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Chronology: 1970s
TIME
CAPSULE
THE 70s
Apr. 1970: U.S. invades Cambodia
May 1970: National Guardsmen kill students at Kent State
June 1971: New York Times publishes Pentagon Papers
Passage of 26th Amendment lowers voting age to 18
Dec. 1971: President Nixon devalues the dollar
Feb. 1972: President Nixon visits People's Republic of China
May 1972: Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT I in Moscow
June 1972: Watergate burglars arrested
Sept. 1972: Terrorists murder Israeli athletes at Olympics
Nov. 1972: Voters reelect President Nixon by a landslide
Jan. 1973: Cease-fire begins in Viet Nam
Supreme Court rules on abortion
Oct. 1973: Vice President Agnew resigns
Egypt, Syria and Iraq attack Israel on Yom Kippur
Arab OPEC nations impose oil embargo
Nov. 1973: Congress passes War Powers Act
Dec. 1973: Gerald Ford becomes Vice President
Aug. 1974: President Nixon resigns; Ford becomes President
Sept. 1974: President Ford pardons Nixon
Apr. 1975: Saigon falls
July 1975: World leaders sign Helsinki agreements
July 1976: U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial
Israeli forces rescue hostages held in Entebbe
Nov. 1976: Jimmy Carter elected President
Aug. 1977: Legislation creates Department of Energy
Nov. 1977: Egypt's President Anwar Sadat visits Israel
July 1978: Supreme Court issues Bakke ruling
Oct. 1978: College of Cardinals choose Pope John Paul II
Nov. 1978: Cult members commit mass suicide in Jonestown
Jan. 1979: Revolutionaries in Iran force the Shah to leave;
Ayatollah Khomeni returns and assumes control.
U.S. and PRC establish diplomatic relations
Mar. 1979: Nuclear accident occurs at Three Mile Island
Egypt and Israel sign Camp David accords
Apr. 1979: Congress ratifies Panama Canal Zone treaty
June 1979: Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II in Vienna
July 1979: Sandinistas depose Nicaragua's President Somoza
Nov. 1979: Iranian revolutionaries seize Americans in Tehran
Dec. 1979: Soviet Union invades Afghanistan