You think 2024 has been packed with a ceaseless and exhausting stream of consequential events? So did Americans in 1940, 1968 and 1973.
  • pwnicholson@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 months ago

    Or what has been called one of the most historic and tumultuous years of a century (1968)… Yeah.

    Now I gotta look up 1973. Never heard it mentioned in this context…

    Answer:

    • Roe vs Wade
    • Vietnam War officially ended, US pulls out of Cambodia
    • OPEC oil embargo started
    • Wounded Knee occupation
    • Major flooding of the Mississippi River
    • New tallest building in the world (Sears Tower)
    • Nixon goes to China and US opens official office in Beijing
    • Battle of the Sexes tennis match
    • Secretariat wins first triple crown in 25 years, smashing records
    • “The Miller Test” for obscenity is established by the US Supreme Court
    • Two notable commercial airline crashes with fatalities (both in Boston, interestingly)
    • Egypt and Israel sign peace accord
    • Much of the Watergate scandal played out in 73, though Nixon didn’t resign until August of '74