight. Police defused the explosive with twelve minutes to spare. In the first leg of the UEFA Cup Quarter-Finals Wolverhampton Wanderers gained a one-all draw with Juventus in Turin whilst Tottenham Hotspur won two-nil against UTA Arad in Romania. The first episode of Des and We Was All One broadcast on Thames.
Tommy Hunt: At The Golden Garter. Glasgow Rangers drew one-all at Torina in the first leg of the Cup Winners Cup Quarter-Final. Glasgow Celtic won two-one in Budapest against Újpest Dózsa in the European Cup (Lou Macari scoring the winner five minutes from time). Arsenal lost by the same score to Ajax at Amsterdam's Olympisch Stadion. Manchester United picked up their first point since 27 December, sharing a goalless draw with Everton in the First Division. If The Spirit Is Willing broadcast in the Man Alive strand. As the extortion plot against Trans World Airlines continued, a C4-packed time bomb was found on a second Boeing 707. Hidden in a bathroom, the bomb exploded while the jet sat, unoccupied, at an airport in Las Vegas. Two searches had failed to detect the explosive. The plane had arrived seven hours earlier from New York. The plotters had warned TWA about bombs on four separate flights and had demanded a two million dollar ransom. Freddie Francis's Tales From The Crypt premiered. The Callan episode Call Me Sir! broadcast on Thames.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by Ed Stewart, featured The Hollies, Lindisfarne, Ray Stevens, Les Crane, Christie, Don McLean, Argent, Olivia Newton-John and Nilsson. The Man Who Never Was broadcast in BBC2's The Shadow Of The Tower strand. Hans Billian's Das Mädchen Mit Der Heißen Masche - starring Michael Cromer, Sybil Danning and Marlène Appelt - premiered.
The first episode of The Brothers broadcast. Ashton In Camera broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Vinegar Joe and Steeleye Span were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Tony Blackburn's 'Money Don't Make A Man'/'Paper Song' released. Bill Garner scored a hat-trick in Southend United's four-two defeat of Chester in the Fourth Division. Former Sunderland duo Len Ashurst and Nick Sharkey were on-target as the league's bottom side, Hartlepool, enjoyed a rare away win, two-nil at Newport County.
Malcolm Macdonald and Jim Smith scored as Newcastle United defeated Arsenal on a classic Match of The Day. Elsewhere in the First Division, Derby won one-nil at Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City beat Everton two-one at Goodison Park. Jack Charlton scored the only goal in Leeds United's victory over Coventry City on his six hundredth league apperance for the club. David Nish scored twice for Leicester City in their two-nil win against West Ham United. Ian Storey-Moore scored on his Manchester united debut as they won for the first time since 4 December, two-nil at home to Huddersfield Town (George Best netted the second). Hull City and Preston North End both enjoyed four-nil victories in the Second Division (against Fulham and Portsmouth respectively). Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles broadcast in BBC2's One Pairs Of Eyes strand. Genesis and Max Merritt & The Meteors featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Vincent Price was profiled on Radio 4's Film Time strand. Carnival Cruise Lines made its first voyage, as the Mardi Gras departed Miami for an eight-day cruise ... and promptly ran aground on a sandbar. The five hundred passengers - most of whom were travel agents and their families - continued to enjoy themselves on board until tugboats dislodged the ship the next day and the new company received national publicity from the incident. Sandie Jones's 'Music Of Love'/'Ceol An Ghra' released.
Randy Newman appeared on Engelbert With The Young Generation. Vladimir Ashkenazy - The Vital Juices Are Russian broadcast in the Omnibus strand. La Camargue broadcast in The World About Us strand. The European satellite TD-1A was launched, designed to measure the ultraviolet spectrum.
The first episode of Spy Trap broadcast. Lindusfarne appeared on Sounding Out. David Cregans's That Time Of Life broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. What Is Race? broadcast in the Horizon. The Australian soap opera Number Ninety Six made its debut on Network Ten, after an advertising campaign with the slogan 'Tonight at 8:30, Television loses its virginity!' During its five-year run, the show would break several taboos against showing nudity and sexual intercourse. Clifford Irving and his wife, Edith, pleaded extremely guilty in a New York federal court to charges of conspiracy to defraud and grand larceny. Irving admitted that he had made up the autobiography of Howard Hughes, for which he had received an eye-wateringly huge advance from McGraw-Hill. Ray Kennedy scored the only goal as Arsenal defeat Derby Count in an FA Cup Fifth Round second replay. The World In Action episode War In The Air broadcast.
Anthony Terpiloff's Poet Game - featuring Anthony Hopkins - broadcast on BBC2. Al Stewart and The Steven Miller Band featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. James Baldwin featured on Viewpoint. The Groundhogs were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Naval officer David Bingham was sentenced to twenty one years in prison at the Old Bailey for passing military secrets to the Soviet Union. He had done it his wife, Maureen, claimed, to pay off her massive bingo debts. Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather premiered. Tommy Gemmell scored twice as struggling Nottingham Forest beat Chelsea two-one in the First Division.
The Football League defeated The Scottish League three-two at Middlesbrough, highlights of which were broadcast on Sportsnight With Coleman. Tony Currie scored twice for the hosts. Norwich City went back to the top of the Second Division with a two-nil victory over Hull City. Landlord & Tenant: Up The Rent broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. The Callan episode First Refusal broadcast on Thames. James Hong's Hot Connections - starring Billy Busy, Dennis Falt and Rene Bond - premiered.
Do You Remember?: The Beginning Of The Beatles broadcast. Shirley Bassey featured on BBC2's The Harry Secombe Show. Italian millionaire and radical Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was found dead in the Milan suburb of Segrate, apparently the victim of his own bomb. Feltrinelli had apparently planned to destroy the pylon of a high-voltage power line in order to plunge the area into darkness, when the explosive went off prematurely. He bled to death from his injuries. King Hussein of Jordan unveiled his plan for the 'United Arab Kingdom', a federation consisting of the existing Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and a Palestinian Arab state on Jordan's former territories on the Israeli occupied West Bank, each with their own parliament, united under one monarch. The UAK would be dependent upon a treaty between Jordan and Israel. The PLO and most other Arab nations violently opposed the plan. The Football League lodged 'a strong protest' to the BBC about extra lighting installed at Middlesbrough's Ayresome Park to make colour transmission of The Football League's game against The Scottish League possible. 'In future, they have to put their lights above the existing pylons or stick to black and white,' whinged professional misanthrope Alan Hardaker. A one hundred and sixty vehicle pile-up on the M1 at Luton killed nine people and injured fifty others. The accident came only four months after the deaths of another nine people on the same stretch of highway. In both cases, fog and industrial pollution precipitated the chain reaction. Federico Fellini's Roma - starring Peter Gonzales - premiered.
The Question of Ulster - The People Talking broadcast. Strike Village broadcast in BBC2's The Money Programme strand. From Tomorrow Painting's Dead broadcast in the Review strand. The Edgar Broughton Band and The Incredible String Vest were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Ringo Starr's 'Back Off Boogaloo'/'Blindman', Vicky Leandros's 'Come What May'/'Take A Little Time', Slow Dog's 'Walking Through The Blue Grass'/'Ain't Never Going Home', Bread's 'Everything I Own'/'I Don't Love You', The Pearls' 'Third Finger, Left Hand'/'Little Lady Love Me', Curved Air's 'Sarah's Concern'/'Phantasmagoria', Alice Cooper's 'Be My Lover'/'You Drive Me Nervous' and Rockin' Horse's 'Julian The Hooligan'/'Stayed Out Late Last Night' released.
In the FA Cup Sixth Round, Leeds United beat Tottenham Hotspur two-one (featured on Match Of The Day), Birmingham City defeated Huddersfield Town three-one and Alan Ball's goal gave Arsenal victory at Orient. Manchester United drew one-all with Stoke City. West Ham United beat Nottingham Forest four-two in the First Division (Pop Robson scoring twice to the hosts, Duncan MacKenzie netting a pair for the visitors). Liverpool thumped Newcastle United five-nil and Derbu County enjoyed a three-nil victory over Leicester City. Manchester City remained top, Tony Boptth scoring the only goal against Chelsea. We Don't Do Bangs broadcast in the Film Night strand. Horrible turgid hippies Deep Purple featured in Radio 1's In Concert. Roman Polanski and Charlton Heston were interviewed on Radio 4's Film Time.
The Fall Of Venice broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Some Very Gallant Gentlemen: The Irony Of Fate broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Long & The Short & The Tall broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
EA Whitehead's Under The Age broadcast on BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Man-Made Lakes Of Africa broadcast in the Horizon strand. The first episode of Long Live Our England broadcast. Darlington thrashed Northampton Town five-two in the Fourth Division. The World In Action episode Waiting For The Package broadcast.
Roy Minton's Horace broadcast on BBC2. Judee Sill performed 'Jesus Was A Crossmaker' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Budget Special 1972: Confidence Or Crisis? broadcast. The latter, if you were wondering. Mike Cooper Band and Stud were in session on Sounds of The Seventies: John Peel. Tottenham Hostpur reached the Semi-Final of the UEFA Cup following a one-all draw with UT Arad.
Grand Prix Motor Racing broadcast in the Before The Event strand - presented by Annie Nightingale. Ajax Amsterdam defeated Arsenal three-one on aggregate in the European Cup Quarter-Final. Glasgow Celtic progressed with a three-two aggregate victory over Újpest Dózsa. The other Semi-Finalists were Benfica (who defeated holders Feyenoord) and Internazionale (narrow victors over Standard Liège). Alex MacDonald's goal gave Glasgow Rangers victory over Torino in the Cup Winners Cup. Wolves joined Tottenham in the UEFA Cup Semi-Finals with a two-one win against Juventus at Molineux. Terry Conroy's extra-time winner saw Stoke City overcome Manchester United two-one in an FA Cup Sixth Round replay. Kevin Hector scored the only goal as Derby County defeated Ipswich Town one-nil in the First Division. He's Not A Bad Old Dog broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. The Callan episode Rules Of The Game broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of It's Murder, But Is It Art? broadcast. The first media event surrounding the recently discovered, cave-dwelling Tasaday People took place in the Philippines as reporters, scientists and VIPs (including Charles Lindbergh) were brought in by helicopter to meet a group of people whom, it was claimed, had never made it out of the Stone Age. It was not until after the 1986 overthrow of Philippine President Marcos that it was discovered the twenty Tasaday 'cavemen' had been ordinary people paid to perpetuate a hoax.
The Needle's Eye broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Edward Heath announced direct rule from London after half-a-century of Northern Irish autonomy. The bicameral Parliament of Northern Ireland, commonly referred to as Stormont, was suspended and Prime Minister Brian Faulkner was replaced by William Whitelaw, named to the newly created post of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Matching Mole and Al Stewart were in session on Sounds of The Seventies: John Peel. Shaun Dingwall born in London. Neil Innes's 'Slush'/'Music From Rawlinson's End', Carlos Mendes's 'Shadows'/'Glow-Worm', The Equals' 'Stand Up & Be Counted'/'What Would You Do To Survive?', Don McLean's 'Vincent'/'Castles In The Air', John Barry's 'This Way Mary'/'Diamonds Are Forever', John Miles' 'Yesterday (Was Just The Beginning)'/'Road To Freedom', Edgar Winter's White Trash's 'Keep Playin' That Rock 'N' Roll'/'Dying To Live' and Sandra & Andres' 'What Do I Do?'/'Gypsy Man' released.
The first UK TV showing of The Satan Bug. The Eurovision Song Contest in Edinburgh was won by Vicky Leandros with 'Apres Toi' competing for Luxembourg (even though she was, you know, Greek). For Britain, The New Seekers' 'Beg, Steal Or Borrow' came second. Buddy Rich & His Orchestra featured on BBC2's Sounds For Saturday. The Other Contest broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Christopher Lee was interviewed on Film Night. Sandy Denny and Quiver appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Essington's Escapade broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. In the First Division, Manchester United thrashed Crystal Palace four-nil, Nottingham Forest defeated Coventry City by the same score, Chelsea beat West Ham United three-one, Leeds United thumped Arsenal three-nil and leaders Manchester City drew nil-nil at Newcastle. Norwich City, at the top of the Second Division, hammered Blackpool five-one. Watford, ten points adrift at the bottom of the trable, lost again, two-one at home to Carlisle United. The Third Division promotion battle between Brighton & Hove Albion and Aston Villa featured on Match Of The Day, Brighton winning two-one and Willie Irvine scoring one of the goals of the season, a rasping fifteen yard netburster. In America, the two hundred and fifty fourth and last original episode of Bewitched was broadcast, ending a run that started in September 1964. Kentucky Jones's' The Cult - starring MaKee Blaisdell, Debbie Osborne and Sean Kenney - premiered.
The Three Faces Of Jazz broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Old Lady & The Sea broadcast in The World About Us strand. Lord Carrington, Britain's Secretary of State for Defence, reached an agreement with Malta's Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff, renewing the United Kingdom's lease of military bases on the Mediterranean island for another seven years, though at triple the previous rent. After the British lease had expired in September, Mintoff had threatened to sign an agreement with the Soviet Union or with Libya. British forces would leave Malta permanently in March 1979. The UK's last trolleybus system, in Bradford, was closed.
David Rudkin's Bypass - featuring the TV debut of Bob Peck - broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Survival In The Sahara broadcast in the Horizon strand. The first episode of Sights & Sounds Of Britain broadcast. David Climie's adaptation of The Dirtiest Soldier In The World broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. What Do You Want To Know? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. President Idi Amin ordered all Israelis to leave Uganda. For the past decade, Israel had trained Ugandan paratroopers, but Amin broke relations after forming an alliance with Libya. Peter Lorimer, Eddie Gray and Allan Clarke all scored twice as Leeds United thrasshed relegation-haunted Nottingham Forest six-one in the First Division. The World In Action episode The Lump looked at the reasons behind the continuing bad relations between building workers and management, which lead to a strike at a Birmingham construction site.
David Yallop's harrowing To Encourage The Others - directed by Alan Clarke - and Treasures Of Tutankhamun broadcast on BBC2. Harold Pinter was interviewed in the Viewpoint strand. Chuck Berry was interviewed on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Uncle Dog were in session on Sounds of The Seventies: John Peel. Dery County closed the gap at the top of the First Division to one point with a one-nil victory at Crystal Palace. With both of their regular goalkeepers (Peter Grummitt and Peter Springett) injured Sheffield Wednesday signed a local league player, Trevor Pearson, as an emergency. He made his debut in a four-nil thumping at Fulham.
Barry Norman interviewed Glenda Jackson on Film 72. Vince, Paul, Lawrence & Richard broadcast in the Man Alive strand. This is My Island broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. For the first time since 1966, authorities in East Germany opened the Berlin Wall for an eight-day period and allowed visitors from West Germany during the Easter holidays. For the first time since 1952, the Communist government also permitted visitors to go beyond the capital and into the countryside. Second Division strugglers Cardiff City thrashed Preston North End five-two, Alan Warboys scoring a hat-trick. The Callan episode If He Can, So Could I broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of The French Way broadcast. Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According To Matthew shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. At a meeting in Key Biscane, Florida, former US Attorney General and director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, John Mitchell, verbally agreed to Gordon Liddy's plan to break into and bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Building in Washington. Mitchell, who subsequently went to jail for conspiracy to obstruct justice, would deny for the rest of his life that he had agreed to the plan but his claims were contradicted by the two others at the meeting, his deputy Jeb Magruder and Mitchell's aide Fred La Rue. Peter Sasdy's adaptation of Doomwatch - starring Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul, Simon Oates and George Sanders - premiered. Betty Mars's 'Comé Comédie'/'Mon Café Russe', Sapphires' 'Gotta Have Your Love'/'Gee, I'm Sorry Baby' and Todd Rundgren's 'I Saw The Light'/'Marlene' released.
In the First Division, Leeds United's failure to beat West Ham United saw them miss the opportunity to top the table on Good Friday, the game ending in a two-two draw. Victory for Millwall, one-nil against Portsmouth, saw them lead the Second Division ahead of Norwich City and Birmingham City. Third Division table-toppers Aston Villa with a two-nil win at Wrexham pulled away from AFC Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion, who won three-one against Torquay United. Grimsby Town moved second in Division Four behind Scunthorpe United with a two-nil win over Reading, becoming the first League side to score fifty goals this season. Veteran John Connelly hit three in Bury's three-nil victory over Newport County. Hartlepool hammered Stockport County five-nil. According To The Rules: A Doctor In Auschwitz broadcast. The Review Play Competition: The Soda-Water Fountain broadcast. Heads, Hands & Feet were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Mellow Candle's 'Dan The Wing'/'Silversong' released. A team of investigators from the Flamingo Park Zoo in Scarborough found 'a mysterious carcass' floating in Scotland's Loch Ness, while searching for proof of the existence (or otherwise) of the Loch Ness Monster and loaded it onto their truck. They were stopped by Fife police under a 1933 law prohibiting the removal of 'unidentified creatures' from the Loch and the incident made headlines worldwide. An examination determined that the carcass was that of an elephant seal, which had died the week before at Flamingo Park. John Shields, a Zoo employee, claimed he had only intended to 'play a joke' on his colleagues and 'hadn't counted on police or press attention.'
The Faces appeared on BBC2's Sounds For Saturday. And rocked the effing shack! Nirad Chaudhuri: Adventures Of A Brown Man In Search of Civilisation broadcast. Derby County beat Leeds United two-nil at The Baseball Ground on Match Of The Day and took over at the top of the First Division in what would prove to be a significant moment in the season as Manchester City were losing two-one at home to Stoke City. Elsewhere, Manchester united won three-two at Coventry City, Arsenal walloped relegation-certainties Nottingham Forest three-nil and Southampton won three-two at Crystal Palace. David Webb, playing as an emergency striker, scored twice for the second time in a week as Chelsea won two-one at Ipswich town. In the second Division Keith Dyson scored three in Blackpool's four-two victory over Burnley. Vic Halom also netted three as Luton Town defeated Sheffield Wednesday three-one. Watford's woeful season climaxed with them being relegated following a goalless draw at Oxford United with seven games of the season still to go. Second-placed AFC Bournemouth and third-placed Brighton & Hove Albion drew one-all in the Third Division's big gamne. Northampton Town thrashed Gillingham six-one in the Fourth Division. Muhammad Ali defeated Mac Foster on points in a heavyweight bout at the Budokan, Tokyo. Law Unto Itself broadcast. Judee Sill and Hardin & York featured on Radio 1's In Concert. John Noakes appeared on Desert Island Discs. Peter Leder's I Dismember Mama premiered.
The first episode of Tutankhanum's Egypt broadcast. Through Darkness To Light, Nimmo In Las Vegas and If It Moves - It's Rude! broadcast. Extracts from the rock-musical Godspell broadcast from the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral with a cast that included Julie Covington, David Essex, Jeremy Irons, Verity-Anne Meldrum, Tom Saffery, Gay Soper and Marti Webb. The first episode of Emperor Rosko's Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay broadcast on Radio 1.
Bruce Forsyth introduced Disney Time. The Desperate Hours episode of Steptoe & Son broadcast. John Lloyd's What A Lovely Day! broadcast in BBC2's Bird's-Eye View. The Insect War broadcast in the Horizon strand. Jack Rosenthal's And For My Next Trick broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The first UK broadcast of the Fred Astaire episode of The Dick Cavett Show. Blackpool's Dave Hatton and the Middlesbrough forward Johnny Vincent were sent off after a punch-up in their Second Division match. The two players left the field but resumed brawling in the tunnel and had to be separated by members of the ground-staff. Blackpool won the game three-one. Sunderland beat Burnley four-three. Tommy Cassidy scored the only goal as Newcastle United put the cat amongst the pigeons in the race for the First Division title, winning at leaders Derby County. Liverpool went second following a three-nil victory at Manchester United. Notts County defeated Swansea City five-nil in the Third Division. Fred Binney scored a hat-trick in Exeter City's three-two win over Bury in the Fourth Division. Charlie Chaplin returned to America after more than twenty years of exile in Europe. Chaplin, now eighty two, had been invited back for the Academy Awards ceremony.
