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My Lai Massacre: The Obedience to Murder?
One morning of March 16, 1968, American troops went on a killing spree in some tiny town in South Vietnam, blasting everything in sight, animals and human are dieing. The exact death toll will never be known, but estimates of the My Lai Massacre range from 347 to 504 innocent villagers killed, most of them women, young children and babies. No Viet Cong were found, and at no time were the American troops subjected to enemy fire. It was, plain and simple, a massacre.
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• Beatles Break Up
The Beatles broke up on April 1970. The other Beatles did not publicly announce the break up until December 1970. Rumors blame Oko and Linda, but truth is, after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein in 1967, it was an on going battle between the Beatles. Beatlemania was over! Look here for more information: http://beatlesnumber9.com/breakup.html -
The first pocket caculator
In 1960 there were three general types of calculating devices: mechanical adding machines, calculators (both mechanical and electromechanical), and slide rules. Adding machines were used by accountants, bankers and merchants to add and subtract (often with a paper tape record of the calculation). Successful brands of adding machines were Burroughs, Comptometer and Victor. http://www.calculator.org/Pages/article.aspx?name=A First Calculator -
The Pentagon papers were released
On Monday the National Archives released all 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers, the explosive documents that detailed four administrations’ worth of deception on Vietnam. Some of the content has been public since 1971, and the release is not likely to reveal many new secrets. But this is the first time that Americans can read the papers in full without a security clearance.http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent1.html -
Pong was lanched
Galaxy Game was manufactured and distributed by Nutting Associates and saw a modest success. This spurned Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney to break out on there own, so they formed their first company Syzygy Engineering, which later changed to Atari due to a trademark conflict. staff, was off an running as a growingcompany, http://www.3deagle.blogspot.com/ -
Abortion Legalized in U.S.
The history of abortion in the United States is far more complicated than most people imagine. It has been an issue of varying contention in this nation for the last 200 years. Nevertheless, abortion has never enjoyed such universal protection under the law as it has for these last three decades.
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Paul Getty Kidnapped
In early 1971, he was expelled from St. George's English School (later St. George's British International School), in Rome, Italy. His father moved back to England, and at 3am on 10 July 1973, Getty was kidnapped in the Piazza Farnese in Rome.[1] A ransom note was received, demanding $17 million in exchange for his safe return.articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/.../la-me-john-paul-getty-iii-20110208 -
Should girls be allowed to play baseball
As we all know, boys traditionally play baseball, and girls traditionally play softball. Most of the time, everyone is happy with this arrangement, and the issue of girls playing baseball never comes up. However, every now and then, someone's daughter might want to play, and find that no softball team is available, or the girl (or her parents) may want her to play baseball instead. http://njjewishnews.com/kaplanskorner/2009/04/08/baseball-no-field-of-dreams-for-female-athletes/ -
National speed limit 55 mph
As an emergency response to the 1973 oil crisis, on November 26, 1973, President Richard Nixon proposed a national 50 mph (80 km/h) speed limit for passenger vehicles and a 55 mph speed limit for trucks and buses.http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-502323_162-4239631.html -
New York City blackout
On a hot July night in 1977, the lights went out in New York City. The purr of air conditioners, cooling millions of New Yorkers, was replaced by stultifying silence-and then the sound of breaking glass. Faced with the second blackout in twelve years, New Yorkers responded with resilience as well as violence.http://articles.cnn.com/1997-07-12/us/9707_12_blackout_1_new-yorkers-blackout-iron-gates?_s=PM:US -
Love Canal in New York declared federal disaster
Shortly after this transfer of ownership, the NFBE began development in Love Canal. Approximately 200 residencies and an elementary school were built in the area directly adjacent to the landfill. In the 1960’s, residents began complaining of strange odors in their neighborhoods. These complaints escalated in the 1970’s when the toxins from the landfill began leaching into surface- and groundwater bringing the substances into basements and backyards. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal -
Jonestown Massacre
Jonestown was meant to be a utopia. However, when members arrived at Jonestown, things were not as they expected. Since there weren't enough cabins built to house people, each cabin was filled with bunk beds and overcrowded. The cabins were also segregated by gender, so married couples were forced to live apart.
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Iran takes american hostages in tehran
The ordeal reached a climax when the United States military attempted a rescue operation, Operation Eagle Claw, on April 24, 1980, which resulted in an aborted mission and the deaths of eight American military men. The crisis ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in Algeria on January 19, 1981. The hostages were formally released into United States custody the following day, just minutes after the new American president Ronald Reagan was sworn in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisi
