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The Apollo 13 Space Mission was launched from Cape Kennedy and the Russian unmanned spacecrafts, luna 16 and luna 17 land on the moon.
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The First Earth Day was celebrated, reinvigorating the enviroment movement world wide.
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Cigarette advertisments are banned from U.S television.
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U.S. Plane bomb Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia, spreading the war beyond Vietnam.
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President Nixon visits China and re-elected in near landslide, but democrats win majority in bith houses of congress.
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U.S supreme court effectively bans capitol punishment as cruel and unusual.
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Vice President Agnew resigns after income tax scandal.
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White House releases transcripts of tape recordings.
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John lee carre publishes tinker. tailor, solider, spy and woodward and bernstein to all the presidents men.
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Presidnet nIxon resigns as articles of impeachment filed as he granted a pardon by presidnet Gerald Ford.
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Fighting breaks out between Christians and Moslems in Beirut, Lebanon.
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U.S. Apollo and Soviet Soyuz 19 spacecrafts link up in first international manned space flight
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First report that spray cans damage the earth's ozone layer released by National Academy of Science.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest wins top five Academy Awards - first time for a single movie since 1934
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New York City blackout leaves 9 million in the dark.
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Roots appears on American television and becomes the most watched show in history
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Camp David peace talks bring an agreement between Israel and Egypt.
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Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler make first successful ascent of Mt. Everest without using oxygen.
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Sir Anthony Blunt, art historian to Buckingham Palace, exposed as fourth man in Britain's worst spy scandal and stripped of his knighthood.
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Shah of Iran forced into exile as fundamentalists take control and hold U.S. embassy staff hostage