The first episode of John Craven's Newsround broadcast. Kevin Ayres and Claire Hamill featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Stackridge and Chris Spedding were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. The first episode of A Place In The Sun broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Lord Peter Wimsey (the first part of Clouds Of Witness) broadcast. The Longest Wave broadcast. Two goals from Steve Perryman gave Tottenham Hotspur a two-one victory over AC Milan in the UEFA Cup Semi-Final first leg. Frank Munro's late equaliser earned Wolverhampton Wanderers a two-all draw with Ferencváros (for whom Fliorian Albert was, again, on-target). Glasgow Celtic shared a goalless draw with Internazionale in Milan in the European Cup whilst Rangers drew one-all at Fußball-Club Bayern München in the Cup Winners Cup. Leeds United beat Huddersfield Town three-one to close to within a point of Derby County at the top of the First Division. It's Ours, Whatever They Say broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive. King - Montgomery To Memphis broadcast. The Callan episode None Of Your Business broadcast on Thames.
The Railway King: The Rise & Fall Of George Hudson broadcast. Men Or Moles? broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. Derek Ford's Commuter Husband - starring Gabrielle Drake and Robin Bailey - premiered. South Shileds and North Shields drew two-two in the Vaux Floodlit League derby. Bob O'Donnell and Malcolm Leask scored for the hosts, Colin Topping hitting two for the visitors.
Mike and Albie set off in search of Uncle Ebenezer's treasure in the first episode of Hope & Keen's Crazy Bus. Zulus In Macbeth broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Audience and Michael Chapman were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Elton John's 'Rocket Man'/'Holiday Inn', 'Goodbye', Julie Budd's 'Living Free'/'Don't Take Your Love Away From Me', The Real Thing's 'Vicious Circle (Parts 1 & 2)', The North Bank's 'Arsenal We're On Your Side'/'Half-Time', Denise LaSalle's 'Now Run & Tell That'/'The Deeper I Go (The Better It Gets)' and Mike McGear's 'Woman'/'Kill' released. Having hit a poor run of form with no wins in five, AFC Bournemouth had a two-one victory at Tranmere Rovers in the Third Division with, inevtiably, Ted MacDougall scoring both. Promotion-chasing Southend united won four-one against Reading bin the Fourth Division.
The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Mutants broadcast. Hermann Hesse: A Prophet In Another Country broadcast on BBC2. James Last & His Orchestra featured on Sounds For Saturday. Diamonds Are Forver was reviewed on Film Night. GRIMMS appeared on Radio 1's In Concert strand. A Shot In The Dark broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Horace James's The Bully broadcast on Radio 3. Derby County won four-nil at Sheffield United and remained at the top of the First Division however all of their title rivals also picked up two points; Leeds United won three-nil at Stoke City, Manchester City defeated West Ham United three-one (Rodney Marsh scoring twice) and Liverpool beat Coventry City three-one. Duncan Forbes scores the only goal as Norwich City defeated Sheffield Wednesday in the Second Division. Bob Latchford scored the winner as second-placed Milllwall lost at third-placed Birmingham City. The first episode of Ken Dodd's Funny You Should Say That and the first UK broadcast of The Jackson Five cartoon series on LWT.
Don Taylor's Actor, I Said broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The first UK broadcast of Julie & Carol. The Goodies Kitten Kong (Montreux 72) special broadcast on BBC2. Sounds of Silence broadcast in The World About Us strand. The first episode of Doctor In Charge broadcast on LWT.

Keith Dewhurst's The Sit In broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Mind Over Body broadcast in the horizon strand. The first episodes of Tales From The Lazy Acre and The Royal Palaces Of Britain broadcast. The body of Oberdan Sallustro, the general manager of FIAT operations in Argentina, was found near Buenos Aires, twenty days after he had been kidnapped by the People's Revolutionary Army. On the same day, the terrorist organisation assassinated General Juan Carlos Sanchez as he was being driven to his office in Rosario. Nottingham Forest kept their slim survival hopes alive in the First Division, winning two-nil at Stoke City. Aston Villa all-but confirmed their promotion from the Third Division, Ray Gradon scoring the only goal as they beat Oldham Athletic. The first episodes of Pardon My Genie and Six Days Of Justice and the World In Action episode Het Dorp broadcast on Thames.
The Radio 4 parodic panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - chaired by Humphrey Lyttleton and featuring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie - broadcast for the first time. Vinegar Joe and Jonathan Kelly appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Don Haworth's A Place Of Your Own broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Film 72 covered the Academy Awards. Sandy Denny & Bunch were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Huddersfield Town dropped into the First Division relegation zone after a one-nil defeat at home to Coventry City.
The Sky At Night Fifteenth Anniversary episode broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Measure Of Conscience broadcast. A Night In Jail, A Day In Court broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Manchester City won three-one at Old Trafford in the First Division. Cardiff City's one-nil victory over Orient moved them out of the Second Division's relegation zone for the first time in three months at the expense of Fulham. Brighton & Hove Albion's two-two draw at Blackburn Rovers pushed them into the Third Division promotion places in place of AFC Bournemouth. Notts County were also in just a point behind following a three-one Halifax Town. The Callan episode Charlie Says It's Goodbye broadcast on Thames.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by Tony Blackburn, featured performances by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band, Chris Montez, Marmalade, Vicky Leandros, Middle Of The Road, T Rex, Johnny Nash and Marvin, Welch & Farrar. Swallow Your Leader broadcast on BBC2. Alan Plater's What's On The Landing? broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The first episode of the sickeningly racist and ugly Love Thy Neighbour broadcast on Thames. Who should've been bloody ashamed of themselves.
The first UK broadcast of The American West Of John Ford. Inside Anthony Burgess broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Kevin Ayers and The Johnstons were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Tony Christie's 'Don't Go Down To Reno'/'Sunday Morning', Jackie Lee's 'Oh, My Darlin'/'Don't Be Ashamed', Kris Kristofferson's 'Josie'/'Border Lord', The Dells' 'It's All Up To You'/'Oh My Dear', The Bunch's 'When Will I Be Loved?'/'Willie & The Hand Jive' and Manchester City FC's 'Boys In Blue'/'Funky City' released. The first episode of Clapperboard broadcast on Thames.
Inside Donald Duck broadcast in The Wonderful World Of Disney strand. Harambee - The Story Of The Award and Accessory After The Fact broadcast on BBC2. Vinegar Joe and Hookfoot featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Wendy Hiller appeared on Desert Island Discs. Derby County remained at the top of the First Division with a three-nil victory over in-trouble Huddersfield Town. Liverpool won two-nil at West Ham United whilst Manchester City dropped a point, drawing one-all at Coventry City. In the FA Cup Semi-Finals, Mick Jones scored two as Leeds United defeated Birmingham City three-nil at Hillsborough whilst Arsenal and Stoke City drew one-all at Villa Park. For so long having looked certainties t5o be required to seek re-lection in the Fourth Division, Hartlepool enjoyed an astonishing late-season run of form winning their seventh game in nine, two-one at Crewe Alexandra Bill Waddall scored both goals).
Pete Townshend appeared on How Can You Be So Sure? The Merchant Of Venice broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Great American Dream Machine broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Lure Of Tahiti broadcast in The World About Us strand. Apollo 16 - piloted by John Young, Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly - launched. Though, general public apathy meant that coverage had now mostly transferred to BBC2. The first episodes of The Organization, Music In The Round and Short Story broadcast on LWT.
Roy Kinnear read Dragon In Danger on Jackanory. Out Of Volcanoes broadcast in the Horizon strand. Alan Wells' Something For The Children broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Rolling Stones' 'Tumbling Dice'/'Sweet Black Angel' released. Brian Joicey scored a hat-trick as Sheffield Wednesday beat Orient three-one in the Second Division whilst Sunderland thrashed already-relegated Watford five-nil. Fourth Division promotion-chasers Brentford, Grimsby Town and Southend United all won (two-one against Doncaster Rovers, one-nil at Colchester United and four-one versus Northampton Town respectively). Darlington thrashed Barrow four-nil at Holker Street. The World In Action episode Out Of The Melting Pot broadcast.
A film clip of Iggy Pop & The Stooges featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Whatever Happened To Rolls-Royce? broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. High Level Ranters were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. On Radio 4's A Walk In The Dark, Roy Trevivian asked the important question 'Mary Whitehouse, are you really a killjoy?' To which, obviously, the answer was 'yes.' Manchester City's two-one defeat at Ipswich Town effectively took them out of the First Division title race leaving Derby in pole position though Leeds United did have games in hand (albeit, with an insanely crowded fixture list). Coventry City beat Sheffield United three-two. AFC Bournemouth returned to the Third Division promotion places, winning two-one at Bristol Rovers. Notts County lost three-one at Halifax Town. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Murder By The Book on Anglia. Broadcast in other ITV regions would follow across subsequent weeks.
Arsenal beat Stoke City in an FA Cup Semi-Final replay for the second year running, John Radford scoring The Gunners' winner in a two-one victory at Goodison Park. Radford had replaced an injured Bob Wilson in goal during the drawn first game. In the First Division, Leeds United missed a chance to close the gap on Derby, losing one-nil at Newcastle, Malcolm Macdonald socirng his twentieth league goal of the season (twenty sveen in all competitions). Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers ensured the first UEFA Cup Final would be an all-English affair, with aggregate victories over AC Milan and Ferencváros respectively. Steve Daley and Francis Munro score in Wolves two-one victory at Molineux. Goals from Sandy Jardine and Derek Parlane gave Glasgow Rangers a two-nil victory over Fußball-Club Bayern München to reach the Cup Winners Cup Final. Celtic lost a dramatic penalty shoot-out with Internazionale in the European Cup, following a goalless draw. Dixie Deans was the unlucky player to miss from the spot. Life On The Pension broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. A report into the Bloody Sunday shootings by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, exonerated the British troops of blame because the demonstration had been illegal. The first episode of Escape Into Night and the Callan episode I Never Wanted The Job broadcast on Thames.
Apollo 16 landed on the Moon. Witches, Spells & Sorcerers ... 1972 Style broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. Joseph Losey's The Assassination Of Trotsky - starring Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Valentina Cortese - premiered.
Clips from Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Jason & The Argonauts and Pinocchio featured on Screen Test. The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The first episode of Beyond A Joke - starring Eleanor Bron, John Bird and Barrie Ingham - broadcast. Welcome Little Kangaroo broadcast in the Late Night Line-Up strand. Mike Cooper's Machine Gun Company were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Sweden passed the world's first law officially recognising change of gender, with the amendment, effective 1 July, of civil registration rules to accommodate change of birth registrations for individuals who had undergone, or applied to have, sex-change surgery. The Combined Supporters Clubs' 'We Are The Champions'/'Sing-Along Version', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'Screw Face'/'Face Man', Joni Mitchell's 'California'/'A Case Of You', Joy Lovejoy's 'In Orbit'/'Uh Hum', Leeds United Football Team's 'Leeds United'/'Leeds, Leeds, Leeds' and Grumbleweeds' 'String Of Beads (Good Old Leeds)'/'Simple Little Things' released.
The Bee Gees appeared on Tarbuck's Luck and Tom Paxton and Friends (Mary Travers and John Denver) on Sounds For Saturday. Sir Ralph Richardson: Acting Is Partly Dreaming broadcast on BBC2. The Roy Young Band and Home featured on Radio 1's In Concert. HMS Saracen broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Manchester City's two-nil victory over Derby County gave Leeds United the chance to gain ground in the First Division, via a one-nil win at West Bromwich with Johnny Giles scoring the only goal from the penalty spot. Liverpool also remained in the hunt with a two-nil defeat of Ipswich Town (John Toshack scoring twice). Chelsea and Newcastle drew three-three at Stamford Bridge. Grimsby Town were the first team to be promoted from the Fourth Division following a one-all dar at Bury. Maxwell Confait, a twenty six year old male prostitute, was found murdered in his burning Catford flat, having been strangled. Three teenagers - Colin Lattimore, Ronnie Leighton and Ahmet Salih - were arrested. All had alibis for the period that the police surgeon and the pathologist had estimated time of death. Nevertheless, they were convicted of murder and arson at the Old Bailey in November. In 1975, the three successfully appealed. Lord Scarman heavily criticised the police for their handling of the case, claiming they should have put more emphasis on the fact that there had been no struggle, suggesting Confait knew his killer or killers. In February 1980, Detective Chief Superintendent George and Inspector Ellison presented a report to the Director of Public Prosecutions identifying the late Douglas Franklin as Confait's probable murderer (Franklin had committed suicide shortly after being interviewed by the officers). In August 1980, Sir Michael Havers prepared a statement to Parliament declaring Lattimore, Leighton and Salih innocent of the crime. The first episode of New Scotland Yard - Point Of Impact - broadcast.
The first episode of Michael J Bird's The Lotus Eaters broadcast on BBC2. Emerson Fittipaldi finished ahead of Jackie Stewart to win the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Le Corbusier broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Stab In The Back broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Jerry Lee Lewis featured on Radio 1's Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay.
Ronald Hines read The Honeywell Badger on Jackanory. Rumours Of Wars broadcast in the Horizon strand. Dennis Woolf's Happy Days Are Here Again broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Christopher Miles's A Time For Loving - starring Joanna Shimkus, Mel Ferrer and Britt Ekland - premiered. Norwich City moved to the brink of promotion to the First Division with a two-one victory at Orient. Aston Villa's one-all draw with Mansfield Town confirmed their promotion from the Third Division. Brentford were promoted from the Fourth Division following a three-nil victory at Barrow. The World In Action episode The Rule Of Law broadcast.
Undersea Strike! broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Life Is Right - The Architect Is Wrong broadcast on BBC2. Jerry Lee Lewis, John Prine, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Mick Jagger (interviewed by Richard Williams) and Country Joe McDonald featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Photographs which developed 'right before your eyes' were introduced when Edwin H Land of the Polaroid Corporation demonstrated the SX-70 film and camera. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger secretly discussed attacking North Viet'nam in The Oval Office. After Kissinger estimated that taking out dikes would 'drown about two hundred thousand people,' Nixon responded, 'I'd rather use a nuclear bomb. Have you got that?' When Kissinger responded: 'That, I think, would just be too much,' Nixon replied: 'I want you to think big, Henry, for Chrissake.' The tape of the conversation was released some years later. The New York Times first published the front-page story of Frank Serpico, the police detective fighting corruption within the NYPD. Argent, Wishbone Ash and Bridget St John were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Arsenal beat Manchester United three-nil in the First Division whilst Nottingham Forest lost three-one at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Birmingham City and Millwall continued to match each-other stride for stride in the race for promotion from the Second Division, both winning two-nil (versus Hull City and at Charlton Athletic respectively). Southend United were promoted from the Fourth Division after a one-all draw at Scunthorpe United. The first episode of Albert! broadcast on Thames.
Out Of The Past: The Case Of Jonathan Strong broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Times Remembered profile of James Blades broadcast. Derby County won the Texaco Cup beating Airdrieonians two-one on aggregate thanks to a late Roger Davies winner. Crystal Palace's two-nil victory over Stoke City relegated both Nottingham Forest and Huddersfield Town from the First Division. AFC Bournemouth's two-one defeat at Blackburn Rovers handed the initiative in the Third Division promotion battle back to Brighton & Hove Albion, who beat Rotherham United two-one. Lincoln City's goalless draw with Crewe Alexandra meant that Scunthorpe United joined Southend, Grimsby and Brentford as the four teams promoted from the Fourth Division. Peter Price of Peterborough United ended the season as the division's top scorer (with twenty eight). Scotland defeated Peru two-nil in a friendly international at Hampden Park. John O'Hare and Denis Law (playing his first international in over three years) scored. Kilmarnock's Ally Hunter, Manchester City's Willie Donachie and West Bromwich Albion's Asa Hartford played for the first time at international level. The Callan episode The Carrier broadcast on Thames.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by Ed Stewart, featured Elton John (performing 'Rocket Man' with his manager John Reid pretending to play acoustic guitar and two female backing singers), Ringo Starr, Sly & The Family Stone, Jo Jo Gunne, Hurricane Smith, Daniel Boone and The Angelettes. Ils Etaient Neuf Celibataires shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. David Hemmings's Running Scared - starring Robert Powell, Gayle Hunnicutt, Barry Morse and Stephanie Bidmead - premiered. West Bromwich Albion thrashed Chelsea four-nil in the First Division.
The Return Of Apollo 16 broadcast. Vladimir Nabokov was interviewed on BBC2's Review strand. Stone The Crows were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. David Bowie's 'Starman'/'Suffragette City', John Baldry's 'Iko Iko'/'Mother Ain't Dead' and Fanny's 'Ain't That Peculiar'/'Think About The Children' released. Newport County and Stockport County drew four-all in the Fourth Division. An astronomer with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the 'possible' discovery of a tenth planet. Joseph L Brady, relying on computer calculations of gravitational data, said that the planet would be 'larger than Saturn and more than five billion miles from the Sun.' The possibility was discounted after further study.
Günter Netzer, Franz Beckenbauer, Uli Hoeneß, Gerd Müller, Paul Breitner and their West Germany team-mates took England to the cleaners at Wembley in the first leg of the European Nations Cup Quarter-Final, winning three-one. Francis Lee scored for England. It was the last time Geoff Hurst represented his country. In the First Division, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Leicester City four-three (Cyril Knowles scoring twice) whilst Manchester United beat Stoke City three-nil. Charlton were relegated from the Second Division after losing five-nil at Blackpool whilst Norwich City's promotion was confirmed following a one-all draw at already-relegated Watford. Millwall finished their season with a two-nil victory over Preston North End and sat in the second promotion place but Birmingham City (who won two-one at Sheffield Wednesday thanks to a Trevor Francis winner) were a point behind with one game remaining. Aston Villa were cofnirmed as third Division champions following a five-one hiding of Torquay United, who were relegated. Bradford City (who drew at Mansfield) also went down. The second promotion spot went to Brighton & Hove Albion, who won two-one at Rochdale. Having been in the top two almost all season AFC Bournemouth finished agonising shot, despite Ted MacDougall's thirty five goals. Exeter City's seven-one thrashing of Barrow would turn out to be Barrow's final league match until 2020. Eddie Garbutt scored their consolation goal. Northampton Town, who as recently as 1966 were a First Division side, also finished in the botom four and were required to apply for re-elction (at which they were successful). The Seven Locks Of Prague broadcast. Elton John appeared on Sounds For Saturday on BBC2. Mick Abraham's Band and Jude featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Seacombe recorded The Last Goon Show Of All at the Camden Theatre (it was eventually broadcast on Boxing Day). The Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum continued to draw massive crowds. Six women prisoners staged a rooftop protest at Holloway. A boy birched in the Isle of Man claimed that his father 'went berserk' when the birch broke on his buttocks. 'The Age of Aquarius' continued as the fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair! was celebrated with a free concert in New York's Central Park. With naughty nudity and everything. Thirteen Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, were busted by The Fuzz for disturbing the peace and open marijuana use. Hallelujah, I adore it.
Leningrad Reborn broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Nancy Wilson From The Talk Of The Town broadcast on BBC2. The Brighton Belle Pullman made its final journey from London. Robert Young's Vampire Circus - starring Adrienne Corri, Anthony Higgins, John Moulder-Brown, Lynne Frederick, Lalla Ward and Robin Sachs - premiered.
Bryan Marshall read The Green Children on Jackanory. A Question Of Sport: Cup Final Special and Magic Of The Cup 1872-1972 broadcast. The Stallion and A Hardy Summer broadcast on BBC2. The Wizard Who Spat On The Floor broadcast in the Horizon strand. Derby County, in their last First Division game of the season, beat Liverpool with John McGovern scoring the only goal. Leeds United defeated Chelsea two-nil (Billy Bremner and Mick Jones on-target) and would still win the title if they were to beat Wolverhampton Wanderers in their final fixture. The NVA captured the South Vietnamese province Quảng Trị. The World In Action episode Containers broadcast.
A Month Of Sundays: Portrait Of A Durham Mining Village broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentarystrand. Rich Man, Poor Man: Industry broadcast on BBC2. Jackson Browne, Linda Hoyle and Kris Kristofferson featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Medicine Head and Caravan were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. J Edgar Hoover died. L Patrick Gray was appointed as acting FBI director by President Nixon. Bob Latchford scored the only goal as Birmingham City won at Orient in the Second Division to snatch the second promotion spot from out of the grasp of Millwall who had occupied a place in the top two since September. Latchford finished the season as the division's top scorer with twenty three goals. The largest Fourth Division gate of the season, twenty two thousand, saw champions Grimsby Town beat Exeter City three-nil.
