By the grace of God, I’ve made it 55 years on this planet. Half a Century and Half another decade. I probably won’t make it another 55 years but will try to make the next several days, weeks, months, years, decades the best that I can. I’ve enjoyed life up until now and I am curious to see what is next. Close to my physical birth was my spiritual birth. When the priest poured water on my head and said ‘I baptize you in name of The Father, and the Son and The Holy Spirit, I became a child of God and had the stain of original sin taken away from my soul. Oh life.
I am taking a look back on all that happened in the world around me during my lifetime. In-between world events are episodes of my life recorded by my mother in her diary.
In the 60’s and 70’s my mother, Louise Wilson (1928, kept a diary of the many activities of her kids. In the 60’s it consisted of Mary (1960) Patty (1962) and Laurie (1966). Together with Harold Wilson (1921) they raised these three lovely girls on South Street in Wenham Massachusetts. I would come along a year later in 1971. During the next decade I will share the diary entries she managed to jot down about mine and my sister’s lives during the groovy 70’s.
It is a insight into my world and an insight into the life of a boy growing up in the 70’s.
Starting with
1 Year Before I Was Born
Please note that this is not an extensive and complete timeline of events during my lifetime. I have some links to more events with a more thorough look in the links I provide in this brief timeline.
Catholic Bard History 101
Catholic Thought Since Vatican 2
CB’s Guide To Saints 1960 -1970s |
A List Of Saints, Blesseds And Others Who Died
In The 1960’s And 70’s.
Sufferings, Trials And Hope
Accomplishments And Discoveries
Books Hot of the Press that year include
1970 – Nebula Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld
1970 –Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Trumpet of the Swan
E. B. White
Nine Hundred Grandmothers
R. A. Lafferty
1971 Best Anthology/Collection (old) (Locus Poll Award)
Rifles of the I.R.A.
by Irish folk and rebel band
The Wolfe Tones
Includes Songs
God Save Ireland
Big Strong Man
The Second Vatican Council, began on October 11, 1962, by Pope John XXIII and was closed by Pope Paul VI on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1965. So just 6 years later in 1970
The Society of Saint Pius X
(SSPX or FSSPX) is formed.
In the aftermath of the council the American bishops were not the only ones to form a new group of post Vatican 2 Catholics. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre not happy with the changes in the Vatican 2 documents, even thou he signed the documents of Vatican 2 with his own hands, founds The Society of Saint Pius X in 1970. They ignore the new order of Mass and stick with the Tridentine rite, Latin and anything else taught before 1962.
See Archbishop Lefebvre signed every one of Vatican II’s documents (January 13, 2009 ) Catholic News Agency
January 14, 1970 – Diana Ross and the Supremes perform for the last time together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
January 16, 1970 – Gold Glove outfielder Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball’s reserve clause, a suit that will have historic implications. Flood refused to report to the Phillies after he was traded by the Cardinals, contending the baseball rule violates federal antitrust laws.
January 26, 1970 – Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.
February 24, 1970 – “ABC” – the Jackson 5
March 5,1970 – Airport
March 21, 1970 – In Amsterdam, Dana wins the 15th annual Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song All Kinds of Everything (music and lyrics by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith). She is elected to the European Parliament some 29 years later.
April 1970 – The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One (1970) [A] by Robert Silverberg
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories (1970) [SF]
Gene Wolfe
April 3, 1970– The Flying Nun ends it’s 3 season run on TV.
April 14, 1970 – Apollo 13 set the record (per the Guinness Book of World Records), which still stands, for the furthest distance from Earth by a crewed spacecraft: 400,171 kilometers (248,655 mi; 216,075 nmi) from Earth at 7:21 pm EST, April 14 (00:21:00 UTC April 15).
April 20, 1970 – The Wonder of You – Elvis Presley
April 29, 1970 – The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; widespread, large antiwar protests occur in the U.S.
April 30th, 1970 –Today as we came down Pleasant Street-just Laurie & me-we passed a Chestnut horse- Laurie said “there’s a chocolate horse.” A little further down we passed a white horse and she said “Look, there’s a vanilla horse”.
Mary & Pat were pestering & begging to let them ride bikes to school. Finally in tears Mary said, “Do you know, I’m the only one in my class that can’t ride a bike to school?” (shades of things to come) – Louise Wilson’s Diary
May 4, 1970 – The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students in Kent, Ohio, by the Ohio National Guard. The tragedy took place during a peace rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into neutral Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus. The incident marked the first time that a student had been killed in an anti-war gathering in United States history.
John Filo‘s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after the unarmed student was fatally shot by an Ohio National Guardsman
May 5, 1970 – Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
May 6, 1970 – The man who killed Maria Goretti, (October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902) Alessandro Serenelli dies. (2 June 1882 – 6 May 1970) He had a real profound conversion experience where he saw the girl he had killed offering him forgiveness in a vision. He spent the rest of his days in a convent. He was there for her canonization. The power of conversion and forgiveness on full Catholic Display.
May 8, 1970 – The Beatles‘ last LP, Let It Be, is released.
May 10, 1970-Saint Thérèse Couderc (1805–1885), co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle is beatified.
Oh! If people could understand beforehand the sweetness and the peace enjoyed by those who would hold nothing back from the Good God! How he communicates himself to the soul who sincerely seeks him and who knows how to surrender herself. Let them just experience it, and they will see that therein is found the true happiness which they are vainly seeking elsewhere.”
May 14, 1970 – “(They Long to Be) Close to You” – the Carpenters
May 15, 1970 – Get Smart (September 18, 1965 -May 15, 1970)
My mother liked this show.
May 16th, 1970 –Today was Pat’s first Communion. She was without a doubt the smilingist little girl there. She seemed to bubble all over. She loved her white sandals. Tonight I found out he reason for a muddy bathroom towel.
