It was a Saturday
Skyjacker Martin Joseph McNally hijacked American Airlines Flight 119 as it flew from St. Louis to Tulsa. At St. Louis, he received a suitcase with $502,200 ransom money and parachutes, but the jetliner was rammed by a car that crashed through an airport fence and raced down the runway.[61] Moving to another plane, he then made plans to bail out with the suitcase, but needed instructions on how to parachute safely. The $502,200 suitcase was swept out of McNally’s hands by the airstream left by the jet. Having lost his money, McNally safely reached the ground, and was arrested near Detroit on June 28.
South African runner Danie Malan sets a new 1,000m world record 2:16.0 in Munich, Germany
Andy was born
The DAY BEFORE Andy was born was Nixon’s Oval Office meeting with H.R. Haldeman “Smoking Gun” Conversation June 23, 1972
U.S. President Richard Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman, had three conversations, where the President directed that the FBI should be told to stop further investigation of the Watergate burglary. All Oval Office conversations were recorded by a voice-activated system, and when the transcript of the “smoking gun” tape was released on August 5, 1974, Nixon would resign at the end of the week.
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