UWF Events

• About two inches of snow falls on campus
• UWF has five national fraternity chapters and two national sorority chapters

World Events

• Senate Watergate Committee conducts hearings
• House Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings
• Arab Oil Boycott begins
• Spiro Agnew resigns, Gerald Ford appointed VP
• Congress passes Endangered Species Act
• Roe vs. Wade decision rendered
• IBM sells “self-correcting” typewriter
• The microcomputer is born in France
• Lyndon Johnson dies
• Sears opens world’s tallest building in Chicago
• O.J. Simpson sets NFL rushing record
• Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in “battle of sexes” tennis match
• University of Miami swimmer lands first woman’s athletic scholarship