Patty “cleaned” her sandals during the day as she didn’t’ want them to be dirty. – Louise Wilson’s Diary
May 17, 1970 – Make Me Smile –Chicago
May 26, 1970 – Beneath the Planet of the Apes
I Dream of Jeannie (September 18, 1965, to May 26, 1970)
May 31, 1970 – John of Ávila is canonized. Pope Benedict XVI named him a Doctor of the Church on October 7, 2012, the Feast of the Holy Rosary.
June 1, 1970 – Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl.
June 14th, 1970 –Today Laurie learned to ride her two wheel bike without training wheels. A lot of falling but she has her balance now & is all set. – Louise Wilson’s Diary
June 15, 1970 – Pufnstuf Opens in Theaters
June 22, 1970 – Mary & Patty drew out $40 from their bank account each & bought a brand new bicycle. It was a Columbia” Hi-rise for each at $37.00 and a basket for $2.00. They both liked them- Daddy & I put them together after much fusing & running back to Beverly for a missing part. They now ride down to Wenham often-to the playground, library, Post Office etc. – Louise Wilson’s Diary
June 30, 1970 – Changes – The Monkees – The album was issued after Michael Nesmith‘s exit from the band, leaving only Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones to fulfill the recording contract they had signed in the mid-1960s. Changes was their last new album for Colgems Records and the group’s last album of all new material until Pool It!, released in 1987.
July 18, 1970 – All 23 persons on board a Soviet plane, carrying relief supplies for victims of the May earthquake in Peru, were killed when the Antonov An-22 cargo plane crashed into the North Atlantic Ocean after its departure from Iceland. The aircraft would be the object of a multinational search, until debris were located by a Russian trawler on July 26. On July 18, 1970, 50 Years later the Catholic Bard published the 49th post of it’s short carrier entitled 50 Years of Catholic History During My Life: The First 25. This is followed by the 50th Post entitled 50 Years of Catholic History During My Life: The Next 25.
Laurie now can tie her shoe. She can also swim both underwater and on her back. Such determination she shows. – Louise Wilson’s Diary
August 1970 – Release in the United States of the album Songs of the Humpback Whale produced by Roger Payne, publicly demonstrating whale vocalization for the first time. It becomes an unexpected bestseller and influential in public support for whale conservation
August 31, 1970 – Sunflower Album # 16 the Beach Boys
September 1970 – 4 Clowns
This is a documentary compilation film written and directed by Robert Youngson that studies the golden age of comedy through a compilation of rare silent film footage of the works of Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase and Buster Keaton. It was the last feature film project of producer, director, and writer Robert Youngson.
September 18, 1970 – Death of Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Hendrix, aged 27, dies from a barbiturate overdose at his London hotel.
September 19, 1970, to March 19, 1977 – The Mary Tyler Moore Show
September 27, 1970
Pope Paul VI names Saint Teresa of Ávila (d. 1582) as the first female Doctor of the Church.
She one of seven Discalced Carmelite nuns to have been declared saints. The other six are: Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, O.C.D., Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Teresa of Los Andes, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Thérèse of Lisieux, and Mariam Baouardy.
“Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ’s compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about
doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.”
October 3, 1970
Pope Paul VI names Saint Catherine of Siena (d. 1380) as the second female Doctor of the Church.
“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
October 4, 1970 – Janis Joplin, aged 27, is found dead from a heroin overdose in her bedroom in the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood.
October 25, 1970 – Edmund Campion is canonized.
October 26, 1970 – Your Song – Elton John
October 31, 1970 – Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (September 13, 1969 – October 31, 1970)
Santa Titicaca • short story by Connie Willis in Worlds of Fantasy, Winter 1970
November 7, 1970 – Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow and Dave Monahan’s The Phantom Tollbooth is first released two years after completion due to internal problems with MGM Animation/Visual Arts, which was closed down a month after the release. Norton Juster expressed his intensive disapproval with the adaptation and declaring the film’s positive reviews to be “unacceptable”.
November 8th, 1970 – Today Mary returned from her first camping trip with the girl Scots. They went to Wrentem Fri after school & returned at 2:45 today, Sunday. We borrowed a sleeping bag from Morits & she had a knapsack which she bought for 56 cents at the church fair plus a duffle bag I made. She had a ravenous appetite & was tired but had a good time. This was her first time away from home. – Louise Wilson’s Diary
November 27, 1970 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit to Manila.
December 13, 1970 – Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
December 16, 1970 – Night Gallery Series Premiere –“Night Gallery” The Dead Man/The Housekeeper created by Rod Serling
December 24, 1970 – The Aristocats
55 Years Ago
A shadowy group of people decided they needed to begin an investigation of the FBI, something that just needed to be done because nobody else was doing it. And they decided to do this with a burglary. This is the subject of a podcast of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World in which he mentions an inclusive interview given to the Catholic Bard about his podcast.
Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio develops the card game Uno.
The Japanese nightclub musician Daisuke Inoue probably invents the first karaoke-style machine in the city of Kobe.
“Inconstant Moon” (Made into an Outer Limits episode) in All the Myriad Ways.The short story won the 1972 Hugo Award for best short story.
Ultimate World • novel by Hugo Gernsback
January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979 – All in the Family
January 27, 1971
January 27, 1971-The Catechist is Born in Beverly Hospital. I was an unexpected baby. My parents didn’t think they would have any more kids. But Surprise!! I was later Baptized within the next month, thus putting that mark (LOL) on my soul identifying me as a Catholic. While I was a babe in my mother’s arms.
