"Old times there are not forgotten"
Federal wage and price controls were terminated. Double digit inflation and soaring unemployment rates dominated economic news. The Supreme Court of the United States ordered the White House to release information related to the Watergate burglary. The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment. President Richard M. Nixon resigned the office of president of the United States, the first sitting president to do so. Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president. Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred from the practice of law. We learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had gathered information detrimental to civil rights organizations and that the Central Intelligence Agency had been active in destabilizing and overthrowing foreign governments. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York was sworn in as vice president of the United States, having been nominated by the sitting president and approved by the United States Senate.
New book titles: All The President's Men, Jaws, Something Happened and Watership Down.
At the movies: That's Entertainment, Chinatown and Towering Inferno.
On stage: Absurd Person Singular, Candide, Short Eyes and All Over Town.
Emmy awards: Hal Holbrook for Pueblo, Cicely Tyson for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Telly Salavas for Kojak and Michael Learned for The Waltons.
March 7
The wreckage of the U.S.S. Monitor sunk in 1862 was reported found off Hatteras, North Carolina.
August 9
The 50th West Virginia State Fair opened at Fairlea (Greenbrier County).
September 3
In Kanawha County, West Virginia parents protested the use of books that introduced contemporary sexual mores and dissident opinions of the United States in their public schools.
September 16
Classmate Mildred Jeanne Gilliam-King died in Montgomery, West Virginia following an illness of several weeks. Jeanne was raised in Cranberry and had lived abroad as an Air Force wife. She left a husband and four daughters.
December 23
Classmate Benjamin Von (Bennie) Daniel died of natural causes in Canton, Ohio. Bennie left a wife he married while serving in Germany with the United States Army.