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1970 - Head Coach Woody Hayes leads Ohio State Buckeyes to his 5th National Championship with them.
1971 - President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard monetary policy known as the Nixon Shock
1971 - 26th Amendment ratified, allowing 18-year-olds to vote.
1972 - President Richard Nixon visits China, an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China.
1972 - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed with USSR
1972 - U.S. presidential election, 1972 (President Nixon re-elected)
1972 - Apollo 17 flies to the Moon, and becomes the last manned mission there (as of 2013)
1973 - Paris Peace Accords ends direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
1973 - Skylab launched as the USA's first space station
1973 - Watergate scandal: President Nixon fires three Attorneys General over disposition of the secret tapes and the actions of the Special Prosecutor.
1974 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home run.
1974 - Watergate scandal: The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach the President
1974 - President Nixon resigns, becoming the first (and as of 2011, the only) President to step down. Vice president Ford becomes President. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York becomes the second person to be appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution
1975 - President Ford survives two assassination attempts in a 17-day time span.
1975 - The television series Wheel of Fortune and Saturday Night Live premiere on NBC.
1977 - Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as President
1978 - Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act signed into law, adjusting the government's economic goals to include full employment, growth in production, price stability, and balance of trade and budget
1970-1975 - Halfway through the Black Rights movement to the "end" of the movement
1971 - President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard monetary policy known as the Nixon Shock
1971 - 26th Amendment ratified, allowing 18-year-olds to vote.
1972 - President Richard Nixon visits China, an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China.
1972 - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed with USSR
1972 - U.S. presidential election, 1972 (President Nixon re-elected)
1972 - Apollo 17 flies to the Moon, and becomes the last manned mission there (as of 2013)
1973 - Paris Peace Accords ends direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
1973 - Skylab launched as the USA's first space station
1973 - Watergate scandal: President Nixon fires three Attorneys General over disposition of the secret tapes and the actions of the Special Prosecutor.
1974 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home run.
1974 - Watergate scandal: The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach the President
1974 - President Nixon resigns, becoming the first (and as of 2011, the only) President to step down. Vice president Ford becomes President. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York becomes the second person to be appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution
1975 - President Ford survives two assassination attempts in a 17-day time span.
1975 - The television series Wheel of Fortune and Saturday Night Live premiere on NBC.
1977 - Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as President
1978 - Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act signed into law, adjusting the government's economic goals to include full employment, growth in production, price stability, and balance of trade and budget
1970-1975 - Halfway through the Black Rights movement to the "end" of the movement