1968 - 1972 (4 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1968 | - 1968: Student riots in Paris
- 1968: Severe flooding in England
- 1968: Pope encyclical condemns all artificial forms of birth control
- 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
- 1968: Prague Spring
- 1968: Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
- 1968: Tet Offensive
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| 2 | 1969 | - 1969: John Lennon returns OBE due to government's support of Vietnam War
- 1969: America lands man on the Moon
- 1969: Voting age lowered from 21 to 18 in UK
- 1969: ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
- 1969: Charles Manson and 'Family' Arrested
- 1969: Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
- 1969: Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
- 1969: Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO
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| 3 | 1970 | - 1970: Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims
- 1970: American Soldiers Accused of Murdering Entire Town of Vietnamese Civilians
- 1970: Aswan High Dam Completed
- 1970: Beatles Break Up
- 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
- 1970: Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
- 1970: Protesting Students at Kent State Shot
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| 4 | 1971 | - 1971: Intel builds the microprocessor, "a computer on a chip"
- 1971: Decimalisation of coinage in Britain
- 1971: Bomb explodes in London's Post Office tower
- 1971: London Bridge sold to the U.S.
- 1971: United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency
- 1971: VCRs Introduced
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| 5 | 1972 | - 1972: First handheld calculator, from Texas Instruments
- 1972: Power workers strike crisis
- 1972: Miners call off crippling coal strike
- 1972: M*A*S*H T.V. Shows Premiers
- 1972: Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
- 1972: Pocket Calculators Introduced
- 1972: Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
- 1972: Watergate Scandal Begins
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