The big day arrived- Mark Steven decided to make his appearance a month early. He was due Feb. 26th. Went to the hospital about 2:30 pm and he arrived at 3:53 PM. His cord was unusual it measured about 4 feet long. Was so surprised to hear that we had a boy.- Louise Wilson’s Diary
Feb 21st, 1971 – Today Mark was Christened at St. Paul’s. Cathy & Tom Borsick are godparents with Uncle Art standing in for Tom, since he couldn’t be here. Afterwards went back to the house for dinner. George & Amelia Morit were there too and we had a lovely time.
Note of Interest: Mary, Patty, & Laurie all had their baptisms at St. Paul’s with only a godmother-their Aunt Helen. Their Uncle Art is godfather by choice-although not officially in the church records.
During the Christening Laurie sat with Uncle Art & Aunt Helen. They asked her what picture she liked best. She said she liked the crucifix best. They asked why and she said “because I can see his belly button. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
February 28, 1971 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California.
The Missing Man • [Rescue Squad] • novella by Katherine MacLean in March 1971 – Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1971
March 8, 1971 – Silent Slapstick Comedy Legend Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) dies.
March 11, 1971 – THX 1138, George Lucas‘ first full-length film, premieres in theaters.
March 12, 1971 – The Andromeda Strain
March 28th, 1971 – Mark had his first haircut. They were long in back with some snarlies- off they came. Now our boy looks like a boy. (he now weighs 81/2 lbs.) –Louise Wilson’s Diary
April 1971 – The Queen of Air and Darkness • [The Queen of Air and Darkness] • novella by Poul Anderson in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1971 1972 Best Novella (Hugo Award)/1972 Novelette (Nebula Award)
“You’ve Got a Friend” – James Taylor
April 3, 1971 – The Eurovision Song Contest was held in Dublin for the first time. It was presented by Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir. Un banc, un arbre, une rue “A Bench, a Tree, a Street”) is a song recorded by French singer Séverine, with music composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and French lyrics written by Yves Dessca. It represented Monaco in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest held in Dublin, resulting in the country’s only win in the contest.
April 4, 1971 – Here Comes Peter Cottontail
April 6, 1971 – Poems, Prayers & Promises – John Denver includes Take Me Home, Country Roads and Sunshine on My Shoulders
April 14th, 1971 – Today Mark smiled & had a wonderful talk with Daddy. Daddy told him a joke & he laughed so much. He is getting so cute and adorable. He loves to “talk” with the girls & they adore him. He loves his “orange” puppy & the Teddy bear Cathy game him. Patty & Mary have both change his pants without help but don’t let them very often as the pins go in so hard, can only imagine them sticking him. Will get braver as he gets bigger. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
April 19, 1971 – Salyut 1 was the first space station of any kind, launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union. The International Space Station is currently the only fully functional space station, with continuous inhabitance since the year 2000.
Charles Manson is sentenced to death in the United States; in 1972, the sentence for all California death-row inmates will be commuted to life imprisonment.
April 28th, 1971 – Today took Pat to Beverly Hospital for X-rays of her left arm. She fell on the hottop at Brownies yesterday afternoon & her arm was swollen this morning. Nothing fractured, but a bad bruise. She has on a splint & ace bandage, much to her delight. She was so happy to have an arm in a sling. As Mary put it when she saw her “Oh, Patty, just what you always wanted.”
While Irene was staying with Laurie & Mark, Laurie asked Irene where babies came from. Irene told her to ask her Mommy” Laurie said “ How come. You don’t know about those things?” –Louise Wilson’s Diary
May 12, 1971 – Mick Jagger marries Bianca de Macías in Saint-Tropez, France, in a Roman Catholic ceremony. Among the wedding guests are the remaining Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills.
May 28th, 1971 –Daddy’s place has been out on strike since the 1st of May & we are all a little discouraged. Money is scarce and the other day Pat asked when they were going to get their sandals for summer. I explained that money was tight and we would have to wait until Daddy got back to work. In a discouraged voice she replied “It’ll be winter by that time.” –Louise Wilson’s Diary
The Peanuts TV special Play It Again, Charlie Brown premieres on CBS.
June 1971
The Tombs of Atuan
Earthsea Cycle #3
Ursula K. Le Guin
June 1, 1971 – Elvis Presley‘s birthplace, a two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, is opened to the public as a tourist attraction.
June 17th, 1971 –Tonight Patty did her homework. She had to write a letter showing the proper way to write a letter.
This is how it read..
June 18th, 1971
Patricia Wilson
South Street
Wenham, Massachusetts, 01984
June 17, 1971 – Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U.S. will return control of Okinawa.
President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. war on drugs.
June 18th, 1971 – Mark is getting so cute. Every night from about 4:30 to 6 PM he has his social hour”. We go outside and visit anyone within sight or go for a little walk. What a dream.
Harry has been back to work for 2 weeks now after the strike. They went out the 1st of May. It sure was a long haul, but should get back on our feet again soon. So throughout he is back again.
Back on April 28 Pat did have a slight fracture. Had it in a splint for 3 weeks & hated it towards the end. It is fine again.
Mark can roll over on his tummy. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
June 18, 1971 – Southwest Airlines, a low-cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
July 28th, 1971 – Mark is getting real big- about 14lbs now. The other morning at 3:50 he decided it was time to get up & play. As he had learned to scream he though it would be fun & started screaming at the top of his lungs. He wasn’t crying- just playing.
Poor Laurie woke up frightened with the noise and was awake until 5:30. The same as Mark. Then he went to sleep again until 8 AM. What a little doll.
Today at playground Patty won three prizes in the races- Blue ribbon in the running race- red ribbons in a 3 legged race & the still race. Laurie wouldn’t go so she didn’t get any this year. Mary has races tomorrow & is hoping to bring some ribbons home. (I think she will too). –Louise Wilson’s Diary
August 12, 1971 – The Lorax
September 1971 – Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss
September 1, 1975 – Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves – Chér
Sept 9th 1971 – Took Laurie to the doctor’s emergency (Dr. Adams) on 9/9 as she had what looked like the start of blood poisoning on her stomach. Dr. Said she had some kind of infection thru her system & it could have gone into blood poisoning if it had been neglected. He put her on penicillin. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
September 9, 1971 – English musician John Lennon releases his second studio album Imagine. Worldwide sales of the title track will exceed 5 million.
