- 1970
| Jan 02 | US population is 205,052,174; Black population 22,600,000 (11.1%). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | US President Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine". | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | End of US commercial whale hunting. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | The cover of LIFE magazine was extremely popular. It showed the extremes of the new hemline hassle that was raging -- a battle between long versus short skirts. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 01 | President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect after January first, | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 10 | A US military attache in Amman Jordan, Major Robert Perry, is shot to death by commandos. | Ref: 17 |
| Jun 11 | The United States presence in Libya came to an end as the last detachment left Wheelus Air Base. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 16 | Kenneth A Gibson elected first black mayor of Newark, NJ. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 22 | President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 23 | Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 25 | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down legislative ruling 35 FR 7732, making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 20 | First baby born on Alcatraz Island. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 22 | President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 22 | Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 15 | Congress approved the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. This law contained a section known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act or RICO. RICO has become a very effective tool in convicting members of organized criminal enterprises. | Ref: 14 |
| Oct 19 | One World Trade Center was ready for its first tenants this day, though the upper stories were not completed until 1972. Construction had begun in 1966 and the opening of the twin towers went on from 1970 to 1973. The actual ribbon cutting was held on April 4, 1973. At 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world’s tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower (Chicago) surpassed them both in 1974. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 28 | Senator James William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accuses the Nixon administration of conducting an illegal war in Laos without congressional knowledge or approval. | Ref: 3 |
| Dec 02 | The Environmental Protection Agency begins operating under director William Ruckelshaus. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 02 | The U.S. Senate votes to give 48,000 acres of New Mexico back to the Taos Indians. | Ref: 2 |
- 1971
| Jan 04 | Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 05 | President Richard M. Nixon names Robert Dole as chairman of the Republican National Party. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 06 | Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 07 | The US Court of Appeals orders a ban on all usage of the pesticide DDT, until its effects on public health have been studied. | Ref: 17 |
| Jan 08 | Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 04 | National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 10 | American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in New York. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 20 | National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by Supreme Court. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | President Richard Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 25 | US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire. | Ref: 5 |
| May 17 | State of Washington becomes first to enact legislation banning sex discrimination. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | National Guard mobilized to quell riot in Chattanooga TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 10 | Embargo on exporting goods to China was lifted by President Nixon | Ref: 17 |
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| Jun 30 | Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve of lower the voting age to 18, thus ratifying the 26th admendment. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 01 | The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, lowering the minimum voting age to 18, was ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to approve it. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jul 05 | 26th Amendment comes into force-voting age lowered to 18. | Ref: 10 |
| Jul 15 | President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations." | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 15 | President Richard Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 08 | Prison revolt begins at Attica Prison, New York. | Ref: 10 |
| Sep 08 | The Kennedy Center opens in Washington, DC with a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 10 | London Bridge officially re-opens in Lake Havasu, Arizona, U.S.A.;total cost $6.9 million. | Ref: 10 |
| Nov 01 | The first Eisenhower dollar coins were put into circulation by the U.S. Mint. The coins were minted from 1971 to 1978 | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 10 | US table tennis team arrived in China. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 20 | The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 24 | Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 18 | The Reverend Jesse Jackson announced in Chicago the founding of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). (XDG, p 4A, 12/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 25 | Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson. | Ref: 5 |
- 1972
| Feb 05 | It is reported that the United States has agreed to sell 42 F-4 Phantom jets to Israel. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 17 | President Richard M. Nixon departed Washington, D.C. on his historic trip to China. Thousands gathered on the White House lawn for a big send-off. What’s the big deal, you ask? He was the first U.S. president to go to China, that’s what. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 22 | President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issue the Shanghai Communique at the conclusion of Nixon's historic visit to China. | Ref: 17 |
