1975

1975 — Korea: 1월 28일 동해고속도로 준공 / China: 月26日，中国第一颗返回式卫星“尖兵一号”发射成功，并于3天后按预定计划返回地面，中国成为继苏联、美国之后世界上第三个掌握从轨道上回收卫星技术的国家 / United States: President Ford signs The Helsinki Accords

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KoreaSouth Korea 1948–	ChinaChina 1949–	JapanShōwa era 1926–1989	United StatesUnited States 1776–
1월 28일 동해고속도로 준공.KO 11월 7일 현대형 미사일 시험발사 성공.KO 3월 15일 핵무기 비확산조약 비준.KO 10월 14일 영동고속도로 (신갈~강릉구간) 개통.KO 3월 20일 제2땅굴 발견.KO 9월 1일 여의도 국회의사당 준공.KO 19733월 3일 한국방송사 (KBS) 발족. 19736월 23일 6.23외교 선언. 상호 내정불간섭 등 7개항 발표. 19733월 14일 주베트남 국군 철수 완료. 19735월 11일 항만관리청 선설. 197310월 15일 소양강다목적댐 준공. 197311월 14일 호남고속도로(전구간), 남해고속도로 개통. 19733월 12일 노동 3법 개정. 19733월 19일 헌법위원회 구성. 19737월 3일 포항종합제철 제1기 설비 준공. 197415 August. The assassination of first lady Yuk Young-soo by North Korean sympathizer Mun Se-gwang. 19748월 15일 서울 지하철 1호선이 개통. 19763월 1일 김대중, 윤보선, 함석헌, 함세웅, 정일형 등이 민주구국선언문을 발표 19768월 18일 판문점 도끼 만행사건 발생 197610월 27일 안동댐 준공. 19776월 18일 임시행정수도건설특별법조치법 제정. 197710월 18일 박정희 대통령, 평화통일 위한 3원칙 제시. 19777월 10일 제23회 국제기능올림픽대회에서 우승. 1977Start of the fourth five-year plan 19772월 28일 포항종합제철 냉압연공장 준공. 197712월 16일 국회, 12해리 영해법 제정. 19778월 4일 세계 최대 단일공장 남해화학 여수공장 완공. 19775월 18일 한국과학재단 발족, 해외학자 유치 등 지원. 197712월 17일 구마고속도로 개통. 19771월 12일 박정희 대통령, 북한에 식량원조 제의. 19776월 9일 국내 최초 고리원자력발전소 1호기 점화. 197712월 22일 수출목표 100억 달러 달성. 19776월 20일 박동진 외무장관, 핵개발 가능 시사.	月26日，中国第一颗返回式卫星“尖兵一号”发射成功，并于3天后按预定计划返回地面，中国成为继苏联、美国之后世界上第三个掌握从轨道上回收卫星技术的国家。ZH 月1日-5日，时任美国总统杰拉尔德·福特访华，在北京与毛泽东、邓小平等人会面。ZH April — Chiang Kai-shek died. 月，毛泽东在北京接见柬埔寨红色高棉领导人波尔布特等，并为红色高棉政权提供了大量援助，后者在柬埔寨进行了“红色高棉大屠杀”。ZH Third Indochina War 허난성 75·8 댐 붕괴 月13日-17日，第四屆全國人民代表大會第一次會議在北京召開，四人幫未能实现組閣，邓小平出任中华人民共和国国务院副总理，开启了对文革的“全面整顿”。会议还通过了中华人民共和国第二部宪法《中华人民共和国宪法》、史称《七五宪法》。ZH 邓小平任中共中央副主席兼中国人民解放军总参谋长。2月4日海城大地震。4月5日蔣中正逝世。沙甸事件。河南“75·8”水库溃坝。广东八四海难。11月29日第一次回收卫星成功。ZH 月5日，中共中央发出一号文件，任命邓小平为中共中央副主席，兼中国人民解放军总参谋长。ZH 月，云南沙甸地区发生大规模回族起义事件，后遭到解放军屠杀镇压，约1600人死亡。ZH 月，台风尼娜为河南等地带来暴雨，最终引致河南“75·8”水库溃坝，驻马店地区板桥、石漫滩两座大型水库，以及约60座中小型水库同时垮坝溃决，造成约30个县市、1700多万亩农田被淹，1000多万人受灾，据不同估计有超2.6万人至24万人死亡，2005年该事件被美国《探索频道》评为世界历史上最重大的人为技术灾难第一名。ZH 月4日，辽宁省海城发生大地震，造成1328人死亡。ZH 月，广东省发生“八四海难”，造成400余人死亡。ZH 月24日，“第一次打招呼会”召开，持续约9个月的文革全面整顿至此中断，会后“反击右倾翻案风”运动展开。ZH 月1日，陶其敏等人按照美国科学家莫里斯·希勒曼的人血灭活乙肝疫苗思路，研制出了中国第一代血源性乙肝疫苗，被称为“7571疫苗”；1970年代起，中国大陆乙肝出现大爆发，此后1.2亿人成为乙肝病毒（HBV）携带者，占当时全球HBV携带者的三分之一。ZH 19732月6日四川炉霍大地震。7月16日计划生育领导小组成立。8月26日第一台每秒钟运算100万次的集成电路电子计算机试制成功。 1973月，中华人民共和国与西班牙建交。 1973月24日-28日，中國共產黨第十次全國代表大會在北京召開，林彪、叶群、黄永胜等人被开除党籍，毛泽东在8月30日召开的中共十届一中全会上连任中共中央主席，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括王洪文、叶剑英、朱德、李德生、张春桥、周恩来、康生、董必武（参见：中国共产党第十届中央委员会）。 19731973 Luhuo earthquake 1973月6日，四川炉霍县发生7.9级大地震，死亡2175人，受伤2756人。 1973月10日，邓小平恢复国务院副总理职务，第二次复出政坛，并开始出现在众多外交场合。 1973月，《中国科学》杂志发表数学家陈景润关于“哥德巴赫猜想”的论文《大偶数表为一个素数及一个不超过两个素数的乘积之和》。 1973月26日，中国第一台每秒钟运算一百万次的集成电路电子计算机试制成功。 1973月2日，国家计委向国务院提交《关于增加设备进口、扩大经济交流的请示报告》，正式提出“四三方案”。 1973月，第一次全国计划生育汇报会上，提出了“晚、稀、少”的计划生育政策。 1973月8日，中国驻希腊王国大使周伯萍误入以色列驻希腊外交代表处，造成外交事故，即雅典事件。 1974月29日，陕西临潼县村民在打井过程中发现碎片，意外发现秦始皇兵马俑。 1974Battle of the Paracel Islands 19741月18日江青、王洪文等發起「批林批孔運動」。1月19日西沙之战。2月22日毛泽东提出“三个世界”的理论。 