Austin entrepeneur Rod Kennedy founds the Kerrville
Folk Festival, which is still an annual happenin' in its central
Texas namesake, Kerrville, about 100 miles west of Austin.
The Texas Rangers, formerly the Senators,
have a losing first season after relocating from Washington D.C.
to
Arlington,
Texas.
The Dobie Center on the University of Texas
campus opens and, at 27 stories, dwarfs the State Capitol.
The revolutionary hand-held HP-35 calculator
hits
the market at a pricey $395.
The Dow Jones average closes above
1000
for
the first time.
Mariner sends back first pictures from the red
planet
Mars.
Long running sitcom Bewitched ends
an
eight year run (having famously exchanged Dick Sargent for Dick
York
as witch Samantha's mortal husband, Darren, in
the
6th
season).
Women finally can compete
in
the
Boston Marathon.
A terrorist strike at the
Munich Summer Olympics
kills 11 Israeli athletes.
Newly-founded Atari releases the arcade
hit
Pong,
spawning
a
new
American obsession.
Home Box Office (later to become simply HBO)
launches as the first pay TV service in the U.S.
Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman to serve
in the Texas Senate, is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives,
the first woman to represent the State of Texas in Congress.
Republican Richard Nixon defeats Democrat George
McGovern
in the November presidential elections.
