Timeline JAN69-JUN70

Memories From When The Legendary Class of 1970 Was On The Hill!

As we count down to our 45th Reunion, June 4-7, 2015, our Class Facebook page is featuring a series of "45 Years Ago Today" posts with some of the events from the Hill and the world that impacted us. Here's what we've posted so far this year:

(click on to open desired month)

January 1969

1/1: We were on Winter Break, and the top song in the country was "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye. Happy New Year!
1/4: While we relaxed, the Big Red Hockey Team was on the ice defeating Princeton 6-2. That makes the season record 10 and 1!
1/8: The Big Red Hockey Team crushes Penn, 14 - 0!
1/11: The Hockey Team defeats Harvard, 8 - 4. Are they unstoppable?
1/12: 'Led Zeppelin', their 1st album, is released; and Joe Namath and the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, 16 - 7.
1/20: Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds Lyndon Baines Johnson as the 37th President of the United States.
1/24: The Big Red is back on the ice, besting Penn 10 - 3. This would be boring if it wasn't so much fun!
1/27: The Cornell Trustees vote to eliminate the compulsory meal plan for women.
1/28: A blow out on a Union Oil platform spills over 80,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County, inspiring Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin to organize the first Earth Day in 1970. On the ice, the Hockey Team defeats BC 4 - 3, making the team now 14 and 1 on the season.
1/30: The Beatles give their last public performance, filming several tracks on the roof of Apple Records, London.

February 1969

2/1: The Hockey Team continues to dominate, defeating Dartmouth 11 - 2; and "Crimson And Clover" by Tommy James & the Shondells takes over the #1 spot on Billboard's list.
2/2: Boris Karloff (b. 1887), star of 'Frankenstein' and 'The Mummy', dies. Did he scare you as a kid?
2/4: In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
2/5: On the ice again, and the Big Red bests Yale 11 - 2.
2/7: The Cornell Administration presents a plan for an Afro-American Studies Program, setting off a lot of debate.
2/8: The last issue of 'The Saturday Evening Post' hit the stands - did your family have a subscription? And the Hockey Team defeats Toronto 7 - 2.
2/9: The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight, beginning a year of testing before transforming commercial air travel with jumbo jets. Gabby Hayes (b. 1885), popular sidekick and comic relief in westerns, dies.
2/11: Another victory for the Big Red Hockey team as they defeat Colgate, 7 - 0.
2/13: Wisconsin Governor Knowles calls out the National Guard to put down student demonstrations over black student demands on the UW-Madison campus.
2/14: Pope Paul VI issues a "motu proprio" deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints, including St. Valentine.
2/15: The Hockey Team skates past Dartmouth, 13 - 2, and Sly & The Family Stone's "Everyday People" becomes the top song in the country.
2/16: Muhammad Ali addresses a packed Bailey Hall audience as part of an IFC program on the divisions confronting American Society.
2/17: SDS pickets Day Hall in protest over the university's response to the Ithaca housing shortage.
2/18: Defense Secretary Melvin Laird suggests a draft lottery might be worked into the Selective Service System before the Viet Nam War ends. In cheerier news, the Hockey Team defeats BU 2 - 1, and now has a 20 and 1 record!

March 1969

3/1: The Basketball Team ends the season with a 74 - 64 loss to Princeton, making its record 12 and 13 for the year and placing 4th in the Ivy League. The Hockey Team evens things up with a 5 - 1 defeat of Princeton.
3/2: Cornell President Perkins is harassed during the Lowenstein lecture by students dissatisfied with the University policy on investment in apartheid South Africa. In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Concorde is conducted.
3/3: In a Los Angeles courtroom, Sirhan Sirhan admits he killed Robert Kennedy, and NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
3/4: The Big Red Hockey Team defeats St. Lawrence 3 - 0 in an ECAC semifinal match at Lynah. Were you there?
3/5: Black students at the University of Rochester seize 2 key buildings on campus.
3/6: Tompkins County DA McHugh proposes prosecuting drug sellers, not users.
3/7: In a tense overtime match, the Hockey Team defeats BU 3 - 2 in the ECAC semifinal match in Boston.
3/8: In Boston, the Big Red Hockey team defeats Harvard 4 - 2 to win the ECAC Tournament!
3/9: After being harassed for publicly defending Cornell's investment in bank stocks with investment in apartheid South Africa, President Perkins is embarrassed to learn that the university had sold its holdings some time ago.
3/10: Protestors at Malott Hall force the university to ask Chase Manhattan Bank recruiters to leave campus because of the Bank's investments in apartheid South Africa. In Memphis, James Earl Ray pleads Guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. The novel "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo is published.
3/12: Paul McCartney weds Linda Eastman, breaking teeny bopper hearts worldwide.
3/14: In a NCAA semifinal match in Lake Placid, the Big Red Hockey team defeats Michigan Tech 4 - 3.
3/15: After an amazing season, the Big Red Hockey team lost the NCAA championship to Denver 3 - 4 in Colorado Springs. Just wait till next year! "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe hit #1 on the charts.
3/17: Golda Meir becomes the first female president of Israel.
3/18: "Operation Breakfast", the secret bombing pf Cambodia, begins.
3/19: 300 SUNY Buffalo students seize the administration building on their campus in protest over the prison sentence for a draft resistor and an end to campus projects, and to demand increased employment for black workers.
3/20: 700 students rally peacefully at Day Hall in support of an SDS-sponsored proposal to address Ithaca's chronic housing shortage; and John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar and proceed to their honeymoon "Bed-In-For-Peace" in Amsterdam.
3/23: The Cornell Daily Sun elected 3 '70 Classmates to lead the paper - Ed Zuckerman as Editor in Chief, Richard Morse as Business Manager, and Barton Reppert as Managing Editor.
3/25: Peace protestors challenge Army & Marine recruiters in Barton Hall.
3/28: Dwight D. Eisenhower (b. 1890) passed away after a long illness. Anti-Russian riots erupt in Czechoslovakia, beginning the "Prague Spring".
3/29: Spring Break begins. Where did you go? What did you do?

April 1969

4/4: Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
4/6: A massive peace demonstration besieges the West Coast Army Headquarters in San Francisco.
4/7: The Arts & Sciences Faculty approves requirement changes that allow students to define and design their own major fields.
4/8: Violence erupts in the Middle East between the Jordanians and Egyptians and the Israelis. On campus, the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs approves "in principle" a proposal for small-unit coed living.
4/9: The Harvard Administration building is seized by 300 students, mostly members of SDS. There is also disorder at MIT, Stanford and Oberlin College.
4/12: "Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In" by the 5th Dimension becomes the #1 hit in the country.
4/13: The University Trustees approve funding for the African American Studies program and a land-loan proposal to address the Ithaca housing situation. The head of Biafra urges a cease-fire in the Nigerian civil war, while Biafra Week begins on campus.
4/14: Egypt and Israel continue to launch strikes and counter-strikes for an 8th day.
4/15: The Cornell Afro-American Society issues a statement denouncing the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs (FCSA) report on the judiciary system. The dispute stems from charges against 6 black students in connection with alleged larcenies of cushions from Mary Donlon Hall and disorderly conduct the past December as part of student demonstrations.
4/18: The Student-Faculty Board on Student Conduct issues reprimands to 3 black students for harassment and intimidation of members of the community during the past December's demonstrations. No penalties were given to 2 students accused of stealing cushions from Mary Donlon Hall.
4/19: About 100 members of the Afro-American Society seize Willard-Straight Hall, expelling more than 20 staying in guest rooms for Parents Weekend. SDS holds a rally in support while a group of white fraternity members attempt to break into the Straight through the windows of WVBR.
4/20: The Straight takeover ends after the university agrees to some of the students' demands. The faculty is deeply divided as it meets in Bailey to discuss the issue. On the West Coast, a grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned by the University of California to begin the formation of "People's Park".
4/21: The faculty votes to uphold the reprimands given to 3 black students which were one of the triggering events of the Straight takeover; SDS and the Afro-American Society vow to continue to press their demands.
4/22: About 2,000 students spend the night in Barton Hall discussing the campus crisis.
4/23: President Perkins cancels classes and schedules a teach-in in Barton Hall for all sides to present their versions of events and issues; 9,000 students attend. The Faculty Council meets in Bailey Hall to reconsider its position on the judicial decisions issued earlier, and votes to rescind the reprimands issued.
4/24: Teach-ins continue in Barton Hall with 5,000 participating, and several colleges cancel classes or direct that they be devoted to discussion of the issues raised by the campus crisis. The Faculty Council recommends the establishment of a Constituent Assembly and a Constitutional Convention to be "explicitly charged with identifying and eliminating institutional racism at Cornell University". Tompkins County DA McHugh announces a Grand Jury may investigate the events on campus.
4/25: After a contested election and a ballot that resulted in a tie, tie-breaking balloting is held on Triphammer Bridge and Ellen Celli ‘70 is elected the President of the Women's Student Government Association.
4/26: The Big Red Heavyweight Crew retains the Goes Trophy, besting Navy and Syracuse on Lake Onondaga.
4/28: The faculty continues to express views on both sides of the campus crisis, with several resigning their positions, some refusing to teach classes for the rest of the semester, and others standing together and staying with the university. Over the weekend, 5,000 students continued to attend teach-ins and discussions in Barton Hall, and voted to embrace the Constituent Assembly proposal. Today, classes resume.

May 1969

5/1: Members of SDS demonstrate at an Army ROTC practice drill session and spray paint slogans on a Navy ROTC practice gun. Navy ROTC cadets scrub the gun clean. Six students and two others are arrested for criminal trespass. At Columbia and Stanford, protestors occupy campus buildings.
5/3: It's Spring Weekend, and Janis Joplin is in concert with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The concert hosts, Alpha Phi Omega, present Ms. Joplin with a chinchilla bra, which she informs the presenter has the fur on the wrong side - he stammers and leaves the stage red-faced!
5/5: The Art and Spring festival opens on the Arts Quad, which has an inflated sculpture extended over it. Professor Karel Husa is announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music for a piece commissioned by the Fine Arts Foundation of Chicago.
5/6: Based on plans made the previous Fall, the Navy ROTC gun targeted by SDS on May 1st is hauled away for scrap.
5/10: Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youths and young adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard. The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the Vietnam War.
5/13: President Nixon asks Congress to pass legislation allowing for a draft lottery.
5/15: An American teenager known as "Robert R." dies in St. Louis, Missouri of a baffling medical condition. In 1984, it will be identified as the first confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
5/19: Coleman Hawkins (b. 1904), tenor sax great, dies.
5/20: National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in California. The Beatles "Get Back" hits #1 on the charts - ahh, Jojo and Sweet Loretta!
5/21: The Big Red Lacrosse Team defeats Dartmouth 22 - 3 to tie Brown for 1st place in the Ivy League, their 3rd year in a row at the top!
5/24: The Big Red Baseball Team loses to Dartmouth, 5 - 1, dashing hopes for its first time as Number 1 in the EIBL.
5/25: "Midnight Cowboy" with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman is released, eventually to win an Oscar.
5/26: John Lennon & Yoko Ono begin their 2nd "Bed-In for Peace", a week long event in Montreal, during which they recorded "Give Peace A Chance" with a number of friends.
5/31: President James Perkins announces his resignation.

