Michael Peel, Mr. Mertz, 1970
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mise à jour avec succès: 30 mai 2019
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Les événements
Beatles announce their break up.Richard Nixon orders invasion of Cambodia, spreading the area of the Vietnam War.Apollo 15 lands on the moon and uses the Lunar Rover for the first time.The microprocessor, the foundation of today's computers, is released.Five men are caught breaking into the Watergate Complex where the Democratic Party offices are, marking the start of the Watergate Scandal.U.S. planes bomb North Vietnam on Christmas Day.U.S. signs a peace pact and troops pull out of Vietnam. Bombing of Cambodia stops, ending 20 years of U.S. Combat in Southeast Asia.Stock market crash.Beverly Johnson becomes the first black model on the cover of vogue or any other major fashion magazine.The House Judiciary Committee indicts President Richard Nixon for impeachment over the Watergate Scandal. In August, Nixon resigns his office, the first president to do so. Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th U.S. President. In September, Ford grants Nixon a "full, free and absolute pardon."End of the stock market crash.The Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual punishment, so it's a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.The Viking 2 spacecraft lands on Mars.Apple Computer is incorporated.South African Anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko dies in police custody.The world's first test-tube baby is born.Californians vote in the referendum known as Proposition 13 and cut property taxes by sixty percent.Margaret Thatcher, a conservative, becomes the first woman prime minister of Britain.In December, Soviet troops invade Afghanistan to prop up a comunist leader.THESIS
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