1970-1979

By lharris16
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    1970-1979

  • Four students from Kent State University in Ohio were killed and nine wounded by National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War spread into Cambodia.

  • A ban on television advertisement cigarettes goes into affect in the united states

  • The Watergate crisis begins

  • The United States Supreme Court rules in Roe vs. Wade that a woman can not be prevented by a state in having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.

  • Legislation is signed by President Nixon creating the Big South Fork National River

    Recreation Area along the Cumberland River in Kentucky and Tennessee.

  • The television show Wheel of Fortune premiers.

  • The Watergate cover up trials of Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman are completed; all are found guilty of the charges.

  • The Bicentennial of the United States is celebrated throughout the nation.

  • VHS comes to America

  • Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla of Poland, is elected Pope at Vatican City.

  • The American Pioneer Eleven passes the planet Saturn

    becoming the first spacecraft to visit the ringed planet, albeit at a distance of 21,000 kilometers.