June 1969

6/2: Leo Gorcey (born 1917) leader of The Dead End Kids, dies. Loved those movies!
6/7: The rock supergroup Blind Faith, with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech, plays its first gig in front of 100,000 people in London's Hyde Park.
6/8: U.S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet at Midway Island. Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September.
6/18: The national convention of the Students for a Democratic Society opens in Chicago. It collapses before the scheduled conclusion on June 22, and the Weatherman faction seizes control of SDS.
6/22: The Cuyahoga River fire helps spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Sadly, Judy Garland (b.1922) dies of a drug overdose in her London home.
6/23 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
6/29: The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S. The "Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet" by Henry Mancini is the top song in the country.

July 1969

7/1: Provost Dale Corson becomes Acting University President.
7/3: Brian Jones, founder and rhythm guitarist for the Rolling Stones, drowns in his swimming pool at his home in Sussex, England.
7/12: "In The Year 2525" by Zagar & Evans hits #1 in the country.
7/16: Apollo 11 lifts off toward the 1st landing on the moon, carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
7/18: Senator Edward Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, MA. Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign aide to his brother, dies in the early morning hours of July 19th in the submerged car.
7/20: The lunar module Eagle lands on the moon's surface. An estimated 500 million people worldwide watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the moon at 10:56 PM ET, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at the time.
7/24: The Apollo 11 astronauts return from the first successful Moon landing, and are placed in biological isolation for several days on the chance they may have brought back lunar germs. The airlesslunar environment is later determined to preclude microscopic life.
7/25: President Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense, starting the "Vietnamization" of the war.
7/26: Frank Loesser, songwriter (musicals "Guys and Dolls", "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying", and songs "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Heart and Soul", "On A Slow Boat To China", "Two Sleepy People"), dies.

August 1969

8/4: In Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. Talks eventually fail because both sides cannot agree on any terms.
8/9: Followers of Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate and her friends.
8/13: Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
8/14: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland following the 3 day Battle of the Bogside. Leonard Woolf, English writer and political theorist (Born 1880), dies.
8/15: Despite massive traffic jams and predictions of major rain storms, the Woodstock Festival is held on Yasgur's Farm in upstate New York. Enjoy this flashback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOGnVKWbwc
8/17: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (b. 1886), German-American architect and one of the pioneers of modern architecture, dies.
8/21: Strong violence on demonstrators in Prague & Brno, Czechoslovakia, by the military finally snuffs the Prague Spring.
8/23: The Rolling Stones top the charts with "Honky Tonk Woman".
8/31: Rocky Marciano (born 1923), American boxing legend, dies.

September 1969

9/2: Ho Chi Minh, president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, dies. The first automatic teller machine is installed in Rockville Centre, NY.
9/5: Dale Corson is named President of Cornell. Lieutenant William Calley is charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder for the 1968 My Lai massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians.
9/7: Senator Everett McKinley Dirkson of Illinois (born 1896) dies.
9/9: Freshmen in the class of '73 arrive on campus.
9/16: President Nixon announces a second withdrawal of troops from Viet Nam - 35,000 to be home by December 15. Professor Alice H. Cook, I&LR, was named by the Executive Committee of the University's Board of Trustees to be Cornell's first ombudsman.
9/20: The Archies reach #1 with their hit "Sugar, Sugar".
9/22: San Francisco Giant Willy Mays becomes the 1st player since Babe Ruth to hit 600 career home runs.
9/24: The Chicago Eight trial begins in Illinois. In Ithaca, "scoring wizard" Nick Alexandridis, All-Ivy leading scorer for the past 2 seasons, picks up where he left off last year with a hat trick to lead Cornell's soccer team to a 4-2 opening game victory over Cortland State on Upper Alumni Field.
9/26: The Beatles release their "Abbey Road" album.
9/27: Trailing 2-0 at the half, Cornell's Soccer team stages a dramatic about-face to overtake RPI, 3-2, in overtime in Troy. The Colgate Red Raiders come from behind to beat the Big Red, 28-24, in a seesaw struggle at Schoellkpf Field in the season opener. And the Cornell Harriers achieve a 36-23 triumph over Colgate in the first cross-country contest of the season.
9/30: Senior Keith Cummings, a determined left cornerback who intercepted a pass, recovered a fumble, and sped 80 yards untouched down the sidelines with a punt, plus had excellent execution and 8 unassisted open-field tackles in Saturday's loss to Colgate, is named ECAC Defensive Back of the week.

