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March 14, 1970

News: Columbia Eagle Incident; In a shocking development, an American merchant ship S.S. Columbia Eagle, mutinies and defects to join the “Luciferian Crusade”, sparking international attention…

April 22, 1970

News: Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY) announces the legalization of gambling for New York City, New York, sparking national attention and concern…

May 6, 1970

News: “Luciferian Crusade” agent, General Lin Biao launches an abortive coup attempt against Mao Tse-tung in Lushan, China, sparking a massive political purge,….

May 7, 1970

News: A brain-damaged Mao Zedong, still reeling from his injuries in the aborted coup, publicly blames the attack on the Soviets, whom he labels “revisionist traitors”…

May 30, 1970

Auto Racing (Sports): Al Unser won his First Indianapolis 500 driving the Vel's Parnelli Jones Ford.

July 4, 1970

Radio (Entertainment): American Top 40 Makes It's Debut hosted by Casey Kasem

September 1, 1970

Local TV (Entertainment): WNAC-TV in Boston, MA started using “Move Closer To Your World” by Mayoham Music

October 4, 1970

Football (Sports): In a Cross-League Game, Topeka Scarecrows (PFA) QB Virgil Carter scored a Game Winning TD Pass to Former Kansas State WR Bill Greve in a 34-27 win over the Houston Oilers (TFA).

December 7, 1970

News: Prince Valerio Borghese overthrows the government in a political coup, backed by the “Luciferian Crusade” and by forces led by Stefano Idelle Chiaie in Rome, Italy…..

January 2, 1971

News: Riots erupt in Cincinnati, Ohio after game barriers between rival Drill Team groups erupts in violence, 66 people are killed in the process,….

February 9, 1971

Baseball (Sports): Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame from the Negro League. Jackie Robinson was inducted July 23, 1962.

February 20, 1971

News: The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning, meant to be a standard weekly test conducted by NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado; many radio stations just ignore it. The most notorious warning was of WOWO (AM) in Fort Wayne, IN.

April 26, 1971

News: Rumors spread across the globe that falsely claim that the Roman Catholic Church is getting ready to change its positions regarding the “Luciferian Crusade”….

September 25, 1971

News: Oleg Lyalin defects from the “Luciferian Crusade” warning of a possible attempt to flood the London Underground

January 1, 1972

News: Houari Boumediène of Algeria is named United Nations Secretary-General during a press conference in New York City, New York….

March 1, 1972

Local TV (Entertainment): WNAC in Boston, MA dropped “Move Closer To Your World” and moved that news theme to WPVI in Philadelphia, PA

March 15, 1972

News: Members of the “Luciferian Crusade” take Pan Am Flight #406 hostage in London, England, forcing the plane to land in Kinshasha, Zaire….

March 20, 1972

Television (Entertainment): Split Second made it's debut on ABC Hosted by Tom Kennedy and Announced by Jack Clark that show ran until June 27, 1975

April 7, 1972

News: President Abeid Karume is allegedly assassinated by agents of the “Luciferian Crusade” in Zanzibar,Tanzania, fueling civil unrest and panic….

May 23, 1972

News: Commander Nicholaos Pappas leads a “Luciferian Crusade” backed mutiny against the Greek military junta, overthrowing the government in Athens, Greece, sparking international attention….

June 15-18, 1972

News: The first U.S. Libertarian Party National Convention is held in Denver, Colorado.

June 26, 1972

Technology: Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney co-found Atari.
Football (Sports): Baltimore Colt receiver Lawrence Saunders burns his draft card during a nationally televised interview. The next day, Saunders is arrested on the field at a Colts home game vs. the Washington Redskins in the middle of the third quarter. The Redskins come from behind to overtake the Colts and win the game. Colts' owner Robert Irsay attempts to get the game results overturned and goes on to sue the federal government. He is unsuccessful, but when Saunders is killed in action in Vietnam six months later, it sparks a wave of anti-war protests.

