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Overview:
1970
American Soldiers Accused of Murdering Entire
Town of Vietnamese Civilians
Aswan High Dam Completed
Beatles Break Up
Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
Protesting Students at Kent State Shot
1971
London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System
for Currency
VCRs Introduced
1972
M*A*S*H T.V. Shows Premiers
Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
Pocket Calculators Introduced
Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in
Munich
Watergate Scandal Begins
1973
Abortion Legalized in U.S.
Paul Getty Kidnapped
Sears Tower Built
U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
U.S. Vice President Resigns
1974
Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed
Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
Terracotta Army Discovered in China
U.S. President Nixon Resigns
1975
Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
Civil War in Lebanon
Microsoft Founded
Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of
Cambodia
1976
Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens
North and South Vietnam Join to Form the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000
1977
Elvis Found Dead
Miniseries Roots Airs
South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve
Biko Tortured to Death
Star Wars Movie Released
1978
First Test-Tube Baby Born
John Paul II Becomes Pope
Jonestown Massacre
1979
Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran
Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister
of Great Britain
Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
Sony Introduces the Walkman |