NASA’s spacecraft, The Pioneer 10, became the first craft to exit the solar system.
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Tom Snyder interviewed notorious killer Charles Manson on NBC's Tomorrow Coast to Coast show.
US Post Office banned customers from mailing children and animals.
US Supreme Court declared the start of informing potential criminals of their rights. These became known as the Miranda rights.
President Andrew Johnson reorganized the Confederate States.
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea met North Korea's Kim Jong-il for the first inter-Korea summit.
