UWF Events

• First Springcoming (homecoming) held in May
• First issue of Nautilog published
• UWF student Tom Garrett’s 24-hour Charleston in front of Rosie O’Grady’s earns mention in Guiness Book of World records

World Events

• Weather Underground bombs U.S. Capitol
• War protests continue with Mayday march
• U.S. lifts trade embargo, China voted into United Nations
• School busing for racial desegregation ruled constitutional
• Nixon freezes prices
• Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service formed
• Apollo 14 lands on the moon
• Intel builds the microprocessor
• Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and Jim Morrison die
• The Pentagon Papers and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee published
• The Ed Sullivan Show ends after 23 seasons on CBS
• CBS Sitcom All in the Family debuts