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TokenBoomer ,

And… it’s jinxed.

makeshiftreaper ,

If your standard for slow news is the first year of WWII maybe you should get a new measuring stick

pwnicholson ,
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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
KeraKali ,

And we all know why that’s the case:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/51d72756-b3fa-4072-9a13-e3c0589da11d.png

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