The Republic of Mali invaded the Republic of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) in a border conflict over water rights.
The United States Senate unanimously (93 to 0) ratified the Geneva Protocol, the "Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare", almost 50 years after it had first been signed signed in Switzerland on June 17, 1925, and became effective on February 28, 1928.
Hmmm. . . .
The Safe Drinking Water Act was signed into law.
Probably wouldn't happen today.
ANZUK, a military unit created in 1971 by agreement of Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, was disbanded after slightly more than two years of having been in existence.
No surprise, given the Vietnam War and the "winds of change".
The Towering Inferno premiered. I recall seeing it in the theaters with a friend on a Saturday afternoon, even though I was 11 years old. It was awful.
Frankly, they shouldn't have let us in the movie at all. I'm sure we walked down and watched it, but it features a totally stupid 1970s example of full frontal that serves no purpose other than to be a toss out to the Playboy ethos of the era, which no 11 year old, or 21 year old, or 61 year old, should have to put up with.
It also, fwiw, runs down the National Guard, in the 1970s post Vietnam War style.
And the plot is moronic. One of the 1970s scare movies.
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