September 4, 1972

Television: The Price is Right debuts on CBS with Bob Barker as host and Johnny Olsen as Announcer.

September 5-6, 1972

Olympics (Sports): Munich Massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after 8 members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; 5 guerillas and 1 policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.

September 10, 1972

Auto Racing (Sports): The Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and becomes the youngest Formula One World Champion.

September 22-23, 1972

News: President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev secretly propose a ceasefire with the “Luciferian Crusade” during a conference in Geneva, Switzerland….

September 28, 1972

Ice Hockey (Sports): The Canadian national men's hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series, 6–5, to win the series 4–3–1.

January 1, 1973

Baseball (Sports): CBS sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner (3.2 million dollars less than CBS bought the Yankees for).

January 14, 1973

Music (Entertainment): Elvis Presley's concert in Hawaii. The first worldwide telecast by an entertainer watched by more people than watched the Apollo moon landings.
Football (Sports): The 1972 Havana Dolphins Swept a Perfect Season as they Defeat the Washington Redskins 14-7 to Capture Super Bowl VII.

April 6, 1973

Baseball (Sports): Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees becomes the first designated hitter in Baseball.

April 17, 1973

Business: Federal Express officially begins operations, with the launch of 14 small aircraft from Memphis International Airport. On that night, Federal Express delivers 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities from Rochester, New York, to Miami, Florida.

January 20, 1974

Football (Sports): The First 2 Pro Football All-Star Games took place the first one Occured After the Super Bowl as the AFC defeated the NFC 15-13 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO as Garo Yepremian of the Havana Dolphins is named MVP in which he set a Pro Bowl record which still stands as of 2012 in kicking five field goals in the game. The referee for the game was Jack Reader, who retired from on-field work after the Pro Bowl to accept a position as the NFL's Assistant Supervisor of Officials.

January 27, 1974

Football (Sports): The Second Pro Football All-Star Game closed out the 1973-1974 Football Season as the USSR sends a team of football players to compete in an exhibition game against an All Star squad of players out of the USA. In one of the matches ever played, USA defeated USSR 21-6 as Los Angeles Ram QB John Hadl scored 2 TD Passes to Philadelphia Eagle WR Harold Carmichael at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum over a crowd of over 90,000 fans including 10 Luciferian Crusade Agents.

July 16, 1973

Television (Entertainment): NBC Debuted a New Game Show on NBC Called The Wizard of Odds hosted by Alex Trebek in which he became the First Canadian to host an American Game Show

November 2, 1973

News: Major Ronald Reid-Daly begins recruiting soldiers as part of the “Selous Scouts” intially for the Rhodesian white-minority government, but ultimately as a means to recruit forces for the “Luciferian Crusade”…

February 18, 1974

Television (Entertainment): CBS Debuts a New Game Show called Tattletales hosted by Bert Convy and announced by Jack Clark

April 8, 1974

Baseball (Sports): Atlanta Crackers CF Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth's all time record.

May 19, 1974

News: “Luciferian Crusade” members led by Carlo Maria Maggi and Maurizio Tramonte are implicated in the Piazza della Loggia bombing in Brescia, Italy, fueling tensions throughout Europe….

June 8, 1974

News: “Luciferian Crusade” Chairman Stefano delle Chiaie publishes his “Ten-Point Plan”, proclaiming the agenda of the organization as a means of “liberation from chaos”….

June 19, 1974

News: The Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, are called upon to investigate suspected “Luciferian Crusade” cells in an encyclical by the leadership of the College of Cardinals, sparkng international attention…

July 1, 1974

Television: NBC Debuted a New Game Show called High Rollers hosted by Alex Trebek

September 2, 1974

Television: With Season 3 of The Price is Right starts on CBS, They Started Using some Top 40 Songs of That Day as Prize Cues, That Turned Out to be a Success as they continued to be using as Prize Cues on The Show Today.