October 1969

10/1: Hartwick, ranked #7 in the nation, defeats the Cornell Booters 4 - 0.
10/2: A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested underground at Amchitka Island, Alaska.
10/3: The 150 Pound Football Team defeats defending champion Army, 24 - 14.
10/4: The Cross Country team defeats Syracuse 36 - 23 for a 2-0 record on the season. The Big Red Water Polo team loses to Yale 12 - 8, breaking a 9-game winning streak. And, in spite of Ed Marinaro's record breaking number of carries (41) and rushing yards in a single game (245), Cornell loses to Rutgers 21-7.
10/5: "Monty Python's Flying Circus" first airs on BBC One.
10/6: The Amazin' Mets and the Baltimore Orioles lock up their divisions and head for the World Series.
10/8: The Big Red Band is forced to change its half-time show after 3 Trustees who saw it at Rutgers object that it is indecent. The Band formed the shape of a hypodermic needle to illustrate the medical issues Gannett Clinic used to face, and then the announcer noted that contraception is becoming the leading reason for visits as the Band broke into "I've got Rhythm". Jeffrey Doane, Drum Major, reported that the needle was mistakenly associated with "everything from drugs to a phallic symbol".
10/9: In Chicago, the US National Guard is called in to control the "Days of Rage" demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen in connection with the "Chicago Eight" trial. The demonstrations will last for 4 days.
10/11: Our last Homecoming as undergraduates at Cornell. The Big Red Soccer team defeats Princeton as Nick Alexandridis gets another hat trick. The 150 Pounders beat Columbia 19 - 0, while the Football team loses to Princeton 21 - 17.
10/14: In an open letter to the Cornell community, Phi Delta Theta announces it is disassociating itself from the national fraternity.
10/15: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in "Moratorium to End the War in Viet Nam" demonstrations across the United States. At Cornell, President Dale Corson gives a speech on the Arts Quad condemning the war and stressing "the disastrous effect of the war on education".
10/16: The "Miracle" New York Mets win the World Series, beating the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1. At least one woman in the class found the only stairwell in Martha Van where she could get decent reception on her transistor radio to listen!
10/18: The Football team defeats Harvard 41 - 24 as Ed Marinaro scores 5 TDs; The Soccer team falls to undefeated Harvard 5 - 0; and in Water Polo, Cornell defeats Fordham 17 - 6 and Bucknell 15 - 12 in a double header. "I Can't Get Next To You" by the Temptations tops the charts.
10/20: Kappa Delta sorority decides to close as a result of "...a long-standing disagreement between the national and the Cornell chapter over membership policies".
10/21: Jack Kerouac (b. 1922), author of "On The Road" and "The Dharma Bums", dies.
10/22: Theta Xi fraternity announces plans to go local, which will give the house "more freedom to change and adapt to situations which arise on campus". Beatle Paul McCartney issues a statement "I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumours of my death
10/25: The Eli's best the Big Red on the gridiron, 17 - 0; The Harriers outrun Yale 47 - 15, and at 3 & 1 now have the 1st winning cross country season since 1963; and the Cornell Soccer team ties Yale, 0 - 0. The 150 Pound Football team is in Philadelphia, besting Penn 14 - 6 to remain undefeated for the season. The Cornell Polo team beats the semi-pro Boonesborough (KY) Polo Club by a score of 16 - 10, with Captain Danny Ladd scoring 11 of the Big Red goals.
10/30: Over 200 fans are queued up for season Hockey tickets, more than 60 hours before they go on sale. It was worth it!

November 1969

11/1: It's a great day for Big Red teams - In Schoellkopf, Cornell defeats Columbia 10 - 3; On Upper Alumni Field, the Booters beat Columbia 1 - 0; the 150 Pounders wallop Princeton 45 - 6; the Cross Country team edges Army 30 - 29; and the Water Polo team sinks St. Francis 12 - 8. Elvis Presley briefly tops the charts with "Suspicious Minds".
11/3: President Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity with the Viet Nam War effort, and to support his policies. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounces the President's critics as "an effete corps of impudent snobs" and "nattering nabobs of negativism".
11/7: The Cornell Harriers finish 4th at the Heptagonal 5 Mile run in NYC.
11/8: The Cornell Polo team continues its streak, beating reigning national champion Yale 16 – 15. It's a mixed results day vs. Brown in rainy, muddy contests as the Football team wins 14 – 7, and the Soccer team loses 2 – 1. The driving rain forces the 150 Pound Football game to move to Hoy Field from Lower Alumni, where Cornell loses to Navy 19 – 0, dashing title hopes. The 5th Dimension is back on top with "Wedding Bell Blues"
11/9: A group of American Indians, led by Richard Oakes, seizes Alcatraz Island for 19 months, inspiring a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform.
11/10: Sesame Street is broadcast for the first time, on the National Educational Television (NET) network.
11/12: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story. The Cornell faculty votes overwhelmingly to retain ROTC on campus, based in part on a student survey showing 67% favored continuing ROTC, although in modified form.
11/14: NASA Launches Apollo 12 with astronauts Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean on the second manned mission to land on the moon.
11/15: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. In Washington, DC, 250,000–500,000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death"; 1,500–2,000 Cornellians participate. Dartmouth defeats the football team 24–7 and clinches the Ivy title; the soccer team also falls to Dartmouth, 2–1; and the Lightweight Football team ties Rutgers, 0–0. The polo team defeats Mahoning, a semi-pro team, to go 4–1 on the season.
11/17: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. Ezra Cornell IV becomes the first student on the Cornell Board of Trustees on his 21st birthday.
11/19 The Senate passes the Draft Lottery bill and sends it to President Nixon for signature.
11/20: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
11/21: President Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.
11/22: The Polo team, facing its toughest opponent yet, crushes the Mahoning (Boston) semi-pro club 24 – 0 with Captain Danny Ladd scoring 5 goals even though he sustained an injury in practice and could not play the entire game; The Soccer team loses to Penn, 3 – 0; The Football team finishes with a win, beating Penn 28 – 14; and the Hockey team begins the season with an 8 – 2 victory over Western Ontario University.
11/24 The Apollo 12 astronauts return safely to Earth. The United States, Soviet Union, and Britain sign the Nuclear Prohibition Treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
11/25: John Lennon returns his MBE medal to protest the British government's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War.
11/29: The Hockey team beats Guelph 4 – 1 for the 32nd consecutive win at Lynah Rink. The Beatles return to the top of the charts with "Come Together".