19741974 Zhaotong earthquake 1974月1日，中国首艘第一代攻击型核潜艇09I型核潜艇服役。 1974月18日-6月，文革“批林批孔運動 ”開始，批判林彪及孔子。 1974月2日，姚文元在上海严厉批判《中国画》画册，这被认为是 “黑画”事件的正式开端。 1974月6日-19日，邓小平率中国代表团出席联合国大会第六届特别会议。 1974月29日，前國防部長、十大元帥之一彭德懷因癌症抢救无效离世，此前彭德怀在文革期间受到批斗和迫害，直至1978年12月获得平反，恢复作为党和国家领导人的一切名誉。 1974月11日，云南昭通地区发生“大关地震”，据估计造成1,641人至20,000人死亡。 1974月19日-20日，解放军与越南共和国军爆发西沙海战。 19761976 Tangshan earthquake 19761976 Tiananmen incident 1976April — Tiananmen Incident: Some four thousand people were arrested during a protest against the removal of wreaths, flowers and poems laid at the Monument to the People's Heroes in Zhou's memory. 1976月6日，中华人民共和国元帅之首、全国人大常委会委员长朱德去世。 19761976 Longling earthquake 1976月9日，中共中央主席、中共中央军委主席毛泽东逝世。 1976September — Mao died. 1976月6日，懷仁堂事變，華國鋒、叶剑英、汪东兴等人下令拘捕四人幫（江青、王洪文、張春橋、姚文元），文化大革命结束。 1976月4日-5日，清明节期间北京爆发“四五天安门事件”，7日邓小平再次被撤销党内外一切职务（1978年11月该事件获得平反）。 1976月8日，国务院总理、全国政协主席周恩来逝世，随后由华国锋出任代总理及总理。 1976月8日，吉林省出现陨石雨。 1976月7日，中共中央第一副主席、国务院总理华国锋出任中共中央主席、中共中央军委主席，正式成为中国最高领导人。 1976月28日，江苏发生反对文化大革命的“南京事件”。 1976月25日-3月3日，“第二次打招呼会议”召开，随后“批邓、反击右倾翻案风”全面展开。 1977月-9月，南斯拉夫总统、南斯拉夫共产主义者联盟主席铁托访问中国。 1977月10日，文革后举行第一次普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（高考恢复）。 1977月18日，新疆霍城县伊犁农垦局六十一团场礼堂发生特大火灾，导致694人死亡、161人烧残。 1977Beijing Spring: A brief period of political liberalization began. 19777月16日中共十届三中全会召开，邓小平复出。9月19日邓小平提出“拨乱反正”。12月10日恢复高考。 1977月12日-18日，中国共产党第十一次全国代表大会在北京召开，华国锋在8月19日召开的中共十一届一中全会上连任中共中央主席，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括叶剑英、邓小平、李先念、汪东兴（参见：中国共产党第十一届中央委员会）。 1977月16日-21日，中共十届三中全会召开，邓小平恢复中共中央副主席、国务院副总理、中共中央军委副主席等职务，第三次复出政坛。 1977月19日，邓小平在与教育部负责人谈话时，首次提出“拨乱反正 ”、并要求恢复高考，此后数年间，邓小平、胡耀邦等人主持了全国三百多万件冤假错案的平反。 1977月，中国北方爆发“H1N1”流感疫情，此后全球出现“俄国流感”大流行，据估计造成70万人死亡，普遍认为此次病毒来源于苏联或中国的实验室泄露事故或疫苗接种事故。	No events recorded for this year 19741974 Izu Peninsula earthquake 1974Prime Minister Eisaku Satō accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.	President Ford signs The Helsinki Accords. Fall of Saigon Bill Gates founds Microsoft, which will eventually dominate the home computer operating system market. Sony's Betamax becomes the first commercially successful home video recording unit. The television series Wheel of Fortune and Saturday Night Live premiere on NBC. Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. Vietnam War 1975 Hawaii earthquake The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project begins, where an American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. President Ford survives two assassination attempts in a 17-day span (in Sacramento and in San Francisco). The movie Jaws is released. It is a landmark in Steven Spielberg's movie career. 1973Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling overturns state laws against abortion. 1973The Paris Peace Accords ends direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. 1973Former president Lyndon B. Johnson dies in Stonewall, Texas, of his third and final heart attack. It was at the LBJ ranch. 1973Skylab is launched as the USA's first space station. 19731973 New York City bomb plot 1973The Senate Watergate hearings begin, highlighted by Fred Thompson's discovery of Nixon's secret tapes. 1973Watergate scandal: President Nixon fires two attorneys general, and their appointed acting attorney general replacement fires the Watergate Special Prosecutor over disposition of the secret tapes. 1973December 6, 1973 – Gerald R. Ford becomes the first person to be appointed vice president under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. 1973State funeral of President Lyndon Johnson 1973October 10, 1973 – Vice President Agnew resigns in disgrace as part of a plea bargain. 19731974 — The United States is affected by the Arab Oil Embargo; gasoline prices skyrocket as supplies of gasoline and heating oil are in short supply. In response, daylight saving time is started in January (nearly four months earlier than usual), and the national speed limit is lowered to 55 mph. 1974"Sweet Home Alabama" released by Lynyrd Skynyrd. 1974Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home run. 1974The 1974 Super Outbreak, the second-largest series of tornadoes in history (at 148), hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province; 315 people are killed and more than 5,000 are injured. 1974Restrictions are removed on holding private gold within the United States. 1974August 9, 1974 – President Nixon resigns, becoming the first and only U.S. president to step down. Vice President Ford becomes the 38th president. 1974December 19, 1974 – Nelson A. Rockefeller becomes the second person to be appointed vice president under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. 1974Watergate scandal: The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach President Nixon 1974Watergate scandal: Ford pardons Nixon for any crimes he may have committed against the United States while president, believing it to be in the "best interests of the country." 1976Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne found Apple Inc. 1976U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter is elected president, Walter F. Mondale is elected vice president. 1976Copyright Act of 1976 1976January 20, 1977 – Carter becomes the 39th president, Mondale becomes the 42nd vice president 1976Americans celebrate the Bicentennial of the United States. 1977The Atari 2600 becomes the first successful home video game system, popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code. 1977The first home personal computer, the Commodore PET, is released for retail sale. 1977Golden Dragon massacre 1977Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll, dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans line the streets of Memphis for his funeral 1977The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder. 1977The science-fiction space opera film Star Wars debuts in theaters. 1977The International Women’s Year Conference (IWY), is held in Houston, Texas, where 2,000 state-appointed delegates vote on planks to form a “Plan of Action” called “What Women Want.” 1977The television miniseries Roots airs on ABC, to critical acclaim and record audiences.

