1971

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

July 4, 1971

Three Dog Night (Canadian band) had a number one Billboard hit with 'Joy to the World'
ARPAnet's Ray Tomlinson sends the first EMail message, "Testing 1-2-3"
The crew of the Phyllis Cormack
said their goodbyes to well-wishers and loved ones on the Vancouver quayside and the first Greenpeace mission chugged away for Amchitka island.
Vintage photos, with some friends.
American hijacker D.B. Cooper bailed out of a passenger plane over the rugged northwestern United States with a bag containing $200,000 in ransom money.

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux (b. 1941), U.S. novelist, travel writer. Quoted in: Observer (London, 7 Oct. 1979).
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