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Four students at Kent State University in Ohio slain by National Guardsmen at demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia.
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Twenty-sixth Amendment to U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
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Vietnam War veteran Richard McCoy, Jr. hijacks a United Airlines jet and extorts $500,000; he is later captured.
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Apollo 16 (John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke) is launched. During the mission, the astronauts achieve a lunar rover speed record of 18 km/h.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon is inaugurated for his second term.
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Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army.
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House Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of impeachment charging President Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee.
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American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by U.S. Navy and Marines, 38 of whom are killed.
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President Ford escapes assassination attempt in Sacramento, Calif.
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Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
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Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, signed by 15 countries, including U.S. and USSR.
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Rhodesia's prime minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule.
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