November 22, 1974

News: “Luciferian Crusade” Chairman Stefano delle Chiaie demands observer status for the organization, before the United Nations in New York City, New York….

January 12, 1975

News: Construction begins on the English Channel Tunnel between Folkestone, Kent, Great Britain and Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, France, sparking international attention…

May 25, 1975

Basketball (Sports): The Golden State Warriors won the 1975 NBA Finals as they defeat the Washington Bullets 4 games to 0

November 9, 1975

News: Riga Uprising; Soviet Naval Captain Valery Sablin launches a mutiny, defecting to the “Luciferian Crusade” in protest of the growing corruption of the Soviet government in Riga, Latvia SSR….

February 4-15, 1976

Olympics (Sports): The 1976 Winter Olympics are held in Denver, Colorado, United States

April 10, 1976

Baseball (Sports): Don Money leads the Milwaukee Brewers in a game victory against the New York Yankees, 9-7
Baseball (Sports): Atlanta Crackers P Andy Messersmith signed to a permanent lifetime contract for $1 Million.

May 30, 1976

Auto Racing (Sports): Johnny Rutherford won the 1976 Indianapolis 500 in which Rain Shortened the Race to a 102 Laps in this event.

January 3, 1977

Technology: Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated.

January 20, 1977

News: Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald Ford as the 39th President of the United States.

January 23, 1977

Television (Entertainment): Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC.

February 4, 1977

Music (Entertainment): Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released.

March 5, 1977

Auto Racing (Sports): Formula One driver Tom Pryce dies after colliding with a track marshal at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami, However Niki Lauda won the Event in a Ferrari.

May 29, 1977

Auto Racing (Sports): A. J. Foyt won the 61st Indianapolis 500, becomes the first driver to win the race four times.

June 1, 1977

Music (Entertainment): “The Ugly Rumours” allbum by the rock band Ugly Rumours, led by singer Tony Blair, makes its hit debut in London, England….

June 18, 1977

Baseball (Sports): Yankee Brawl; Reggie Jackson punches New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin on national television after being yelled “racist slurs” at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts….

July 17, 1977

Baseball (Sports): New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin sues player Reggie Jackson for “aggravated assault” in court, sparking racial tensions in New York City, New York….

December 24, 1977

Football (Sports): The Kansas City Chiefs wins the Plains Football Association Championship in an upset victory over the previous year's champion Iowa Cornhuskers.

March 15, 1978

News: Arab League governments file a protest at the United Nations General Assembly, claiming that they are not state-sponsors of the “Luciferian Crusade” in New York City, New York…

March 31, 1978

Television (Entertainment): CBS Cancelled Tattletales after 4 Years on the Network.

April 24, 1978

Television (Entertainment): NBC Debuted a New Game Show called Card Sharks hosted by Jim Perry and is announced by Gene Wood

April 30, 1978

Television (Entertainment): Star Trek: Phase II (PTN-TV) starring William Shatner, Stephen Collins, and Persis Khambatta, makes its hit series debut….

May 14, 1978

Sports (Baseball): With the Chicago Cubs losing 7–5 to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dave Kingman hits a two run home run with two outs in the ninth inning to send the game into extra innings. Kingman, who had also homered in the sixth, hits his third home run of the day in the fifteenth inning to give the Cubs a 10–7 victory over the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, and end his day with eight RBIs. Following the game, Paul Olden, a reporter for radio station KLAC in Los Angeles asks Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, “What's your opinion of Kingman's performance?” during his post-game interview. Lasorda goes off in a now famous obscenity laced tirade.

July 23, 1978

News: Japanese Yakuza boss Kazuo Taoka is assassinated in Tokyo, Japan after revealing “Luciferian Crusade” infiltration of the government…

July 29, 1978

Television (Entertainment): ITV (In the United Kingdom) debuted a new game show called 3-2-1 Hosted by Ted Rogers which is based on Un, Dos, Tres created by Narciso Ibanez Serrador, however that show ran for 10 years until 1988.