Sportsnight With Coleman broadcast highlights of Muhammad Ali heavyweight victory over George Chuvalo. How Does Your Garden Grow? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Les Harvey, guitarist with Stone the Crows, was fatally electrocuted before a crowd of twelve hundred people, as the band was performing at the Top Rank ballroom in Swansea. Reportedly, Harvey's hands were wet when he grasped microphone, which was not properly grounded. Tottenham Hotspur won two-one at Wolverhampton Wanderers in the first leg of the UEFA Cup Final, Martin Chivers scoring twice. Malcolm Macdoland finished the season with thirty goals in all comeptitions as Newcastle United beat West Bromwich Albion four-two in the First Division. The Callan episode The Contact broadcast on Thames.
Twenty Four Hours Election Special covered the parliamentary by-erections at Kingston-upon-Thames (won by Norman Lamont for the Tories albeit, with a hugely reduced majority) and Southwark (won by Labour's Harry Lambton). The first episode of BBC2's The Golden Bowl broadcast. The Paris Peace Talks were suspended indefinitely after the United States and South Viet'nam pulled out because of 'a lack of progress.' When North Viet'nam's negotiator Lê Đức Thọ refused to budge on negotiations, even after Henry Kissinger had suggested that the American President was 'a madman,' President Nixon told Kissinger, 'The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.' The Operation Linebacker bombing campaign against North Viet'nam began. Luton Town apoointed Harry Haslam as manager replacing Alec Stock who had left to join Fulham.
A Night At The Opera shown in The Marx Brothers strand. Seven Years To Learn To Paint An Egg broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. John Dummer and Max Merritt & The Meteors were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Four Black September terrorists - Ali Taha Abu Snina, Abed al-Aziz Atrash, Rima Tannous and Theresa Halsa - hijacked a Sabena aircraft carrying ninety nine passengers and ten crew from Brussels to Tel Aviv. At Lod Airport, in Operation Isotope, sixteen members of Sayeret Matkal - led by Ehud Barak and including Benjamin Netanyahu, both future Israeli Prime Ministers - posed as refuelling personnel and stormed the plane, killing two of the terrorists and releasing the passengers, of whom three were wounded. The surviving terrorists, Halsa and Tannous were sentenced to life imprisonment. They were freed in November 1983, in a prisoner exchange. Free's 'Little Bit Of Love'/'Sail On', Stackridge's 'Slark'/'Purple Spaceship Over Yatton', Gordon Banks & His Friends' 'We'll Be Together'/'We Need You', Wishful Thinking's 'Clear White Light'/'Hiroshima', Bruce Ruffin's 'Mad About You'/'Save The People' and T-Rex's 'Metal Guru'/'Thunderwing', 'Lady' released.
Allan Clarke scored the only goal as Leeds United beat Arsenal in the Centenary FA Cup Final. Having supplied the cross for Sniffer's winner, Mick Jones dislocated his elbow. He then captured the hearts of the nation by struggling up the steps to the Royal Box, aided by Norman Hunter, to collect his winner's medal from the Queen. Just about the only time you'll ever see the words 'Leeds United' and 'heartwarning' in the same sentence. Sandie Shaw Sings broadcast. The first episode of The Philpott File: The Mighty Mississippi broadcast on BBC2. Diana Rigg was interviewed on Film Night. Heads, Hands & Feet and The Sutherland Brothers featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Conan Doyle Investigates broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
Bernadette Devlin appeared on How Can You Be So Sure? Whatever Turns You On Or Variations On A noisy theme broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Glen Campbell At The Talk Of The Town broadcast on BBC2. John Bulmer's The Black Beach broadcast. Edmund Kemper picked up two hitchhiking Fresno State University students - roommates Mary Anne Pesce and Anita Luchessa - drove them to a remote location, murdered them and then dismembered their bodies. It was the start of a near year-long crime spree as a serial killer. Everton signed Mike Bernard from Stoke City for one hundred and twenty five thousand quid.

Rail Crash broadcast in the Horizon strand. 'Kids Lib' leader Ginger Finch was charged with using insulting behaviour and obstruction after a mass 'pupil power' demonstration in North London. Eight hundred pupils from five schools met to urge teenagers away from their classrooms. The demo was called by the Rebel Schools' Action Union, who were protesting against caning, detention, uniforms and 'headmaster dictatorship.' After the crowd were joined by pupils from Sarah Siddons Girls' School the demonstrators set out on an eight-mile march to enlist support from other schools. At Marylebone Grammar School twenty invaders broke into the school building where they kicked classroom doors and shouted 'Everybody Out.' Leeds United's two-one defeat by Wolverhampton Wanderers (in a game which was subsequently the subject of - ultimately unproven - allegations of attempted match-fixing) and Liverpool's goalless draw with Arsenal meant that Brian Clough's Derby County were First Division champions for the first time. Manchester City finished fourth with only a single point separating the top four sides. Both the Daily Mirror and the Sunday People later claimed that Don Revie had attempted to bribe Wolves players to lose the match. The papers quoted Wolves midfielder Danny Hegan and Leeds goalkeeper Gary Sprake's claims that Billy Bremner had tried to arrange a bribe. Bremner sued for libel and won, after both Hegan and Sprake refused to repeat their allegations under oath in court. Derek Dougan, who had scored for Wolves, testified that he had heard no mention of the alleged bribes. Norwich City won the Second Division and were promoted along with Birmingham City. Millwall, Queens Park Rangers and Sunderland missed out. Tranmere Rovers two-one victory over Notts County in the third Division meant that Mansfield Town became the fourth club to be relegated. Francis Lee scored thirty three goals for Manchester City. Lots of them penalties. Most of which he, himself, won. Some of them, legitimately. President Nixon announced that the United States would lay mines in North Vietnam's harbours in order to stop further supply of weapons and material. Nixon added, 'To other nations, especially those which are allied with North Vietnam, the actions I have announced tonight are not directed against you. Their sole purpose is to protect the lives of sixty thousand Americans, who would be gravely endangered in the event that the Communist offensive continues to roll forward and to prevent the imposition of a Communist government by brutal aggression upon seventeen million people.' In Operation Pocket Money, mines were dropped at Haiphong harbour by nine American attack aircraft flying from the carrier USS Coral Sea and at six other ports, which were blocked for three hundred days until the mines were removed by the US in 1973. The first episode of The David Nixon Magic Show and the World In Action episode Liberty Belles broadcast on Thames. The Geordie Bible broadcast on LWT.
The post-Jim Morrison Doors appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Sob Sisters broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Israeli special forces stormed a hijacked Belgian jet and freed all ninety seven hostages on board, killing two of the three hijackers. Sabena Flight 571 had been sitting at the Lod Airport in Tel Aviv after being captured the day before by three men, who threatened to blow the jet up unless Israel released imprisoned Arab guerrillas. Matching Mole were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Anna-Louise Plowman born in Napier, New Zealand.
The Dame Of Sark broadcast, featuring an interview by Tom Salmon. Shoot-out At Rio Lobo broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Callan episode The Richmond File: Call Me Enemy broadcast on Thames.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by Tony Blackburn, featured performances by Lindisfarne, The Moody Blues, Chicory Tip, The Drifters, Elton John and T Rex. Tomas Gutierrez Alea's The Death Of A Bureaucrat shown in the World Cinema strand. Peter Medak's adaptation of A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg - starring Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish and Joan Hickson - premiered. Spurs beat Arsenal two-nil at Highbury in the last First Division game of the season.
The first episode of The Man Outside broadcast. The Family investigated the Tate-Labianca murders in BBC2's Review strand. Ralpj McTell and Clair Hamill were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street and Wings' 'Mary Had A Little Lamb'/'Little Woman Love' released.
England played out a listless goalless draw with West Germany in Berlin and were knocked out of the European Nations Cup. Alf Ramsey's bizarre decision to play two defenders - Peter Storey and Norman Hunter - in midfield when England needed a two-goal victory to progress did not, exactly, endear him to supporters of the national team. Though, the pair certainly made their presence felt, conceded twenty-seven free-kicks and were described by German coach Helmut Schoen as 'brutal'. St Helens beat Leeds sixteen-thirteen in the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley. The Steam & Iron Contest broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Richie Havens featured on BBC2's Sounds For Saturday. Country Joe McDonald and Brinsley Schwarz appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Joan Bakewell was the guest of Desert Island Discs. A type Ia supernova in SN 1972e, in the galaxy NGC 5253, was observed on Earth, eleven million years after it had occured. Another supernova from NGC 5253 had been observed in 1895. Weeks after the Apollo 16 mission had departed, an eleven hundred kilogram meteorite crashed on the Moon and left a crater 'as large as a football field.' Dan Blocker, the actor best known for his role as Hoss Cartwright in Bonanza died of a pulmonary embolism. Blocker had undergone routine surgery for removal of his gall bladder on 1 May and died the day after his release from a hospital in Inglewood.
Lady Windermere's Fan broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. All Things To All People broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Green Wind, Grey Stone: Impressions Of Snowdonia broadcast in The World About Us strand. Nic Roeg and Peter Neal's Glastonbury Fayre - featuring Arthur Brown, Family, Fairport Convention, Gong, Kingdom Come, Linda Lewis, Magic Michael, Melanie, Quintessence, Terry Reid, Traffic, Tonto's Expanding Head Band and Bostik Swastika - premiered. North Shields won the Northern League Challenge Cup beating Spennymoor United two-one in a replay at Feryhill. Bobby Wake and Colin Topping scored for Shields.
Bernard Cribbins read The Escaped Black Mamba & Other Things on Jackanory. The Queen In France broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Let's Get Going broadcast. Alabama Governor - and racist lowlife - George Wallace was shot five times while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president. The would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer, wounded three others in addition to Wallace at a rally in at the Laurel Shopping Centre in Maryland. Wallace survived, but was permanently paralysed from the waist down. The World In Action episode Conversations With A Single Parent broadcast.
Lawrence In China broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Beach Boys performed 'You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The Kinks ('Holiday', 'Supersonic Rocket Ship', 'Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues', 'Skin & Bone') and Quiver were in session on Sounds of The Seventies: John Peel. Douglas Hickox's Sitting Targets - starring Oliver Reed, Jill St John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward, Freddie Jones and Frank Finlay - premiered.
The first episode of Down To Earth broadcast. Unlawful After Midnight broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Three men, convicted of participating in the 1967 gang rape of the Philippine film actress Maggie dela Riva, were put to death in the electric chair. By order of President Marcos, the executions were nationally televised. Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers drew one-all in the second leg of the UEFA Cup Final. Tottenham won the cup three-two on aggregate. The Callan episode The Richmond File: Do You Recognise The Woman? broadcast on Thames.
Top Of The Pops featured, amongst others, T Rex, David Cassidy, Hurricane Smith, Leeds United FC, New World, Val Doonican and Don McLean. The First Charge Of The Machete shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Robert Lee Johnson, a former US army sergeant who was seven years into a twenty five-year prison sentence for treason and espionage, was stabbed to death in a visitor's area at the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His murderer was his own son, who would tell authorities that his motive for patricide was 'a personal matter.' Four troopers of the Special Air Service and Special Boat Service were parachuted onto the ocean liner QE2 in the Mid-Atlantic after a bomb threat and a ransom demand was received. It turned out to be bogus.
The first episode of Right Charlie - featuring Charlie Caroli 'the clever comical clown' - broadcast. More Equal Than Others broadcast in BBC2's The Money Programme strand. Bertrand Russell was profiled in the Review strand. Zoot Money and Help Yourselv were in session on Sounds of The Seventies: John Peel. Elton John's Honky Chateux, The JB's 'Hot Pants Road'/'Pass The Peas', The Equals' 'Have I The Right?/'Lover Let Me Go', Billy Preston's 'Outa Space'/'The Bus', The Sweet's 'Little Willy'/' Man From Mecca', Slade's 'Take Me Bak 'Ome'/'Wonderin' Y', Humble Pie's 'Hot 'N' Nasty'/'You're So Good To Me', Hoagy Lands' 'Why Didn't You Let Me Know?'/'Do You Know What Life Is All About?', Curtis Mayfield's 'Keep On Keeping On'/'Stone Junkie', Quincy Jones' 'Listen To The Melody'/'Hot Rock Theme', Charlie Williams' 'That's What I Shoulda Said'/'I'll Make It Up To You' and The Highbury Marchers' 'The Official Arsenal March'/'Arsenal Boogie' released. A bomb exploded at the Pentagon, destroying an unoccupied women's lavatory where it had been placed. Though no one was injured, a computer tape archive with 'highly classified' information was severely damaged. Jim O'Connolly's magnificently awful Tower Of Evil - starring Bryant Haliday, Jill Haworth, Anna Palk, William Lucas, Anthony Valentine, Jack Watson, Derek Fowlds, Gary Hamilton, Candace Glendenning and Dennis Price and Claude Pierson's Justine De Sade - starring Alice Arno - premiered.

The first episode of the Doctor Who serial The Time Monster broadcast. A much-changed England side beat Wales three-nil in the Home International championship in Cardiff. Emlyn Hughes, Rodney Marsh and Colin Bell scored whilst Newcastle United's Malcolm MacDonald made his England debut. Following Scotland's two-nil defeat of Northern Ireland (Denis Law and Peter Lorimer scoring), George Best announced his retirement from football, saying he was 'a mental and physical wreck.' The John Warren Band featured on BBC2's Sounds For Saturday. The Edgar Broughton Band appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. An adaptation of Love On The Dole - starring Billie Whitelaw, James Bolam and Roy Kinnear - broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Professional golfer Jane Blalock was disqualified from the Bluegrass Invitational for not marking her ball properly and then failing to take a two-stroke penalty. Within a month, the LPGA Tour would move to suspend Blalock. In response, she filed a lawsuit against the LPGA. The 'Jane Blalock cheating controversy' would continue until 1975, when both parties agreed to settle. The first episode of The Train Now Standing broadcast on LWT. On Take The World From Another Point Of View featured an interview between Sir Fred Hoyle and Richard Feynman.
Where Have All The Trees Gone? broadcast in the Bellamy On Botany strand. A Girl Like You broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Jacques Cousteau's The Forgotten Mermaids broadcast in The World About Us strand. Helen Reddy & The Les Humphries Singers From The Talk Of The Town broadcast. Michelangelo's four hundred and seventy five-year-old masterpiece, the sculpture Pietà, was heavily damaged by Laszlo Toth, a man with a hammer. The first episode of Johnny Beerling's The Beatles Story - narrated by Brian Matthew - broadcast on Radio 1. Jules Bricken's Danny Jones - starring Frank Finlay, Jane Carr, Len Jones and Jenny Hanley - premiered.
John Mortimer's Mill Hill broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand, featuring Peter Cook in a rare straight acting role. The Horizon film Do You Dig National Parks? broadcast. The Dominion of Ceylon became the Republic of Sri Lanka. The World In Action episode The Runcoirn Experiment broadcast.
Paul Ferris's The Press We Deserve: Scoop, Scandal & Strife broadcast. Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Quiver featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Pete Walker's Four Dimensions Of Greta - Britain's first 3D movie, starring Leena Skoog, Tristan Rogers, Karen Boyes and Robin Askwith - premiered. England lost one-nil to Northern Ireland at Wembley in the Home International championship, the first time the Irish had beaten England since 1957. Terry Neill scored the winner. Derby County's Colin Todd and Sheffield United's Tony Currie made their England debuts. This was the first England match since the 1966 World Cup Final which did not feature a World Cup winner in the starting line-up (although Martin Peters did come on as a substitute for Currie). David Bowie appeared in session on Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel ('White Light White Heat', 'Moonage Daydream', 'Hang On To Yourself', 'Suffragette City', 'Ziggy Stardust'). Tito broadcast on Radio 4.
Peter Lorimer scored the winner as Scotland beat Wales one-nil at Hampden Park in the Home International championship. Celtic's Lou Macari made his Scotland debut as a substitute. Scotland were without Sandy Jardine, Willie Johnston and Colin Stein who were with their club side, Glasgow Rangers, as they beat Dynamo Moscow three-two in the Nou Camp to win the European Cup Winners Cup. The victory was marred by a violent pitch invasion by celebrating Rangers fans who clashed with Spanish police. And won. The Lord Provest of Galsgow described the behaviour as 'a shame and a disgrace.' The club were subsequently banned from Europe for two years, later reduced, on appeal, to one year. The Tenth Planet? broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Alive & Well & Living In Malta broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project was created by an agreement signed by President Nixon and Premier Alexei Kosygin in Moscow. The final stretch of the M6 motorway opened between junctions six (Spaghetti Junction) and seven north of Birmingham, with the fully operational motorway stretching more than two hundred miles from Rugby to Carlisle, more than a decade after the first sections were opened. The Callan episode The Richmond File: A Man Like Me broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of That Monday Morning Feeling broadcast. The Tithe War broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. The first computerised fly-by-wire aeroplane flight was made by test pilot Gary Krier, in an F-8 Crusader which had been equipped with a digital computer that had been used on Apollo space missions. Robert Hartford-Davies's The Fiend - starring Ann Todd, Tony Beckley and Patrick Mcgee, Jacques Demy's adaptation of The Pied Piper - starring Jack Wild, Donald Pleasence, John Hurt, Donovan, Michael Hordern, Roy Kinnear and Peter Vaughan and Michael Campus's ZPG - starring Oliver Reed abd Geraldine Chaplin - premiered.
The Politics Of Music broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Gordon Liddy's team attempted to break into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington for the first time. But failed. Two historic nuclear arms control agreements were signed at Moscow, between President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev. The SALT I treaty, product of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, prohibited both sides from building additional offensive nuclear missiles, while the ABM Treaty restricted both sides to only two sites for Anti-Ballistic Missiles, with one hundred missiles each. The state-owned travel company Thomas Cook & Son was privatised. Slade were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel ('Move Over Baby', 'Let The Good Times Roll', 'Bye Goodbye', 'Darlin Be Home Soon'). Harvey Andrews' 'In The Darkness'/'Soldier' and Argent's 'Tragedy'/'Rejoice' released.
England beat Scotland one-nil in the Home International championship at Hampden with Alan Ball scoring the winner. This was one of the hardest matches ever between Scotland and England. The referee called captains Bobby Moore and Billy McNeill together and ordered them to tell their players to calm their shit down after forty-six free-kicks had been awarded in the first half-hour of this centenary match between the two countries. There was little danger of any football breaking out with Peter Storey and Norman Hunter at the heart of the trouble, bringing out the competitive spirit in the likes of Billy Bremner, Bobby Moncur and Denis Law. Scottish FA President Hugh Nelson described the game as 'a disgrace.' Probably, because they lost. Hazor, City Of The Bible broadcast on BBC2. Alfred Hitchcock was interviewed on Film Night. Jackson Browne appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Tony Bennett was the guest of Desert Island Discs. Robin Ray interviewed Jeremy Thorpe on Radio 4's Sounds Funny To Me.The Occupational Safety & Health Administration, announced its plans as an American government agency to form advisory commissions for the purpose of regulating thirteen different occupational hazards, including toxic chemicals, excessive noise and radiation.
The Ipcress File shown in the Film Of The Week strand. Peer In Focus broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Sunship Game broadcast in The World About Us strand. Claude Francois At The Talk Of The Town broadcast. The Watergate burglars succeeded in their second attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee offices, placing wiretaps on two telephones and escaping undetected. It soon became clear that at least one of the bugs was defective necessitating another surreptitious entry at a later date. The first major accident, resulting from the design of the Ford Pinto occurred near Barstow, California. Lilly Gray and her teenage son, Richard Grimshaw, were severely burned after the gas tank in their Pinto exploded after the car stalled and was rear-ended on Interstate Highway Fifteen. Mrs Gray died of her injuries and her son was scarred for life. The former King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor, died at the age of seventy seven in his home in France. Robert Hartford-Davies's Nobody Ordered Love - starring Ingrid Pitt, Judy Huxtable, John Ronane and Tony Selby – premiered.
Terry-Thomas introduced Disney Time. The Case Of The Midwife Toad broadcast on BBC2. John Mortimer's Kings Cross Lunch Hour broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev concluded their Moscow Summit, with the signing of a joint declaration of long-range plans to avoid a military confrontation and to eventually disarm. Carry On Matron - starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Cope, Terry Scott, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, Jack Doulgas and Valerie Leon - premiered.
