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Apollo 11 achieves the first moon landing for the United States. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, who at that time considered the U.S. one of its staunchest foes.
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the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, begins televised hearings on the escalating Watergate affair. One week later, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was sworn in as special Watergate prosecutor
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first President to resign the presidency, which he did after the House Judiciary Committee voted articles of impeachment against him in 1974.
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), major diplomatic agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, at the conclusion of the first Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE; now called the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). .
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Americans held a nationwide birthday party to mark the 4th, the 200th anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of Independence.
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Carters commitment to finding ethical solutions to complicated problems was most viable in the east. Highl effective personal diplomacy to birdge the gap between Sadat and Begin.
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On November 4, 1979, radical Iranian students seized the United States Embassy complex in the Iranian capital of Tehran. The immediate cause of this takeover was the anger many Iranians felt over the U.S. President Jimmy Carter allowing the deposed former ruler of Iran, Shah Reza Pahlavi, to enter the U.S. for medical treatment. the hostages were allowed to fly out of Iran after 444 days of captivity.
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The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It preceded the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott carried out by the Soviet Union and other Communist friendly countries