August 20, 1978

Sports (Football): Savannah Aviators QB (insert player name here) grabbed 5 TD Passes including 3 to (insert player name here) in a 48-14 win over the Memphis Southmen in a SEC Pro League Game.

September 5, 1978

Sports (Baseball): The Montreal Expos beat the Chicago Cubs 10–8 in a 9-inning game that sees a Major-League record 45 players participate.

September 7, 1978

Sports (Baseball): The “Boston Massacre” begins. The Boston Red Sox enter today's opening game of a four game series in Boston with a four game lead over the New York Yankees; a lead which had been fourteen games just weeks earlier. The Yankees defeat the Red Sox 15–3, and go on to sweep the series, erasing the Red Sox lead in the American League East Division.

September 18, 1978

High School Sports (Sports): Alameda High School was excited to bring a Vocal Drill Team to be a Reality after a few of years trying, a new Vocal Drill Team known as the Hornettes performed for the First Time in a Assembly taking place at the Hornet Gym at Alameda High School

September 24, 1978

Auto Racing (Sports): Cale Yarborough won the 1978 Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville Speedway driving the #11 1st National City Travelers Checks Oldsmobile, Benny Parsons who drove the Same Sponsor in a Chevrolet driving the #72 came in 3rd but Darrell Waltrip driving the #88 Gatorade Chevrolet finished second.

October 1, 1978

Baseball (Sports): Led by home runs from Rick Burleson and Jim Rice, and Luis Tiant's two-hit pitching, the Boston Red Sox shut out the Toronto Blue Jays 5–0 at Fenway Park, closing out the regular season with an eight-game winning streak. They will have to play a one-game playoff at Fenway the very next day against the New York Yankees, whom they had led by as many as 14 games in July, as the Cleveland Indians and Rick Waits defeat the Yankees 9–2 at Yankee Stadium. News of the Indians' victory is announced on Fenway Park's video screen with the words “THANK YOU, RICK WAITS – GAME TOMORROW.”

November 14-28, 1978

News: United Nations Security Council holds a conference regarding the “Luciferian Crusade” in New York City, New York, in an effort to inform world leaders as to their efforts…

November 18, 1978

News: Jonestown Massacre; “Luciferian Crusade” leader Jim Jones along 914 members of his cell commit suicide in Jonestown, Guiana before American troops can capture them…

January 21, 1979

Football (Sports): Super Bowl XIII took place as the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 35-31

January 29, 1979

News: Joshua Nkomo (a.k.a. “Father Zimbabwe”) is brutally assassinated by “Luciferian Crusade” forces in Harare, Zimbabwe, sparking civil unrest and panic throughout the region…

February 18, 1979

Auto Racing (Sports): Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 it was the first Daytona 500 to be televised flag-to-flag by CBS Sports but in the Final Lap of the 1979 Daytona 500 as Donnie Allison was leading the race on the Final Lap with Cale Yarborough drafting him tightly. As Yarborough attempted a slingshot pass at the end of the backstretch, Allison attempted to block him. Yarborough refused to give ground and as he pulled alongside Allison, his left side tires left the pavement and went into the wet and muddy infield grass. Yarborough lost control of his car and contacted Allison's car halfway down the backstretch. As both drivers tried to regain control, their cars made contact three more times before locking together and crashing into the outside wall in turn three. After the cars settled in the infield grass (short of the finish line), Donnie Allison and Yarborough began to argue. After they stopped arguing, Bobby Allison, who was one lap down at that point, stopped, and a fight broke out. Richard Petty, who was over half a lap behind before the incident, went on to win to the Race

March 1, 1979

High School Sports (Sports): Following the Success of Alameda High School's Vocal Drill Team, Encinal High School decided to bring in the Vocal Drill Team Game for an upcoming September Launch

April 13, 1979

News: Good Friday Massacre; Robert Mugabe is brutally assassinated in Harare, Zimbabwe, plunging the region into sectarian and ethnic violence…

May 25, 1979

Baseball (Sports): Starter Ross Baumgarten and reliever Randy Scarbery pitched the first combined one-hitter in Chicago White Sox history, defeating Nolan Ryan and the California Angels, 6–1, at Comiskey Park.

