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  • LindsayHowlett
    LindsayHowlett Posts: 44
    1966 - England won the football world cup!
  • celeste_xo
    celeste_xo Posts: 88
    1967: July 23 – 12th Street Riot/Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.

    and this started the downward spiral of my beloved city, for shaaame
  • couponfun
    couponfun Posts: 714 Member
    1968 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey is released
    Hawaii 5-0 premiers
    Robert Kennedy gets shot
  • dogacreek
    dogacreek Posts: 289 Member
    1969 Woodstock :flowerforyou:
  • snrose
    snrose Posts: 233 Member
    in 1970 america celebrated its first earth day :)
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
    1971 Cigarette Advertising Ended on Television in USA
  • SunKissed1989
    SunKissed1989 Posts: 1,314 Member
    1971

    1st October - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida
  • Werglum
    Werglum Posts: 378 Member
    1972 - James K Baxter died (notable New Zealand Poet)
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
    1972- A South American soccer team's plane crashes in the Andes! (the movie Alive, in case you're wondering)
  • Thechiplover
    Thechiplover Posts: 118
    1972

    16 survivors from plane crash survive and are rescued after practicing cannibalism
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
    1973-Roe v. Wade
  • jozkny
    jozkny Posts: 17 Member
    1973 - Jan 22, Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs. Wade
  • jozkny
    jozkny Posts: 17 Member
    ahh beat me to it!
  • brookepenni
    brookepenni Posts: 787 Member
    1974 - Mar 3rd - World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
  • jozkny
    jozkny Posts: 17 Member
    ok then... 1974- Sears Tower (Chicago) is named world's tallest building
  • snrose
    snrose Posts: 233 Member
    1975 bill gates founded microsoft
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
    1976 Mao Tse-tung dies
  • foxbat2828
    foxbat2828 Posts: 391 Member
    1976 - America's bicentennial
  • lkm111
    lkm111 Posts: 629 Member
    1977 - The world's first personal all-in-one computer (keyboard/screen/tape storage), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago
  • dollipop
    dollipop Posts: 379 Member
    1977 - Elvis died, Star Wars released. Me born :wink:
  • seventwenty
    seventwenty Posts: 565 Member
    1978 Camp David Accords
  • elcieloesazul
    elcieloesazul Posts: 448 Member
    1979-China establishes its One Child Policy.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    1980-


    The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the Miracle on Ice.
  • elcieloesazul
    elcieloesazul Posts: 448 Member
    1981-CDC discovers first recognized case of AIDS.
  • AggieLu
    AggieLu Posts: 873 Member
    1982: AggieLu was born ;*)

    and

    First issue of USA Today hits the newsstands.
  • miksmomma2011
    miksmomma2011 Posts: 21 Member
    1983
    Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
  • elcieloesazul
    elcieloesazul Posts: 448 Member
    1983: KISS appears first time publicly without makeup on on MTV.
  • BackTatJIM
    BackTatJIM Posts: 1,140 Member
    1983


    US Football League holds its 1st player draft.
  • seventwenty
    seventwenty Posts: 565 Member
    1984- Winston Smith meets Big Brother
  • Platnex
    Platnex Posts: 110 Member
    1984

    Apple Machintosh is launched changing the world forever
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