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Kent State Shooting
Also known as May 4 massacre/Kent State massacre. Guardsmen fired 67 rounds in 13 seconds and killed 4 student, and injured 9 others. One who was injured permanently.
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A ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the US.
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The 26th Amendment to the Constitution lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
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Nixon gets reelected. He won by a landslide.
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Apollo 17 flies to the Moon, and becomes the last manned mission there.
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Abortion legalized in the US.
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US pulls out of Vietnam.
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An outbreak of tornadoes hit thirteen states and killed 315 people.
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Bill Gates founded Microsoft.
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President Ford survives two assassination attempts in a 17-day time span.
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United States Bicentennial.
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Star Wars movie released.
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Volkswagen opened a plant in the United States.
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A nuclear accident took place at Three Mile Island.
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eruption of Mount St. Helens killed 57 people.
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John Lennon was assassinated.
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The space shuttle Columbia was launched.
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MTV was launched.
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Michael Jackson releases Thriller
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241 Marines were killed by suicide bomb in Lebanon.
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Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
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Summer Olympics were held in Los Angeles.
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The space shuttle Challenger exploded and killed all seven passengers.
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DNA first used to convict criminals.
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US shoots down Iranian Airliner.
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Fires took place in Yellowstone.
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Oil tanker, Exxon Valdez spilled more then 10 million gallons of oil, the largest in US history.
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Bush declared a "War on Drugs."
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Hubble Telescope is launched into space.
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Riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict.
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A truck bomb exploded.
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O.J. Simpson gets arrested for double murder.
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NAFTA
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Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people and injures 800.
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Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 US servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
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NASA spacecraft lands on Mars.
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Bobbi McCaughey
Des Moines, Iowa resident Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the first case in which all survive infancy.
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224 people killed in US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.
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Matthew Shepard dies.
Gay college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered near the University of Wyoming.
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Columbine High School killing.
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JFK Jr. dies in a plane accident.
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No Child Left Behind Act education reform bill passed.
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9/11
Terrorists attack on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon.
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The US withdraws from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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The US, UK, Australia and Poland invades Iraq marking the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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The social networking website Facebook is launched.
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George W. Bush is inaugurated to his second-term.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
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The Democratic Party retakes control of both houses of Congress, and gains a majority of state governorships.
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Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
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Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike kills 100 people along the Texas coast, produces $31 billion in damage, and contributes to rising oil prices.
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First African American President.
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Michael Jackson dies.
Michael Jackson dies, creating the largest public mourning for an entertainer since the death of Elvis Presley.
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BP oil spill.
The Deepwater Horizon oil ring in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, sending millions of gallons of oil into the sea. -
The US launches Operation Odyssey Dawn as part of a United Nations military intervention in the Libyan civil war.
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Super Bowl XLVI
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