KoreaSouth Korea 1948–

ChinaChina 1949–

JapanShōwa era 1926–1989

United StatesUnited States 1776–

1월 28일 동해고속도로 준공.KO
11월 7일 현대형 미사일 시험발사 성공.KO
3월 15일 핵무기 비확산조약 비준.KO
10월 14일 영동고속도로 (신갈~강릉구간) 개통.KO
3월 20일 제2땅굴 발견.KO
9월 1일 여의도 국회의사당 준공.KO

19733월 3일 한국방송사 (KBS) 발족.
19736월 23일 6.23외교 선언. 상호 내정불간섭 등 7개항 발표.
19733월 14일 주베트남 국군 철수 완료.
19735월 11일 항만관리청 선설.
197310월 15일 소양강다목적댐 준공.
197311월 14일 호남고속도로(전구간), 남해고속도로 개통.
19733월 12일 노동 3법 개정.
19733월 19일 헌법위원회 구성.
19737월 3일 포항종합제철 제1기 설비 준공.
197415 August. The assassination of first lady Yuk Young-soo by North Korean sympathizer Mun Se-gwang.
19748월 15일 서울 지하철 1호선이 개통.
19763월 1일 김대중, 윤보선, 함석헌, 함세웅, 정일형 등이 민주구국선언문을 발표
19768월 18일 판문점 도끼 만행사건 발생
197610월 27일 안동댐 준공.
19776월 18일 임시행정수도건설특별법조치법 제정.
197710월 18일 박정희 대통령, 평화통일 위한 3원칙 제시.
19777월 10일 제23회 국제기능올림픽대회에서 우승.
1977Start of the fourth five-year plan
19772월 28일 포항종합제철 냉압연공장 준공.
197712월 16일 국회, 12해리 영해법 제정.
19778월 4일 세계 최대 단일공장 남해화학 여수공장 완공.
19775월 18일 한국과학재단 발족, 해외학자 유치 등 지원.
197712월 17일 구마고속도로 개통.
19771월 12일 박정희 대통령, 북한에 식량원조 제의.
19776월 9일 국내 최초 고리원자력발전소 1호기 점화.
197712월 22일 수출목표 100억 달러 달성.
19776월 20일 박동진 외무장관, 핵개발 가능 시사.

月26日，中国第一颗返回式卫星“尖兵一号”发射成功，并于3天后按预定计划返回地面，中国成为继苏联、美国之后世界上第三个掌握从轨道上回收卫星技术的国家。ZH
月1日-5日，时任美国总统杰拉尔德·福特访华，在北京与毛泽东、邓小平等人会面。ZH
April — Chiang Kai-shek died.
月，毛泽东在北京接见柬埔寨红色高棉领导人波尔布特等，并为红色高棉政权提供了大量援助，后者在柬埔寨进行了“红色高棉大屠杀”。ZH
Third Indochina War
허난성 75·8 댐 붕괴
月13日-17日，第四屆全國人民代表大會第一次會議在北京召開，四人幫未能实现組閣，邓小平出任中华人民共和国国务院副总理，开启了对文革的“全面整顿”。会议还通过了中华人民共和国第二部宪法《中华人民共和国宪法》、史称《七五宪法》。ZH
邓小平任中共中央副主席兼中国人民解放军总参谋长。2月4日海城大地震。4月5日蔣中正逝世。沙甸事件。河南“75·8”水库溃坝。广东八四海难。11月29日第一次回收卫星成功。ZH
月5日，中共中央发出一号文件，任命邓小平为中共中央副主席，兼中国人民解放军总参谋长。ZH
月，云南沙甸地区发生大规模回族起义事件，后遭到解放军屠杀镇压，约1600人死亡。ZH
月，台风尼娜为河南等地带来暴雨，最终引致河南“75·8”水库溃坝，驻马店地区板桥、石漫滩两座大型水库，以及约60座中小型水库同时垮坝溃决，造成约30个县市、1700多万亩农田被淹，1000多万人受灾，据不同估计有超2.6万人至24万人死亡，2005年该事件被美国《探索频道》评为世界历史上最重大的人为技术灾难第一名。ZH
月4日，辽宁省海城发生大地震，造成1328人死亡。ZH
月，广东省发生“八四海难”，造成400余人死亡。ZH
月24日，“第一次打招呼会”召开，持续约9个月的文革全面整顿至此中断，会后“反击右倾翻案风”运动展开。ZH
月1日，陶其敏等人按照美国科学家莫里斯·希勒曼的人血灭活乙肝疫苗思路，研制出了中国第一代血源性乙肝疫苗，被称为“7571疫苗”；1970年代起，中国大陆乙肝出现大爆发，此后1.2亿人成为乙肝病毒（HBV）携带者，占当时全球HBV携带者的三分之一。ZH

19732月6日四川炉霍大地震。7月16日计划生育领导小组成立。8月26日第一台每秒钟运算100万次的集成电路电子计算机试制成功。
1973月，中华人民共和国与西班牙建交。
1973月24日-28日，中國共產黨第十次全國代表大會在北京召開，林彪、叶群、黄永胜等人被开除党籍，毛泽东在8月30日召开的中共十届一中全会上连任中共中央主席，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括王洪文、叶剑英、朱德、李德生、张春桥、周恩来、康生、董必武（参见：中国共产党第十届中央委员会）。
19731973 Luhuo earthquake
1973月6日，四川炉霍县发生7.9级大地震，死亡2175人，受伤2756人。
1973月10日，邓小平恢复国务院副总理职务，第二次复出政坛，并开始出现在众多外交场合。
1973月，《中国科学》杂志发表数学家陈景润关于“哥德巴赫猜想”的论文《大偶数表为一个素数及一个不超过两个素数的乘积之和》。
1973月26日，中国第一台每秒钟运算一百万次的集成电路电子计算机试制成功。
1973月2日，国家计委向国务院提交《关于增加设备进口、扩大经济交流的请示报告》，正式提出“四三方案”。
1973月，第一次全国计划生育汇报会上，提出了“晚、稀、少”的计划生育政策。
1973月8日，中国驻希腊王国大使周伯萍误入以色列驻希腊外交代表处，造成外交事故，即雅典事件。
1974月29日，陕西临潼县村民在打井过程中发现碎片，意外发现秦始皇兵马俑。
1974Battle of the Paracel Islands
19741月18日江青、王洪文等發起「批林批孔運動」。1月19日西沙之战。2月22日毛泽东提出“三个世界”的理论。
19741974 Zhaotong earthquake
1974月1日，中国首艘第一代攻击型核潜艇09I型核潜艇服役。
1974月18日-6月，文革“批林批孔運動 ”開始，批判林彪及孔子。
1974月2日，姚文元在上海严厉批判《中国画》画册，这被认为是 “黑画”事件的正式开端。
1974月6日-19日，邓小平率中国代表团出席联合国大会第六届特别会议。
1974月29日，前國防部長、十大元帥之一彭德懷因癌症抢救无效离世，此前彭德怀在文革期间受到批斗和迫害，直至1978年12月获得平反，恢复作为党和国家领导人的一切名誉。
1974月11日，云南昭通地区发生“大关地震”，据估计造成1,641人至20,000人死亡。
1974月19日-20日，解放军与越南共和国军爆发西沙海战。
19761976 Tangshan earthquake
19761976 Tiananmen incident
1976April — Tiananmen Incident: Some four thousand people were arrested during a protest against the removal of wreaths, flowers and poems laid at the Monument to the People's Heroes in Zhou's memory.
1976月6日，中华人民共和国元帅之首、全国人大常委会委员长朱德去世。
19761976 Longling earthquake
1976月9日，中共中央主席、中共中央军委主席毛泽东逝世。
1976September — Mao died.
1976月6日，懷仁堂事變，華國鋒、叶剑英、汪东兴等人下令拘捕四人幫（江青、王洪文、張春橋、姚文元），文化大革命结束。
1976月4日-5日，清明节期间北京爆发“四五天安门事件”，7日邓小平再次被撤销党内外一切职务（1978年11月该事件获得平反）。
1976月8日，国务院总理、全国政协主席周恩来逝世，随后由华国锋出任代总理及总理。
1976月8日，吉林省出现陨石雨。
1976月7日，中共中央第一副主席、国务院总理华国锋出任中共中央主席、中共中央军委主席，正式成为中国最高领导人。
1976月28日，江苏发生反对文化大革命的“南京事件”。
1976月25日-3月3日，“第二次打招呼会议”召开，随后“批邓、反击右倾翻案风”全面展开。
1977月-9月，南斯拉夫总统、南斯拉夫共产主义者联盟主席铁托访问中国。
1977月10日，文革后举行第一次普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（高考恢复）。
1977月18日，新疆霍城县伊犁农垦局六十一团场礼堂发生特大火灾，导致694人死亡、161人烧残。
1977Beijing Spring: A brief period of political liberalization began.
19777月16日中共十届三中全会召开，邓小平复出。9月19日邓小平提出“拨乱反正”。12月10日恢复高考。
1977月12日-18日，中国共产党第十一次全国代表大会在北京召开，华国锋在8月19日召开的中共十一届一中全会上连任中共中央主席，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括叶剑英、邓小平、李先念、汪东兴（参见：中国共产党第十一届中央委员会）。
1977月16日-21日，中共十届三中全会召开，邓小平恢复中共中央副主席、国务院副总理、中共中央军委副主席等职务，第三次复出政坛。
1977月19日，邓小平在与教育部负责人谈话时，首次提出“拨乱反正 ”、并要求恢复高考，此后数年间，邓小平、胡耀邦等人主持了全国三百多万件冤假错案的平反。
1977月，中国北方爆发“H1N1”流感疫情，此后全球出现“俄国流感”大流行，据估计造成70万人死亡，普遍认为此次病毒来源于苏联或中国的实验室泄露事故或疫苗接种事故。

