Topic 10

• Five members of the Chicago Seven political group are convicted of inciting riots with property damage


  FEBRUARY 18, 1970
• Census is released; over 200 million people living in America


  APRIL 1, 1970
• Very first Earth Day which is celebrated by holding Anti-Pollution demonstrations


  APRIL 22, 1970
• Four students at Kent State University are killed and 9 were wounded during an Anti-Vietnam protests; Vietnam war has moved to Cambodia which causes upset; event known as the Kent State University Massacre


  MAY 4, 1970
• USPS (US Postal Service) becomes an independent entity


  AUGUST 12, 1970
• Song

  • American Woman – The Guess Who (1970)
• Ban on cigarette TV commercials


  JANUARY 2, 1971
• 40-day Raid into Laos is done by South Vietnamese soldiers but begins with help/aid from US Air and Artillery


  FEBRUARY 8, 1971
• The 26th Amendment is passed by Congress; lowers the voting age from 21 to 18; "Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote"


  MARCH 10, 1971
• The Pentagon Papers are released; Classified document that discuss the Vietnam War and the governments involvement; released by New York Times and Washington Post


  JUNE 13, 1971
• The Supreme Court states 1st Amendment with Pentagon Paper Release


  JUNE 30, 1971
• The first micro-processor chip is created for the TI Calculator; 4-bit TMS 1000 Calculator


  SEPTEMBER 17, 1971
• Walt Disney World is opened in Orlando, Florida with Cinderella's Castle


  OCTOBER 1, 1971
• Song in 1971


  • A Horse with No Name – America
• The US President, Richard Nixon, goes to Beijing which normalizes relations with China


  FEBRUARY 21, 1972
• Nixon is the first US President to go to Moscow; President and Premier signed a peace treaty known as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks TreatY (SALT1)


  MAY 22, 1972
• First big controversy begins; Watergate Crisis; 4 men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Building, in Washington, D.C.


  JUNE 17, 1972
• Nixon beats Democrat George McGovern; win 520 to 17


  NOVEMBER 7, 1972
• Song in 1972


  • Superstition – Stevie Wonder
• US Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade


  JANUARY 22, 1973
• Four-part Vietnam peace pact that is signed in Paris; known as the Paris Peace Accords


  JANUARY 27, 1973
• Two members of the Watergate Scandal are going to be convicted


  JANUARY 30, 1973
• Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths; will win the triple crown of the United States thoroughbred racing


  JUNE 9, 1973
• Richard Nixon's Vice President, Agnew, quits because of his tax evasion and is replaced by Gerald Ford


  OCTBER 10, 1973
• The Arab Oil Embargo occurs; banned all oil from Arabia because of the Arab Israeli War which creates the 1973 Energy Crisis


  OCTOBER 19, 1973
• Nixon creates the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area; along the Cumberland River which runs through Tennessee and Kentucky


  MARCH 7, 1974
• Expo '74, the Bureau of International Expeditions in Washington; emphasized anti-pollution movement from Earth Day; over 5 million visitors


  MAY 4, 1974
• Impeachment of President Nixon begins; knew he was witholding evidence about the Watergate Scandal


  MAY 7, 1974
• Supreme Court says that Nixon has to turn over the 64 tapes that he had recorded of White House conversations about Watergate; on those tapes Nixon is implicated


  JULY 24, 1974
• It is recommended in a 27-11 panel that Nixon is impeached for obstruction of justice


  JULY 27, 1974
• Nixon resigns; Vice President Gerald Ford will take his place as President; first act of President is to pardon Nixon who regrets "my mistakes".


  AUGUST 9, 1974
• Song in 1974


  • Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Suede
• Song in 1974


  • Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Watergate Trials come to a close when the final three defendants are found guilty


  JANUARY 1, 1975
• Wheel of Fortune premiers


  JANUARY 6, 1975
• Jimmy Carters decides opens his presidential headquarters in Plains, Georgia; former democratic Georgia governor


  MARCH 30, 1975
• Communist forces complete their takeover of Vietnam and South Vietnam surrenders to Viet Cong; ends 30 years of warfare; forced all American citizens living in Saigon to leave; took multiple helicopters to evacuate 900 Americans


  APRIL 29-30, 1975
• Heiress Patty Hearst is captured; she was kidnapped and a year later she began robbery spree with some associates


  SEPTEMBER 18, 1975
• Song in 1975


  • Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell
• Bicentennial Celebration of United States of America


  JULY 4, 1976