September 9–13, 1971 – Attica Prison riot: A revolt breaks out at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York. In the end, state police and the United States National Guard storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10 of them hostages.
Sept. 10th, 1971 –At 3AM this morning we had a hectic experience. Laurie cried out & came to the top of the stairs with blood flowing from her face. She had fallen out of bed right on her face. Her nose looks broken & her teeth are loose with her nose about twice its size. I felt real woozy & tried to comfort her & look at the face. Daddy was home thank goodness. Got in the car & took her down to the Beverly Hospital Emergency. They couldn’t’ x-ray as it was too swollen. Have an apointment with Dr. Daintor for Monday AM The whole household was awake-even Mark. Daddy took care of him while I was gone. This was the first time that Mark started wheezing fairly loudly. Put the vaporizer on for him- just accept that fact he has his father’s asthma. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
September 11, 1971 – The first episode of The Jackson Five airs.
October 1971 – “American Pie” – Don McLean
October 1, 1971 -Walt Disney World opens in Orlando Florida to 10,422 guests.
November 1971 – “She’s Got a Way” – Billy Joel
November 2nd, 1971 – Pat got the mumps on the right side. She too was quite sick for about 3 days. Don’t know whether Mark has them or not. He has been cranky but is cutting the two top front teeth & unable to tell for certain.
November 3, 1971 – Fiddler on the Roof
November 8th, 1971 – Mark finally cut there a bottom tooth. He has a rash all over him & we attribute it to the teeth-the doctor said that was probably it. He can also hitch himself along but doesn’t want to & just lays there & cries, kicking his feet.
After his bath he always smothers me with kisses but refuse to give one to Daddy. He just pushes Daddy away & laughs. He loves to cuddle in Daddy’s shoulder though & sing before going to bed. Now weighs over 17lbs & is cute as can be. Still on strained food as doesn’t want the Jr.
Today Laurie & I went bike riding with Mark on my shoulders. He sure got heavy.
Am helping Daddy with his part time job of washing windows & Mark comes with us. Slow way to get rich but it sure is helping. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
The fourth best-selling record album of all time the untitled fourth studio album of Led Zeppelin, was released, making its debut in the United States four days before its November 12 release in the United Kingdom, and contained the band’s most popular song, “Stairway to Heaven“.
November 14th, 1971- Mary got the mumps today. She was quite sick & ran a high fever with earache. She got them on both sides. —Louise Wilson’s Diary
November 24, 1971 –D.B. Cooper: The Hijacker Who Got Away J. B. Cooperis a media epithetfor an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft operated by Northwest Orient Airlines, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971
December 1st, 1971 – Patty defiantly has the mumps now on the other side.–Louise Wilson’s Diary
December 4th, 1971 – We find we have a baby of many talents. He can’t crawl forward but can go backwards. He can say “Da, Da, Da’ when you ask him to; He can wave bye-bye every time you mention the word; He can say “hurrah”. As Patty says “He can spit” and best of all – he can whistle- and real good. It is hilarious to watch a whistling baby”,. He can also play peek-a-boo & loves to do it with the living room pillow. He sill won’t sit erect on his own-that is, pull himself up- but then, after all, he can whistle.
PLEASE NOTE: Today I cannot whistle.
December 4th, 1971 – Laurie has the mumps on the left side. Here goes another week of isolation. (Never got them on the right side * not too sick. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
The bombing of Patrick McGurk’s Bar in Belfast killed 15 people and injured 17 others. The pub, patronized by Roman Catholic residents of Belfast, was located in a three-story building that was destroyed when 30 pounds (14 kg) of gelignite were detonated shortly after being placed.
December 10th – Mark can sit up by himself “when he wants” but doesn’t want to until he has only diapers on (or none at all). Other wise won’t even try. He will roll rather than crawl & would rather lay & cry ten exert too much effort trying to crawl. His teeth are coming in hard. Has two bottom in full & the showing of two top teeth (not the front ones, but the ones on the side) –Louise Wilson’s Diary
December 13, 1971 – Bedknobs and Broomsticks
December 17,1971 – Diamonds Are Forever
December 18th 1971 – Mark has the mumps definitely on the left side. Doubt if he has it on the right side.
Mark stood up by the couch alone for the first time. Everyone hollered “hooray”. Now when he stands he hollers “hooray” automatically. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
December 19, 1971 – The made-for-television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, was broadcast as the CBS Sunday Night Movie and achieved high enough ratings to be adapted to a long-running television series, The Waltons, where Richard Thomas and Ellen Corby reprised their roles as John-Boy Walton and his grandmother. Other actors who appeared in the film but not on the series were Patricia Neal as the mother Olivia Walton, Edgar Bergen as the grandfather, and Andrew Duggan as the father, and African-American actor Cleavon Little as a stranded traveler taken in by a kind white family. [70][71] The film and the series were based on the 1961 novel Spencer’s Mountain, by Earl Hamner, Jr., about a similar family, the Spencers.
Stanley Kubrick‘s film A Clockwork Orange, based on a 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess, set in the near future and starring Malcolm McDowell, premiered simultaneously in New York City and Toronto, before being generally released in the UK on January 13 and in the rest of the United States on February 2.
