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Jan. 4
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Austrian Kurt Waldheim
becomes Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
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Jan. 5
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Nixon orders
development of
space shuttle program. |
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Jan. 11
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Following a bloody civil war,
East Pakistan gains independence
and is renamed Bangladesh. |
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Jan. 25
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 Shirley
Chisholm announces her candidacy for the presidency at Brooklyn's Concord Baptist
Church. |
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Feb. 4
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NASA scientists unveil the first close-up photos of Mars, sent by Mariner 9.
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Feb. 21-27
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President Nixon becomes the first president to visit China,
establishing a new working relationship between China and the United States.
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Mar. 8
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The Goodyear blimp flies for the first time.
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Mar. 22
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Congress passes the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Mar. 22
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Eisenstadt v. Baird that the right to privacy means single people are entitled to contraceptives.
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Apr. 16
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The fifth American mission to the moon, Apollo 16, launches.
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Apr. 17
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Women are allowed to compete in the Boston Marathon for the first time. Nina Kuscsik is the first winner.
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May 2
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J. Edgar Hoover, longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, dies.
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May 15
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Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace is shot and paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland.
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May 26
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Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sign the first Strategic Arms
Limitation Treaty (SALT I) in Moscow.
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Jun. 4
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Black activist Angela Davis found not guilty of murder in California.
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Jun. 23
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Title IX passes, prohibiting sex discrimination in sports funding in schools receiving federal money.
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Jun. 29
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In a 5-4 ruling in Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
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Jul. 1
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First issue of Ms. Magazine published.
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Jul. 10
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Democratic National Convention opens in Miami Beach.
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Aug. 12
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The last American ground forces are withdrawn from Vietnam.
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Sep. 5-6
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Eleven Israeli athletes murdered by terrorist group at Munich Olympics.
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Sep. 17
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First episode of MASH is aired.
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Oct. 25
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The FBI hires its first female agents.
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Nov. 5
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American Indian Movement activists occupy Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Nov. 14
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1000 for the first time. (1003.16)
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Dec. 11
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Apollo 17, the last American moon mission, lands on the moon.
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Dec. 22
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Earthquake strikes Managua, Nicaragua.
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