All This (and more) Happened Our Senior Year

• Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first heart transplant

• Richard Petty, the first driver to win back-to-back at the Daytona 500

• Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes

• Patty Hearst is kidnapped

• National 55mph speed limit enacted

• Happy Days starts its 11-year run on TV

• The Sting wins for Best Picture

• Tie a Yellow Ribbon &The Way We Were top the charts

• West German chancellor Willy Brandt resigns

• Canadian government of Pierre Trudeau falls

• Spiro Agnew resigns

• Richard Nixon: “I am not a crook.”