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Beatles Break up
The Beatles, one of the most influential bands in history and There were many causes for the Beatles' break-up. It was not a single event but a long transition including the cessation of touring in 1966, and the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, in 1967.
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18 Year olds given right to vote
President Richard Nixon signed a law but not a constitutional amendment which required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state and local elections. In his statement on signing the extension of the Voting rights act of 1965.
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Dawson Field Highjackings
In the Dawson’s Field Hijacking five jet aircraft going to New York City were hijacked by members of the Popular Front of the liberation of Palestine. In the incident one hijacker was killed, and one injury was reported.
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Attica Prison Riot
The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York in 1971. The riot was based in part upon prisoners' demands for better living conditions. Responding, in part, to the death of prisoner George Jackson, a black radical activist prisoner who had been shot to death by corrections officers in California's San Quentin Prison, about 1,000 of the Attica prison's approximately 2,200 inmates rebelled and seized control
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VCR’s Introduced
The VCR was introduced by the Sony Corporation, a Japanese company. It started out with a smaller home "videocorder" known as Betamax, which at first competed heavily with the larger VHS format. Competition between the two formats kept prices of the home VCRs too high for most consumers.
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D.B Cooper
D. B. Cooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. He got $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and an exhaustive FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history.
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Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
The Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group
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M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers
M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH. The series is a medical drama that was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS. It follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
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First successful video game (Pong) launched
Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two- dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat the opponent in a simulated table tennis game by earning a higher score.
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U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
The peace talks began again, and then the parties agreed to a cease-fire the following day, the withdrawal of all U.S. forces, the release of all prisoners of war, and the creation of an international force to keep the peace. The South Vietnamese were to have the right to determine their own future, but North Vietnamese troops stationed in the south could remain. By the end of 1973, almost all U.S. military personnel had l
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Abortion Legalized in U.S.
Abortion in the United States has been legal in every state since the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Prior to "Roe", the legality of abortion was decided by the states; it was illegal in 30 states and legal under certain cases in 20 states. Roe established that "the right of personal privacy includes the abortion decision, but that this right is not unqualified, and must be considered against important state interests in regulation
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Sears Tower Built
The Sears Tower (Now named the Willis Tower) is a 108-story, 1,451-foot skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years. The Sears Tower is the tallest building in the United States and the seventh-tallest freestanding structure in the world.
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Patty Hearst Kidnapped
Patricia Campbell Hearst, now known as Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, and actress, kidnap victim, and convicted bank robber. Her kidnapping case is considered to be an example of Stockholm syndrome.
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U.S. President Nixon Resigns
Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office because he had guys break in to the democrat building and listened in on all phone calls and saw what they were going to run on going into the election and the guys that did it for him got caught and they all got arrested and they eventually found out it was Nixon and he was going to be impeached or he could resign and he chose to resign.
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Gerald Ford pardons Nixon
President Gerald Ford became vice president after President Nixon’s vice President Spiro Agnew resigned and Ford was appointed by Nixon. When Nixon resigned because of the Watergate scandal Ford pardoned Nixon so he for sure won’t have charges pressed on him.
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Microsoft Founded
Microsoft is a company that develops manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions.
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Jimmy Hoffa Disappears
Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor union leader that went missing and was legally declared dead because no one knew where he was at or what happened to him.
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Ford Assassination attempt
On the northern grounds of the California State Capitol, Lynette Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, drew a Colt M1911 Ford. She was soon restrained by Secret Service agents. Fromme was sentenced to life in prison, but was released from custody nearly 3 years after Ford's death.
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Karen Ann Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan was an important figure in the history of the right to die controversy in the United States. When she was 21 Quinlan became unconscious after arriving home from a party. She had consumed diazepam, dextropropoxphene, and alcohol. After she collapsed and stopped breathing twice for about 15 minutes, the paramedics arrived and took her to a hospital. Then her parents decided to let her die.
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Entebbe Air Raid
A counter terrorist hostage rescue mission by Israeli Special Forces, an air plane was hijacked with 248 passengers by members of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine and the German Revolutionary Cells.
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Mao Tse-tung dies
Mao Tse-tung was the leader of the Chinese Revolution. He was the architect and founding father of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from its creation in 1949, and held control over the nation until his death.
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Neutron bomb funding began
A neutron bomb or enhanced radiation weapon or weapon of reinforced radiation is a type of thermonuclear weapon designed specifically to release a large portion of its energy as energetic neutron radiation rather than explosive energy. The levels of neutron radiation released are able to penetrate through protective materials such as armor, making them useful as an anti-tank weapon
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Star Wars Movie Released
Star Wars is considered an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released under the title Star Wars, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
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Elvis Found Dead
Elvis Presley at his home Graceland in Memphis. His body was found by girlfriend, Ginger Alden in the upstairs bathroom. Ginger summoned Joe Esposito & Al Strata and Dr Nick. All efforts to revive Elvis were futile. Elvis had probably been dead for many hours by the time his body was found
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First Test-Tube Baby Born
Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful "test-tube" baby born in England. Though the technology that made her conception possible was heralded as a triumph in medicine and science, it also caused many to consider the possibilities of future ill-use.
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John Paul II Becomes Pope
John Paul II reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian Pope since 1523.
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Jonestown Massacre
The actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass murder, it was the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events on 9/11
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Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history, and resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
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ESPN starts broadcasting
The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, is an American sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming
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The Greensboro Massacre
The Greensboro massacre occurred in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Five protest marchers were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. The protest was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers Party to organize mostly black industrial workers in the area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre
