1970:
Aswan high dam completed
Palestinian group hijacks five planes
Kent State shootings
1971:
United Kingdom changes to the decimal system for currency
1972:
Terrorists attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
Watergate scandal begins
1973:
Roe v. Wade makes abortions legal in the U.S
United States pulls out of Vietnam
United States vice president Spiro Agnew resigns
1974:
United Sates President Richard Nixon resigns
Gerald Ford becomes president
1975:
Cambodian genocide begins
Civil war in Lebanon begins
Pol pot becomes the communist’s dictator of Cambodia
1976:
First Ebola virus outbreaks strike Sudan and Zaire
North and South Vietnam join to form the socialist republic of Vietnam
Tangshan earthquake kills over 240,000 people
1977:
Jimmy Carter becomes president
South African anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko tortured to death
1978:
John Paul II becomes pope
Jamestown massacre
1979:
Ayatollah Khomeini returns as leader of Iran
Iran takes American hostages in Tehran
Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island
Aswan high dam completed
Palestinian group hijacks five planes
Kent State shootings
1971:
United Kingdom changes to the decimal system for currency
1972:
Terrorists attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
Watergate scandal begins
1973:
Roe v. Wade makes abortions legal in the U.S
United States pulls out of Vietnam
United States vice president Spiro Agnew resigns
1974:
United Sates President Richard Nixon resigns
Gerald Ford becomes president
1975:
Cambodian genocide begins
Civil war in Lebanon begins
Pol pot becomes the communist’s dictator of Cambodia
1976:
First Ebola virus outbreaks strike Sudan and Zaire
North and South Vietnam join to form the socialist republic of Vietnam
Tangshan earthquake kills over 240,000 people
1977:
Jimmy Carter becomes president
South African anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko tortured to death
1978:
John Paul II becomes pope
Jamestown massacre
1979:
Ayatollah Khomeini returns as leader of Iran
Iran takes American hostages in Tehran
Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island