Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1970-1979

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American Soldiers Accused of Murdering Entire Town of Vietnamese Civilians

Aswan High Dam Completed

Beatles Break Up

Computer Floppy Disks Introduced

Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes

Kent State Shootings

London Bridge Brought to the U.S.

United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency

VCRs Introduced

M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers

Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals

Pocket Calculators Introduced

Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich

Watergate Scandal Begins

Abortion Legalized in U.S.

Paul Getty Kidnapped

Sears Tower Built

U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam

U.S. Vice President Resigns

Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed

Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects

Patty Hearst Kidnapped

Terracotta Army Discovered in China

U.S. President Nixon Resigns

Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon

Civil War in Lebanon

Microsoft Founded

Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia

Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens

North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000

Elvis Found Dead

Miniseries Roots Airs

South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death

Star Wars Movie Released

First Test-Tube Baby Born

John Paul II Becomes Pope

Jonestown Massacre

Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran

Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran

Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain

Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island

Sony Introduces the Walkman

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