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Ohio National Guardsmen on the campus were trieing to maintain the vietbam protests. They suddenly shot into the crowd for an unknown reason, killing four and injuring nine others.
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The 26thh amendment dealt with youth suffrage. It lowered the voting age to 18.
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The first comme
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The terrorist group Black September snuck into the Olympic village and killed two Israeli athletes. They took nine hostage, and they were later killed in a shootout.
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HBO, the first paid television channel, was a sign of the growing popularity of television as a way of entertainment.
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Held women's right to choose to have an abortion, but it did not end the debate on the topic. It solved the issue that Texas had outlawed abortion.
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Two months after the peace agreement, the U.S. pulls its troops out of Vietnam. This finally relaxed the anti-war tension.
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Eight thousand terracotta soldiers were found gaurding Qin Shi Huang. They were found by farmers and tell us a lot about ancient chinese history.
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President Nixon resigns due to the watergate scandal. It was also decided that the President had to give up tapes he recorded in the oval office.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company with Gates as CEO, and they began work with BASIC, and went on to OS. They eventually changed the world of computers and Microsoft is still around.
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The Atari 2600 was the first video game console to be commercially successful. It established game consoles and with the use of cartridges, paved the way for Nintendo.
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Star Wars was a huge pop culture phenomenon that spawned comic books and video games, as well as a second trilogy. It was a huge feat in film.
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Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones convinced 912 people to drink cyanide-laced fruit punch in "revolutionary suicide."
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Margaret Thatcher was the first Female Prime Minister of the UK and she was a symbol of feminism.
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52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days. It was a blow from Iran to America because its influence in Iran.