| Feb 28 | U.S. President Richard Nixon wrapped up an historic week-long visit to China, convinced the trip helped to create a new “generation of peace.” | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 29 | The U.S. Justice Department had recently settled an antitrust lawsuit in favor of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. On this date, newspaper columnist, Jack Anderson revealed a memo written by ITT’s Washington lobbyist, Dita Beard, that connected ITT’s funding of part of the Republican National Convention with the resulting lawsuit settlement. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 03 | Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain GA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | The United States and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Benjamin L Hooks, named to the FCC. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | 2 giants pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) arrive in the US, from China, as a gift to President Nixon. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | US Assistant Attorney General L Patrick Gray III, is named acting director of the FBI, succeeding J Edgar Hoover, who died May 2nd. | Ref: 17 |
| May 08 | The FBI Academy opened a new training facility on the US Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia. | Ref: 14 |
| Jun 20 | President Richard Nixon names General Creigton Abrams as Commander-in-Chief of the US armed forces. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 23 | Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 21 | Republican convention opens in Miami Beach. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 28 | Mark Spitz captured the first of his seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Spitz completed the 200-meter butterfly in 2 minutes, 7/10ths of a second. His performance set a new world record. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 26 | Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 26 | American Museum of Immigration dedicated. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 11 | Prison uprising at Washington DC jail. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 26 | Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin. | Ref: 5 |
- 1973
| Jan 02 | Rafael Hernandez Colon is inaugerated as the fourth governor of Puerto Rico. | Ref: 17 |
| Jan 23 | The Alaskan pipeline was authorized | Ref: 62 |
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| Feb 03 | President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 12 | The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs along Interstate 71. These new signs showed the distance in both miles and kilometers. The metric system, though standard in many nations around the world, never quite caught on in the United States, except on major-league baseball stadium fences -- and on that highway in Ohio. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 17 | President Richard Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 22 | US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 meters or 1450 feet), topped | Ref: 5 |
| May 12 | US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 23 | The last person drafted into the U.S. armed forces prior to the expiration of the Selective Service Act was Dwight Eliott Stone. Stone got the call from Uncle Sam on this day. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 09 | Clarence M. Kelley was sworn in as Director of the FBI. Kelley was a former FBI agent and had served as the Chief of Police of Kansas City, Missouri for many years before this appointment. | Ref: 14 |
| Sep 21 | The Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger to be secretary of state. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 22 | Henry Kissinger took the oath as U.S. Secretary of State. This was the first time a naturalized citizen had held this office. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 18 | Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 16 | President Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | The Chamber of Commerce of Akron, OH terminated its association with the All-American Soap Box Derby, stating that the race had become “a victim of cheating and fraud.” | Ref: 4 |
- 1974
| Feb 15 | U.S. gas stations threaten to close because of federal fuel policies. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 18 | US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan presents $2,046,700,000 check. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | The United States and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. The guardsmen were later acquitted. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 10 | American Boccaccio Association established. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 04 | Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 19 | US Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 30 | The largest fountain in America, the visual symbol of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was dedicated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania this day. The fountain takes up one-fifth of 36-acre Point State Park at the convergence of the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers. 90 percent of the fountain is unseen. That’s the part that pumps water from an underground river (a fourth, unnamed river that runs under the city and flows south, unlike the other three rivers), stores it and feeds it into the fountain. Designed by Charles Stotz and Louis Fosner and built by Robert R. Busse, the fountain is controlled by computers and operates automatically. Wind velocity specifies the height of the water column (2 feet in diameter by up to 200 ft. high. 24 white and gold quartz-iodine lights present a dramatic display of shifting colors by night. That’s how you can see the fountain in all its glory whenever the Pittsburgh Steelers play on Monday Night Football. The most interesting structural fact and a very complicated procedure -- this fountain was built to withstand water pressure from beneath, so the pressure would not push it up and cause it to float. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 05 | Walter E Washington, becomes the first elected mayor of Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 20 | The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 24 | Gerald Ford & Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-2-treaty. (TWA, 1999) | Ref: 95 |
| Dec 31 | Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 Balboa coin. | Ref: 5 |