December 1969

12/1: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. What was your number?
12/2: On the ice, the Hockey Team defeats RPI 8–2.
12/3: The Basketball team loses its season opener to Colgate, 78 – 76.
12/4: Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine", a play by Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., is performed in the Straight Memorial Room.
12/5 The Regional Conference on Women's Liberation begins in Anabel Taylor Hall.
12/6: A free concert is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California. Hosted by the Rolling Stones, it is an attempt at a "Woodstock West" and is best known for the uproar over violence that occurred, including the death of an attendee. It is viewed by many as the "end of the sixties." The Cornell Basketball team falls to the Cadets of West Point, 62 – 42; The Big Red Hockey team beats Brown in overtime in a thrilling 5 – 4 contest; The Polo Team pays back the University of Virginia for its earlier defeat this season with a 16 – 11 victory. Steam has the top song in the country with "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)".
12/13: The Cornell Hockey Team trounces Yale 8–1; The Big Red Hoopsters lose 75–57 to Columbia.
12/15: President Nixon announces the withdrawal of an additional 50,000 troops from Viet Nam in addition to the 60,000 troops announced in June and September. This will reduce the 1970 draft call by 25,000.
12/17: Secretary of the Air Force Robert C Seamans Jr. announces that Project Blue Book, the group which maintains files on UFO sightings, is being closed effective immediately. The Hockey Team makes it 7 in a row with a 7 – 0 shutout of St. Lawrence University; and the Basketball Team notches its first win defeating Rochester 61 – 59 in a seesaw battle.
12/19: The Basketball Team hosts Boston College at Barton Hall, losing 60-78. Cornell classes end for the year.
12/20: Peter, Paul & Mary have the top song with "Leaving On A Jet Plane".
12/22: The Big Red Ice Machine has its second shutout in a row, beating Rensselaer 9 – 0 at the ECAC Holiday Tournament.
12/23: For the second time in less than a week, St. Lawrence loses to Cornell on the ice, this time by a score of 7 – 2 at the ECAC Holiday Tournament. The Hockey Team ends the year 9–0.
12/27: The Cagers begin the Quaker City Tournament in Philadelphia, defeating Brigham Young 68-62. Diana Ross & The Supremes hit #1 with "Someday We'll Be Together".
12/29: The Quaker City Tourney continues, with the Basketball Team losing to LaSalle 56-68.
12/30: The Cornell Basketball Team finishes the Quaker City Tourney with a 63-58 win over Villanova.
12/31: Joseph Yablonski is murdered by killers hired by a union political opponent, leading to significant reforms in the UMW.

January 1970

1/2: At an invitational tournament in Syracuse, the Big Red Skaters beat Boston University 4 - 1.
1/3: Still at the tourney, the Ice Hockey team defeats Colgate 5 – 3; Dan Lodboa, tri-captain, adds MVP of the tourney to the same honor from the ECAC in December. In NYC the Basketball Team loses to Columbia 63-84. B J Thomas tops the charts with "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head".
1/5: The first episode of US soap opera All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network. An earthquake (Richter Scale 7.7 magnitude) at Yunnan, China kills at least 15,621.
1/9: Brown visits Barton Hall and loses to the Big Red Cagers 72-59.
1/10: The Hockey Team continues to roll, besting Harvard 3 – 1 in Cambridge. The Basketball team doesn't fare so well as they lose to Yale 60-72.
1/12: Biafra capitulates, ending the 32 month Nigerian civil war.
1/14: Diana Ross & The Supremes perform their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
1/21: Pan American Airways offers the first commercially scheduled 747 service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1/24: Still on the road, the Skaters triumph over Toronto 2 – 1 in a contest with outstanding hockey from both teams.
1/27: The Basketball Team loses to Penn State 67-83.
1/28: Finally back home at Lynah, the Hockey team defeats Princeton 7 – 1.
1/29: The Cagers return to Ithaca, and are defeated by Princeton 58 - 79.
1/31: The Hockey Team finishes intercession at Yale with a 4 – 1 win, including a hat trick from tri-captain John Hughes, and now boast a 15-0-0 record! The Basketball Team finishes with a loss to Penn, 60-64, and are now 4 and 11 overall, 1 and 5 in the Ivy League. "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5 hits #1.

