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, 1972
The United States launched Apollo 17, the last Apollo, on its way to the moon.
Apollo 17 astronauts walked on the lunar surface.
Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
Cape Canaveral, Florida - Canada's Anik I
domestic communications satellite launched by Delta rocket; world's first geostationery
comsat (mass 557 kg); designed, built and operated by Telesat Canada to improve telephone
and radio service; Anik an Inuit word for brother.
Inuit are the native peoples of Canada.
British Columbia - Dave Barrett's New Democratic Party take 38 of
55 seats in the provincial election; upset 20 years of Social Credit rule in BC.
This was probably the closet I have ever got to politics, getting involved with the
New democrats as an election party supporter.
In February, in Pickering Ontario - Ontario Hydro opens $75 million
Pickering nuclear power plant; has been the largest single producer of
electricity in the world.