The UK TV debut of Focus on The Old Grey Whistle Test performing 'Hocus Pocus'. The Uncrowned King broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Martin Carthy was in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Chelsea's Alan Hudson announced that he had pulled out of England's Under-Twenty Three squad for a game in West Germany citing 'domestic reasons'. A topless Hudson was pictured the next day in a tabloid, apparently doing some decorating at his Putney home. Ice promptly formed on the upper regions of Sir Alf Ramsey. The Lod Airport massacre took place after passengers from Air France Flight 132 went to claim their baggage on arrival from Rome. Three of the passengers were members of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group; without warning, they brought out submachine guns and hand grenades from their luggage and fired into the crowd, killing twenty six people and injuring another seventy eight. One terrorist was shot by another, while a second was killed by his own grenade. The third, Kōzō Okamoto, was jailed, but eventually released in a prisoner exchange in 1985. Five children were killed and twenty two injured, in the derailing of a roller coaster, The Big Dipper, at Battersea Park in London.
Johan Cruyff scored twice as Ajax retained the European Cup against Internazionale in Rotterdam. Eastern Promise broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The one hundred and forty fifth and final mission of the Corona spy satellite took place. The first episode of Fly Into Danger broadcast on Thames.
Peter Terson's The Fishing Party broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Neil Diamond appeared on BBC2's Show Of The Week strand. Andreas Baader, co-founder of The Red Army Faction, was arrested after West German police traced him to a warehouse in München. Captured also were RAF members Holger Meins and Jan-Carl Raspe. The Anglo-Italian Cup tournament began - highlights of the first round of matches includes holders Blackpool winning four-one at Sampdoria, Stoke City's three-nil victory at Catanzaro, Carlisle United's three-two defeat of Roma in the Olympic Stadium and Sunderland losing three-two at Atalanta Bergamo.
Boots & Saddles broadcast. The Hole In Your Pocket broadcast in The Money Programme strand. The first episode of Sport Two broadcast. Thin Lizzy ('Call The Police', 'Things Ain't Working Out Down At The Farm', 'Chatting Today') featured on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Pink Floyd's Obscured By Clouds, Elvis Presley's 'An American Trilogy'/'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', Stackwaddy's 'You Really Got Me'/'Willie The Pimp', Tina Harvey's 'Working My Way Back To You'/'Tina's Song', Dusty Springfield's 'Yesterday When I Was Young'/'I Start Counting', The New Seekers' 'Circles'/'Mystic Queen', Carpenters' 'It's Going To Take Some Time'/'Flat Baroque', Troggs' 'Everything's Funny'/'Feels Like A Woman', Esther Phillips' 'Home Is Where The Hatred Is'/'Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone' and Blackfoot Sue's 'Standing In The Road'/'Celestial Plain' released. Major Roger Locher, whose F-4D had been shot down on 10 May, was finally rescued after twenty three days behind enemy lines. He was sixty miles North of Hanoi and within five miles of the heavily defended Yên Bái Air Base. Seventh Air Force General John Vogt cancelled a strike mission set for Hanoi that day and dedicated all available resources to rescuing Lochar. John Dexter's I Want What I Want - starring Anne Heywood, Harry Andrews and Jill Bennett - premiered. Barrow failed in their application for re-election and were voted out of the Football League, replaced by FA Cup giant-killers Hereford United of the Southern League.
Jack Charlton, Jimmy Reid and Peter Ustinov were the guests on Parkinson. Race Against Time broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. The Fifth Dimension appeared on Sounds For Saturday. Telly Savales was interviewed on Film Night. Wishbone Ash were featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Richard Briers was on Radio 4's Sounds Funny To Me.
Kenneth Harris Interviews featured James Gulliver. The first episode of BBC2's Night Club broadcast. The jury in the trial of Angela Davis returned a not-guilty verdict on charges of aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder relating to the Malin County court shootout. The first presidential erection held in the Khmer Republic resulted in a victory for the incumbent, Lon Nol, although counting within the capital of Phnom Penh showed a majority for challenger, In Tam. Lon Nol ordered the military to collect and count the poll results from the countryside, where In Tam had had greater support and was soon declared the winner. During a four-match Far-East tour, Newcastle United met Santos in Hong Kong. Frank Clark later recalled: 'We were two-one up at half-time with goals from John Tudor and a thirty-yard screamer from Tony Green ... [Then] Pele suddenly decided to turn it on. He scored three fantastic goals in about fifteen minutes.'
The first episode of His Lordship Entertains broadcast on BBC2. The third series of Doomwatch began with the episode Fire & Brimstone. The first episode of Alcock & Garner broadcast on Thames. Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come - starring Jimmy Cliff - premiered in Jamaica. The World In Action episode The Siege Of Kontum broadcast.
Pointing The Way: 1959-1961 in which Harold Macmillan was in conversation with Robert McKenzie braodcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Jerry Hopkins discussed his biography of Elvis Presley and The Ashman Reynolds Group and Sha Na Na featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Plainsong and Rab Noakes were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. David Bowie's The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars released. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota won the Democratic primary in California putting him far in the lead for his party's nomination for president. A patent was granted to the IBM Corporation for the first 'floppy disk' (officially, 'diskettes' for the IBM 3330 computer).

Roberto, ridden by Lester Piggott, won The Derby. Chris Finnegan retained the European Light-Heavyweight Championship, stopping the Netherland's Jan Lubbers in eight rounds at the Royal Albert Hall. Ballad Of The Severn Valley Line broadcast. Aberdeen - The New Texas? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The nostalgia musical Grease began the first of three thousand three hundred and eighty eight performances on Broadway, running until April 1980. Brian De Palma's Get To Know Your Rabbit - starring Tommy Smothers, John Astin and Orson Welles - premiered. Leeds United signed Trevor Cherry from Huddersfield Town for one hundred thousand quid.
The start of a memorable Ashes series as the first test at Old Trafford began (with a day constantly interrupted by rain showers). Tony Greig made his test début and this was also most English cricket fans' first sight of Dennis Lillie, Rod Marsh and Greg Chappell. The Great Blizzard Of 1891 broadcast in the Yesterday's Witness strand. A South Vietnamese village outside of Trang Bang was bombed with napalm in an errant air strike by the South Vietnamese Army. Nick Ut took a photograph which became an iconic symbol of the horrors of war. Published on the front pages of many newspapers the next morning, it showed children crying in pain from their burns, including a nine-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, who had torn her clothes off after catching fire. The image would win a Pulitzer Prize. Ray Austin's Virgin Witch - starring Ann and Vicki Michelle - premiered.
Glyn Houston read Tecwyn, The Last Of The Welsh Dragons on Jackanory. The Man Who Read About His Death broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Tri Na Nog and Brian Auger's Oblivion Eexpress appeared on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Hawkwind's 'Silver Machine'/'Seven By Seven', Jackie Charlton's 'Simple Little Things'/'Geordie Sunday' and Chris Hodge's 'We're On Our Way'/'Supersoul' released. Bruce Springsteen was signed to a ten-record deal by CBS Records. Harry Booth's Mutiny On The Buses - starring Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Michael Robbins, Anna Karen, Stephen Lewis and Bob Grant - premiered. Liverpool announced the signing of Huddersfield's Frank Worthington for one hundred thousand notes. However the deal was immediately put on ice because Frank failed a medical due to high blood pressure. He was advised by Bill Shankly to have a relaxing few days in Majorca. A week of carousing later, involving two Swedish blondes, a night with Miss Great Britain, a casual encounter at the airport with a woman whose name he didn't catch and a night with a young Belgian beauty, Frank returned to the UK and retook the medical. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his blood pressure was even higher. A bemused Shankly cancelled the deal and sent Frank mother some flowers.
Fanny Craddock, Bernard Manning and the historian AJP Taylor was the - somewhat bizzare - line-up on Parkinson. John Hale's Venice - The Most Serene Republic broadcast on BBC2. Joni Mitchell appeared on Sounds For Saturday. Julie Felix and Jonathan Kelly featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Professor Francis Camps was the guest on Desert Island Discs. Oliver Reed appeared on Radio 4's Film Time. Blackpool thrashed Lanerossi-Vicenza ten-nil in the Anglo-Italian Cup. Mickey Burns scored four, trialist Mick Hill two and Alan Ainscow, Alan Suddick, Glyn James and an own goal completed the scoring. Leicester City defeated Atalanta Bergamo six-nil.
Sacha's In Town broadcast. Born Black, Born British broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Shirley Bassey and Rod Hull & Emu featured on BBC2's Night Club. Deep Throat, possibly the most infamous pornographic film of all time, premiered in Manhattan. And the spunk was everywhere.
Ann Morrish read Sprout on Jackanory. Sorry I Opened My Mouth broadcast in the Horizon strand. John Mortimer's Knightsbridge broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The World In Action episode The Protestant Succession broadcast.
Peter Terson's The Gregorian Chant broadcast in BBC2's The Sextet strand. England won the first Ashes test by eighty nine runs. Tony Greig scored a fifty in each of England's innings and took four for fifty three as Australia were bowled out for two hundred and fifty two. Rod Marsh (ninety one) and Dennis Lillie (six for sixty six) gave England fans a glimpse of what they could expect over the next decade. The War We're In Danger Of Winning broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Lindisfarne ('Mandolin King', 'Poor Old Ireland', 'Road To Kingdom Come', 'Lady Eleanor') featured on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. The first episode of Sylvia's Lovers broadcast on Radio 4.
West Germany beat Belgium two-one in Antwerp and the Soviet Union defeated Hungary one-nil in Brussels in the Semi Final of the European Nations Cup. Pupil Protest broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Cry The Beloved Country shown in BBC2's The Angry Screen strand. DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), a widely used and well-known pesticide, was banned in the United States. Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha - starring Barbara Herschy and David Carradine and Stanley Brassloff's Toys Are Not For Children - starring Marcia Forbes - premiered.
The first episode of The Burke Special broadcast. The first episode of The Visitors and Box Me A Bongo broadcast on BBC2. Ulrike Meinhof was arrested in Langenhagen along with fellow Red Army Faction member, Gerhard Müller.
America defeated Great Britain five-two in The Wightman Cup at Wimbledon. Who Owns Britain? broadcast in The Money Programme strand. Long Live The Whitechapel broadcast in the Review strand. Ecology: We Have Seen The Enemy & He Is Us broadcast in the Late Night Line-Up strand. Quiver were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Roxy Music's eponymous debut, Second Hand's 'Funeral'/'Hangin' On An Eyelid', Steely Dan's 'Dallas'/'Sail The Waterway', Bill Withers' 'Lean On Me'/'Better Off Dead', The Soul Sisters' 'Good Time Tonight'/'Some Soul Food' and The Who's 'Join Together'/'Baby Don't You Do It' released. A tunnel collapsed and two trains were derailed at Aisne, France, killing over one hundred passengers. Bill Bain's What Became Of Jack & Jill? - starring Mona Washbourne, Paul Nicholas and Vanessa Howard - premiered.
Fury At Smugglers' Bay shown in the High Adventure strand. The Modern Jazz Quartet appeared on BBC2's Sounds For Saturday. The Quatermass Xperiment shown in the Midnight Movies strand. Badfinger and Nazareth featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Judi Dench was the guest on Desert Island Discs. The second, disastrous, Watergate break-in took place. If only Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt had got the Cubans to watch episode five of The Time Monster instead of breaking into the Democrats campaign office, how different US political history might have been. As the prowlers were preparing to break into the office, a security guard noticed someone had taped over several of the building's door locks. Caught in the act by The Fuzz, those involved soon has their asses in The Slammer. And, then the shit really hit the fan. It was not immediately clear that the burglars were connected to the President or his staff, though suspicions were raised when detectives found copies of the re-election committee's White House phone number among the burglars' belongings. In 1992, the book of Silent Coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, claimed the Watergate burglary had been instigated by John Dean who, they alleged, wanted to cover-up the involvement of his fiancée, Maureen Kane, with a call-girl ring. The book, endorsed by Gordon Liddy, prompted Dean to sue Liddy, Colodny and Gettlin for defamation. The case was settled out of court; DNC secretary Ida Maxine Wells, who was also implicated by Liddy in the alleged cover-up, also sued for defamation but jury in that case was deadlock. Fred Emery in his book Watergate: The Corruption & Fall Of Richard Nixon (1994) found no evidence to support Silent Coup's allegations. The Reg Varney Comedy Hour broadcast on LWT.
The Box-Office Christ and Bruce Forsyth Stars At The Talk of the Town broadcast. Spirit Of The Samurai broadcast in The World About Us strand. One hundred and eighteen people were killed in what was, until Lockerbie, Britain's worst air disaster when a BEA Trident bound for Brussels crashed after take-off at Heathrow. Doctors removed the bullet from George Wallace, the right-wing Governor of Alabama shot the previous month. MP Dick Taverne was asked to stand down by the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party, who disagreed with his pro-European views. The trial of eight members of The Angry Brigade, charged with a series of bombings, began at the Old Bailey. It would become one of the longest criminal trials in British legal history. West Germany beat the Soviet Union three-nil in the final of the Nations Cup in Brussels (broadcast on LWT). In the immediate aftermath of the previous night's Watergate fiasco, Gordon Liddy called Jeb Magruder in Los Angeles and informed him that the four men arrested with James McCord were 'Cuban freedom fighters,' whom Howard Hunt had recruited. Magruder immediately had a meeting with John Mitchell, Robert Mardian and Fred La Rue in the Beverley Hills Hotel. Initially, Nixon's organisation and the White House went to work to cover up the crime and any evidence which may have damaged the president and his re-election. Liddy tracked down Attorney General Richard Kleindienst at a golf club in Bethesda. Liddy told Kleindienst that the break-in had originated within the CRP and that Kleindienst should arrange the release of the burglars, to reduce the risk of exposure of CRP's involvement. Kleindienst refused ('what the Hell happens to the President if I do a fool thing like that?') but did not report the information Liddy had given him to the FBI.

Bernard Cribbins appeared on The Spinners. John Mortimer's Bermondsey broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Highlights of the United States Open Championship - won by Jack Nicklaus - broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of Septimus & The Danedyke Mystery broadcast in Radio 4's Story Time strand. The World In Action episode The Docks Dispute broadcast.
Peter Ransley's Night Duty broadcast in BBC2's The Sextet strand. Roxy Music made their TV début on The Old Grey Whistle Test playing 'Ladytron' and 'Remake/Remodel'. Viewpoint: The Awakener broadcast. Brotherhood Of Breath were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Reportedly based on a tip from Deep Throat (many years later revealed to be FBI associate director Mark Felt), Bob Woodward reported in the Washington Post that one of the Watergate burglars had former White House employee Howard Hunt's number in his address book, possessed a cheque signed by Hunt and that Hunt had previously worked for the President's advisor Charles Colson. The report also revealed that one of the burglars, James McCord, was an employee of the Committee to Re-Elect the President. Meanwhile, during a meeting in the Oval Office between President Nixon and Bob Haldeman, Haldeman's notes showed that among the topics of discussion were the arrests at the Watergate. When, in 1973, a tape of this meeting was subpoenaed during the Watergate investigations, an eighteen-and-a-half minute gap in the recording was discovered which had, seemingly, been deliberately wiped. The Tallahatchie Bridge - central to Billie Gentry's 'Ode to Billie Joe' - collapsed after having burned. The fire was attributed to vandalism and arson. Sidney Hayers's All Coppers Are ... - starring Julia Foster and Nicky Henson - premiered.
Hollywood: The Dream Factory broadcast. Midsummer & Megaliths broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Like Other People broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Brian Hewitt-Jones's What Happened At Ars? broadcast. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy - starring Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Bernard Cribbins - premiered. Lovely.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by Ed Stewart, featured The Sweet, Gary Glitter, Elvis Presley, Argent, Free, The New Seekers, Dana, The Move and Don McLean. The first episode of BBC2's Great Parks Of The World broadcast. To Paris - By Air! broadcast in the Yesterday's Witness strand.
Stokowski Conducts broadcast. Review: Leni Riefenstahl broadcast on BBC2. Germaine Greer and Esther Vilar debated ... ladies stuff on Late Night Linbe-Up. Roxy Music were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel ('Bitters End', '2Hb', 'Chance Meeting', 'Ladytron'). The Electric Light Orchestra's '10538 Overture'/'First Movement (Jumping Biz)', Hot Butter's 'Popcorn'/'At The Movies', The Partridge Family's 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do', 'I Think I Love You'/'I'll Meet You Halfway', Creation's 'I Got The Fever'/'Soul Control' and Alice Cooper's 'School's Out'/'Gutter Cat' released. In the Oval Office, Bob Haldeman recommended to President Nixon that they attempt to shut down the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in by having CIA Director Richard Helms and Deputy Director Vernon A Walters tell acting FBI Director Patrick Gray to, 'Stay the hell out of this.' Nixon agreed and gave the order. The conversation was recorded and, upon its public release in 1974 was, effectively, 'The Smoking Gun' which ended Nixon's presidency. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber announced a decision to float the Pound.
Wings featured on The Basil Brush Show. John Denver was on BBC2's Sounds For Saturday. Stackridge appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Michael Parkinson was the guest on Radio 4's Sounds Funny To Me. Martin Joseph McNally hijacked American Airlines Flight 119 as it flew from St Louis to Tulsa. At St Louis, he received a suitcase with five hundred thousand dollars ransom money and parachutes, but the jetliner was rammed by a car which crashed through an airport fence and raced down the runway. Moving to another plane, McNally then made plans to bail out with the suitcase, but needed instructions on how to open the parachute safely. The suitcase was swept out of McNally's hands by the jet's airstream. Having lost his money, McNally was subsequently arrested near Detroit on 28 June. Roma beat Blackpool three-one in the Final of the Anglo-Italian Cup.
Bernard Shaw & The Black Girl broadcast in the Seeing & Believing strand. The Roles People Play broadcast. Fiesta On The Clyde broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Last Tribes Of Mindanao broadcast in The World About Us. Anglo-French Gala broadcast. The first episode of Russell Harty's Eleven Plus broadcast on LWT.
Michael Bentine's Talk About London broadcast. Bob Massie took sixteen wickets on his debut as Australia won the second Ashes test at Lord's by eight wickets. Tony Greig scored another fifty in England's first innings but they were bowled out for  one hundred and sixteen in the second (Mike Smith top-scoring with thirty). Greg Chappell scored a century for Australia. President Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, described the Watergate incident as 'a third-rate burglary attempt' and flatly denied any involvement in the break-in by anyone connected to the Nixon administration. Roberto Durán defeated WBA lightweight champion Ken Buchanan at Madison Square Garden. A nineteen-year-old woman in Pennsylvania became the last American to be sentenced to death prior to the Supreme Court's ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional. A week earlier, Marilyn Dobrolenski of Toledo, had pleaded guilty of the 5 January murder of two Delaware State Police troopers, Ronald Carey and David Yarrington. The World In Action episode How To Make Enemies & Influence People broadcast.
The Question Of Ulster: The People Talking broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Danny McAlinden defeated Jack Bodell in two rounds at Villa Park to take the Heavyweight Championship of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. It would be Bodell's final fight. J Geils Band and The Natural Acoustic Band featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Finbar & Eddie Furey were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney launched Atari, Inc in California, to mass-produce video game machines. Their first choice of name, 'Syzygy', was already in use by a candlemaker in Mendocino, so they used a term from Japanese gaming.
In two low-scoring Benson & Hedges Cup Semi-Finals, Leicester beat Warwickshire at Grace Road by seven wickets and Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by seven wickets at Headingley. The first episode of Michael Howard's Blitzkrieg: Grand Strategy Of World War II broadcast. Julian Mitchell's A Question Of Degree broadcast in BBC2's Sextet strand.
Windows On The Brain: The Model Maker broadcast. Georg W Pabst's Pandora's Box shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The landmark case of Furman Versus Georgia, on the unconstitutionality of all existing American state laws permitting the execution of prisoners, was decided by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Warren E Burger, along with Justices William Rehnquist, Harry Blackmun and Lewis F Powell, voted to sustain the death penalty and Justices William J Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, William Douglas and Potter Stewart voted to declare the laws unconstitutional. The tie was broken by the last of the justices, Byron White, who surprised observers by agreeing that the laws violated guarantees against 'cruel and unusual punishment.' All six hundred American prisoners on death row were thus spared by the ruling, including William Henry Furman, who would be paroled in 1984. No person had been executed in America since June 1967, when Luis Monge died in the gas chamber in Colorado. In Utah, Gary Gilmore became the first American prisoner to be executed in January 1977 after individual states passed new laws to comply with the Furman guidelines. The Candidate - starring Robert Redford - premiered. Jim Clark's Rentadick - starring James Booth, Richard Briers, Julie Ege, Ronald Fraser, Donald Sinden, Kenneth Cope, John Wells and Spike Milligan - premiered. Lou Macari scored twice as Scotland drew two-two with Yugoslavia in Belo Horizonte in their first game in the Taça Independencia, a tournament held to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Brazilian Declaration of Independence.. Alex Forsyth of Partick Thistle and Norwich City's Jimmy Bone made their Scotland debuts. Willie Mrgan has a penalty saved late in the second-half.
