NEWS
• Apollo 14 lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.
• Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in a lunar rover, a day after landing on the Moon.
• The Pentagon Papers would be published
• Cigarette commercials are banned from TV.
• The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
• The US Ping Pong team is invited to play in China.
• Charles Manson & his “family” sentenced to death (Commuted to life in 1972)
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• MOVIES: “Shaft”, “Dirty Harry” and “The Last Picture Show”
• T.V.: “All in the Family” “Sonny & Cher” and “Columbo” and “The Ed Sullivan Show” airs its final episode.
• Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars.
• Disney World opens in Orlando Florida.
• The London Bridge debuted in Lake Havasu.
• The first Voicemail machine became available.
DEAD
• Jim Morrison
• Duane Allman
#1@1
• This song was written by folk singer/actor Hoyt Axton and made famous by Three Dog Night.
• It can be found on their fifth album “Naturally.”
• The song has been described by members of Three Dog Night as a "kid's song" and a "silly song.”
• It held the number one spot for 6 weeks!
• It was ranked as the #1 pop single of 1971 by Billboard Magazine.
• The song is also popularly known by its opening words, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog"
• Here’s Three Dog Night with “Joy To The World” your #1 @ 1 from April 1971.
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