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Police raid a gay bar in New York and begin to start making arrests, which leads to gay onlookers to start a massive riot.
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Neil Armstrong and others become the first men to ever walk the surface of another astronomical body other than earth.
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Nixon beats out Humphrey in the election, becoming president.
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The ERA is put up into the air. It's passage would have created no abridgement of rights regardless of race, gender, orientation, and etc. It failed to be passed however.
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The Watergate Scandal begins to unfold. Nixon's attempt to stay in power backfires and leads to his resignation.
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The case on abortion was waged off a dispute in Texas. It granted women the right to have an abortion, but it must pass the state's requirements for such a thing.
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Israel fights a war against Egypt and Syria. The Arabs are pushed back, but Israel owes its success to Nixon and Kissenger.
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OPEC slashes gasoline and oil production by 5%. Leads to a gas shortage in the U.S. and people freak out.
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Nixon announces his resignation from the presidency over the Watergate Scandal. Had he not, he would have been impeached anyway.
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Jimmy Carter wins the presidential election.
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Both countries countries start talking peace, which was a great event at the time.
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An american embassy in Iran is attacked, with the Americans taken hostage. Heavily strains the Carter administration, which would lead to Reagan's election.
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Reagan is elected over Carter to be president.
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The hostages in Iran are released, bringing relief to many.
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The first documented case of what would later turn out to be AIDS is filed. AIDS would later to go on to kill many thousands.
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Israel, backed by the U.S., invades and takes over Lebanon.
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The greatest president ever is elected for another glorious 4 years of being in the presidential office.
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Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all intermediate range nuclear missiles in their possesion out of Europe.
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U.S. forces invade Panama and arrest Manuel Noriega on drug charges.