The first episode of Cabbages & Kings broadcast. Come Lasses & Lads broadcast on BBC2. Boycott For Captain? broadcast in the Sports Two strand. Natural Gas and John Baldry were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel.
Dr Who & The Daleks shown in the High Adventure strand. Paco Pena & His Flamenco Puro appeared on BBC2's Sounds For Saturday. Argent featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Kingsley Amis was the guest on Radio 4's Sounds Funny To Me. The first Gay Pride march held in London. Everton signed goalkeeper David Lawson from Huddersfield Town for one hundred and eighty grand.
Frank Muir interviewed Groucho Marx in A Dignified Comic Set-To broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Death Of A Legend broadcast in The World About Us strand. This Little Thing With Me & Spassky broadcast on BBC2. Jackie Stewart won the French Grand Prix at Auvergne. In their second Taça Independencia gamne, Scotland drew nil=nil with Czechoslovakia in Porte Alegre. Ivo Viktor produced a brilliant saved late in the game from Asa Hartford to deny the Scots victory.
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi and President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto signed the Simla Agreement, resolving to peacefully negotiate future disputes, releasing prisoners of war and withdrawing their military forces behind their sides of the Kashmir border. The World In Action episode Dust-Up At Northfleet broadcast.
Dennis Potter's Follow The Yellow Brick Road broadcast in BBC2's The Sextet strand.
John Elliot's Shelley - with Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter and Peter Bowles - broadcast on BBC2. France's President Georges Pompidou fired Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, who had been under investigation because of income taxes. Pompidou selected a new Premier, Pierre Messmer. In San Francisco, a team of FBI agents stormed a hijacked Pacific Southwest Airlines jet and killed the two men who had been holding eighty six persons on board Flight 710 hostage. One passenger, EH Stanley Carter of Quebec, was killed in the crossfire and two other men were wounded, including the actor Victor Sen Yung, who portrayed Hop Sing on Bonanza. Brazil beat Scotland one-nil in the Maracanã in the Taça Independencia, Jairzinho scoring ten minutes from time. Brazil won the trophy.
David Bowie performed 'Starman' on Top Of The Pops with The Spiders and camped it up with Mick Ronson like a good'un. Thus turning the entire youth of the nation gay in three minutes. It was quite a sight. The first payment of 'hush-money', via the Committee to Re-Elect the President, to the Watergate burglars, was made. Over eight months, lasting until March 1973, over four hundred thousand dollars was paid to the men to keep them from implicating the White House in the break-in of DNC headquarters. Robert Fuest's Doctor Phibes Rises Again premiered. Coventry City signed Scottish international's Tommy Hutchison (from Blackpool for one hundred and forty grand) and Colin Stein (from Glasgow Rangers for the same fee plus a player exchance).
Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs' 'Sea Side Shuffle'/'Ball & Chain', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'Lively Up Yourself'/Tommy McCook's 'Live', Roy Shirley's 'Don't Be A Loser'/'Jamaican Girl', The Bee Gees' 'Run To Me'/'Road To Alaska' and The Furys' 'I'm Satisfied With You'/'Just A Little Mixed Up' released. United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was later shown to have been an active participant in the Holocaust, visited the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Irish Republican Army leaders were secretly flown to London to meet with British officials to discuss a settlement in Northern Ireland. Spode's 'Angelina'/'Happy This Way' and Barlaston Down Featuring Barry Joe Palmer's 'Always'/'Mean Woman Mambo' released. The first episodes of The Frighteners and In For A Penny broadcast on LWT.
Stan Smith beat Ille Nastasi in the Wimbledon men's final. A ceasefire between the IRA and British forces effectively came to an end when British troops killed five civilians in Belfast, three of whom were teenagers. Jimmy Sangster's Fear In The Night - starring Judy Geeson and Joan Collins - and Peter Collinson's Straight On Till Morning - starring Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant and James Bolam - premiered.
The first episode of The Virgin Fellas broadcast. The World In Action episode In Search Of Gusty Spence broadcast.
The long-anticipated chess match between world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and American Bobby Fischer, began in Reykjavík, nine days after the scheduled start date. Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin were reprimanded for carrying four hundred stamped envelopes to the Moon and back as a favour for West German stamp dealer Herman Sieger.
The first episode of No Exit broadcast. Stoke City signed World Cup winner Geoff Hurst from West Ham United for eighty grand. The Independent Broadcasting Authority replaced the Independent Television Authority.
Hawkwind's TV début, a filmed performance of 'Silver Machine' at the Aylesbury Friars' Club broadcast on Top Of The Pops. That Stacia, she was a fine lookin' lady. The House of Commons narrowly approved the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community, voting to ratify the Treaty of Accession on its third reading. Waris Hussein's Henry VIII & His Six Wives - starring Keith Michell, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Lynne Frederick, Donald Pleasence, Brian Blessed, Bernard Hepton and Michael Gough - premiered.
Bob Kellett's Up The Front - starring Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Stanley Holloway and Hermione Baddeley - premiered. The Hollies' 'Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress'/'Cable Car', Andy Williams' 'Love Theme From The Godfather (Speak Softly Love)'/'Everything I Own' and Dave Edmunds' 'Down, Down, Down'/'It Ain't Easy' released.
Highlights of the Bickershaw Festival broadcast on BBC1. Aided by an outrageous chip from a bunker on the seventeenth at Muirfield, Lee Travino became the first golfer since Arnold Palmer a decade earlier to retain The Open Championship, narrowly beating Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin. Jane Fonda posed for photographs at a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun at Hanoi. Pictures of the actress, gazing through the gunsight of a weapon used to shoot down American planes during the ongoing Viet'nam War, ran worldwide the next day. Four months after its launch toward Jupiter, Pioneer 10 became the first man-made object to journey through the asteroid belt. NASA scientists estimated that there was a ten per cent chance the satellite would not survive the seven-month trip. Pioneer reached Jupiter in late 1973.
The World In Action episode How To Steal A Party broadcast. The third Ashes test at Trent Bridge ended in a draw. Australia's Keith Stackpole and Ross Edwards both scored hundreds whilst John Snow took eight wickets in the match. Carol Reed's Follow Me! - starring Mia Farrow, Topol and Michael Jayston - premiered.
Jupiter - The Colossal Planet broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. In the Battle of Mirbat, nine British Special Air Service troopers, commanded by Captain Mike Kealy, successfully repelled an invasion by more than two hundred fifty armed-to-the-teeth and hard-as-fuck guerrillas seeking to overthrow the government of Oman. John Sturges's Joe Kidd - starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall - premiered. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial The Meddlers broadcast on Thames.
Leicester City signed Frank Worthington from Huddersfield Town for one hundred thousnd quid and Dennis Rofe from Oreint for one hundred and twelve grand.
T-Rex's The Slider, Al Green's 'I'm Still In Love With You'/'Old Time Lovin', Lynsey De Paul's 'Sugar Me'/'Storm In A Teacup', Madrigal's 'Time Of The Season'/'Tapestry', John Cameron's 'Lady Be A Part Of My Life'/'Isn't It Sad?' and Rod Stewart's Never A Dull Moment released. A car bomb exploded at a bus station in Belfast followed, six minutes, later by a bomb which wrecked a hotel. Over the next hour, explosives went off across the city at train stations, bus stops and other civilian targets. Nine people were killed and one hundred and thirty injured in what became known as Bloody Friday.
Leicestershire beat Yorkshire by five wickets in the inaugural Benson & Hedges Cup final. Chuck Berry appeared on Sounds For Saturday. The first episodes of Villains and It's Charlie Williams broadcast on LWT. Me auld flower.
Peter Collinson's Innocent Bystanders - starring Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin and Donald Pleasence - premiered. The Jason King episode Wanna Buy A Television Series? broadcast on LWT.
The Washington Star had the headline Syphilis Victims In US Study Went Untreated For Forty Years, as reporter Jean Heller broke the story of the infamous Tuskegee Study. The first UK showing of John Llewelyn Moxey's The Death Of Me Yet in Thames' Movie of The Week strand.
The lucrative contract for construction of the American space shuttle orbiter was awarded to North American Rockwell Corporation. The first UK TV showing of Game For Three Losers in Thames' Tales Of Edgar Wallace strand.
Keith Michell At The Piccadilly broadcast in BBC2's Show Of The Week strand.
Mott The Hoople's 'All The Young Dudes'/'One Of The Boys', The Watts One Hundred & Third Street Rhythm Band' 'Spreadin' Honey'/'Charley', Honeyend's 'Heartbreaker'/'Beautiful Downtown', The Notations' 'Need Your Love'/'Just Nothing Left To Give', Tony Blackburn's 'Cindy'/'Dusty' and Mick Softly's 'Lady Willow'/'From The Land Of The Crab' released. Richard Attenborough's Young Winston - starring Simon Ward - premiered. Episode one of The Horror Story broadcast in Radio 3's Study On Three strand. The Gothic Tales, in which Christopher Lee, Alex Hamilton and psychologist Doctor Christopher Evans discussed gruesome tales and two gothic characters: Frankenstein's creature and Count Dracula. Twentieth-Century Gothica was illustrated by extracts from HP Lovecraft's story The Gable Window, read by Ed Bishop.
Derek Underwood bowled England to victory inside three days in the fourth test at Headingley as England retained The Ashes. On a poor pitch, Ray Illingworth's fifty seven in England's first innings was the highest score in the match. In addition to Underwood's ten wickets, Ashley Mallett took five for Australia as England won by nine wickets. Venera Eight landed on Venus. With an improved cooling system and structure, the satellite transmitted data for fifty minutes before temperatures of four hundred and seventy °C and an atmospheric pressure of ninety bars caused a shutdown. The football season kicked-off with the first matched of The Watney Cup, including Sheffield United's three-nil win at Notts County.
Basil Deane's fantasy drama Parade - starring Cyril Shaps as Erik Satie - broadcast in BBC2's Music On 2 strand. John Boorman's >Deliverance premiered. The Jason King episode An Author In Search Of Two Characters broadcast on LWT.
Operation Motorman began, as thirteen thousand British troops rolled into the 'no go' areas of Belfast, Derry, Lurgan, Armagh, Portadown, Coalisland and Dungannon. William Whitelaw announced, 'The British army are now in occupation and control throughout Northern Ireland.' Although violence continued in the Province, it was greatly reduced and never again reached the levels of July 1972. The first episode of David Mahlowe's abridged adaptation of Elidor, read by Geoffrey Banks, broadcast on Radio 4.
An article in the Washington Post reported that a cheque for twenty five thousand dollars earmarked for President Nixon's re-election campaign was deposited into the bank account of Bernard Barker, one of the men arrested for the Watergate break-in. Over the course of nearly two years, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would continue to file stories about the Watergate scandal and end up being played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in the movie. Air Botswana began a passenger service using a single Fokker F-27, flying a route covering Gaborone, Manzini, Johannesburg and Salisbury. The first UK showing of The Eyes Of Charles Sand on Thames's Movie Of The Week strand.
At Benghazi, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Libya's leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, announced that their two countries would unite into one nation by September 1973. 'The Arabs have realised that the challenges of Zionism and imperialism can only be surmounted by a large entity with enormous resources and capabilities,' an Egyptian press release stated. The Egypt–Libya union, which never took place.
Bob Kellett's The Alf Garnett Saga - starring Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Paul Angelis, Adrienne Posta and George Best - premiered.
Roxy Music's 'Virginia Plain'/'The Numberer', 10CC's 'Donna'/'Hot Sun Rock', The Crystal Palace FC (And Wives)'s 'Claret & Blue'/'Why Can't We All Get Together?', Rod Stewart's 'You Wear It Well'/'Lost Paraguayos', The Bob & Earl Band's 'My Little Girl'/'His & Hers Shuffle', The Olympics' 'The Same Old Thing'/'I'll Do A Little Bit More' and Shag's 'Loop Di Love'/'Lay It Down' released. Arthur Bremer was sentenced to sixty three years in The Joint after being found very guilty of shooting Alabama Governor George Wallace and three other people in May. Neil Innes ('How Sweet To Be An Idiot', 'I Give Myself To Me', 'Momma B', 'Every Time', 'Children's Song') and The Pretty Things were in session on Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel. Juan Bosch's Una Bala Marcada - starring Peter Lee Lawrence and Maria Pia Conte - premiered. Radio 3's Study On Three featured episode two of Jonathan Miller's The Horror Story, with Doctor Christopher Evans explaining why ghosts are frightening and how story writers succeed in making fictional ghosts horrific. With extracts from MR James's Lost Hearts read by Bernard Cribbins.
The London Rock & Roll Show took place at Wembley, featuring Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Bill Haley & His Comets, Chuck Berry, Joe Brown, Emile Ford & The Checkmates, Screaming Lord Sutch, Heinz, Billy Fury, Wizzard, The MC5 and Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band. With its national convention adjourned, the Democratic National Committee confirmed George McGovern's sixth choice to replace Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, former Ambassador to France and Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver. McGovern had previously been turned down by Teddy Kennedy, Abraham Ribicoff, Hubert Humphrey, Reuben Askew and Edmund Muskie. As neither Football League champions, Derby County, or FA Cup winners Leeds United, could be bothered to play in the FA Charity Shield, it was contested between two completely random clubs, Third Division champions Aston Villa and Manchester City who had finished fourth in the First Division. City won one-nil at Villa Park with a Francis Lee penalty. To the interest of absolutely no-one, the FA Cup Third-Place Play-Off betwen Birmingham City and Stoke City ended in a goalless draw at St Andrew's. Birmingham won the penalty shoot-out. The Watney's Cup Final also went to penalties after a goalless draw between Bristol Rovers and Sheffield United. Rovers won seven-six.
Geraldine Estelle Halliwell born in Watford.
A group of researchers from the Academy of Applied Science led by Robert H Rines conducted a search for the Loch Ness Monster involving sonar examination of the loch depths for unusual activity. Rines' Raytheon DE-725C sonar unit, operating at a frequency of two hundred kHz and anchored at a depth of eleven metres, identified a moving target (or targets) estimated by echo strength at six to nine metres in length. Concurrent with the sonar readings, a floodlit camera obtained a pair of underwater photographs. Both depicted what appeared to be a rhomboid flipper, although sceptics have dismissed the images as depicting air bubbles, a rock, or a fish fin. The apparent flipper was photographed in different positions, indicating movement. According to team member Charles Wyckoff, the photos were 'retouched' to superimpose the flipper; the original enhancement showed a considerably less-distinct object. No one is sure how or when the originals were altered but, during a meeting with Tony Harmsworth and Adrian Shine at the Loch Ness Centre & Exhibition, Rines did admit that the flipper photo 'may' have been retouched by a magazine editor. The World In Action episode Caught In The Act broadcast.
Idi Amin, the President of Uganda, summoned Britain's representative and other diplomats to his residence and announced a decree that all Asians, who were not Ugandan citizens, would have to leave Uganda within ninety days. Between forty and eighty of Uganda's Asian residents had opted to keep British citizenship when the former British colony had attained independence. The Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar made its West End debut. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial The Power Of Atep broadcast on Thames.
Andrew B Topping (no relation), was very arrested at the boat basin at New York's Central Park after paying one thousand dollars to Stewart Henry, an undercover federal agent posing as a killer for hire, to carry out a hit. Topping's intended victim was Richard Nixon. Henry negotiated the terms the night before and then completed the sting. Peter Skellern's 'You're A Lady'/'Manifesto' released. Episode three of The Horror Story broadcast in the Study On Three strand, with JG Ballard talking to Doctor Christopher Evans about the development of psychohorror and about his own explorations of terror within the mind. His short story The Gioconda Of The Twilight Noon read by Hugh Dickson.
W Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance, the two original US negotiators at the Paris Peace Talks, claimed in a press conference that President Nixon had 'missed an opportunity' in 1969 to end the Viet'nam War, at a time when the North Vietnamese had withdrawn most of its combat troops from South Viet'nam's northernmost provinces. The Corvair automobile, subject of Ralph Nader's book Unsafe At Any Speed, was exonerated by the NHTSA in a letter to all Corvair owners. The Football League season began. In the First Division, champions Derby County drew one-all at Southampton. Leeds United were thrashed four-nil at Chelsea. Sheffield United won two-one at Birmingham City, Ipswich Town defeated Manchester United by the same score at Old Trafford whilst Newcastle United also won two-one, against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Liverpool beat Manchester City tw-nil, featured on Match Of The Day. In the Second Division, Sheffield Wednesday thumped Fulham three-nil. Chesterfield walloped Oldham Athletic four-one in the Third Division. Darlington won three-nil at Cambridge United in the Fourth Division. Hereford United's first game in the Football League ended in a one-nil defeat at Colchester United. The first UK broadcast of Lidsville on LWT.
Fay Weldon's Hands broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The World In Action episode Eh, Whgat? investigated the problems of noise pollution at work ('of which there has been silence for too long').
Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt born in California. Turgid, bombastic hippy rockers Deep Purple began their disgraceful Made In Japan tour in Osaka. Arsenal thrashed Wolverhampton Wanderers five-two in the First Division. Manchester united lost their second successive game, two-nil at Liverpool. Norwich City won two-one at Ipswich Town. The first episode of Whodunnit? broadcast on ITV. The first UK showing of The Feminist & The Fuzz on Thames's Move Of The Week strand.
The last US combat troops left Viet'nam. The Andromeda Galaxy broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Australia won a thrilling fifth and final test at The Oval to square The Ashes' series two-two. Match highlights included centuries for both Ian and Greg Chappell, Barry Wood scoring ninety on his test debut, two fifties for Alan Knott and Dennis Lille taking five wickets in each innings. Francis Martin Patrick Boyle born in Glasgow. Mike Hodges's Pulp - starring Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander and Lizabeth Scott and MNiochael Anderson's Pope Joan - starring Liv Ullman - premiered.
Elton John performed 'Honky Cat' on Top Of The Pops dressed as, well, a cat - introduced by a rather startled-looking Tony Blackburn. Tragically, footage of this performance no longer exists in the BBC archives.
Victoria Elizabeth Coren born in Hammersmith. The first episode of Shut That Door!! broadcast on LWT. Featuring Larry Grayson, Everard Farquharson and Slack Alice. The Capitols' 'Ain't That Terrible?'/'Zig-Zagging' released. Episode four of The Horror Story broadcast in the Study On Three strand. Shock. Rudyard Kipling's horror stories of the unknown Orient and Roald Dahl's modern horror tales shocked the reader by suddenly injecting unexpected and terrifying events into a complacent and predictable world. Alex Hamilton talked with Doctor Christopher Evans about this subtle form of horror fiction. His own story The Attic Express was read by Ronald Herdman.
Michael Caine was interviewed by Sheridan Morley on BBC2's Film Night. A rather stoned Robert Mitchum appeared on Parkinson in infamously monosyllabic form. Newcastle United's two-one victory at Sheffield United (John Tudor and Malcolm Macdoland on-target) featured on Match Of The Day. Elsewhere in the First Division. West Ham United thrashed Leicester five-two, Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Tottenham Hotspur three-two (John Richards hitting two), Manchester United lost for the third time, two-nil at Everton and Arsneal maintained their one hundred per cent start to the season with a two-nil victory over Stoke City (Ray Kennedy scoring twice). Manchester City beat Norwich City three-nil. Blackpool thrashed Brighton & Hove Albion six-two in the Second Division. Carlisle United defeated Swindon Town three-nil, Oxford United hammered Middlesbrough four-nil and Queens Park Rangers won four-two against Sheffield Wednesday. Halifax Town topped the Third Division following a three-nil victory over Bristol Rovers. Bradford City were thrashed five-one at Exeter City. Hereford United enjoyed their first victory as a Fourth Division side, three-nil against Reading at Edgar Street. Hartlepool topped table after a two-one win at Colchester United.
Wattstax, a concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum, attracted one hundred thousand punters, each of whom paid a dollar to watch The Bar-Kays, The Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, Carla Thomas, Albert King and other performers. The first episode of Country Matters broadcast on LWT.
