Word: apr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apr. 12 -The first issue of The National Lampoon hits the newsstands. Every living Harvard alumnus buys a copy. Every living Harvard alumnus in a position of corporate power has had his corporation put an ad in it. There are ads for General Dynamics, Dow Chemical, Lockheed Aircraft, Raytheon, and many other companies. The cover story is a "lampoon" of defense industries...
...Apr. 17 -Khrushchev's birthday...
...Apr. 24 -The engines of a giant 747 jet flying over Manhattan fail when they are unable to carry on combustion due to lack of oxygen. All 360 passengers and crewmen are killed along with the 143 residents of the apartments it hits in Brooklyn...