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The Stonewall Riots in New York's Greenwich Village spark the gay rights movement.
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Ohio National Guardsmen kill four students at Kent State University.
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States ratify the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution, giving 18 year olds the right to vote.
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The U.S. and the USSR sings the SALT I accords in Moscow.
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United States and North Vietnam sign truce.
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Richard M. Nixon resigns as president.
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The last evacuation helicopter leaves roof of U.S. embassy in Sagion, South Vietnam.
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Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford in the presidential election.
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President Carter signs Panama Canal treaties restoring sovereignty to Panama.
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Over nine hundred followers of Reverend Jim Jones die in a mass suicide in Guyana.
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The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan leads to the U.S. withdrawal from the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Ronald Reagan wins the presidential election by a landslide.
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American hostages in Iran are released after 444 days in captivity.
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Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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The Equal Rights Amendment fails state ratification.
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The U.S. invades Grenada.
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Ronald Reagan is re-elected president.
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union.
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The Iran-Contra affair is made public.
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Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty at Washington summit.
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George H.W. Bush defeats Michael Dukakis decisively in the presidential election.