The Copernicus satellite, originally called Orbiting Astronomical Observatory Three, was launched. Carrying a UV telescope and spectrometers, the satellite would transmit data until 1979 and provided detailed information about the stars upon which it was aimed. Astronomer Lyman Spitzer discovered, the day before the launch, that an error had been made in the calculations of the optimum focus for one of the mirrors and was able to have the problem corrected before Copernicus went into orbit.
In Brooklyn, three men robbed a branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank and their string of bad luck later became the subject of Sidney Lumet's 1975 movie Dog Day Afternoon. John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale robbed the bank and found that they had arrived after most of the cash had left, then were surprised by the police just as they were planning a get-away. The crisis ended the next morning with Naturile being killed by an FBI agent and Wojtowicz's arrest.
Alain Levant's Le Bar De La Fourche - starring Jacques Brel, Rosy Varte, Malka Ribowska and Isabel Huppert - premiered. Derby County paid a British record transfer fee of tweo hundred and twenty five thousand knicker for Leicester City's captain David Nish shortly before their one-nil victory over Manchester City. Liverpool went to the top of the First Division after a two-one win at Chelsea. Leeds United and Ipswich Town drew three-three. Manchester United picked up their first point of the season with a one-all draw against Leicester City (George Best scoring for the hosts, Frank Worthington for the visitors).
Dennis Amiss scored the first century in a One Day International. England - led by Brian Close in the absence of the injury Ray Illingworth - beat Australia by six wickets at Old Trafford. Debutant Bob Woolmer took three for thirty three. Viktor Ritelis's The Corpse - starring Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney, Simon Gough and Olaf Pooley - received its UK premiere in Manchester, four years after production began, as part of a double-bill with the 1970 US thriller Pyscho Killer.
Egypt, Rome & Britain broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Slade's 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now'/'Man Who Speeks Evil', Elton John's 'Honky Cat'/'Lady Samantha', 'It's Me That You Need', Hot Chocolate's 'You'll Always Be A Friend'/'Go Go Girl', The Manchester United Football Team's 'United, Manchester United'/'Saturday Afternoon', The Liverpool Football Team's 'Sing A Song For Liverpool'/'Liverpool Liverpool', George Martin's 'Theme From Pulp'/'Love Theme From Pulp', Jawbone's 'Gotta Go'/'Automobile Blues' and Tangerine Dream's Zeit released.
The Opening Ceremony of the München Olympics broadcast. Liverpool remained top of the First Division with a three-two victory over West Ham United. Norwich City's one-nil defeat of Derby County featured on Match of The Day. Sheffield Wednesday headed the Second Division, winning four-two against Hull City. Burnley beat Aston Villa four-one. Rothgerham United thrashed Port Vale seven-nil in the Third Division (Carl Gilbert scoring a hat-trick). Watford defeated AFC Bournemouth three-two. Chester punished Peterborough United eight-two in the Fourth Division (Mick Hollis hitting three).
At the Western White House in San Clemente, the President and Mrs Nixon hosted around four hundred Hollywood celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Susan Hayward. Vice-President Agnew and Henry Kissinger, with his date Jill St John, attended.
Prince William of Gloucester, a cousin of the Queen, was killed in an air crash near Wolverhampton. He was thirty years old and ninth-in-line to the throne at the time. England won a thrilling one day international at Edgbaston by two wickets and took international cricket's first ODI series two-one. John MacKenzie's Made - starring Carol White, Roy Harper and John Castle - premiered.
Bob Kellett's The Alf Garnett Saga - starring Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Paul Angelis and Adrienne Posta - premiered. Charlton Athletic thrashed Swansea City six-nil in the Third Division.
No Peace On The Western Front broadcast as part of the Comedy Playhouse strand. Fifteen year old Australian schoolgirl Shane Gould won three gold swimming medals at the Olympics. President Nixon announced to the press that White House lawyer John Dean had completed an internal investigation into the Watergate break-in and had found no evidence of White House involvement in the affair. This was news to Dean who had done no such thing and, indeed, knew that the opposite was true. Wes Craven's notorious The Last House On The Left - starring Sandra Peabody and Lucy Grantham and Giuliano Carnimeo's Il West Ti Va Stretto, Amico ... è Arrivato Alleluja - starring George Hilton, Lincoln Tate and Agata Flori - premiered. Keith Weller scroed three in Leicester City's three-two defeat of Liverpool in the First Division.
Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky in the most controversial and widely covered World Chess Championship ever. Olga Korbut won three Olympic gymnastic golds, as did her teammate Lyudmilla Turisheva. American sprinters Eddie Hart, Rey Robinson and Robert Taylor were scheduled to run in the quarter finals of the one hundred metres, which their coach, Stan Wright, said would take place at 7:00pm. Shortly before 4:15, the three men were watching a television feed to ABC Sports and realised that the heats were taking place at that moment. Hart and Robinson arrived too late though Taylor arrived in time to run his heat without preparation. Coach Wright took the blame for the mix-up. The first episode of Love & Mr Lewisham broadcast on BBC2.
David Bowie's 'John, I'm Only Dancing'/'Hang On To Yourself', The Sweet's 'Wig-Wam Bam'/'New York Connection', Parliament's 'Come In Out Of The Rain'/'Little Old Country Boy', Bobby Womack's 'What Is This?'/'I Wonder', Carpenters' 'Goodbye To Love'/'I Won't Last A Day Without You', Arsenal FC's 'Up With The Arsenal'/'The Arsenal March' and Lindisfarne's 'All Fall Down'/'We Can Swing Together' (live) released. Bye, Bye, Blackboard, the last Woody Woodpecker cartoon and last feature produced by Walter Lantz Productions and Edward Dmytryk's Bluebeard - starring Richard Burton and Raquel Welsh - premiered. The school leaving age in England and Wales was raised from fifteen to sixteen. Many temporary new buildings were erected in secondary modern and comprehensives to accommodate the older pupils. The first episode of Holly broadcast on LWT.
Iceland announced that British trawlermen fishing inside a fifty mile radius would be arrested, effectively starting the 'Cod War'. Lancashire won the Gillette Cup for the third year in succession, beating Warwickshire by four wickets at Lord's. Clive Lloyd was man of the match with an innings of one hundred and twenty six. In München, John Akii-Bua won Uganda's first ever Olympic gold medal in the four hundred metres hurdles. David Hemery took bronze. East Germany's Renate Stecher - who was, obviously, in no way pumped full of performance-enhancing drugs. Oh no, very hot water - won the women's one hundred metres ahead of Australia's Raelene Boyle. Sheffield United defeated Southampton three-one in the First Division. Wolverhampton Wanderersa had a three-two victory over Birmingham City. Leaders Arsenal and Chelsea drew one-all in a game featured on Match Of The Day. Newcastle uNited's two-one defeat at Crystal Palace saw Tony Green sustain the knee cartilage injury which would terminate his career at the age of just twenty six. His competitive career at Newcastle lasted only thirty nine games (thirty three in the league) spanning eleven months; for fans of a certain age who saw him play, he is remembered as if he'd played three hundred over a decade. Burnley topped the Second Division following a two-nil win at Portsmouth. Blackpool beat Millwall two-one. Luton Town thrashed Huddersfield Town four-one.
Mary Peters won Pentathlon gold at the Olympics, beating West Germany's Heide Rosendahl by a mere ten points.
Members of the Arab terrorist group Black September broke into the Olympic Village and took a number of Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hostage in their apartments. Two of the hostages who resisted were killed; the subsequent stand-off lasted for eighteen hours. During the early hours of the siege sporting events continued. US swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seven gold medals at a single Olympics, swimming as part of the American team in the four hundred metre relay. Valeriy Borzov completed the sprint double by winning the two hundred metres gold and Kenya's Kip Keino won the three thousand metres steeplechase. Armed robbers stole eighteen paintings, including a Rembrandt, along with thirty eight pieces of jewellery and figurines from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in the largest theft of private property in Canadian history. Except for one painting returned during abortive efforts to negotiate a ransom, none of the pieces have ever been recovered, nor has anyone been charged with their theft.
Lindisfarne appeared on Sounding Out. Bill Palfrey, Copper broadcast. Christopher Burstall's biography of HG Wells, Whoosh broadcast on BBC2. In the Football League Cup Second Round, Fourth Division Stockport County won one-nil at top-flight Crystal Palace. Charlton Athletic beat Mansfield Town four-three, Newcastle United won three-one at Port Vale, David Mills scored twice in Middlesbrough's two-nil defeat of Wrexham, a Willie Carr penalty gave Coventry City a narrow victory over Hartlepol and Liverpool drew one-all at Carlisle United.
The München Massacre. Nine Israeli athletes, five guerrillas and a policeman were killed during a horribly-botched hostage rescue attempt by West German police at München airport. The Black September massacre led the German federal government to re-examine its anti-terrorism policies and to the creation of the elite counter-terrorist unit GSG Nine. It also saw Israel launch Operation Wrath Of God, in which those suspected of involvement with the terrorists were systematically tracked down and assassinated. Leeds United and Manchester City both enjoyed four-nil victories in the League Cup (against Burnley and Rochdale respectively). Manchester United drew two-all at Oxford United. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial Peacock Pie broadcast on Thames.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre the go-ahead to manufacture India's first nuclear weapon. India became the world's fifth nuclear power with the successful explosion of the bomb in May 1974.
The first episode of Are You Being Served? broadcast as a last minute replacement for the cancelled Olympic Grandstand. On The Rim: In Spitzbergen broadcast on BBC2. T-Rex's 'Children Of The Revolution'/'Jitterbug Love', 'Sunken Rags', Bendy Dog's 'I Wanna Hear (Rock 'N' Roll Music)'/'Carry My Mind', Gary Glitter's 'I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock & Roll)'/'Hard On Me', Curtis Mayfield's 'Freddie's Dead (Theme From Superfly)'/'Underground', The Clement Bushay Set's 'Football Reggae'/'I'm Trying', Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon's 'Honey Bee'/'I Don't Know Why' and Mott The Hoople's All The Young Dudes released. In retaliation for the killing of the Israeli Olympic athletes, Israel's air force bombed Palestinian strongholds in Syria and Lebanon. Gerald Thomas's adaptation of Bless This House - starring Sid James, Diana Coupland, Terry Scott, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Sally Geeson, Robin Askwith, Patsy Rowlands and Carol Hawkins - premiered. Halifax Town topped the Third Division with a three-nil victory at Scunthorpe United. Dave Simmons scored a hat-trick in Colchester United's five-one twanking of Crewe Alexandra in the fourth Division.
The Soviet Union dramatically beat the United States by one point in the final second of the Olympic Basketball final amid all manner of malarkey, shenanigans and stroppy accusations over reset clocks. The US team were so pissed off by their unexpected defeat (their first ever at an Olympics) that they refused to accept their silver medals which remain, to this day, locked in a bank vault in Switzerland. Cuba's Teofilio Stevenson won the Heavyweight boxing gold. In the First Division, Bob Latchford scored three in Birmingham City's four-one thumping of Manchester City. Liverpool walloped Wolverhampton Wanderers four-two. West Ham United won three-one at Chelsea, Newcastle United defeated Arsenal two-one and Manchester United suffered yet another loss, one-nil at home to Coventry City (featured on Match of The Day).
Poland - recently drawn in England's group in the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers - gave notice of just how good they were, beating Hungary two-one in the Olympic Football final. Finland's Lasse Viren won the five thousand metres gold to go with the one he'd already won for the ten thousand a week earlier. Great Britain's four hundred metres relay team - Martin Reynolds, David Hemery, Alan Pascoe and David Jenkins - won a surprise silver medal behind Kenya. Emerson Fittipaldi won the Italian Grand Prix and the World Drivers' Championship. The United States used its United Nations Security Council veto power for only the second time since the formation of the UN in 1945, halting a General Assembly resolution which demanded a halt to Israel's reprisals against Palestinian guerrillas in Syria and Lebanon.
The first episode of Mastermind broadcast. At the request of White House aide John Ehrlichman, John Dean met with IRS Commissioner Johnnie Walters and gave him a list of four hundred and ninety individuals the Nixon administration wished the IRS to investigate. Walters consulted with Treasury Secretary George Schultz the next day, who directed him to do nothing or the sort. In the World In Action episode See For Yourself, a London shop steward opposed to immigration was invited to visit Uganda and see why Asians there had to leave for their own safety and find a new home.
The attack on two British fishing trawlers, by the Icelandic gunboat ICGV Aegir, triggered full-scale hostilities in the Cod War. Emlyn Hughes and Kevin Keegan were on-target as Liverpool defeated Eintract Frankfurt two-nil in the first leg of their UEFA Cup First Round tie. Wolverhampton Wanderers thrashed Kilmarnock five-one in the Texeco Cup. George Best netted twice in Manchester United's three-one victory over Oxford United in a League Cup replay.
The first episode of Midweek, presented by Ludovic Kennedy, broadcast. Yes's Close To The Edge released. Hypermarkets made their debut in the United Kingdom when French retail giant Carrefour opened a store in Caerphilly. Peter Medak's The Ruling Class - starring Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe and Harry Andrews - premiered. Derby County defeated Zeljeznicar in the first leg of the European Cup First Round. Leeds United and Wlesh Cup winners Wrexham both had one-all draws awat from home in the first leg of the Cup Winners Cup First Round (at MKE Ankaragucu of Turkey and FC Aurich, respectivley. In the UEFA Cup, Alan Gilzean and Martin Chivers scored twice in Tottenham Hotspur's six-three win at SOFK Lyn Oslo. MNanchester City drew two-all at home to Valencia and Stoke City enjoyed a three-one victory over Kaiserslautern on their European debut. The first episodes of Van Der Valk - One Herring's Not Enough - and A Class By Himself broadcast on Thames.
The first episodes of Sykes and NJ Crisp's The Man Who Was Hunting Himself broadcast. Francis Ford Copolla's The Godfather released in the UK. Bitto Albertini's Metti Lo Diavolo Tuo Ne Lo Mio Inferno premiered. Pope Paul VI issued a motu proprio, rejecting calls to allow women to have any formal ministerial role in the Roman Catholic Church. 'In accordance with the venerable tradition of the Church,' the Pope proclaimed, 'installation in the ministries of lector and acolyte is reserved to men.' More than thirty years after the outbreak of World War II, West Germany and Poland restored diplomatic relations. Manchester United signed Welsh international centre-forward Wyn Davies from neighbours Manchester City for sixty five thousand quid.
The first UK broadcast of Help! ... It's The Hair Bear Bunch! and the first episode of Michael Bentine Time. John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Some Time In New York City, Johnny Burton's 'Polevault Man'/'The Polythene Doll', Python Lee Jackson's 'In A Broken Dream'/'Boogie Woogie Joe', The Spinners' 'How Could I Let You Get Away?'/'I'll Be Around', Steeleye Span's 'John Barleycorn'/'Bride's Favourite', 'Tansey's Fancy', Judee Sill's 'Enchanted Sky Machines'/'My Man On Love', Friday Brown's 'Shake A Hand'/'Everything's Alright' and Elvis Presley's 'Burning Love'/'It's A Matter Of Time' released. Howard Hunt, Gordon Liddy, James McCord, Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martínez, and Frank Sturgis, the Watergate burglars, were indicted by a federal grand jury. On the same day, White House staff attorney John Dean met President Nixon for the first time. In the meeting, they discussed the covering up of the White House's role in the Watergate break-in. Dean would testify about his memory of the discussion at the Watergate hearings in June 1973, unaware that Oval Office conversations were all recorded at Nixon's request. Nixon, Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman and Dean, discussed plans to 'take revenge' on the President's - many - enemies. 'They are asking for it and they are going to get it,' commented Nixon, adding 'We haven't used the Bureau and we haven't used the Justice Department, but things are going to change now. They're going to get it right.' James Anthony Parker Carr born in Hounslow. Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie premiered. The first episode of Gerry Anderson's The Protectors - Two Thousand Feet To Die - broadcast on LWT.
'Deep Throat' (later revealed to be FBI Associate Director Mark Felt) listened over the telephone to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's draft of a story on Watergate and confirmed an anonymous tip that money from the CRP's finance chairman Maurice Stans had been used to finance the Watergate break-in. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Boy Who Turned Yellow premiered. Malcolm Macdonald scored a hat-trick in Newcastle United's three-nil victory at Coventry City in the First Division. West Ham United beat Norwich City foru-nil, Leeds United defeated Leicester City three-one and with Everton losing, one-nil, at home to Southampton, Ipswich Town joined them at the top following a two-nil win against Stoke City (Rod Belfitt netting both goals which featured on Match Of The Day). During the goalless draw between Arsenal and Liveprool at Highbury, the linesman Dennis Drewitt pulled a muscle and TV commontator Jimmy Hill, a qualified referee, stepped in to run the line for the final half-hour. Manchester United remained bottom and winless, losing two-nil at Wolverhanmpton Wanderers.
The television series M*A*S*H began an eleven-year run on US TV, eight years longer than the Korean War which provided its setting. In the first release of prisoners of war since 1969, North Viet'nam released three American POWs. Navy Lieutenants Norris Charles and Markham Gartley and Air Force Major Edward Elias were provided civilian clothes and then allowed to stay in Hanoi with an American welcoming team. Uganda was invaded, from Tanzania, by one thousand soldiers of The Uganda People's Militia. The Ugandan Army repelled the invasion after two weeks of fighting. The Watercress Girl broadcast in LWT's County Matters strand.
The first episode of Sam On Boffs' Island broadcast. Thousands of Ugandan Asians arrived in the UK after being deported by Idi Amin. The World In Action episode A Matter Of Discretion broadcast.
The first episode of My Wife Next Door broadcast. A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London killed Ami Schachori, the agricultural attaché. Another bomb arrived at the Israeli Embassy in Paris later that day, but was defused. Both packages had been sent from Amsterdam. Other packages were delivered the next day in New York and Montreal. Mike Flanagan scored four in Charlton Athletic's six-one defeat of Notts County in the Third Division.
Milke Trebilcock hit a hat-trick in Torquay United's three-nil victory over Workington in the Fourth Division.
Ferdinand Marcos, the President of the Philippines, appeared on television to announce that he had proclaimed martial law. The pretext was the attempted assassination of Defence Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile, but the proclamation had actually been signed the day before. Liam Gallagher born in Manchester.
Chuck Berry's 'My-Ding-A-Ling'/'Let's Boogie', Jackie De Shannon's 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart'/'Would You Like To Learn To Dance?', Glen Campbell's 'I Will Never Pass This Way Again'/'We All Pull The Load' and East Of Eden's 'Boogie Woogie Flu'/'Last Dance Of The Clown' released. Herschell Gordon Lewis's The Gore Gore Girls - starring Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda Lubin and Nora Alexis - premiered.
A fifteen-year-old boy in Waldport, Oregon, was killed and two other people injured, after being struck by lightning. Ken Russell's Savage Messiah - starring Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony and Helen Mirren - premiered. Thirty five goals were scored in eleven First Division fixtures. Liverpool thrashed Sheffield United five-nil which took them to the top of the table, Jimmy Greenhoff scored a hat-trick as Stoke City hammered struggling Manchester City five-one, Norwich City beat Arsenal three-two and Manchester United had their first league win of the season, beating champions Derby Counnty three-nil. Newcastle United enjoyed a thrilling three-two victory over Leeds United featured on Match Of The Day but the win came at a cost; shortly after scoring the winner, Malcolm Macdonald injured his knee, requiring an operation that kept him out for the next two months. Burnley, who beat Blackpool four-three, led the Second Division just ahead of Sheffield Wednesday who thumped Luton Town four-nil. Fulham won three-one at Millwall. Walsall went top of the Third Division after a two-nil victory over Port Vale. Les Chappell netted three in Reading's Newport County's five-nil defeat of Newport County. League leaders Mansfield Town beat Barnsley three-one.
The first episode of BBC2's Six Faces broadcast. The Goodies special A Collection Of Goodies (Special Tax Edition) broadcast. Kate Fleetwood born in Cirencester.
The first episode of The Long Chase broadcast. Eddie Loyden scored three in Tranmere Rovers four=nil victory over Charlton Athletic in the Third Division. The World In Action episode A Question Of Torture broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of Josie & The Pussycats. North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho dropped demands that South Viet'nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu be removed from office as a condition for ending the Viet'nam War, a breakthrough in peace negotiations. Liverpool progressed to the Second Round of the UEFA Cup following a goalless draw at Eintract Frankfurst. Peter Storey and Charlie Geroge scored in Arsenal's two-nil victory over Birmingham City in the First Division. Hull City defeated Queens Park Rangers four-one in the Second Division. Blackpool won three-two at Carlisle United. AFC Bournemouth beat Port Vale four-nil in the Third Division (Harry Redknapp and Ted MacDougall among the scorers).
