UWF Events

• New campus art gallery opens
• Portion of U.S. Highway 90 designated as “The University of West Florida Causeway”
• Edward Ball nature trail completed

World Events

• Vietnam War officially ends with fall of Saigon
• Military academies admit women
• Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa disappears
• School bussing for racial balance begins
• Supreme Court bans forced confinement of mental patients
• Voluntary change over to metric system in 10 years planned
• Patty Hearst captured
• Microcomputer, in kit form, reaches the US home market
• Casey Stengel and Thornton Wilder die