Winterland Ballroom
Plays the final show of the original Sex Pistols era at Winterland during the American tour.
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January
Winterland Ballroom
Performs at Winterland as the American tour collapses around the original Sex Pistols line-up.
Senate Intelligence Transcript Request
The committee requested access to prior Senate intelligence testimony, including material involving Frank Sturgis and Warren DeBruey.
Senate Testimony Review Request
The HSCA requested access to earlier Senate intelligence testimony involving Sturgis as part of its renewed Kennedy investigation.
February
Budokan
Records performances later issued as Bob Dylan at Budokan.
World Champion
Ali loses his title to Leon Spinks
March
Miller Becomes Federal Reserve Chairman
G. William Miller begins service as Federal Reserve chairman, succeeding Arthur Burns at a time when inflation and questions about the appropriate stance of monetary policy are intensifying.
Death of John Cazale
Death of John Cazale
Bringuier CIA File Request
The HSCA specifically requested CIA records concerning Carlos Bringuier, his DRE role, and his earlier testimony about Oswald.
CIA Anti-Castro File Request
The committee asked CIA for files on numerous anti-Castro Cuban activists and organizations relevant to its Kennedy investigation.
HSCA Bosch File Request
The HSCA requested CIA records concerning Bosch because of his leadership of the anti-Castro MIRR organization and its relevance to the committee's Cuban inquiry.
Orlando Bosch CIA File Request
The HSCA requested CIA files concerning Orlando Bosch and his leadership of the anti-Castro MIRR organization.
HSCA Garrison File Review
CIA material supplied to the HSCA included references to Sergio Arcacha Smith within files dealing with the Garrison investigation and Cuban exile activity.
May
Bringuier Deposition Review
The committee took Bringuier's deposition and compared his account of Oswald's 1963 New Orleans contacts with Warren Commission evidence.
HSCA Bringuier Deposition
Bringuier gave a deposition to the House Select Committee on Assassinations concerning Oswald's New Orleans contacts and anti-Castro Cuban activity.
Pioneer Venus Orbiter Launch
Pioneer Venus Orbiter launches to study Venus's atmosphere, ionosphere, gravity field and cloud-hidden surface.
June
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Releases Darkness on the Edge of Town, a tougher album shaped by work, struggle and responsibility.
Street-Legal
Releases Street-Legal.
Charon
Robert Harrington helps confirm and calculate the orbit of Pluto's newly discovered moon, later named Charon.
Pluto
James Christy identifies evidence of Pluto's first known moon, later named Charon, in photographic observations.
Seasat Radar
NASA Seasat demonstrates spaceborne synthetic aperture radar over oceans.
July
Charon
New photographs from the U.S. Naval Observatory confirm that the recurring elongation beside Pluto is caused by an orbiting satellite.
Central Intelligence Committe (CIA)
Dryer said that Lancelot told him shortly after the Kennedy assassination that a "substantial" sum of money, 200,000 or 250,000 dollars, had been deposited in Mohrenschildts account.
Central Intelligence Committe (CIA)
Dryer said that Mohrenschildt had claimed he came to Haiti to scout for oil, but Dryer stated that "I could never figure out what he did. " Dryer expressed the belief that Mohrenschildt had "some intelligence connection"
Central Intelligence Committee (CIA)
Dryer's relationship with Lancelot included passing messages for her to people in the United States whom Dryer assumed were connected to the CIA.
Central Intelligence Committee (CIA)
Joseph Dryer told the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he and Mohrenschildt were associated with Jacqueline Lancelot.
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Dryer said that Lancelot told him shortly after the Kennedy assassination that a "substantial" sum of money, 200000 or 250000 dollars, had been deposited in Mohrenschildt's account.
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Dryer said that Mohrenschildt had claimed he came to Haiti to scout for oil, but Dryer stated that "I could never figure out what he did. " Dryer expressed the belief that Mohrenschildt had "some intelligence connection"
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Dryer's relationship with Lancelot included passing messages for her to people in the United States whom Dryer assumed were connected to the CIA.
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Joseph Dryer told the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he and Mohrenschildt were associated with Jacqueline Lancelot.
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Dryer said that Lancelot told him shortly after the Kennedy assassination that a "substantial" sum of money, 200000 or 250000 dollars, had been deposited in Mohrenschildt's account.
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Dryer said that Mohrenschildt had claimed he came to Haiti to scout for oil, but Dryer stated that "I could never figure out what he did. " Dryer expressed the belief that Mohrenschildt had "some intelligence connection"
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Dryer's relationship with Lancelot included passing messages for her to people in the United States whom Dryer assumed were connected to the CIA.
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Joseph Dryer told the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he and Mohrenschildt were associated with Jacqueline Lancelot.
HSCA Testimony
Testifies about Lancelot and Mohrenschildt-related contacts.
HSCA Testimony
Is discussed in testimony concerning George de Mohrenschildt contacts.
Charon
The discovery of Pluto's moon is formally announced to astronomers through IAU Circular 3241.
August
Pioneer Venus Multiprobe Launch
Pioneer Venus Multiprobe launches carrying one large and three small atmospheric probes toward Venus.
ISEE 3 Solar Wind Observatory Launch
Helps establish ISEE 3 as the first spacecraft placed near the Sun-Earth L1 region, where it can sample the solar wind before that plasma reaches Earth's magnetosphere.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
In the article Marchetti argued that the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) had obtained a 1966 CIA memo that revealed Hemming, E. Howard Hunt, and Frank Sturgis had been involved in the plot to kill Kennedy
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