This is a timeline of some important events in Fulton County and thE world from 1970 through 1979.

1970

• Millions of Americans participate in anti-pollution demonstrations on April 22 to mark the first Earth Day.
• U.S. and South Vietnamese forces cross Cambodian borders on April 30 to get to enemy bases.
• Actor George C. Scott refuses the Academy Award he was awarded for his role in Patton.
• The "Chicago 7" were found innocent on Feb. 7 of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Five were convicted of crossing state lines with the intent to incite riots.
• Four students at Kent State University in Ohio were killed May 4 by National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War.

1971

• A Constitutional Amendment lowering the voting age to 18 in all elections got Senate and House approval. It was ratified June 30.
• A 44-day incursion into Laos by South Vietnam forces aided by the United States began Feb. 8.
• Charles Manson and three of his followers were found guilty Jan. 26 of the murder in 1969 of actress Sharon Tate and six others.
• Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted on March 29 by a court-martial jury for the murder of 22 South Vietnamese at Mylai in 1968.
• The New York Times begin publication in June of classified Pentagon papers on the U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam.
• President Richard Nixon devalues the dollar by cutting its tie with gold and imposed a 90-day wage, price and rent freeze.
• More than 1,000 New York state troopers and police storm the Attica State Correctional Facility on Sept. 13 where inmates held 38 guards hostage. During the 4-day rebellion, 9 hostages and 28 convicts were killed.
• Thanksgiving Day storm drops record snows in Upstate New York causing power outages.
• U.S. bombers strike North Vietnam for five days starting on Dec. 26 for violations of agreements. U. S. forces at year-end were down to 140,000.

1972

• Pres. Nixon arrives in China on Feb. 21 for an unprecedented 8-day visit.
• Senate approves a Constitutional Amendment banning discrimination against women because of their sex and sends the measure to the states for ratification.
• North Vietnamese forces launch attacks across the demilitarized zone on March 30. The U.S. responds on April 15 by resumption of bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
• Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot and seriously wounded May 15 in Maryland as he campaigned in a shopping center.
• Five men were arrested for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.
• Actor Marlon Brando wins Academy Award for Best Actor in the Godfather. He refuses the award.

1973

• Vietnam peace pacts were signed in Paris Jan. 27 and North Vietnam released 590 prisoners of war. The last U.S. troops left Vietnam on March 29.
• The U.S. Supreme Court overturned all state laws that limited a woman's right to an abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy on Jan. 22.
• The end of the military draft was announced Jan. 27.
• Top Nixon aides H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and John W. Dean and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign April 30 amid charges of White House efforts to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
• Members of the militant American Indian Movement seize the trading post and church at Wounded Knee on the Oglala Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
• John Dean, former Nixon counsel, told Senate hearings June 25 that Nixon, his staff and campaign aides and the Justice Department all had conspired to cover up Watergate. Nixon refuses to release tapes of relevant White House conversations. Some tapes were turned over to the court on Nov. 26.
• Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns Oct. 10 and pleaded no contest to charges of tax evasion of payments made to him by Maryland contractors. He was sentenced to three years probation and fined $10,000.
• Gerald Ford became the first appointed U.S. vice president on Oct. 12. He was sworn in on Dec. 6.
• A total ban on oil exports to the U.S. was imposed by Arab oil producing nations after the outbreak of an Arab-Israeli war. The ban was lifted on March 18, 1974.
• Congress overrode Nov. 7 Nixon's veto of the war powers bill, which curbed the president's power to commit armed forces to hostilities abroad with congressional approval.

1974

• The 1960's boom faltered in the '70s. A severe recession set in during 197475 following a huge oil price hike in December 1973.
• Impeachment hearings were opened May 9 against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee.
• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled July 24 that Nixon had to turn over tapes of White House conversations sought by Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
• The House Judiciary Committee, in televised hearings July 24-30, recommended three articles of impeachment against Nixon.
• President Nixon resigned Aug. 9 after Watergate scandal.
• Gerald Ford becomes president of the U.S.; Nelson A. Rockefeller becomes vice president.
• President Gerald Ford grants an unconditional pardon Sept. 8 to Ex-Pres. Nixon for all federal crimes that he committed or may have committed while president.
• Charges that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) abused its powers by massive domestic operations were published Dec. 21.
• Oct. 30, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Forman to regain the heavyweight boxing title. He held the title until Leon Spinks defeated him in 1978 in Las Vegas. Muhammad Ali defeated Spinks in 1978 and then retired in 1979.

1975

• U.S. civilians were evacuated from Saigon April 29 as communist forces completed takeover of South Vietnam.
• Ex-Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, ex-presidential advisors H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were found guilty of Watergate cover-up charges.
• FBI agents captured Patty Hearst, who was abducted in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which demanded her father, publisher Randolph A. Hearst, give millions to the poor. While being held, Hearst claimed in a message she had joined the SLA, and took part in a bank robbery. She was indicted for bank robbery and was convicted in 1976.
• An Air Force plane crashed April 4 near Saigon, South Vietnam, after takeoff with a load of orphans, killing 172.
• The Pittsburgh Steelers win the NFL Super Bowl three times in the '70s &emdash; 1975, 1976 and 1979. (They also won in 1980)
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft Corp. to develop software for Altair Computer.

1976

• The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial July 4, marking the 200th anniversary of its independence with festivals, parades and New York City's Operation Sail, a gathering of tall ships from around the world.
• Supreme Court rules March 31 a respirator that had been keeping Karen Anne Quinlan, 22, alive for 11 months could be turned off. Her parents had asked for the ruling so their daughter could die with dignity. It was turned off, but she did not die.
• The Viking Il lander set down on Mars Sept. 3 following the successful landing by Viking I on July 20.
• Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford to become the 39th president of the United States.
• A mystery ailment "Legionnaire's Disease" killed 29 people who attended an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
• Rocky wins the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year.

1977

• President Jimmy Carter pardoned some 10,000 Vietnam War draft evaders on Jan 27.
• A natural gas shortage caused by severe winter weather led Congress Feb. 2 to approve an emergency federal allocation program.
• A flood in Johnstown, Pa., July 19-20 kills 68 people.
• First mass market personal computers launched.
• Elvis Presley, 42, found dead in his home on Aug. 16.

1978

• U.S. Senate votes April 18 to turn over the Panama Canal to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999.
• California voters June 6 approve the Proposition 13 initiative to cut property taxes in the state by 57 percent, thus severely limiting government spending.
• U.S. Supreme Court June 28 voted not to allow a firm quota system in affirmative action plans and ordered that Alan Bakke be admitted to a California medical school. Bakke, a white, had contended that he was a victim of reverse discrimination.
• The House Select Committee on Assassinations opened hearings Sept. 6 into assassinations of Pres. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The committee concluded conspiracies were likely in both cases but had no further hard evidence for further prosecutions.
• Louise Brown, first "test-tube baby" born healthy.
• At the height of the Disco music craze, the Bee Gees win a Grammy award for their album "Saturday Night Fever."

1979

• Radioactive gases escaped through the vent system March 28 at a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pa.
• A new intercontinental missile system called MX was approved June 7 by Pres. Carter The $30 -billion weapons system was designed to counter the ability of the Soviet Union's weapons to eliminate American land-based Minutemen missiles.
• Pope John Paul II visits the U.S. Oct. 1-6 and reaffirms traditional Roman Catholic teachings.
• The federal government announces Nov. 1, a $1.5 billion loan guarantee plan to aid Chrysler Corp., which had reported a loss of $460.6 million for the third quarter of 1979.
• Militant students took 90 people hostage, including 63 Americans, Nov. 3 at the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran. Pres. Carter suspended all Iranian oil imports to the U.S. and froze all official Iranian assets in American banks.
• Mother Theresa of Calcutta wins the Nobel peace prize.