December 2oth or 28th, 1971 – Mark now stands up in the crib & is so proud of himself. This morning woke up at 4 am & wouldn’t sit down long enough to go back to sleep. I’m getting worn out little by little. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
December 25, 1971 – The Miami Dolphins defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in a divisional playoff game. The double-overtime contest is the longest game in NFL history, and the Chiefs’ last home game at Municipal Stadium.
1972
I was running and playing and seeking attention as a newly arrived person in America.
Books Hot of the Press that year include
Barbara Robinson – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Author Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) who many Patheos Catholic bloggers admitted to recently in an interview that this is a deceased author they would like to meet and have lunch with, is still relevant to today’s reading public. Her posthumously compiled Complete Stories wins the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Dead and still winning awards.
The Farthest Shore –Ursula K. Le Guin
Earthsea Cycle #3
First Person, Peculiar – T. L. Sherred
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)
[SF] by Gene Wolfe
1973 Best SF Novel (Locus Poll Award)
1973 Novella (Nebula Award)
1973 Best Novella (Hugo Award)
1973 Best Novella (Locus Poll Award)
January 1, 1972 – The Rude Intruder –Final appearances of Chilly Willy, Maxie The Polar Bear, and Looney Gooney.
January 4, 1972 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395)
January 19, 1972 – A Horse with No Name – America
January 30, 1972 –Sunday Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, takes place in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment without trial. Fourteen Catholics are shot dead. U2 latter writes a hit song about this sad event.
February 1972 – Tiny Dancer” – Elton John
February 3–13, 1972 – The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan.
February 6, 1972 – Pink 8 Ball starring the Pink Panther
February 9, 1972 – Paul McCartney‘s new band, Wings, make their live debut at the University of Nottingham in England. This is McCartney’s first public concert since The Beatles’ 1966 US tour.
February 14, 1972 – The Lorax is first broadcast, based on Dr. Seuss‘ eponymous children’s book.
February 28th, 1972 – Mark still will not walk on his won but has good balance & will stand alone. He just won’t let go & walk although think he is just about ready. He still wakes up about 10 P. M. most nights & is awake again by 4:40 or 5am. Haven’t slept thru a night since he came. He is adorable in spite of it & love him dearly. He is awful to feed & still on strained baby food & won’t eat table food at all. Loves his bath & takes off like a whirlwind when you get him undressed but won’t step on the cold floor. Is wearing me out but is lovable & darling. Sings “Jack & Jill”. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
March 1972 – Marvel Comics launches its second ongoing Spider-Man title, Marvel Team-Up.
March 10, 1972 – What’s Up, Doc?
March 24, 1972 – The Godfather
March 25, 1972 – “Après toi” sung by Vicky Leandros (music by Klaus Munro & Mario Panas, lyric by Klaus Munro & Yves Dessca) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 (staged in Edinburgh) for Luxembourg.
March 29th 1972 – Yesterday night little Scott (Fred’s boy drowned went thru the ice. the week has been a tragic one. Florence *& Jimmy came up thank goodness. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
Fred was my Uncle and my Dad’s brother.
April 1972 – You Don’t Mess Around with Jim includes the songs “You/ Don’t Mess Around with Jim“/”Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)“/”Time in a Bottle”
April 1, 1972 – For the first time in history, all scheduled National League and American League games were called off by a strike. The MLBPA‘s representatives voted 47–0 to call a walkout in a dispute over player pensions. The remaining four days of exhibitions were cancelled, and the April 5 season openers were postponed. The strike was resolved by April 15.
April 3, 1972 – Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin returned to the United States after more than 20 years of self-imposed exile. “The Little Tramp” had been invited back for the Academy Awards.
April 5th, 1972 –Mark finally lets me go through the night. I have fooled him- I put an empty bottle in his bed during the night and I in the morning he finds it and sucks away on it. He is a little peach of an imp. Has taken 2 or 3 steps alone but still won’t walk off on his own. Needs a finger or some assurance he won’t fall. Now bites (my poor shoulder) screams when he gets mad, laughs at everything and in general is getting a personality. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
April 10, 1972 –Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu‘s Art of War and Sun Bin‘s lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare.
April 17, 1972 – Rocket Man by Elton John
April 21, 1972 – American astronauts John W. Young and Charles Duke became the ninth and tenth people to walk on the Moon, after the lunar module Orion had landed as part of the Apollo 16 mission. The mission was the only one to the lunar highlands, near the Descartes crater.
May 1972 – Day by Day – Godspell.
Song Sung Blue” – Neil Diamond
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” – Paul Simon
May 1972 – Mirror Image • [Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw] • short story by Isaac Asimov in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1972 collected in The Best of Isaac Asimov
May 1st, 1972 – At least Mark is walking more or less on his own. Still cautious & falls. –Louise Wilson’s Diary
May 2, 1972 –The Chronovisor The weekly Italian magazine La Domenica del Corriere (Courier’s Sunday) published a photo it said was the face of Christ as shown by a machine that could view any point in history the Chronovisor.
May 21, 1972 – In St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City), Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo‘s Pietà statue with a geologist’s hammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ.
May 27, 1972 – The Opryland USA country music theme park opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
June 1972 – Hero • [Mandella] • novella by Joe Haldeman in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1972
June 14, 1972 – Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits
June 27, 1972 – Atari the American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry.
June 30, 1972 – Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
July 1972 – The Metallic Muse – Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
July 9th, 1972 –Today Laurie passed her deep-end test at Camp Madocka, however both ways were on her back. She is doing good.
Mark cut a molar today. He is cute but really keeps me hopping. Insists on going up the stairs continually at Camp Madoca & I spend my whole time chasing him. Spanking does no good at all. He loves to say “oye-Oye”.
Must jot down that every night after his bottle Mark sits on my lap & has to see “that” picture which is a picture of the three girls & also one of him on one side & Laurie on the other.
