Events

• Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.
• Rolling Stone Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.
• Simon & Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The title track and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a record six Grammys at the 13th Grammy Awards, including “Record of the Year”, “Song of the Year”, and “Album of the Year.” In Britain it tops the album chart at regular intervals over the next two years, and becomes the bestselling album in Britain during the 1970s.

Births

• Kirk Franklin, gospel singer

Deaths

• Albert EvansJones (Cynan), poet (born 1895)

Deaths

• Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer (Godzilla, Ultraman) (b. 1901)
• Jane Bathori, opera singer, 92

Events

• James Shep Sheppard, of The Heartbeats and Shep and the Limelites, is found murdered in his car on the Long Island Expressway

Births

• Matthew Lillard, American actor

Deaths

• Ifan ab Owen Edwards, founder of the Urdd (born 1895)
• Nell Shipman, actress, writer, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (b.1892)

Events

• A Boeing 747 lands at Heathrow Airport, the first jumbo jet to land in Britain.

Births

• Alex Ross, American comic artist

Events

• Five lifeboatmen are killed when a Fraserburgh, Scotland vessel, The Duchess of Kent, capsizes.
• Fraserburgh lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on service to the Danish fishing vessel Opal, capsizes: five of six crew lost.
• Pan American Airways offers the first commercially scheduled 747 service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

Events

• The Greater London Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding (the barrier opens in 1981).

Births

• Mitch Benn, comedian and songwriter
• Skeet Ulrich, American actor

Events

• CBS launches Operation 100, an allout campaign to discredit NBC and all it stands for, using the slogan “The man can’t bust our network.”

Births

• Donald Haddow, swimmer
• Tim Foster, British rower
• Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian

Deaths

• Hal March, American actor (b. 1920)

Events

• The grave of Karl Marx is vandalised by antiGermanic racists at Highgate in London.

Births

• DJ Quik, American rapper and producer
• DJ Quik, rapper and record producer

Deaths

• David O. McKay, 9th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (b. 1873)

Events

• Cyclone Ada hits Central Queensland, killing 14.

Births

• Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian animator
• Jeremy Roenick, American hockey player

Deaths

• Billy Stewart, scat singer, 32 (car accident)
• Simon Kovar, bassoonist