Baseball player Roberto Clemente was elected to the Hall of Fame.
Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' debuted on Billboard's Top 200 chart.
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather won five Golden Globe awards.
The final episode of Monty Python's 'Flying Circus' season 3 was aired on BBC.
Pong was released. It was the first commercially successful video game.
Home Box Office, otherwise known as HBO, was launched.
The tennis player Chris Evert won the first WTA Tour Championship in Florida.
Singer David Bowie performed for the first time at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
Elton John's 'Honky Chateau' became his first #1 album in the US, which was a significant turning point in his career.
Major record label Columbia Records signed singer Bruce Springsteen.
Hard Job Being God, a Broadway musical, closed at the Edison Theater NYC after six performances.
The first installment of 'The Godfather,' starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York City.
The band 'Wing's' debut single 'Give Ireland Back to the Irish' was released by Apple Records.
The first scientific hand-held calculators (HP-35) hit the markets with a hefty price tag at $395.
Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the world's highest fall without a parachute after falling 33,330 feet.
Stanley Kubrick's X-rated film 'A Clockwork Orange' premiered, which was based on the book by Anthony Burgess.
D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.
Athlete Beth Bonner became the first woman to win the New York City Marathon with a time of 2:55:22.
Rolling Stone Magazine featured the Hulk on the front cover.
John Lennon released his second album, 'Imagine.'
John Lennon's most iconic hit, 'Imagine,' was released in the UK.
Rock star Paul McCartney's 'Ram' album went Gold.
The Dahlerau train disaster, the deadliest railway accident in West Germany, claimed 46 lives.
Stephen Schwartz's musical 'Godspell' premiered off-Broadway.
Amtrak began operating as the United States' passenger railroad company.
Led Zeppelin started their first tour at Ulster Hall, Belfast, UK.
Astronaut Alan Shepard was the first to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' single was released.
The Beatles song 'Helter Skelter' was played in court as evidence for Charles Manson's trial.
A chemist in Berkeley, California, US, announced that they successfully synthesized hormones that are responsible for human growth.
66 football fans die in the Ibrox disaster.
Paul McCartney filed a lawsuit to break up The Beatles.
Walt Disney's 'Aristocats' was released.
The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was founded.
Rock band Led Zeppelin started their last tour of Europe.
The Beatles movie, 'Let it Be,' premiered.
Paul McCartney announced he would leave The Beatles.
The Beatles released their single ''Let it Be."
The Jackson 5 performed on TV for the first time on American Bandstand.
The Altamont free concert occurred.
Pelé, the legendary Brazilian soccer star, scored his 1,000th goal.
The first computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical soundtrack, 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' was recorded.
The Beatles released Abbey Road, the last album they recorded before breaking up.
The animated mystery-comedy 'Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!' first aired on CBS.
'Space Oddity' was released by David Bowie.
The first Atlanta International Pop Festival took place at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia, with as many as 150,000 partygoers.
The western movie 'The Wild Bunch' was released.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completed the world's first non-stop, single-handed global circumnavigation.
George Harrison from The Beatles started recording three solo songs from their Abbey Road album at the EMI studio, Abbey Road, London.