July 12, 1972 – “Ben” – Michael Jackson
July 19, 1972 – Listen to the Music– the Doobie Brothers
July 21, 1972 – Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee, Wisconsin police for public obscenity, for reciting his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” at Summerfest.
July 23rd, 1972 – Laurie passed her boat feet tonight- 5 time over & tow min. treading. We are all so proud of her. She finally learned. Daddy was prouder then punch. (me too) –Louise Wilson’s Diary
August 1, 1972 – Burning Love – Elvis Presley
August 9, 1972 – Snoopy Come Home
August 26–September 10, 1972 – The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany.
September 1, 1972 – Bye, Bye, Blackboard – The last Woody Woodpecker cartoon.
September 4, 1972 – The New Price Is Right (1972–present)
September 8, 1972 – Are You Being Served? (1972–1985) on BBC1
September 9, 1972 – Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–1984)
September 14, 1972 – The Waltons on CBS (1972–1981)
September 16, 1972 – The Bob Newhart Show (1972–1978)
September 17, 1972 – M*A*S*H on CBS (1972–1983)
September 24, 1972 – An F-86 fighter aircraft leaving an air show at Sacramento Executive Airport fails to become airborne and crashes into a Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour, killing 12 children and 11 adults.
September 28, 1972 – The Canada men’s national ice hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in the eighth and final game of the 1972 Summit Series 6–5 to win the series 4–3–1.
October 29, 1972 – The Peanuts tv special You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown premieres on CBS.
October 30, 1972 – “Rocky Mountain High” – John Denver
November 1972 – Man’s Reach by Anthony Boucher in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1972 – 1973 Best Short Fiction (Locus Poll Award)
November 15, 1972 – “Jesus Is Just Alright” – The Doobie Brothers
November 20, 1972 – “Crocodile Rock” – Elton John
November 28, 1972 – The last executions in Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – are guillotined at La Santé Prison by chief executioner André Obrecht. Bontems, found not guilty of murder by the court, is condemned as Buffet’s accomplice. President Georges Pompidou, in private an abolitionist, upholds both death sentences in deference to French public opinion.
December 1, 1972 – “Peaceful Easy Feeling
December 7, 1972 –Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last crewed Moon mission for more than 50 years, is launched and The Blue Marble photograph of the Earth is taken. The mission also includes five mice.
December 12, 1972 – The Poseidon Adventure
December 14, 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. The next person to set foot on the Moon will not do so before 2026.
December 23, 1972 – Danny’s Song – Anne Murray
December 23, 1972 – In the first Pittsburgh Steelers playoff game in 25 years (and the franchises first playoff win), rookie Franco Harris salvages and converts into a touchdown a final seconds Terry Bradshaw incomplete pass in what has been called the greatest play in NFL history—The Immaculate Reception—to beat the Oakland Raiders 13–7.
December 29, 1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of 176 on board. It is the first hull loss of a wide-body aircraft.
December 31, 1972 – The Pittsburgh Pirates‘ legendary right fielder Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash near Puerto Rico on his way to bring relief supplies to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.
1973
The Carmelite’s Parents get married.
The Clancy Brothers’ Greatest Hits
O. J. Simpson becomes the first player in NFL history to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single season.
Meanwhile over in the other side of the world in a non-European country.
1973 – Our Lady of Akita Our Lady of Akita (Japanese: 秋田の聖母マリア) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with the Marian apparitions reported in 1973 by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa in the remote area of Yuzawadai, an outskirt of Akita, Japan. The messages emphasize prayer (especially recitation of the Holy Rosary) and penance in combination with cryptic prophecies warning of sacerdotal persecution and heresy within the Catholic Church. A wooden statue representing the apparitions is venerated by the Japanese faithful and other Catholics. In December of 1973, a Japanese television station videotaped tears coming from the statue’s eyes.
Social Justice Catholic Peace Activist Warrior Dorothy Day wins the Thomas Merton Award.
Books Hot of the Press
William Goldman – The Princess Bride (“S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The “Good Parts” Version”)
Madeleine L’Engle – A Wind in the Door
The Dark Is Rising (1973) Susan Cooper
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A [A] by Ben Bova
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B:
The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time
Chosen by the Science Fiction Writers of America
The Death of Dr. Island (1973) Gene Wolfe
Another favorite Catholic author joins Flannery in death…
January 3, 1973– J.R.R. Tolkien author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings dies. (January 3rd, 1892 –September 2nd, 1973)
January 5, 1973, The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland was signed into law, thus canceling the Catholic Churches “special position”. It now recognizes certain other named religions instead of just the Catholics.
January 6, 1973 – Schoolhouse Rock! on ABC (1973–09)
January 13, 1973 – “Sing” – The Carpenters
January 18, 1973 – Orlando Cepeda signs with the Boston Red Sox, making him the first player signed by a team specifically to be a designated hitter.
January 22, 1973 – The biggest social issue for Catholics comes into being with the legalization of abortion in America with the supreme court decision Roe v. Wade. By the way there was a majority of Republican supporters of this decision. Not Democrats, although now it seems to have been reversed.
February 1973
February 1973 – “Sail On, Sailor” – The Beach Boys
February 18 – 25, 1973 – 40th Eucharistic congress 
Melbourne “Love one another as I have loved you!
March 1973 – The Best of Isaac Asimov
March 1, 1973 – Charlotte’s Web
March 7, 1973 – The Six Million Dollar Man
March 10, 1973 – “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” – Stevie Wonder
March 11, 1973 – The Peanuts TV special There’s No Time for Love, Charlie Brown premieres on CBS. Marcie makes her animated debut in this special.
