UWF Events

• Administration drops intercollegiate athletics after basketball team competes in national championship tournament
• Small Business Development Center—one of the six in the nation—established
• Alpha College buildings under construction

World Events

• U.S. celebrates Bicentennial
• Chicago mayor Richard Daley
• Jimmy Carter defeats President Ford
• Alex Haley’s Roots published
• Jean Paul Getty and Howard Hughes die
• Red Dye No. 2 banned
• Concorde initiates first supersonic commercial flight
• Legionnaire’s Disease appears
• Apple I computer introduced
• Ted Turner’s WTBS becomes TV cable superstation programming nationwide by satellite
• Remains of ABA merge with the NBA
• Montreal hosts Olympics
• Transsexual Renee Richards barred from U.S. Open tennis