President Richard Nixon signed the US Endangered Species Act into law.
Source
The Westminster Abbey in London was consecrated.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope began the multi-day process of unfurling its sunshield.
Muriel Siebert became the first woman to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange.
The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Vladimir Putin signed a law banning the US adoption of Russian children.