March 20, 1973 – “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” – Jim Croce
March 26, 1973 –Rerun van Pelt, in Peanuts
April 1973 – Bird-Song • short story by Wilmar H. Shiras in Fantastic, April 1973
April 3, 1973 -Dr. Martin Cooper is the person to place the first ever phone call on a portable, wireless device. The now famous call was placed in New York City on to a competitor at a division of AT&T known as Bell Labs. –Cell Phone Innovation: Insights from Industry Pioneers | Mitel
April 4, 1973 — The World Trade Center (1973–2001) is officially dedicated.
April 17, 1973 – “Desperado” Eagles
April 19, 1973 – Soylent Green
May 3, 1973 – The Sears Tower in Chicago, United States, is topped-out, becoming the world’s tallest building at 1,451 feet (442 m).
May 14, 1973 – Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
May 28, 1973 – Breakfast of Champions or, Goodbye Blue Monday! – Kurt Vonnegut
June 15, 1973 – Battle for the Planet of the Apes – The film is the sequel to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and the fifth and final installment in the original Planet of the Apes film series.
June 26, 1973 – Live and Let Die – The eighth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and the third in the series directed by Guy Hamilton.
June 27, 1973
July 1973 – The Book of Philip José Farmer
August 11, 1973 – American Graffiti
August 19, 1973 – Enter the Dragon
August 25, 1973 – Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon: Two Australian girls go missing whilst attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval, never to be seen again.
September 8, 1973 – Star Trek: The Animated Series
Super Friends (1973–74) premieres on ABC
September 17, 1973 –Red Shift by Alan Garner.
October 11, 1973 – The Robert Sheckley Omnibus
October 15, 1973 – “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” – Elton John
November 1973 – John Denver’s Greatest Hits
November 2, 1973 – “Piano Man” – Billy Joel
November 8, 1973 – Robin Hood
November 12, 1973 – The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain (1973) [C] Lloyd Alexander
November 20, 1973 – The Peanuts thanksgiving TV special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving premieres.
December 1, 1973 – “I Got a Name” – Jim Croce
December 15, 1973 -SeaWorld Orlando open as the third park of the SeaWorld chain and just two years after Walt Disney World Resort‘s Magic Kingdom. This made Central Florida a multi-park vacation destination.
December 26, 1973– The Exorcist premiers scaring the literal hell out of movie goers. My friend Dave who is not a practicing Catholic, loves this movie. I saw it not too long ago and actually found it kinda boring, at least for the first 1/2 of the film. It is based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 horror novel.
Also that year beloved music artist Dan Schutte co-authors “The St. Louis Jesuit Mass”. It becomes the most-used Mass setting in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, driving Latin-Mass Gregorian Chant loving music lovers up the wall.
1974
Declaration on Procured Abortion (1974)
In the aftermath of Roe V. Wade in America the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith On November 18, 1974 issues the Declaration on Procured Abortion.
The problem of procured abortion and of its possible legal liberalization has become more or less everywhere the subject of impassioned discussions. These debates would be less grave were it not a question of human life, a primordial value, which must be protected and promoted.
Some bodies just can’t be laid rest. Another Patheos Catholic favorite author and saint, gets the Fulton Sheen treatment of shifting around a beloved Catholic’s corpse. St. Thomas Aquinas remains were placed in the Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse because he supposedly lived in a cell there. This is A monastery at Naples, near the cathedral of St. Januarius. He was laid to rest on January 28th, 1369. For some reason they were moved him in 1789 to the Basilique de Saint-Sernin, Toulouse. But he moved back to the Church of Jacobins in 1974.
Father Michael Scanlan becomes president of the College of Steubenville (later renamed Franciscan University), and cleans up the university turning it from a vast wasteland of partying college kids into a prayerful oasis of Catholic piety.
Rubik’s Cube puzzle is invented by Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik.
Skittles was created and released by a British company in the United Kingdom.
Remember (Sha-La-La-La) – Bay City Rollers
The Irish Rovers – Greatest Hits
‘Till Ireland a Nation (1974) including Give Me Your Hand
Books Hot off the Press
Robert Cormier – The Chocolate War
Diana Wynne Jones – The Ogre Downstairs
Greenwitch (1974) Susan Cooper
January 1974 – On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi novelette by William Tenn in Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
January 1st, 1974 –A long time has elapsed since writing in the book., however it has been exciting and full of fun. Mark will be 3 years old and we have enjoyed him so much. Boys are decidedly different- noisy, full of mischief and brave beyond words. It is nothing to see him “walk or jump” off the coffee table or toy box. I’m getting used to it. He is no ways near to being trained & I’ve about given up. Seems there is no hope as he refuses to tell when he has to go. Left him there for an hour last week & still wouldn’t wet, so took im off- bingo-wet pants. When changing him he just says “Mommy’s mad, Daddy’s sad, Marky’s bad- Oh well”. Another time he seems real independent & says “ I’m mad”. -Louise Wilson’s Diary
Mad Magazine makes a TV special where several of their comics series appear in animated form. The director is Chris Ishii. Unfortunately the special never airs, because network executives deem the comedy “too family unfriendly”
January 7, 1974 – Outbreak of 4-year Gombe Chimpanzee War in Tanzania, reported by Jane Goodall.
January 15, 1974 – Happy Days, a sitcom about life in the 1950s, debuts on ABC.
January 16, 1974 – Former Yankees teammates Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Mantle becomes only the seventh player to make it in his first try. His 536 home runs with the Yankees ranked second only to Babe Ruth and he played in more games (2,401) than any other pinstriper, including Lou Gehrig. Ford was arguably the greatest Yankees pitcher of all time, retiring with more wins (236), more innings (3,171), more strikeouts (1,956), and more shutouts (45) than anyone in club history.
