Time Line: The 1970's

Okay, I can't say too much about the 70's. I was born during that decade and therefore was too young to remember anything. History books tell us that the Vietnam War was just ending. Nixon resigned, Ford was sworn in. Then we elected a peanut farmer from Georgia as president. The gas crisis happened. Here is an event timeline from that decade:

May 4, 1970: 4 Kent State University students are slain by National Guardsmen at a Vietnam protest.

1971: 26th Amendment to the Constitution lowers the voting age to 18.
April 20, 1971: Supreme Court rules unianimously that busing of students may be used in order to achieve racial desegregation.
October 1, 1971: Disney World in Orlando, Florida, opens to the public.

Feb, 1972: Nixon visits China.
May 15, 1972: George Wallace is shot while on a campaign stop in Maryland
June 17, 1972: Watergate break-in occurs
September 5, 1972: Eleven Israeli athletes are killed at the Olympic Games in Munich by an Arab guerrilla terrorist group.

October 6, 1973: Spiro Agnew resigns as VP, then pleads no contest to tax evasion charges.

August 8, 1974: Nixon resigns
August 9, 1974: Gerald Ford is sworn in as President.
September 8, 1974: Ford pardons Nixon

April 30, 1975: The last American troops are evacuated from Vietnam.
June 6, 1975: South Vietnam falls to Communists forces.
July 15, 1975: Apollo and Soyuz take off for U.S.-Soviet link up in space.
September 5 and 17, 1975: Two assassination attempts on President Ford

July 4, 1976: U.S. Bicentennial

May 25, 1977: Star Wars is released
August 16, 1977: Elvis Presley dies

September 17, 1978: U.S. sponsored Camp David Peace Accords signed by Egypt and Israel.

Feburary 1, 1979: Iranian fundamentalists under the direction of Ayatollah Khomeini seize control of Iran
March 28, 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs
November 4, 1979: Iranian militants seize U.S. Embassy in Tehran and hold hostages.
December 27, 1979: Soviets invade Afghanistan