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19741974 Izu Peninsula earthquake
1974Prime Minister Eisaku Satō accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Ford signs The Helsinki Accords.
Fall of Saigon
Bill Gates founds Microsoft, which will eventually dominate the home computer operating system market.
Sony's Betamax becomes the first commercially successful home video recording unit.
The television series Wheel of Fortune and Saturday Night Live premiere on NBC.
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
Vietnam War
1975 Hawaii earthquake
The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project begins, where an American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
President Ford survives two assassination attempts in a 17-day span (in Sacramento and in San Francisco).
The movie Jaws is released. It is a landmark in Steven Spielberg's movie career.

1973Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling overturns state laws against abortion.
1973The Paris Peace Accords ends direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
1973Former president Lyndon B. Johnson dies in Stonewall, Texas, of his third and final heart attack. It was at the LBJ ranch.
1973Skylab is launched as the USA's first space station.
19731973 New York City bomb plot
1973The Senate Watergate hearings begin, highlighted by Fred Thompson's discovery of Nixon's secret tapes.
1973Watergate scandal: President Nixon fires two attorneys general, and their appointed acting attorney general replacement fires the Watergate Special Prosecutor over disposition of the secret tapes.
1973December 6, 1973 – Gerald R. Ford becomes the first person to be appointed vice president under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
1973State funeral of President Lyndon Johnson
1973October 10, 1973 – Vice President Agnew resigns in disgrace as part of a plea bargain.
19731974 — The United States is affected by the Arab Oil Embargo; gasoline prices skyrocket as supplies of gasoline and heating oil are in short supply. In response, daylight saving time is started in January (nearly four months earlier than usual), and the national speed limit is lowered to 55 mph.
1974"Sweet Home Alabama" released by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
1974Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home run.
1974The 1974 Super Outbreak, the second-largest series of tornadoes in history (at 148), hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province; 315 people are killed and more than 5,000 are injured.
1974Restrictions are removed on holding private gold within the United States.
1974August 9, 1974 – President Nixon resigns, becoming the first and only U.S. president to step down. Vice President Ford becomes the 38th president.
1974December 19, 1974 – Nelson A. Rockefeller becomes the second person to be appointed vice president under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
1974Watergate scandal: The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach President Nixon
1974Watergate scandal: Ford pardons Nixon for any crimes he may have committed against the United States while president, believing it to be in the "best interests of the country."
1976Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne found Apple Inc.
1976U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter is elected president, Walter F. Mondale is elected vice president.
1976Copyright Act of 1976
1976January 20, 1977 – Carter becomes the 39th president, Mondale becomes the 42nd vice president
1976Americans celebrate the Bicentennial of the United States.
1977The Atari 2600 becomes the first successful home video game system, popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code.
1977The first home personal computer, the Commodore PET, is released for retail sale.
1977Golden Dragon massacre
1977Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll, dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans line the streets of Memphis for his funeral
1977The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.
1977The science-fiction space opera film Star Wars debuts in theaters.
1977The International Women’s Year Conference (IWY), is held in Houston, Texas, where 2,000 state-appointed delegates vote on planks to form a “Plan of Action” called “What Women Want.”
1977The television miniseries Roots airs on ABC, to critical acclaim and record audiences.