- 1975
| Feb 01 | Otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 27 | House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 09 | Work begins on the Alaskan oil pipeline. | Ref: 70 |
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| May 12 | The White House announced the new Cambodian government had seized an American merchant ship, the "Mayaguez," in international waters. | Ref: 5 |
| May 14 | US forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang, recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 U-S servicemen were killed in the military operation. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 10 | Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 17 | Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the camp's victims. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 30 | The J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building was formally dedicated. FBI Headquarters units had begun moving into the new building the previous November. | Ref: 14 |
| Oct 02 | President Ford welcomes Japan's Emperor Hirohito to the United States. (XDG, p 4A, 10/2/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| Oct 22 | Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, is given a "general" discharge by the Air Force after publicly declaring his homosexuality.Matlovich dies in 1988. His tombstone reads: "A gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one." | Ref: 3 |
| Dec 23 | Congress passes Metric Conversion Act. | Ref: 5 |
- 1976
| Jan 01 | Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 01 | From today, an author, artist or composer owns copyrights on his material for 50 years after death. | Ref: 10 |
| Jan 08 | Franklin Mint strikes first gold coins for Netherlands Antilles. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | U.S.A. extends offshore fishing limit from 12 to 200 miles. | Ref: 10 |
| Apr 13 | Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 03 | US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 04 | America celebrated its bicentennial with daylong festivities; President Ford made stops in Valley Forge, PA, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and NY, where more than 200 ships paraded up the Hudson River in Operation Sail. | Ref: 6 |
| Jul 04 | America celebrated its bicentennial; in New York, more than 200 ships paraded up the Hudson River in Operation Sail. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 01 | Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray). | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 04 | Agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over a joke he'd made about blacks. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 04 | The FBI established an Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate charges of malfeasance against Bureau employees. | Ref: 14 |
| Dec 06 | Democrat Tip O'Neill is elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. He will serve the longest consecutive term as Speaker. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 21 | Patricia R Harris named Secretary of HUD. | Ref: 5 |
- 1977
| Jan 04 | Thomas ('Tip') O'Neill becomes the Speaker of the US House of Representative. | Ref: 17 |
| Jan 21 | President Carter urges 65º as the maximum heat in homes to ease the energy crisis. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 24 | President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | US extends territorial waters to 200 miles. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 02 | The US House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics. | Ref: 17 |
| Mar 07 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | The US House of Representatives began a 90-day test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 16 | US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's first meeting with President Jimmy Carter. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the flame-retardant chemical "TRIS". | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Republic of Cameroon. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | The trans-Alaska oil pipeline, three years in the making, is completed. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 02 | NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 03 | First diplomatic missions exchanged between Cuba and the U.S. since 1961 | Ref: 62 |
| Jun 07 | Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 30 | Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52". | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 11 | The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White House ceremony. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 14 | President Jimmy Carter defended Supreme Court decisions limiting government payments for poor women's abortions, saying, "There are many things in life that are not fair." | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 28 | First oil flow through the Alaska pipeline. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | After years of debate over its impact on the environment, the 799 mile trans-Alaska pipeline went into full operation as the first oil from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay fields arrived at the ice free port of Valdez on the southern coast of Alaska where is was loaded into ocean going tankers. | Ref: 62 |
| Aug 04 | President Carter signs a measure establishing the Department of Energy. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 10 | U.S. & Panama agree to transfer canal in year 2000 | Ref: 62 |
| Sep 07 | President Jimmy Carter signs a new treaty agreeing to turn over control of the canal to Panama on January 1, 2000. (XDG, p 4A, 9/7/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 21 | President Carter's embattled budget director, Bert Lance, resigned after weeks of controversy over past business and banking practices. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 21 | US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 15 | President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran. | Ref: 5 |
- 1978
