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The first Earth Day Celebration
Millions of Americans participated in a anti-pollution demonstration. The demonstrations included school children walking to school instead of riding the bus. -
26th Adendment Approved
The US Senate approved the 26th Amendment' This admendment would allowing the lowering of age for voting. from 21 to 18 years of age. -
Opening of Disney World
Walt Disney World has expanding the Disney World empire to the Flordia coast in the United States. -
Watergate Crisis
The Watergate was when four men broke into the D.N.C. headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington DC. These men were taking confedental documents and tried to wire tap phone so they could record private conversations. -
Rowe vs Wade
The US Supreme Court ruled, that a woman can not be prevented by a state in having an abortion during the first six months of her pregnancy. -
Conviction Of Watergate break-in
Two of the seven defendants in the Watergate break-in are convicted. The other five defendants had pleaded guilty to the crime. -
Impeachment Hearings Begin
Impeachment hearings begin against President Richard M. Nixon, by the House Judiciary Committee in the Watergate affair. -
Nixon mandated to turn over tapes.
The US Supreme Court ruled that President Nixon has to turn over all the tapes of White House conversations concerning the Watergate break-in. -
Star Wars
Movie Star Wars opens and becomes the highest grossing film at the time. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Iran Hostage Crisis begins when sixty-three Americans are taken among ninety hostages at the American embassy in Tehran. Taken by militant student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. They demand that the former shah return to Iran to stand trial.
