The year of my birth=

Movies:
The Godfather,Cabaret,Deliverence,Slaughterh ouse-Five,Superfly,Deliverance,Clockwork Orange.

Books:
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl, Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach,Die the Long Day - Horace Orlando Patterson,Endurance - James L Harris,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.

Music:
[albums released]
Machine Head - Deep Purple,Obscured By Clouds - Pink Floyd, Transformer - Lou Reed,Harvest - Neil Young,Live at Max's Kansas City - The Velvet Underground.
[top song hits]
"Jealous Guy" - John Lennon ,"Rocket Man" - Elton John,"The Candyman" - Sammy Davis Jr.,"Lean on Me" - Bill Withers, "Nights in White Satin" - The Moody Blues, "Morning Has Broken" - Cat Stevens.

TV Debuts:
Sanford and Son, Maude, The Price is Right, Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space,Are You being Served, Kung Fu,Mash, Bob Newhart,The Waltons.

Newsworthy:
The Goodyear blimp flew for the first time.
Israeli 1972 Olympic Team Murdered in Munich.
RMS Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire.
First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced (price $395).
Mariner 9 sent pictures from Mars.
Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceeds those of Ford Model-T (15 million).
Sally Priesand became the first female US rabbi.
Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives were arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
The first Rainbow Gathering was held in Colorado.
The Broadway production of the musical Hair closed after 1,752 performances.
Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in Reykjavík Chess match and became the first American chess champion.
The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opened on the Amstel River in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of marijuana in the Netherlands.
Stephen Hawking became confined to a wheelchair.

What happened the year that YOU were born?