Today Jan 29th, 1974 (Tuesday) Mark Steven Wilson had his first haircut, at the Hamilton Shopping Center, at Blackie the Barber at 5:55 p.M. -Louise Wilson’s Diary
February 1, 1974 – It’s a Mystery, Charlie Brown
February 4, 1974 – Jolene – Dolly Parton
February 7, 1974 – Blazing Saddles
February 8, 1974 – Kiss Debut Album
After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
February 19, 1974 – Dancing Machine – The Jackson 5
February 26, 1974 – Mungo Man, a human skeleton estimated to be 40,000 years old, uncovered at Lake Mungo, Australia.
March 21, 1974 – Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla – (Japan)
March 27, 1974 – The Betz Sphere The Betz mystery sphere is uncovered by a family in Florida after a bush fire. The sphere is metal with a diameter of 8 inches (20 cm) and weighing 22 pounds (10.0 kg)
April 5, 1974 –The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Carrie, the debut novel by Stephen King, is published.
March/April 1974 – One Step Ahead • short story by James H. Schmitz in Worlds of If, March-April 1974
April 1974 – The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum
April 6, 1974 – Swedish pop group ABBA‘s song “Waterloo” wins the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, UK. This launches the group’s career.
April 8, 1974 – “Band on the Run” – Paul McCartney & Wings
Hank Aaron hit home run# 715 in the fourth inning off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing breaking Babe Ruth‘s career home run record.
April 9, 1974 – The Peanuts holiday television special It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown premieres on CBS.
April 24, 1974– Bud Abbott (October 2, 1897 – April 24, 1974) of the comedy team Abbott and Costello dies.
May 1974 – The Best of Fritz Leiber
May 4, 1974 -An all-female Japanese team summits Manaslu in Nepal, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000 m (26,000 ft) peak.
May 17, 1974 – That’s Entertainment!
May 24, 1974 – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – Elton John
June 1974 – Annie’s Song – John Denver
June 6, 1974 – Herbie Rides Again
June 20th, 1974 – Today is a fabulous day- Mark asked to go to the poty & did #2. I almost dropped from shock. He is now “trained” and I didn’t think the day would ever arrive. He is no anxious to make his mother “proud & happy”. I now have to go out and by two pair of zipper pants and a “zoom shirt” (stupid). Everyone kept telling me this day would arrive but I didn’t believe them.
We have survived six weeks of strike. Harry went back to woke this week. It is so good to have him back to work again. -Louise Wilson’s Diary
June 24, 1974 – Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Endless Summer – The Beach Boys
June 26, 1974 – For Pete’s Sake
The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley‘s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, the first use of barcode technology in American retailing.
July 1974 – Change the Sky and Other Stories – Margaret St. Clair
July 17, 1974 –The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
August 1974 – Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album
Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas
The Many Worlds of Andre Norton
August 8, 1974 – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation on August 8, effective at noon on August 9.
August 9, 1974 – Vice President Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president of the United States upon Nixon’s resignation. President Gerald Ford is sworn in at the White House.
August 19, 1974 – So Far – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young including “Our House“
Down in Rhode Island on
August 25, 1974
The Carmelite is Born is born along with her twin sister and they are later baptized that year. One more sister will be born into their family a few years down the road. I have 3 older sisters. My future wife is now in the world and I stir in playing with my toys, knowing that a new presence of importance is now in the world.
September 7, 1974 – September 7 (Saturday) –Land of the Lost on NBC (1974–77)
September 13, 1974 – Planet of the Apes (1974) on CBS
October 1974 – The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1974
October 1, 1974 – “Cat’s in the Cradle” – Harry Chapin
October 7, 1974 – Mandy – Barry Manilow
October 25, 1974 – No Woman, No Cry – Bob Marley
November 7th, 1974 – Mark rides the bus with me every morning. I just hope I survive this year so I can go on to the next. His halo is getting more tarnished everyday but don’t know what I would do without him.
Before I forget- One day Mark insisted on eating a cookie just before lunch. I told him “no’. Then Patty tried to explain to him that sweets would give him “cavities” I then asked him if he wanted soup, baloney or waffles. He replied “I want cavities”. -Louise Wilson’s Diary
November 8, 1974 – Elton John’s Greatest Hits
November 13, 1974 – Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. shoots and kills all six of his family members while they sleep in their beds inside the family’s Amityville, New York, home.
November 15, 1974 – Earthquake
November 21, 1974 – Animals Are Beautiful People
November 21, 1974 – The Land That Time Forgot
November 24, 1974 – A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.
November 29, 1974 – Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Bluejeans & Moonbeams
December 8, 1974 – Twas the Night Before Christmas
December 10, 1974 – The Year Without a Santa Claus (United States and Japan)
December 18, 1974
December 15, 1974 – Young Frankenstein
December 20, 1974 – The Godfather Part II
Children’s Continuing Series in the 1950s
Bobbsey Twins (1st Book 1904) Last Book 1979
Raggedy Ann (1st Book 1918)
Just William (1st Book 1922) Last Book 1970
Chalet School (1st Book 1925) Last Book 1970
Tintin (1st Appearance (1929)
Classics Illustrated (1st Book 1941)
The Black Stallion (1st Book 1941)
Moomins (1st 1945)
The Rescuers Series- (1st 1959) Margery Sharp
Continuing Mystery and Adventure Series
Tom Swift (1st Stories 1910/1954) series by Edward Stratemeyer
Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot (1st Mystery 1921)
The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories (1st Story 1927) by Franklin W. Dixon.
Leslie Charteris –The Saint (Simon Templar) (1st Adventure 1928)
Ellery Queen (1st Mystery 1929)
Margery Allingham –Albert Campion (1st Mystery 1929)
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series (1st Story 1930) by Carolyn Keene.
Agatha Christie –Miss Marple (1st Mystery 1932)
Biggles (1st Adventure 1932)
Erle Stanley Gardner –Perry Mason (1st Case 1933)
Ngaio Marsh – Chief Inspector Alleyn (1st Mystery 1934)
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