1970

U.S. troops were withdrawn from Cambodia.

Cigarette ads were banned from TV and radio.

Joseph Yablonski, who had campaigned against corruption for the presidency of the United Mine Workers, was found murdered along with his wife and daughter.

Millionaire H. Ross Perot gave up on his attempt to deliver Christmas presents to American POWs in North Viet Nam via the chartered jet Peace On Earth.

The so-called Chicago Seven were found not guilty of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. But five of them were found guilty of crossing state lines for the purpose of inciting a riot, resulting in five-year sentences.

Black militant Angela Davis was indicted on murder and conspiracy charges.

The FBI captured Father Daniel Berrigan, the Rhode Island priest who advocated burning draft cards to protest the Viet Nam war. He and his brother, Father Phillip Berrigan, were accused by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover of plotting to kidnap Nixon aide Henry Kissinger and blow up a federal building.

On May 4th, Ohio National Guard troops killed four students at Kent State University who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Five days later, 100,000 anti-war protesters rallied in Washington.

The Spiro T. Agnew Wrist Watch — bearing the likeness of the vice president — became a hot seller.

The Apollo 13 crew returned to Earth following a harrowing mission in which they repaired their ship with duct tape following an oxygen tank explosion.

The Army appointed the nation's first two female generals.

26 people were killed when Hurricane Celia crossed Florida and the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Construction of New York's World Trade Center was completed.

Hello, Dolly! closed on Broadway after 2,850 performances.

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel won Grammy awards for Record, Song and Album Of The Year. Vice President Agnew stated that the song was about heroin addiction. Other hits included I'll Be There by the Jackson Five, My Sweet Lord by George Harrison, Let It Be by the Beatles and I Think I Love You by TV's Partridge Family.

The Mary Tyler Moore show debuted. CBS canceled The Ed Sullivan Show.

On October 4, 1970, Janis Joplin overdosed in her room at the Landmark Hotel in Los Angeles.

September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix was found dead in the basement flat of the Samarkand Hotel at 22 Lansdowne Crescent in London.

1971

The voting age was lowered to 18. Those who sought the new age of majority contended that if people were old enough to fight and die in Viet Nam, they were old enough to vote.

28 prisoners and 9 hostages were killed when state troopers stormed Attica Prison in New York state, where inmates were holding 38 guards hostage.

65 died when a major earthquake rumbled through southern California on February 9th. The quake caused $500,000,000 damage.

Nearly 100 died when tornadoes plowed through Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

111 perished when an Alaska Airlines jet crashed into a mountain near Juneau.

No one was injured when a bomb planted by the Weather Underground exploded in a U.S. Capitol rest room.

Orders were mistakenly given by teletype to enact the Emergency Broadcast System. The minority who followed the Saturday morning instructions began telling their listeners to prepare for nuclear attack. Those who assumed the alert was an error proved the EBS plan was ineffective. The "actual alert" — complete with an authenticating code word — was wired to stations at the time set aside for weekly tests. As a result, the tests would become random.

For the first time in U.S. history, imports began to exceed exports. President Nixon was upset when he was informed that White House visitors were being given commemorative U.S. flag pins that were made in Japan.

Bobby Fischer became the first American to make the World Chess Championships. He would defeat Boris Spassky for the world title the next year.

Jesus Christ Superstar and You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown opened on Broadway. (ed. note: 1971 graduate, and choralier member angela elliott was one of the stars of jesus christ superstar, and one of the only cast members to tour with the company.)

Norman Lear's All In The Family became America's top-rated TV show.

Hit songs included Me And Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin, Carol King's You've Got A Friend by James Taylor and The Theme From "Shaft" by Isaac Hayes. Carole King won Grammys for Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year and Song Of The Year.

Jim Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, in his bathtub at the age of 27