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Old 01-06-2010, 11:10 PM   #21
TheMercenary
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
 
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1972 - Richard Nixon goes to China
1972 - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with USSR
1972 - U.S. presidential election, 1972 (including Watergate burglary, Richard Nixon re-elected)
1972 - Apollo 17 flies to the Moon, the last manned mission there for many decades
1973 - Vietnam Peace Treaty. Troops and POWs return home.
1973 - Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling over-turns state laws against abortion
1973 - The celebrated Senate Watergate hearings, highlighted by Fred Thompson's discovery of Nixon's secret tapes.
1973 - Skylab, USA's first space station launched
1973 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns in disgrace as part of a plea bargain
1973 - Congressman Gerald R. Ford of Michigan becomes the first person to be appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment to the constitution
1973 - In a single day, President Nixon fires three Attorneys General over disposition of the secret tapes and the actions of the Special Prosecutor.
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach the President
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate
1974 - Gerald R. Ford becomes President (by succession rather than election)
1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller of New York becomes the second person to be appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment to the constitution
1974 - Ford Pardons Nixon
1975 - Fall of Saigon
1976 - U.S. presidential election, 1976
1977 - Jimmy Carter becomes President
1978 - Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act
1978 - Camp David Accords (1978)
1979 - Three Mile Island nuclear accident
1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins
[edit] 1980s

President Reagan was the face of the United States during the 1980s1980 - [bockeys on deck
1980 - Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington kills 57 (see 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens)
1980 - U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1980 - U.S. presidential election, 1980
1980 - John Lennon Assassination
1981 - Ronald Reagan becomes President (Iran releases hostages)
1981 - Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley
1981 - Kemp-Roth Tax Cut
1981 - Sandra Day O' Connor becomes first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court
1983 - 241 U.S. Marines killed by suicide bomb in Lebanon
1983 - United States invades Grenada
1984 - Most of Eastern Block boycotts Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
1984 - U.S. presidential election, 1984 (Ronald Reagan is re-elected)
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