In Fort Lauderdale, Susan Place and Georgia Jessup went with their friend, 'Jerry Shepard', on a trip 'to the beach to play the guitar.' Their remains would be found seven months later as they became the first known victims of serial killer Gerard Schaefer. Schaefer had been dismissed from the office of the Martin County, Florida Sheriff's Department earlier in the year and was, at the time, awaiting trial after a failed kidnapping, on 22 July of two other teenage girls. Jack Couffer's The Darwin Adventure - starring Nicholas Clay, Susan Macready and Ian Richardson and Bud Townsend's Terror House At Red Wolf Inn premiered. Manchester United signed Ted MacDougall from AFC Bournemouth for one hundred and twenty grand. Derby County reached the Second Round of the European Cup, winning two-one at Zeljeznicar. Leeds United, Wrexham and Hibernian progressed in the Cup Winners Cup, defeating MKE Ankaragucu one-nil, FC Zurcih two-one and thrashing Sporting Lison six-one repsectively. Martin Chivers netted three as Tottenham Hotspur enjoyed a six-nil thrashing of SOFK Lyn Oslo in the UEFA Cup. Both Stoke City and Manchester City crashed out of the competition, the former losing four-nil at Kaiserslautern, the latter defeated two-one at Valencia. Sheffield Wednesday returned to the top of the Second Division with a three-two victory over Huddersfield Town, Tommy Craig netting the winner from a penalty. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial Mama Doc and the first episode of The Pathfinders broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Jack Pulman's adaptation of War & Peace broadcast on BBC2. Alan Gibson's magnificently daft Dracula AD 1972 - starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Neame, Michael Coles, Marsha Hunt, Caroline Munro, Michael Kitchen and, rocking the shack, Stoneground - premiered. The Washington Post reported that, while serving as Attorney General, John Mitchell had controlled 'a secret fund' to finance intelligence gathering against the Democrats. When Carl Bernstein called Mitchell for a comment, Mitchell threatened both Bernstein and Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Post ('Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published'). The Post went ahead and published both the allegation and the threat. Ajax defeated Club Atlético Independiente four-one on aggregate in the Intercontinental Cup. Johan Cruyff scored in the first leg and Johan Neeskens and two goals from Johnny Rep secured the trophy at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
Val Guest's Au Pair Girls - starring Gabrielle Drake, Astrid Frank, Me Me Lay, Richard O'Sullivan, John Le Mesurier, Geoffrey Bayldon, Trevor Bannister and Johnny Briggs - premiered. The Trammps' 'Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart'/'Penguin At The Big Apple', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'Keep On Moving'/'African Herbsman' and Alice Cooper's 'Elected'/'Luney Tune' released. Leeds United signed highly-rated centre-half Big Gordon McQueen from St Mirren for forty five thousand knicker. The first episode of Gerry Anderson's The Protectors broadcast on ITV.
Doctor Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine addressed the annual National Cancer Conference in Los Angeles and announced the increase in cases of mesothelioma among men who had been exposed to asbestos thirty years earlier during World War II. Ian James Ward born in Plymouth. The first episode of Victor Pemberton and David Spenser's Shadow Of The Pharoah broadcast in Radio 4's Fourth Dimension strand. Eugenio Martín's Pánico En El Transiberiano (Horror Express) - starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas and Vicente Aranda's The Blood Spattered Bride - starring Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín and Alexandra Bastedo - premiered. In the First Division, Derby County defeated Tottenham Hotspur two-one (featured on Match Of The Day), Chelsea won three-one at Coventry City, Everton defeated Newcastle united by the same score and John Richards scored three as Wolverhampton Wanderers thumped Stoke City five-three. Liverpool remained top of the league after a two-one victory at Leeds United. Manchester united remained bottom, losing to an Alan Woodward penalty at Sheffield United. Luton Town's two-two draw with Burnley in the Second Division was also shown on Match Of The Day. Sunderland defeated Nottingham Forest four-one and Queens Park Rangers thumped Cardiff City three-nil. A Bruce Rioch penalty gave Aston Villa a one-nil win over Millwall and took them to the top of the table. Fourth Division leaders Mansfield Town enjoyed a three-two victory at Darlington. The first episode of The Adventurer - Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice & Miss Me Once Again broadcast on LWT.
Milligan In Autumn broadcast on BBC2. Publication of the first reports of the production of a recombinant DNA molecule marked the birth of modern molecular biology methodology. The first episode of Weekend World broadcast on ITV.
The first episode of Pebble Mill At One and Terry Nation's The Incredible Robert Baldick broadcast. Voters in Denmark approved the Treaty of Accession in a referendum, with sixty three per cent voting in favour of joining the European Common Market. One week earlier, voters in neighbouring Norway had rejected the treaty. The World In Action episode The Colenso Diamond broadcast.
Mrs Warren's Profession broadcast as part of BBC2's Stage 2 strand. In the League Cup Third Round, Manchester City's awful start to the season continued, knocked out two-nil at Fourth Division Bury. Southampton also fell to lower league opposition, losing three-one at home to third tier Notts County. Manchester United had a scrappy one-all draw at Bristol Rovers. Arsenal thrashed Rotherham United five-nil.
Arsenal signed centre-half Jeff Blockley from Coventry City for two hundred thousand quid. Further First Division scalps fell in the League Cup Third Round, fourth tier Stockport County beating West Ham United two-one whilst Newcastle united were stuffed, three-nil, at home to Blackpool. Aston Villa held Leeds United to a one-all draw.
The Last Goon Show Of All broadcast on Radio 4. Sidney Gilliat's Endless Night - starring Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and Britt Ekland - premiered.
Man's Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day, Bruce Ruffin's 'Coming On Strong'/'Crazy People', Gilbert O'Sullivan's 'Clair'/'What Could Be Nicer', John Baldry's 'Everything Stops For Tea'/'Hambone', Fanny's 'Young & Dumb'/'Knock On My Door', Millie Jackson's 'My Man, A Sweet Man'/'I Gotta Get Away (From My Own Self)' and Genesis' Foxtrot released. Oi, Gabriel! take that flower off your head, you look ridiculous. Six schoolgirls, ranging in age from five to eleven years old, were kidnapped along with their teacher from their school at Faraday, Victoria. Parents arrived at the school to find a demand for one million Australian dollars. The seven escaped from an unguarded van the next day near Lancefield. The kidnappers, two plasterers, Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland, were subsequently apprehended and jailed. Crystal Palace signed Charlie Cooke and Paddy Mulligan from Chelsea for a combined fee of one hundred and sixty thousand quid.
At the Paris Peace Talks, North Viet'nam's negotiator, Lê Đức Thọ reached an agreement with Henry Kissinger on ending the Vietnam War. Demands were dropped for Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to step down as President of South Viet'nam, but elections would be held there within six months, North Vietnamese troops would remain in the South and the United States would recognise the sovereignty of North Vietnam. Thieu's objections led to a breakdown in the agreement. Leeds United humbled Derby County five-nil in the First Division. Peter Cormack scored the only goal as Liverpool defeated Everton in the Merseyside derby featured on Match Of The Day. John Tudor scored twice in Newcastle United's three-one victory over Norwich City, Tottenham Hotspur beat Stoke City four-three and West Bromwich Albion and Manchester united drew two-all at the Hawthorns. Oxford United thrashed Sunderland five-one (Hugh Curran hitting a hat-trick) in the Second Division whilst Queens Park Rangers beat Carlisle United four-nil. Burnley remained top following a two-one victory over Swindon Town. Swansea City hammered Grimsby town six-two in the Third Division (Geoff Thomas netting three). The first episode of The Adventures Of Black Beauty broadcast on LWT.
The first episodes of PJ Hammond's adaptation of The Hole In The Wall broadcast on BBC1 and Barry Took's adaptation of Scoop broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of The Stanley Baxter Picture Show broadcast on LWT.
Pete Walker's The Flesh & Blood Show - starring Ray Brooks, Jenny Hanley, Luan Peters, Patrick Barr, Robin Askwith, Candace Glendenning, Judy Matheson, Jess Conrad and Stewart Bevan - premiered. Chelsea defeated Derby County three-two in a League Cup Third Round replay. John Fairbrother scored three in Fourth Division leaders' Mansfield Town's four-two victory over Peterborough United. The World In Action episode The Children Of Vorenezh broadcast.
The Washington Post reported that the FBI had concluded the Watergate break-in was 'part of a broader spying effort' connected to President Nixon's re-erection campaign. Brain Clark neted four and Alan Groves two in AFC Bournemouth's seven-two victory at Rotherham United in the Third Division. Brian Yeo scored twice in Gillingham's four=nil defeat of Darlington in the Fourth Division.
Maureen Bingham was jailed for two and a half years for her part in her husband David's spying activities for the Soviet Union. The judge described her as 'a lady of almost disastrous loquacity.' Due to numerous withdrawals from his initially-announced squad, Sir Alf Ramsey gave four players - Ipswich Town's Mick Mills, Old Frank Lampard of West Ham United, Arsenal's recent signing Jeff Blockley and Mick Channon of Southampton - their debut in England's friendly international with Yugoslavia at Wembley. Joe Royle scored in an entertaining one-all draw with Franjo Vladić of Velež Mostar equalising in the second-half. Bristol Rovers knocked struggling Manchester united out of the League Cup with a two-one victory at Old Trafford in a Third Round replay. Leeds United beat Aston Villa two-nil. The case of Roe Versus Wade was re-argued before the United States Supreme Court, after having first been debated on 13 December 1971, before seven Justices. While the initial opinion by Justice Harry Blackmun had simply found the challenged laws against abortion to be 'unconstitutionally vague,' the revised Blackmun opinion went further in declaring most restrictions against the right of choice to be unconstitutitional. 'Had the Blackmun first drafts in the abortion cases come down as the final decisions,' noted one commentator, 'American life and politics might have been quite different.'
A brawl on board the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk injured forty six people. About one hundred black and white sailors fought for hours with knives, forks and chains, before the fight was broken up by a squad of Marines. Details were released six weeks later by the US Navy. The fight began when a sailor asked for two sandwiches at the ship's mess hall and was given only one. Twenty-five men, all black, were charged. Lady Sings The Blues premiered.
The first UK TV broadcast of Fahrenheit 451. The Treetops' 'Why Not Tonite?'/'Funky Flop-Out', Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra's 'Pathfinders March'/'Aces High (Luftwaffe March)' and Melanie's 'Together Alone'/'Summer Weaving' released.
The first episode of Full House broadcast on BBC2. Hawkwind appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. David Niven was the guest on Parkinson. James Kelley's Night Hair Child (also known as What The Peeper Saw) - starring Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Kruger and Lilli Palmer and Lindsay Shonteff's The Fast Kill - starring Tom Adams - premiered. Chelsea defeated West Bromwich Albion three-one in the First Division. West Ham United overcame Sheffield united by the same score. Leeds United won two-one at Everton whilst Derby County beat Leicester City by the same score. Ted MacDougall scored his first goal for Manchester United as they picked up only their second win of the season, one-nil against Birmingham City, leaving neighbours City (who lost three-two at Coventry) in the relegation zone. Stuart Pearson scored four in Hull City's five-one defeat of Portsmouth in the Second Division. Don Rogers hit two in Swindon Town's three-two victory over Preston North End. The first UK broadcast of McCloud - the episode The Disposal Man - in LWT's Saturday Mystery Movies strand. The first episode of Kopykats broadcast.
In the only verified example of an animal being killed by a meteorite, a cow died on a farm near Trujillo, Venezuela.
Tony Parker's A Life Is Forever broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. In Rome, two agents of Mossad shot Wael Zwaiter eleven times until he was very dead as he returned to his apartment building. Zwaiter, suspected by Mossad to have been part of the Black September planning for the München massacre, was the first person killed as part of Operation Wrath Of God. The first episodes of Emmerdale Farm, Rainbow and Mister & Mrs and the World In Action episode Is The Press Baised Against Labour? Wilson Versus Rees-Mogg broadcast on Thames.
Stan Bowles and Don Givens were on-target as Queens Park Rangers won two-nil at Fulham in the Second Division. The first episode of Harriet's Back In Town broadcast on Thames.
Scotland beat Denmark four-one in a World Cup Qualifier in Copenhagen. Lou Macari, Jim Bone, Willie Morgan and debutant Joe Harper of Aberdeen were on-target. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial Sister Deadly and the first episode of Crown Court - Lieberman Versus Savage broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Colditz broadcast. Kinshichi Kozuka and Hiroo Onoda, the last two members of a group of Japanese soldiers who had continued to fight the enemy since the end of the Second World War, set fire to a rice harvest on the Philippine island of Lubang and then exchanged gunfire with local police. Kozuka was killed, leaving Onoda to fight the war alone. Onoda finally surrendered his sword to his original commanding officer in 1974. With the beginning of a three-day Paris summit meeting, the leaders of the nine members of the recently enlarged European Community came together for the first time. Royce Ryton's play about the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII, Crown Matrimonial, premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, for the first time including a portrayal of a living member of the Royal Family (The Queen Mother) on the legitimate stage. The first episode of General Hospital broadcast on Thames.
Gladys Knight & The Pips' 'Help Me Make It Through The Night'/'If You Gonna Leave (Just Leave)', Hot Butter's 'Apache'/'Hot Butter', Stealers Wheel's 'Late Again'/'I Get By', Millwall FC's 'Millwall'/'Ballad Of Harry Cripps', Colin Blunstone's 'I Don't Believe In Miracles'/'I've Always Had You' and Tony Christie's 'Avenues & Alleyways'/'I Never Was A Child' released. David Eady's Hide & Seek - starring Peter Newby, Gary Kemp, Eileen Fletcher and Robin Askwith - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of Cannon. Manchester City defeated West Ham United four-three in the First Division (Rodney Marsh scoring twice). Arsenal won three-two at Crystal Palace, Newcastle United beat Manchester United two-one, Liverpool overcame Stoke City by the same score and Ipswich Town had a three-one victory over Derby County. Leeds United's one-all draw with Coventry City featured on Match Of The Day. Paul Fletcher hit all three in Burnley's three-nil defeat of Cardiff City in the Second Division. Queens Park Rangers beat Sunderland three-two (Stan Bowles scoring twice). Bristol Rovers thrashed Shrewsbury Town five-one in the Third Division. Charlton Athletic beat Oldham Athletic four-two and Southend walloped Brentford four-nil. Newport County hammered Hartlepool five-one in the Fourth Division. Leaders Mansfield Town won four-one against Chester. The first episode of Russell Harty Plus broadcast on LWT.
England's goalkeeper Gordon Banks suffered a serious eye injury which would end his career in a car crash in Staffordshire. Stranded deep in the Andes on the border of Argentina and Chile without supplies, the remaining survivors of the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 made the decision to eat the corpses of those who had already died.
Access credit cards were introduced. The first episode of Spring & Autumn and the World In Action episode Hotels broadcast on Thames.
Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, convened a meeting of his armed forces leaders and announced plans to prepare for 'a limited war' with Israel. In August, Sadat had instructed his Minister of War, Field Marshal Muhammad Sadeq to prepare a war plan by 1 October. As Sadat related in a memoir: 'At that meeting, I was surprised to find out that Field Marshal Sadeq had not reported to the Supreme Council what had ordered him to ... I saw at that meeting one of the military commanders, who was in charge of logistics, raising his hand and asking what was the decision I was talking about?' Sadeq was fired four days later. The attack on Israeli positions in the Sinai Peninsula, known as the Yom Kippur War, would eventually take place in October 1973. Liverpool defeated AEK Athens three-nil in the first leg of the UEFA Cup Second Round. Promotion-chasers AFC Bournemouth beat Rochdale four=two in the Third Division.
Articles by Woodward and Bernstein in the Washington Post described the existence of a major 'dirty tricks' campaign conducted against Democratic Presidential candidate Edmund Muskie, orchestrated by Donald Segretti and others paid by the CRP and Nixon's private attorney, Herbert Kalmbach. Kevin Hector, Roy McFarland and John McGovern were on-target as Derby County thumped Benfica three-nil in the first leg of the European Cup Second Round. Wrexham defeated Hadjuk Split three-one in the Cup Winners Cup whilst Leeds United shared a goalless draw with Carl Zeiss Jena in East Germany. Tottenham Hotspur hammered Olympiakos four=nil in the UEFA Cup. Fourth Division leaders Mansfield Town lost three-one at Hereford United but remained two points clear at the top of the table.
Grossly overweight bully and - alleged - kiddie-fiddler Cyril Smith won the Rochdale by-election for the Liberal Party. Elton John's 'Crocodile Rock'/'Elderberry Wine' released. 'We believe that peace is at hand,' Henry Kissinger announced. Eleven days before the US presidential erection, he said that the United States and North Vietnam had come to 'a basic agreement' on ending the war. Privately, President Nixon was outraged at his advisor's unauthorised statement, which Nixon saw as an attempt to take exclusive credit as a peacemaker. Kissinger, on the other hand, noted that North Vietnam had published the text of the agreement and a response was necessary. A final agreement was not signed until early 1973. Harold Becker's The Raman's Daughter - starring Simon Rouse and Victoria Tennant - premiered.
The Simon Park Orchestra's 'Eye Level'/'Distant Hills', Benny Hill's 'Fad Eyed Fal'/'The Dustbins Of Your Mind', Donnie Elbert's 'Time Hangs On My Mind'/'Along Came Pride', Michael Bentine's 'Home Made Wine'/'The Olympic Showjumper', Sandy Denny's 'Listen, Listen'/'Tomorrow Is A Long Time', Bill Withers' 'Use Me'/'Let Me In Your Life' and Pussy's 'Feline Woman'/'Ska Child' released.
Stevie Wonder's Talking Book released. Crystal Palace, bottom of the First Division signed Don Rogers from Swindon Town for one hundred and forty seven thousand quid shortly before their latest four-nil hiding at West Ham United (Trevor Brooking scoring twice). Chelsea's one-all draw with Newcastle United featured on Match Of The Day, as did Martin Peters netting four in Tottenham Hotspur's four-one victory at Manchester united. Liverpool remained top of the table following a one-all draw at Norwich City. Billy Rafferty and Alan Suddick were on-target at Blackpool beat Queens Park Rangers two-nil in the Second Division.
Lufthansa Flight 615 was hijacked, in order to extort the release of the three surviving perpetrators of the München massacre. The West German authorities accepted the demands, much to the considerable irk of Israel.
Tottenham Hotspur beat Middlesbrough two-one at the third attempt in the League Cup Third Round. The World In Action episode Candian Indians broadcast.
On Film 72, Joan Bakewell reviewed Slaughterhouse Five. In the last major loss of American life in the Vietnam War, twenty two servicemen were killed when their Chinook was shot down by a heat-seeking missile. Elvis On Tour premiered. Mickey Burns scored twice as Blackpool knocked Birmingham City out of the Football League Cup, winning two-nil in the Fourth Round. Liverpol and Leeds United drew two-all at Anfield, Wolverhampton Wanderers thrashed Brsitol Rovers four-nil and Third Division Notts County defeated holders Stoke City three-one. The first episode of Thirty Minutes Worth broadcast on Thames.
Slade's Slayed? released. Fred Burnley's Neither The Sea Nor The Sand - starring Susan Hampshire and Frank Finlay - premiered. Norwich City won five-one at Stockport County in the League Cup. Tottenham Hotspur beat Millwall two-nil.
Brian Clark's Ten Torrey Canyons broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand.
The Group's 'Bovver Boys'/'Piraeus Football Club!', 'An Open Letter To George Best', The Osmonds' 'Crazy Horses'/'That's My Girl', The Intruders' 'Win, Place Or Show) She's A Winner'/'Memories Are Here To Stay' and America's 'Ventura Highway'/'Saturn Nights' and Kraftwerk's Kraftwerk released.