February 1970

2/2: Bertrand Russell, English logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872), dies. On campus, construction begins on a new social sciences building by Ives Hall which will become known as "Old Rusty". This week marks the start of the Spring job interview season, with 20 firms and 3 government agencies cancelling recruiting because there are no openings - challenging times!
2/3: Hockey tri-captain John Hughes is named to the ECAC All-East Team.
2/6: The Cornell Cagers fall to Yale 64-82.
2/7: The Thinclads come from behind to defeat Yale 60½ to 48½. The Basketball Team goes down 72-87 to Brown, while the Hockey Team crushes Brown 5-1. The Shocking Blue have a week as #1 with "Venus".
2/8: 5 seniors on the Big Red Football team are honored with awards at the annual end-of-season banquet: Paul Marcucci, an All-Ivy selection is named the Pop Warner MVP; Jeff Ruby receives the Robert Fenton Patterson Award for the most courageous player in terms of overcoming physical handicaps; Brooks Sholl gets the Cornell Club of Ithaca Award for the most improved player over his career; Keith Cummins picked up the Cornell Football Coaches Award for showing the most consistency; and Tom McLeod is the winner of the Victor Grohmann Scholar-Athlete Award.
2/11: The Cornell Faculty approves the proposed University Senate for governance, but changes are expected before approval by students and Trustees.
2/13: Friday the 13th is good luck for the Cornell Cagers, defeating Harvard 73-65! Sly & the Family Stone take over the top of the charts with "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)". Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.
2/14: Cornell hosts the 5th annual Continental Tiddlywinks Championship, and bests teams from the U of Toronto, Carleton U of Ottawa, and Case/Western Reserve only to be out-squidged in the final round to the Somervillians, a club team. Boston College comes to Lynah for another hockey lesson as Cornell bests them 5-3 in spite of injuries and the flu thanks to Kevin Pettit's hat trick. The Cornell Basketball Team's luck doesn't last as it falls to Dartmouth 69-72.
2/18: A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot. An ailing Cornell Hockey Team plays Penn in Cherry Hill, NJ on a rink with patchy ice due to poor pipe installation, and comes away with an 11-1 victory in which 10 players scored. Reverend Daniel Berrigan, SJ, is nominated for the National Book Award for his poetry work "False Gods, Real Men".
2/19: Over 150 people, mostly Cornell students, staged a demonstration to protest the convictions in the Chicago Seven case by marching through Ithaca.
2/20: The Cornell Cagers host Harvard and win, 85-74.
2/21: The Basketball Team brings on its next opponent, Dartmouth, and rallies to win by a score of 74-72. The Big Red Hockey juggernaut also comes from behind to best Dartmouth, 3-2.
2/22: Vandals throw a kerosene flare at Wari House, the black women's cooperative, which was the site of a cross-burning in April.
2/24: The Cornell Daily Sun reports that the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences has resolved to equalize the number of men and women admitted.
2/25: Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (b. 1903) dies. The Cornell Hockey Team makes it 21 in a row and locks up its 5th Ivy crown in a row with a 9-3 clobbering of Harvard; Tri-Captain Dan Lodboa and Larry Fullen have hat tricks.
2/27: On its final road trip of the season, the Big Red Basketball Team loses to Princeton 58-65.
2/28: The Big Red Cagers finish the season with a 63-97 loss to Penn and a 7 – 16 record, 4 – 10 in the Ivy League; Bill Schwarzkopf finishes his Cornell career with 973 points which puts him in the top ten of all Cornell Cagers. The Hockey Team defeats Penn 7 – 3 with Brian McCutcheon scoring twice in 30 seconds. For the 4th year in a row, the Cornell Marksmen win the Ivy Rifle Championship. Simon & Garfunkel have another top hit with "Bridge Over Troubled Water".

March 1970

3/1: Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic.
3/2: The Cornell Community votes to approve the proposed University Senate; only approval by the Board of Trustees is needed now.
3/4: Cornell announces that several dorms will be coed starting fall 1970: The Baker housing complex, Donlon and Dickson 6 as well as the new North Campus housing. On the ice, Cornell shuts out Dartmouth 14-0 with Bob Aitchison scoring 4 goals and Kevin Pettit getting his 2nd hat trick of the season.
3/5: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification by 56 nations.
3/6: A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing 3 members of the organization.
3/7: The Cornell IFC presents The Youngbloods in concert at Bailey Hall (remember "Grizzely Bear" and "Get Together"?) At a tournament at Dartmouth, Cornell successfully defends its Ivy League Gymnastics title. In Princeton, the Big Red Ice Machine crushes Princeton 11 – 5 to complete the regular season undefeated and ready to take on the ECAC tournament; Brian McCutcheon contributes his 2nd hat trick of the season, and Tri-Captain Dan Lodboa sets a new record for career point total for a defense-man.
3/10: Cornell opens the ECAC tournament with a 6-1 quarterfinal victory over St. Lawrence at Lynah Rink.
3/11: Around 200 people stage an anti-draft demonstration between Olin and Uris Libraries. Erle Stanley Gardner, American crime writer (b. 1889), creator of Perry Mason, dies.
3/12: Captain Danny Ladd scores five goals as Cornell edges the University of Connecticut 14-13 in the semi-finals of the U.S. Polo Association's intercollegiate championships.
3/13: Around 150 women and men march on Day Hall to demand the appointment of Dr. Levine as head of Gannet Clinic and the dispensing of contraceptives. In Boston, the Big Red Hockey team edges Harvard 6-5 in the ECAC tourney semifinal game.
3/14: In a tough match the Cornell Ice Machine defeat Clarkson 3-2 on Tri-Captain John Hughes' winning goal with 14 seconds left in the 3rd Period, winning the ECAC Tournament for the 4th year in a row. Yale wins the U. S. Polo Association's intercollegiate championships for the 4th year in a row by defeating Cornell 21-10; Captain Danny Ladd again scores 5 goals in the contest.
3/16: Tammi Terrell, terrific soul singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough) (b. 1945) dies.
3/17: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the My Lai massacre. The Cornell Board of Trustees approves the University Senate proposal with modifications, which put the plan on hold. A large green dragon is spotted on the Cornell campus.
3/18: General Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
3/19: In the NCAA semifinal in Lake Placid, after the 45 minutes of being scoreless (the longest drought of the season), the Big Red Hockey Team rallies to beat Wisconsin 2-1.
3/21: The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. After eking out a last second ECAC victory over Clarkson in the final seconds a week ago, Cornell's Hockey Team faces them again and comes away with a 6-4 win and the NCAA title. Tri-Captain Dan Lodboa contributed a hat trick that took only 8 minutes to complete and was unanimously named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. An undefeated Hockey season, the only one in NCAA history!!!! It was a sweet ending for the 6 seniors on the team, who in 3 years compiled an 83 and 4 record: Dan Lodboa, Johnny Hughes, Dick Bertrand, Garth Ryan, Steve Giuliani, and Gordie Lowe.
3/28: Cornell classes end for Spring Break.
3/31: NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members. All passengers are eventually freed.