May 27, 1979

Auto Racing (Sports): “The Flying Hawaiian” Danny Ongais dominated the Indianapolis 500 and won by driving a Penske powered by a special Porsche-built pure racing pushrod engine. He was so dominant, that USAC changed the rule to basically eliminate it in 1980.

June 4, 1979

Baseball (Sports): MLB Player Glenn Burke of the Oakland Oaks, comes “out of the closet” as the first LGBT baseball player in U.S. history, sparking massive controversy and condemnation from Christian fundamentalists….

June 25, 1979

News: NATO Supreme Allied Commander (SAC) General Alexander Haig is assassinated by “Luciferian Crusade” members…

July 12, 1979

Baseball (Sports): The Detroit Tigers hire manager Sparky Anderson and then win the first game of a scheduled doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox, 4–1, on Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park. Thousands of young fans swarm onto the field between the games, damaging the field and causing mayhem throughout the stadium. The White Sox are forced to forfeit the second game.

July 21, 1979

Auto Racing (Sports): A NASCAR Winston Cup Race taking place at Shasta Speedway in Anderson, CA for the (insert race name here) as Bill Schmitt driving the #73 Western Racing Associates Pontiac won defeating Cale Yarborough driving the #11 Busch Oldsmobile by 0.5 Seconds

July 24, 1979

Baseball (Sports): Boston's Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th home run off Oakland Oaks pitcher Mike Morgan in the 7th inning of the Red Sox's 7–3 win over the Oaks at Boston's Fenway Park.

August 12, 1979

Music (Entertainment): The Manatee High School Sugar Canes got their First Vocal Drill Team to Hit #1 with a Disco Song on Radio Stations across the Central Florida area with “Hurricane Hustle” the lead singer at the Time was Cindy Ayers.

September 7, 1979

Television (Entertainment): The first cable sports channel, ESPN, known as the Entertainment Sports Programming Network, is launched.

September 10, 1979

High School Sports (Sports): Encinal High School Fields a Vocal Drill Team with 30 Members donned in Blue Long Sleeved Leotards and Pom Pons, Their Setlist includes a few Disco Songs however the Jets performed well and they later performed in the 1979 Island Bowl with the Alameda Hornettes (however the Jets will later beat the Hornets to 13-7 in the 1979 Island Bowl at Thompson Field

September 22, 1979

News: “Luciferian Crusade” detonate a nuclear weapon in the Kalahari Desert, sparking international attention throughout Sub-Saharan Africa…

October 28, 1979

Auto Racing (Sports): A NASCAR Winston Cup Race took place at Sears Point International Raceway in Sonoma, CA for the (insert race name here) won by Richard Petty driving the #43 STP Chevrolet

October 30, 1979

News: English Channel Tunnel is completed between Folkestone, Kent, Great Britain and Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, France, “Luciferian Crusade” agents attempt to disrupt the inaugural ceremonies…

November 4, 1979

Football (Sports): The Rams broke out of a mid-season slump by holding the Seahawks to minus-7 yards of total offense, only two pass completions, and only one first down for the entire game. However, starting quarterback Pat Haden broke the index finger on his throwing hand late in the third quarter and would be lost for the remainder of the season. The defensive gem still stands as the record for fewest total yards allowed by a team in an NFL contest, coming against a Seahawk team which averaged 375 yards in its other fifteen games as the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Seattle Seahawks 24-0.

November 18, 1979

Auto Racing (Sports): The 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Season Closed Out at Ontario Motor Speedway for the 1979 Los Angeles Times 500 as Benny Parsons won driving the #27 M.C. Anderson Chevrolet as for Richard Petty he won the 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Championship Title.