UWF Events

• James Arthur Robinson inaugurated second UWF president
• Enrollment reaches 4,400
• Roger Reid of biology named first emeritus professor
• Campus child care center opens
• UWF soccer goes intercollegiate

World Events

• Supreme Court orders release of Nixon’s White House tapes
• Nixon resigns to avoid impeachment
• Gerald Ford assumes presidency, pardons Nixon
• Charles Lindberg, Jack Benny, Duke Ellington, Ed Sullivan, newscaster Chet Huntley and Chief Justice Earl Warren die
• CIA covert operation in Chile revealed
• Vietnam draft resisters given amnesty
• Kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst and SLO rob bank
• Henry Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s career home run record
• Frank Robinson becomes baseball’s first black manager
• Little League baseball opens to girls
• Chris Everett and Jimmy Conners win at Wimbledon tennis matches