April 1970

4/1: A fire destroys the Africana Studies and Research Center that Cornell had established last spring; arson is suspected. American President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States with effect from January 1, 1971. The 1970 United States Census begins, and will find there are 203,392,031 United States residents on this day.
4/3: The Cornell Lacrosse Team defeats Denison 13-8.
4/5: The Cornell Baseball Team returns from Florida with a 5-5-1 record and a 2nd place finish in the Rollins Tournament.
4/6: As Cornell classes resume, the university provides temporary classroom facilities for the Black Studies Center in the new North Campus dorms; students and faculty express shock and outrage at the apparent arson attack; and the Faculty Council affirms its continued support of the Black Studies program. The new underground Cornell Campus Store officially opens for business at 8 AM, and is damaged in a demonstration by Black students shortly before noon. At the annual Hockey Awards Banquet, senior icemen Dan Lodboa, John Hughes, Dick Bertrand, Garth Ryan, Steve Giuliani and Gordie Lowe are honored for the amazing record they compiled over 4 years.
4/8: A group of Black students build a bonfire of items apparently looted from the new Campus Store on Monday outside the store, then march across campus smashing windows in several buildings. University President Dale Corson declares a 5 hour curfew from 2AM to 7AM.
4/9: Acting on a request from the University, the New York Supreme Court issues restraining order for any further acts of force, violence, damage or disruption on campus.
4/10: The University Board of Trustees okay the proposed Constituent Assembly proposal for a University Senate. The Baseball Team defeats Fordham 6-4. In a press release written in mock-interview style that was included in promotional copies of his first solo album Paul McCartney announces that he has left the Beatles.
4/11: Apollo 13 with astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert is launched toward the Moon. John O'Hara, American writer (b. 1905) dies. The Polo Team creams Yale 18-7 on 8 goals by Hank Muller and 7 from Captain Danny Ladd. On typical cold and windy Ithaca Spring day, the Cornell Laxmen are edged by the Long Island Athletic Club 10-9 in overtime, the Lightweight Crew edges Penn, and the Cornell Tennis Team loses to Penn 9-0. The Baseball team dropped a twin bill to West Point, losing 2-1 in the first game and 8-6 in the second.
4/12: The campus experiences several arson attacks as Molotov cocktails are lobbed through Olin Library windows, fire bombs which failed to ignite are found in the basements of Morrill and McGraw Halls, and a fire is apparently deliberately set in the offices of the Constituent Assembly in Willard Straight Hall.
4/13: An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission. NASA scientists, contractors and MIT professors begin working around the clock on the astronauts safe return.
4/14: The Big Red Tennis Team gets its first victory of the season in a 7-2 win over Rochester. On Hoy Field, Scranton beats the Cornell Baseball Team 4-2.
4/15: Scientists worked around the clock solving unique problems on board the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft, and made a vital course correction in an attempt to return the 3 astronauts safely. Around the country, reenactments of the Boston Tea Party are staged outside of IRS offices to protest tax dollars that support the war in Vietnam.
4/16: Ned Harkness announces his resignation to coach the Detroit Red Wings; the Lynah Faithful are in mourning.
4/17: After several tense days, Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific. Athletic Director Robert Kane announces that Hockey Tri-Captain Dick Bertrand will succeed Ned Harkness as coach. The Big Red Nine tie Penn 4-4 in a game called on account of darkness.
4/18: The “America is Hard to Find” festival draws 15,000 to Barton Hall; Father Daniel Berrigan S. J., currently sought by Federal Marshalls, comes out of hiding to attend for several hours. In New Haven, the Big Red Racketmen lose a squeeker to Yale, 5-4. Over in Cambridge, rugged defensive play and superior Big Red quickness and stickhandling combined to catapult the Big Red Lacrosse Team to a 13-6 triumph over a bigger Harvard squad . Down in Princeton, the Lightweight Crew is blanked by Princeton and Rutgers. In Ithaca, the Polo Team clobbers The Highview Farm Polo Club, 21-8; Captain Danny Ladd scored 14 for Cornell in one of the best performances of his college career. Also in Ithaca, the Cornell Track Team won its first meet of the season, defeating Colgate 87-66. The Cornell Baseball Team drops a pair to Navy, 2-1 and 3-2.
4/22: The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S. At Cornell, the day is commemorated with a huge teach-in; an “Ecological Cemetery” is set up on the Arts Quad. On Lower Alumni Field, the Cornell Lacrosse Team easily beats Dartmouth 16-5 to remain undefeated with a 4-0 record (2-0 in the Ivy League).
4/25: The Big Red Lacrosse Team remains unbeaten after a 9-6 victory over Penn. Cornell’s Heavyweight Crew won the Goes Trophy for the 9th consecutive year, besting Navy and Syracuse at Annapolis. In New York City, the Lightweight Crew came in 3rd in a contest with MIT and Columbia. The Baseball Team comes out of its Spring slump with a sweep of a double-header with Columbia 11-0 & 8-2; Pitcher Tom McLeod and Centerfielder Stu Rivchin are standouts in the team effort. The Beatles hit #1 with “Let It Be”.
4/26: Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911) dies.
4/29: The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; widespread, large antiwar protests occur in the U.S. At the Vatican, Pope Paul VI issues a decree liberalizing the norms for “mixed marriages” between Catholics and partners of other faiths. In Hamilton, NY, the Cornell Lacrosse Team makes it 6 victories in a row (13 if you include last season), demolishing Colgate 16-2.
4/30: Students at Ohio State clashed with National Guardsmen for a second day in protests over ROTC and the widening war in SE Asia. Inger Stevens, Swedish-born actress (b. 1934) dies. May.

