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U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation of schools.
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The environmentalist Group Greenpeace is founded.
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Five men are caught breaking in to the Watergate Complex where the Democratic Party offices are – the start of the Watergate Scandal.
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U.S. planes bomb North Vietnam on Christmas Day.
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Fight the Yom Kippur War in October. In November, America brokers a cease-fire accord.
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The house Judiciary Committee indicts President Richard Nixon for impeachment over the Watergate Scandal. In August, Nixon resigns his office, the first president to do so. Ford grants Nixon a "full, free and absolute pardon."
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All the President's Men, is published by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein detailing events of Watergate.
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Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft link up in space, marking the cooperation between the U.S. and Soviets.
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Egypt's president Anwar Sadat and Israeli premier Menachem Begin sign a "Framework for Peace" after meeting for 13 days with Jimmy Carter at Camp David. Later they win the Noble Peace Prize
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In, December, Soviet troops invade Afghanistan to prop up a Communist leader.
