6th » A Hughes Airwest Flight 706 midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 Jet airliner jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
7th » The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Cohen v. California known as Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
7th » The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives known as Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew raid or Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
11th » The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas e.g Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
13th » Vietnam War: 'The New York Times' begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
17th » President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
27th » After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham (promoter) known as Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
30th » The crew of the Soviet Union called Soviet 'Soyuz 11' spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
30th » Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
20th » Rodney Rogers, American basketball player and coach
20th » Jeordie White, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Marilyn Manson (Band) named Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, Goon Moon and The Desert Sessions)
21st » Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish and Alyson Avenue)