The CIA spy ship Glomar Explorer was launched on its first voyage. Although the one hundred and seventy member crew was, ostensibly, conducting 'mining exploration' on the ocean floor, the ship's true mission was to attempt recovery of the contents of a Soviet submarine that had sunk in April 1968. Don Rogers scored on his Crystal Palace debut at they defeated Everton one-nil to left themselves off the foot of the First Division. Their place was taken by Manchester united who drew two-all at Leicester City. Newcastle United won three-two at West Bromwich Albion (John Tudor scoring twice), Manchester City thrashed Derby County four-nil and Coventry City won two-nil at Arsenal. Leaders Liverpool beat Chelsea three-one (John Toshack netting two). Fulham thrashed Bristol City five-one in the Second Division. Leaders Burnley drew three-all at Middlesbrough. Oldham Athletic gave Plymouth Argyle a seven-one pummelling in the Third Division. Bolton Wanderers went to the top of the table with a one-nil win at Chesterfield. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Dead Weight on LWT.
Don Taylor's The Exorcism broadcast as part of the Dead Of Night strand. Peter Sykes's Demons Of The Mind - starring Robert Hardy, Gillian Hills and Patrick Mcgee - premiered.
David Halliwell's Triple Exposure broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. The Government introduced price and pay freezes in an effort to counter inflation. The World In Action episode The Stripping Of The Appalachia broadcast.
The Gangster Show: The Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui broadcast on BBC2. Richard Nixon was re-elected as President, defeating George McGovern with the largest plurality of votes in American history winning all of the states except Massachusetts. Liverpool progressed to the THird Round of the UEFA Cup following a three-one victory at AEK Athens. The first episode of The Strauss Family broadcast on Thames.
Lou Reed's Transformer and Can's Ege Bamyasi released. The World Of Jimmy Savile, OBE broadcast. 'In this film Jimmy Savile's world includes his life as a disc-jockey, his highly individual attempts to raise money for charity, his work at Broadmoor and the hospital at Stoke Mandeville, his activities as a practising Christian and his affection for his home in the industrial North.' But not, curiously, his numerous sordid sex crimes. Odd, that. On the day after his re-election, Richard Nixon announced that he had asked for the resignations of his entire cabinet and everyone he had appointed to office, with plans for 'restructuring and reorganising' the entire Executive Branch. Derby County reached the Third Round of the European Cup after a goalless draw with Benfica in The Stadium Of Light. Leeds United also progressed in the Cup Winners Cup, beating Carl Zeiss Jena two-one. However, Wrexham lost two-nil at Hadjuk Split and exited the competition on away-goals. Hibernian drew one-all with Besa Kavajë in Albania but won the tie having enjoyed a seven-one victory in the first leg. Tottenham Hotspur reached the Third round of the UEFA Cup despite a one-nil defeat to Olympiakos in Piraeus, winning the tie on aggregate. Newcastle united defeated West Bromiwhc Albion three-onme in the Texaco Cup. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial The Beautiful People broadcast on Thames.
The world's first geostationary communications satellite, Canada's Anik-1, launched from Florida. Susan Pleat's I Wouldn't Tell On You, Miss broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Roxy Music were in session on Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies.
The Fivepenny Piece accompanied by The Augmented Northern Dance Orchestra conducted by Bernard Herrmann appeared on Reflections. Renaissance's 'Spare Some Love'/'Prologue', Kevin Ayers' 'Oh! Wot A Dream'/'Connie On A Rubber Band', Rod Stewart's 'Angel'/'What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)', The Bee Gees' 'Alive'/'Paper Mache, Cabbages & Kings', Juliet Lawson's 'Only A Week Away/'The Weeds In The Yard', Arthur Lowe's 'My Little Girl, My Little Boy'/'How I Won The War', Earth Band's 'Meat'/'Glorified Magnified', Sparks' 'Wonder Girl'/'(No More) Mister Nice Guys', Joni Mitchell's 'You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio'/'Urge For Going' and Status Quo's 'Paper Plane'/'Softer Ride' released.
Morecambe and Wise and Rachel Welsh appeared on Parkinson. Berry Oakley, the bass guitarist of The Allman Brothers Band was killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia only three blocks away from the scene of the October 1971 accident which had killed band co-founder Duane Allman. In the First Division, Manchester United beat leaders Liverpool two-nil at Old Trafford with goals from Ted MacDougall and Wyn Davies in a game featured on Match Of The Day. Newcastle United thumped Birmingham City three-nil (Malcolm Macdonald, returned from injury, was on a score-sheet). Manchester City won three-two at Everton, Coventry beat West Ham United three-one, Arsenal won at Wolverhampton Wanderers by the same score and Stoke City and Southampton shared six goals at The Victoria Ground. Carlisle United defeated Sunderland four-three in the Second Division. Promotion-chasing Queens Park Rangers won two-one at Bristol City (Don Givens scoring twice). Grimsby Town thrashed Oldham Athletic six-two in the Third Division (Stuart Brace hitting four). Bolton Wanderers remained top following a two-nil victory over Bristol Rovers. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Death Lends A Hand on LWT.
Robert Holmes's Return Flight - part of the Dead Of Night strand - and Alistair Cooke's America broadcast on BBC2.
John Elliot's Better Than The Movies broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand. The World In Action episode Police For Sale broadcast.
In Rome, Pope Paul VI inspired a debate within the Roman Catholic Church about whether Satan was 'a real being,' or 'a metaphor for evil.' In addressing an audience in a speech entitled Liberaci Dal Male ('Deliver us from evil'), the Pontiff was quoted in one translation as saying 'The evil which exists in the world is the result and an effect of the attack upon us and our society by a dark and hostile agent, The Devil. Evil is not only a privation, but a living, spiritual, corrupt and corrupting being.' In the first-ever aircraft hijacking in Australia, Ansett Airlines Flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs, with twenty eight passengers and a crew of four, was taken over by a lone gunman, Miloslav Hrabinec. England beat Wales one-nil in a World Cup Qualifier at Ninian Park with a Colin Bell goal. Liverpool duo Ray Clemence and Kevin Keegan made their England debuts (Keegan later recalled that his boots were cleaner at the end of the night than they had been at kick-off). Scotland defeated Denmark two-nil at Hampden Park with goals from Peter Lorimer and Kenny Dalglish. David Harvey of Leeds made his Scotland debut. Lorimer and Per Rontved were sent off in the eighty fourth minute for a bout of fisticuffs. Willie Morgan's penalty two minutes later sailed harmlessly over the crossbar. The first episode of Late Night Theatre - The Carrier Bag - broadcast on Thames. Jonny Lee Miller born in Kingston-Upon-Thames.
At the seventeenth 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.
Slade's 'Gudbuy T'Jane'/'I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen', Apollo 100's 'Joy'/'Telstar', 'Reach For The Sky', The Tremeloes' 'Blue Suede Tie'/'Yodel Ay', The Spoilers' 'Sad Man's Land'/'Turbo Rock', Kevin Keegan's 'It Ain't Easy'/'Do I Know You?' and Jon Pertwee's 'Who Is The Doctor?'/'Pure Mystery' released. After seventeen years in exile, Juan Perón returned to Argentina, where he had been President from 1946 to 1955, accompanied by his third wife, Isabel. The next day, he addressed a rally of his followers, the Peronistas. The Peróns would become President and Vice-President in 1973 and Isabel became President after Juan's death in 1974. Roy Ward Baker's Asylum and Michael Apted's The Triple Echo - starring Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed and Brian Deacon - premiered.
Danny Whitten, guitarist for Neil Young's band Crazy Horse, died of an overdose of alcohol and Valium, on the same day that he had been fired by Young, who had given him fifty dollars and an aeroplane ticket. Young, who had already written, movingly, about Whitten's heroin addiction in 'The Needle & The Damage Done' would later reflect on Whitten's death - and that of Young's roadie and friend Bruce Berry - on his LP Tonight's The Night. Brian De Palma's Sisters - starring Marogt Kidder and Jennifer Salt - premiered. Frank O'Farrell was sacked as manager of Manchester United. His replacement, Tommy Docherty, was announced three days later. The first episode of The Reg Varney Revue broadcast on LWT. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Short Fuse on LWT.
The first episode of Turnbull's Finest Half Hour broadcast in LWT's A Laugh Before Lunch strand.
William Sterling's adaptartion of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - starring Fiona Fullerton, Hywel Bennett, Michael Crawford, Robert Helpmann, Michael Hordern, Michael Jayston, Roy Kinnear, Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Dennis Price, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Peter Sellers and Rodney Bewes - premiered. The World In Action episode The Case Of Leopold Tresser Master Spy broadcast.
The 1970 convictions of five members of The Chicago Seven (on charges of crossing state lines to incite a riot) were reversed by an appellate court, which concluded that Judge Julius J Hoffman had committed numerous errors during the original trial. The cases were never retried. Bill Norton's TV movie Gargoyles - starring Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt - broadcast on CBS.
After his death penalty sentence was set aside, the mass murderer Richard Speck was re-sentenced to twelve hundred years in prison, at the time the longest American jail term ever ordered. Robert Bolt's Lady Caroline Lamb - starring Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, John Mills, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier - premiered.
The Soviet Union's fourth and final attempt at launching a rocket powerful enough to carry a manned lunar orbiter failed. The N1 rocket, similar to the American Saturn V, was launched successfully in a secret test, but exploded at an altitude of forty kilometres. 'As pieces fell from the sky across the Kazakhstan steppes,' wrote one observer later, 'so did Russia's dreams of flying cosmonauts to the Moon.' Sunderland appointed former Blackpool manager Bob Stokoe as a replacement for the recently departed Alan Brown.
Hawkwind's Doremi Fasol Latido, David Bowie's 'The Jean Genie'/'Ziggy Stardust', Aphrodite's Child's 'Break'/'Babylon', Steeleye Span's 'Gaudete'/'The Holly & The Ivy', Jimmy James' 'A Man Like Me'/'Survival' and The Sundown Playboys' 'Saturday Nite Special'/'Valse De Soleil Coucher (Sundown Waltz)' released. As was The Plastic Ono Band's 'Happy XMas (War is Over)'/'Listen The Snow Is Falling'. A dreadful, trite and vastly over-rated song full of sickly and naive Hallmark card-style sentiments. And, just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, Yoko Bloody Ono started singing.
The Who's 'Relay''Waspman' released. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Blueprint For Murder on LWT.
The first episode of Michael Voysey's adaptation of Cranford broadcast. The UFO episode The Cat With Ten Lives broadcast on LWT.
The World In Action episode On Site investigated how the appalling accident record on construction sites could be improved.
The first episode of The Edwardians broadcast on BBC2. Thin Lizzy made their debut session on Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies ('Whiskey In The Jar', 'Suicide', 'Black Boys On The Corner', 'The Saga Of The Ageing Orphan').
Luton Town signed striker Barry Butlin from Derby County for fifty thousand knicker.
The Cod War between fishing trawlers in the North Atlantic Ocean escalated, the Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home announced that Royal Navy ships would be stationed to protect British trawlers off the coast of Iceland. Ken Annakin's The Call Of The Wild - starring Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf and George Eastman - premiered.
T-Rex's 'Solid Gold, Easy Action'/'Born To Boogie', The Clangers' 'Dance Of The Clangers'/'Beautiful Baby', Everton Football Club's 'For Ever Ever-Ton'/'March Of The Gwladys Street Gladiators', 10CC's 'Johnny, Don't Do It!'/'Four Per Cent Of Something', Elephants Memory's 'Power Boogie'/'Liberation Special', Nicky James's 'Why?'/'Foreign Shore', Clay Hammond's 'Dance Little Girl'/'Twin Brother', Jackie Lee's 'African Boo-Ga-Loo'/'Bring It Home' and Wings' 'C Moon'/'Hi, Hi Hi' released. Peter Newbrook's The Asphyx - starring Robert Stephens, Robert Powell and Jane Lapotaire, Bob Clark's Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Pete Walker's The Flesh & Blood Show - starring Ray Brooks and Jenny Hanley and Alois Brummer's Gefährlicher Sex Frühreifer Mädchen II: Höllisch Heiße Mädchen - starring Karin Götz, Elke Boltenhagen, Mattis Böttcher, Doris Delaas and Claudia Fielers - premiered.
The touring All-Blacks beat Wales nineteen-sixteen at Cardiff Arms Park. After the game at a Cardiff hotel an incident took place in which the All-Blacks prop Keith Murdoch punched a security guard and was subsequently sent home by the tour management. Although reporters waited at Auckland Airport for his flight to arrive, Murdoch instead switched flights in Sinagpore and flew to Perth, from where he headed into the Outback, quitting rugby and, effectively, dropping out of society. The first UK TV showing of Night Of The Eagle in BBC2's Midnight Movie strand. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Suitable For Framing on LWT.
The first episode of But Seriously, It's Sheila Hancock broadcast. A Spantax Airlines jet crashed shortly after tak-eoff from Tenerife, killing all one hundred and fifty five persons on board. Most of the passengers were West Germans, returning to München following the end of an Atlantic Ocean liner cruise. Gary Sherman's Death Line - starring Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd and Sharon Gurney and Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon premiered. Focus' 'Sylvia'/'House Of The King' released. The - shit-weird - UFO episode Mindbender broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Black Arrow - The Prophecy and the World In Action episode A Day In The Life Of Kevin Donnellon (about a ten year old victim of thalidomide) broadcast on Thames.
Lionel Jeffries' The Amazing Mister Blunden - starring Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Rosalyn Landor, Diana Dors, Madeline Smith and James Villiers - premiered.
The trial of the Stoke Newington Eight, members of The Angry Brigade, ended with a series of lengthy prison sentences for their naughty bombing ways. A terrible indictment on what happens when public schoolgirls get access to weaponry. The first episode of Arthur Of The Britons broadcast on Thames.
The final Apollo mission - Apollo 17, piloted by Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Jack Schmitt - launched. James Burke's The End Of The Beginning broadcast. Roman Polanski's What? - starring Marcello Mastroianni, Sydne Rome and Hugh Griffith - premiered. The World In Action special The Angry Brigade broadcast.
Free's 'Wishing Well'/'Let Me Show You', Elvis Presley's 'Always On My Mind'/'Separate Ways', The Fuzz's 'Ello! 'Ello! 'Ello! (What's Goin' On 'Ere?)'/'Six Mile Bottom Baby', Peter Adamson's 'Tudor Family Tree'/'Moving On Backwards' and Monty Python's Previous Record released (the latter including the flexi-disc Teach Yourself Heath). United Airlines Flight 553 from Washington crashed while attempting to land at Chicago Midway Airport during an ice storm. Forty three of the sixty one persons on board were killed as were two people in the house that the plane crashed into. The dead included Dorothy Hunt (wife of Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt), CBS News reporter Michelle Clark and Illinois Congressman George Collins. Doctor Mahmoud Hamshari, the PLO representative in France, was fatally wounded by a bomb, planted near his telephone by agents of Mossad, in retaliation for his suspected role in the 1972 Munich Massacre. After the explosive had been placed during Hamshari's absence, an agent telephoned him and asked questions to confirm his identity. The bomb was then detonated by remote control, possibly by a signal through the telephone line.
Lindisfarne performed 'All Fall Down' on an episode of Full House broadcast from Newcastle which also included Peter Terson's The Dividing Fence featuring an early TV appearance by Alun Armstrong. Lou Reizner presented a concert version of Pete Townshend's rock-opera Tommy at The Rainbow Theatre. The concerts featured The Who, backed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham and guests including Maggie Bell, Sandy Denny, Steve Winwood, Rod Stewart, Richie Havens, Merry Clayton, Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers. Crystal Palace signed Alan Whittle from Everton for one hundred grand. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode Lady In Waiting on LWT.
Amnesty International launched its first worldwide Campaign for the Abolition of Torture. Joseph Mankiewicz's adaptation of Sleuth - starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier - premiered. The UFO episode The Man Who Came Back broadcast of LWT.
John McGrath's The Bouncing Boy broadcast as part of the Play For Today strand.
Focus performed 'Hocus Pocus' and 'Sylvia' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The Poseidon Adventure premiered.
Sam Pekinpah's The Getaway - starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw and Antonio Mercero's La Cabina premiered.
Gene Cernan became the last man, to date, to walk on the Moon. Willy Brandt was re-elected as Chancellor of West Germany. Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke born in Torquey. Bob Kellett's Our Miss Fred - starring Danny La Rue, Alfred Marks, Lance Percival and Lally Bowers - premiered.
Carry On Abroad - starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Jimm Logan, June Whitfied and Hattie Jacaques - premiered. National Shinguard Company's 'Saturday Singalong Medley (I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles-Glory Glory Hallelujah-March Of The Mods-You'll Never Walk Alone)'/'Here Come The Fleet' and Anita Harris' 'You & I'/Captain Biscuit' released.
In a bottom-of-the-table clash, Crystal Palace gave Manchester United a five-nil hiding at Selhurst Park with Don Rogers scoring twice and running the United defence ragged. John Robins's adaptation of That's Your Funeral - starring Bill Fraser and Raymond Huntley - premiered. (br /> John Bowen's A Woman Sobbing broadcast as part of the Dead Of Night strand. The UFO episode Timelash broadcast on LWT.
John Huston's The Life & Times Of Judge Roy Bean and Robert Altman's Images - starring Susannah York and René Auberjonois - premiered.
Harry Booth's Go For A Take - starring Reg Varney, Norman Rossington, Sue Lloyd and Dennis Price - premiered.
The first episode of Poems & Pints broadcast on BBC2. In Concert featured a performance by Judee Sill. Irvin Kershner's Up The Sandbox - starring Barbra Streisand and David Selby - premiered.
Ted Hughes's The Coming Of The Kings broadcast as part of the Jackanory Playhouse strand. Hawkwind recorded Space Ritual at the Liverpool Stadium. Vanessa Chantal Paradis born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.
During Manchester United's one-one draw with Leeds United at Old Trafford - featured on Match Of The Day a bovver boy ran on the pitch, got the ball and took a shot before being violently hacked by both Peter Lorimer and, then, a policeman. Bing Crosby appeared on Parkinson. An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude levelled Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, killed more than ten thousand people and left four hundred thousand homeless.
A Warning To The Curious broadcast as part of the A Ghost Story For Christmas strand. And Around The World In Eighty Minutes broadcast. Alan Bennett's A Day Out and Milligan In Winter broadcast on BBC2. The Young Vic's production of Joseph & His Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat broadcast on LWT.
Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape broadcast. Yuri Andropov, the Director of the KGB, recommended that the Soviet Politburo allocate one hundred thousand dollars in US currency to influence the March parliamentary elections in Chile. The Politburo approved the transfer in February 1973. England won the first of a five test series against India at Delhi by six wickets. Set two hundred and eight for victory, debutant captain Tony Lewis scored seventy not out and Tony Greig forty not out to secure victory. Earlier, Geoff Arnold had taken six wickets in India's first innings and Bhagwat Chandrasekhar eight for seventy nine in England's.
The Last Goon Show Of All broadcast. In what has been described as the airstrike that 'decided the entire air war over North Vietnam,' Operation Linebacker II saw over two hundred American aircraft strike targets over a fifteen-minute period, destroying a missile assembly facility and crippling radar stations and airbases. The North Vietnamese agreed to resume peace talks after three more days of bombing. The Santiago, newspaper El Mercurio broke the story that the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes mountains had turned to cannibalism to avoid starvation.
The first episode of Thursday's Child broadcast.
Cliff Owen's Ooh ... You Are Awful - starring Dick Emey, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser, Liza Goddard, Cheryl Kennedy and Cheryl Kennedy's bare bottom - premiered. Manchester United signed George Graham from Arsenal for one hundred and twenty grand.
Edward Lorenz proposed The Butterfly Effect in a paper delivered to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, entitled Predictability: Does The Flap Of A Butterfly's Wings In Brazil Set Off A Tornado In Texas? The takeover of Israel's embassy in Thailand, by Palestinian terrorists, ended peacefully after intervention by Egypt's ambassador and Thai officials. The four Arab gunmen, granted safe passage to Cairo, released their Israeli hostages, including the ambassador. Before everyone departed, the Egyptian and Israeli ambassadors, the four gunmen and five diplomats all ate dinner together inside the embassy. The first UK broadcast of the Columbo episode The Greenhouse Jungle on LWT. Dave Edmunds' 'Baby I Love You'/'Maybe' released.
Twelve year old Jeremy Clarkson made his BBC début in the role of Atkinson in Radio 4's adaptation of Anthony Bickeridge's Jennings At School. The first episode of the Doctor Who tenth anniversary story, The Three Doctors, featuring the returns of William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton broadcast. Paul Newman's The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds premiered.
Another leap second was added to end of the year, making 1972 the only year to have two leap seconds and, thus, the longest year in human history.