| Jan 01 | President Ford signs first major revision of copyright law since 1909. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 24 | Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (#12036). | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 25 | Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 06 | Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN) takes his office. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Senate deliberations were broadcast on radio for the first time as members opened debate on the Panama Canal treaties. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 23 | William H. Webster took the oath of office as FBI Director. Director Webster continued Director Kelley's emphasis on "quality" investigations. | Ref: 14 |
| Mar 04 | Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | US Senate accepts Panamá Canal treaty. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | The FBI Laboratory Division pioneered the use of laser technology to detect latent "crime scene" fingerprints. This date marks the first successful use of lasers to detect latent prints on case evidence. | Ref: 14 |
| Apr 18 | The U.S. Senate voted 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on Dec. 31, 1999. | Ref: 70 |
| May 03 | "Sun Day" solar energy events are held in US. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | The first legal casino in the eastern United States opened in Atlantic City, N.J. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 01 | The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 06 | Proposition 13 passed in California. Voters joined Senator Howard Jarvis in cutting property taxes by 57 percent. This was seen as the birth of a taxpayer’s revolt against high taxes and excessive government spending. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 08 | A jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 10 | A jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 16 | President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 29 | VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 09 | American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 15 | House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 16 | Xerox was fined $25.6 million for excluding Smith-Corona Manufacturing from the copier market. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 18 | Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers & firefighters. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 05 | Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 17 | Begin, Sadat & Carter sign the Camp David accord. (XDG, p 4A, 9/17/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 08 | The Equal Rights Amendment ratification deadline was extended | Ref: 62 |
| Oct 10 | President Jimmy Carter signed a bill authorizing the $1 Susan B. Anthony coin. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 27 | President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 10 | Badlands National Park approved by Congress | Ref: 62 |
| Dec 01 | 56 million acres of land made into 17 national monuments by President Carter, more than doubling the US National Park system size. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 15 | President Carter announced he would grant diplomatic recognition to Communist China on New Year's Day and sever official relations with Taiwan. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 16 | Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China People's Republic | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 19 | Jury selection begins in Salem OR, in the case of John J Rideout, accused of raping his wife, Greta. (Rideout was later acquitted and the couple divorced after the trial.) (XDG, p 4A, 12/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 31 | Taiwanese diplomats struck their colors for the final time from the embassy flagpole in Washington, marking the end of diplomatic relations with the United States. | Ref: 70 |
- 1979
| Jan 01 | The United States and China held celebrations in Washington and Beijing to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 08 | The United States advises the Shah to leave Iran. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 14 | The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married. Also, most people who divorce would eventually marry again (not necessarily to each other). | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 14 | President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | President Jimmy Carter welcomes Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 24 | Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | The U.S. House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 26 | The Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Jane M Byrne (D) elected first woman mayor of Chicago IL. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 01 | Susan B. Anthony, an activist for the cause of women’s suffrage, was commemorated on a U.S. coin, the Susan B. Anthony Dollar. The coin, roughly the size of a quarter, was confused by many with the quarter and the U.S. Treasury Department eventually stopped producing the Susan B. Anthony dollar. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 19 | Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 10 | Four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the US House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Truman were granted clemency by President Carter. (XDG, p 4A, 9/10/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 18 | Steven Lachs, appointed CA's first admittedly gay judge. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 01 | US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal). | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 22 | The U.S. government allows the ousted shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Pahlevi, to travel to New York City for cancer treatment--a decision that precipitates the Iran hostage crisis. | Ref: 3 |
| Oct 30 | Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 04 | At the American embassy in Teheran, Iran, 90 people, including 63 Americans, are taken hostage by militant student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. The students demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pablavi, who is undergoing medical treatment in New York City. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 12 | US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 14 | President Carter freezes all Iranian assets in US Banks in response to Iranian hostage crisis | Ref: 62 |
| Dec 02 | Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya. | Ref: 5 |
- 1997
| Nov 04 | Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally at the Mall in Washington, D.C. | Ref: 70 |
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