May 1970

5/1: In Ithaca, the Tennis Team skunks Brown 9-0. Tri-Captain Buzzy Bishop is named to the All-Ivy Wrestling Team. The Baseball Team loses to Harvard 7-4.
5/2: The Big Red Laxmen continue to roll, blasting Yale 16-4 and remaining undefeated. The Cornell Track Team loses to Penn, 91-63, and the Tennis Team bows to Harvard 8 ½ - ½. The Ivy Regatta, held on Cayuga Lake, is won by Yale. The weather is cold and rainy on the Ithaca Inlet, where Dartmouth defeats the Lightweight Crew. In Princeton, the Heavyweight Crew ties Yale for 2nd behind Princeton in the Carnegie Cup Races. The Golf Team loses to Army 4-3 and bests Columbia 5-2 at West Point; seniors Dil Gilmore and Doug Surine were winners in both contests. The Baseball team drops a pair to Dartmouth, 3-2 in both games.
5/3: The Big Red Laxmen continue to roll, blasting Yale 16-4 and remaining undefeated. The Cornell Track Team loses to Penn, 91-63, and the Tennis Team bows to Harvard 8 ½ - ½. The Ivy Regatta, held on Cayuga Lake, is won by Yale. The weather is cold and rainy on the Ithaca Inlet, where Dartmouth defeats the Lightweight Crew. In Princeton, the Heavyweight Crew ties Yale for 2nd behind Princeton in the Carnegie Cup Races. The Golf Team loses to Army 4-3 and bests Columbia 5-2 at West Point; seniors Dil Gilmore and Doug Surine were winners in both contests. The Baseball team drops a pair to Dartmouth, 3-2 in both games.
5/4: Four students at Kent State University are killed and nine are wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia. In Ithaca, Cornell announces classes will be held as normal in spite of the calls for a strike.
5/5: Violence erupts at several campuses across the country in protest of the invasion of Cambodia and killings at Kent State. At Cornell, classes are at about 2/3 normal attendance; strikers rally on the Arts Quad, and spend time writing letters to Congress and planning for the May 9th protests in Washington DC.
5/6: In a 3-hour Faculty Meeting, special grading options for the Spring Term are approved to allow students to participate in anti-war activities; options are letter grades for work completed through May 4, Incomplete, S – U, and regular letter grades. Around 2,000 Cornellians marched on campus & urged others to join the strike against the war. The Big Red Baseball team sees an 8-0 lead evaporate, but comes back to beat Syracuse 12-11 on relief pitcher Tom McLeod’s single in the 11th inning.
5/7: Anti-war strikers blockade 4 roads leading to campus for hours before the Cornell Safety Division can clear them. Nationwide, 136 colleges are closed due to strikes, and many more have restricted classes. President Nixon consults with 8 university presidents to understand why the students are protesting.
5/8: Hard Hat riot: Unionized construction workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall. The Big Red Baseball Team stays hot with a 5-2 win over Brown. The Tennis Team loses to Army, 6 ½ to 2 ½. The Beatles release their 12th and final album, Let It Be.
5/9: In Washington, D.C., 100,000 including 3,000 Cornellians demonstrate against the Vietnam War. Approximately 300 Cornell students who elected to stay in Ithaca scrubbed floors and painted walls in the Ithaca YMCA and day center, and picked up litter in Stewart Park as their form of protest against the war in Indochina. The Cornell Baseball Team continues it’s streak, taking a double-header from Yale 8-3 & 6-3. The Heavyweigt Crew comes in 5th on Lake Quinsigamond at the Eastern Sprints, while the Track Team is 4th at the Heptagonals held in New Haven. The Tennis Team voted to miss its scheduled game with Columbia so they could join the protests in Washington. The Big Red Laxmen continued to roll, whipping the highly rated Brown squad 20-6 and making Cornell the only major undefeated lacrosse team in the country after Navy falls to Johns Hopkins by a score of 9-7. Senior Mark Webster led the Cornell scoring with 6 goals. Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (b. 1907) dies. The Jackson 5 are back on top of the charts with “ABC”.
5/10: The Spring Arts Festival begins on the Arts Quad, with displays of student art, opportunities for self-expression by creating art with materials provided, and poetry readings.
5/11: Most campuses across the country are calm after last week’s protests.
5/14: The Big Red Baseball Nine upsets Princeton, 6-1. Basketballer Paul Frye is named a recipient of an ECAC “Merit Medal” as Cornell’s outstanding senior scholar-athlete. Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1885), Glinda the Good Witch, dies.
5/15: A marijuana “smoke in” is held on the Arts Quad to protest the recent drug raids that snared 8 students. It’s the last day of classes for the Cornell Class of 1970!
5/16: The Lacrosse Team wins its final Ivy match by defeating Princeton 15-5, winning the Ivy crown for the 4th time in 5 years.
5/17: Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to sail the Atlantic Ocean. Senior Dan Lodboa, Hockey Team Tri-Captain, receives the trophy as the Cornell Daily Sun Athlete of the Year after becoming the first defenseman to lead the team in scoring in Cornell history.
5/20: The Lacrosse Team demolishes Hobart by a score of 19-2.
5/23: In its final game, the Lacrosse Team bests Syracuse to become the only undefeated major college Lacrosse team in the country. The lacrosse establishment was not moved – see http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/…/May…/EU.1970.lax.team.html.
5/30: “American Woman” by the Guess Who from Canada becomes the #1 hit.

June 1970

6/1: Soyuz 9, a two man spacecraft, is launched by the Soviet Union.
6/2: Norway announces it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast.
6/7: With their opera “Tommy” The Who become the first act to perform rock music at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. E. M. Forster, English writer (b. 1879) dies.
6/8: Graduation day for the Legendary Cornell Class of 1970. The ceremony includes the investiture of Dale Corson as President, and an incident which permanently bent the bear atop the university mace, the only time it has ever been used for other than ceremonial purposes.

the Cornell Class of 1970 site