Centuries:
Year in Review 20th Century (
19th century -
20th century -
21st century)
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 - 1971 - 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976
Births
Deaths
- February 11 - [Whitney Young Jr]?, [National Urban League]? director.
Events
- January 25 - [Idi Amin]? overthrows [Milton Obote]? in a coup in Uganda
- February 11 - US, UK, USSR, others sign [Seabed Treaty]? outlawing nuclear weapons.
- April 20 - [United State Supreme Court]? rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
- May 3 - Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
- May 31 The birth of a new country, Bangladesh. It is out of territory formerly part of Pakistan
- June - The [Pentagon Papers]? are published
- October 25 - The United Nations admits Communist China and expels [Nationalist China]?.
- December 3 [Indian-Pakistan War]?
- Don't Make A Wave Committee changes its name into Greenpeace
- Intel introduces the microprocessor for micro-computers. The 4004 chip
- Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
Sport
Arts and Entertainment]]
- January 12 [All in the Family]? premieres on TV;it is the first sitcom?
Films
Nobel Prizes