Counterculture Timeline: The Seventies: The Watergate Investigation Years 1972-1974 |
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Mayan Sacred Calendar: Planetary Underworld: Heaven 12: Night 6: Fine tuning - 1972 - 1992 |
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| 1972 | month? California voters adopt
coastal protection |
1972 |
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| June 17 | Five men caught breaking
into the Watergate Hotel Democratic campaign headquarters:director of
security for CREEP + 4 others - ?with electronic eavesdrop equipment (during Presidential election campaigns) |
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| June 23 | Life magazine: photos of Vietnamese
children running from napalm |
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| June | Expo '72 evangelist week-long
rally in Texas 80,000 |
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| July 1-4 |
First Rainbow Gathering, Strawberry Lake, Colorado | |||
| Aug | President Nixon
says investigation by White House counsel John Dean revealed no administration
officials involved in Watergate break-in Democratic convention held in Miami due to threat of demonstrations in San Diego |
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| Aug 11 | Last U.S. military unit in
Vietnam is withdrawn |
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| Aug 12 | B-52s heaviest bombing of
North Vietnam |
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| Sept 5 | Arabs kill Israeli athletes
at Munich Olympics |
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| Oct | Nixon & Gromyko sign arms
limitation treaty Kissinger: "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam US negotiating a settlement that would withdraw US troops but leave revolutionary troops, until the set-up of a newly-elected government; Saigon government refuses to agree |
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| Oct 18 | Congress passes the Clean
Water Act over Nixon's veto |
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| Nov 2 | 500 American Indians sit-in
at BIA headquarters, Washington (Trail of Broken Treaties) |
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| Nov 7 | Mob figure Meyer Lansky, 71,
arrested Miami 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses convictions of the 5 of the Chicago Seven |
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| Nov | Nixon re-elected, defeats McGovern
(Also ran: Wallace, Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Edmund Muskie, John Lindsay, Shirley Chisholm) [third "People's Party"] 18-20 year olds first presidential vote |
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| Nov 14 | (Stock Market: Dow Jones tops
1,000 first time) |
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| Nov 16 | Two black students killed by
buckshot Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Southern University as police clearing
demos from admin bldg (Note: see Jan 10, 1972) |
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| Nov 29 | Phil Berrigan parolled |
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| Dec | Nixon makes last attempt
to get North Vietnam to submit: 18 days of "carpet" bombing of
homes, hospitals, and civilians of Hanoi & Haiphong through Christmas;
first B-52 pilots refuse to fly missions |
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| Dec 7 | Apollo 17, the last of the Apollo
men on the moon walks & famous earthrise on
the moon photo |
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| Dec 19 | Sixth biggest tanker oil spill,
Gulf of Oman 115,000 tons (Sea Star) |
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| Dec 29 | Last: Life Magazine (after 36
years) |
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| Dec 30 | Nixon orders end to bombing | |||
| 1973 | Watergate investigation continues Great Stagflation of 1973-1975 Wages stop rising, just as millions of Baby Boomers enter the work force First time more woman than men in college (50.3%) Mississippi leads the south with 145 elected black officeholders (though only 1 black legislative representative) when? Endangered Species Act Arab-Israeli war followed by Arab oil embargo & energy crunch, gas lines, & the go ahead to drill for oil in Alaska; Alaska Pipeline built 1973-1975 Hoedads of Oregon formed Chipko movement starts in Himalayas Thailand student protests topple the government ?Maharaj Ji event at Houston Astrodome Pig By The Tail, first American charcuterie, opens in Berkeley -> California Cuisine movement when? Tom Hayden marries Jane Fonda when? Alan Watts dies Rod Hackney, young architect writing PhD at Manchester University, who had organized neighbors in Macclesfield to oppose area's demolition, gets improvement grants from town council for 34 of houses - in 1975 wins Good Design in Housing Award from U.K. Department of the Environment Sichuan cuisine Tom Bradley becomes first black mayor of western US city John and Yoko moved from the Village into the Dakota Last year of draft (ends June 30) (since 1940), US military becomes volunteer 800 free schools (only 30 in 1967) [Gitlin] Use of "Ms." |
1973 |
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| Jan | 100,000 demonstrate at Nixon's
inaugural |
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| Jan 7 | Sniper shoots 6 from atop Johnson's
Motor Lodge, New Orleans |
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| Jan 11 | Nixon ends 17 month wage-price
controls |
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| Jan 22 | Supreme Court: Roe vs. Wade
strikes down existing state anti-abortion laws LBJ dies in Texas |
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| Jan 23 | Nixon announces all American
troops to be out of Vietnam in 60 days |
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| Jan 27 | Vietnam ceasefire agreement
with US (Paris) (the same agreement as was drafted the previous October) (23,000 American troops still left in Vietnam) and announcement of? draft end 3 million Americans are enlisted in the military 55,000 have died in the Vietnam war Great Exp: 58,000 dead / 153,000 wounded / 35,000 widows & orphans created 275,000 Americans experience a death in their family 1.4 million saw someone in their family wounded 6.5 million served in armed forces, 1 mill+ saw combat |
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| Jan 30 | James W. McCord & G.
Gordon Liddy of Nixon's re-election committee, found guilty of Watergate
burglary & wiretap attempt |
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| Feb 12 | Second dollar devaluation
in 14 months - 10% |
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| Feb 14 | Nixon: floating exchange
rate early part of 1973 - US Stock Market starts to drop |
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| Feb 16-22 |
Student uprisings in Greece |
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| Feb 28 | 250 Native Americans (AIM) re-occupy
Wounded Knee, South Dakota (to May 8) (Oglala Sioux) early 1973 - Custer, South Dakota AIM courthouse protest |
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| March | Chipko "tree-hugger" movement starts in Chamoli District, Himachal
Pradesh, India |
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| Mar 1-19 |
Dollar crisis in Europe | |||
| Mar 6 | Nixon: gas & oil price
controls |
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| Mar 23 | Judge Sirica reveals letter
from McCord saying he & others were pressured to plead guilty &
commit perjury to avoid implicating others in Watergate |
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| Mar 29 | Last American troops withdrawn
from Vietnam Nixon declares meat price controls to stave off housewives meat boycott set to start April 1 H. Rap Brown (+ 3 others?) convicted for Oct. 16,71 robbery |
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| Apr 16-17 | US bombs Laos | |||
| Apr- Sept | ROTC unable to meet quota of officers for six months in a row | |||
| Apr 30 | Nixon accepts resignation
of H.R. Haldeman & John Ehrlichman & fires John Dean |
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| May 10 | John Mitchell & Maurice
Stans, former Nixon Cabinet members, & financier Robert Vesco indicated
for Vesco's illegal 200,000 dollar contribution to Nixon campaign |
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| May 11 | Daniel Ellsberg charges dropped |
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| May 15 | Bobby Seale's campaign for Oakland
mayor ends in defeat |
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| May 20 | 17 of Camden 28 found not
guilty (of destroying draft files) |
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| May 29 | Tom? Bradley elected in Los
Angeles (first black mayor) |
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| June 25-29 | John Dean testifies in front
of Senate Select Committee, indicting himself, Nixon, Ehrlichman, Mitchell
& others, & revealing the use of "hush money" and an "enemies
list" |
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| June 13 | Nixon declares 60 day retail
price freeze |
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| July 16 | Nixon's secret recording
system is exposed |
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| July 26 | Nixon defies prosecutors'
subpoenas of his tapes & appeals his case until October 19 |
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| Aug 15 | US bombing of Cambodia ends |
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| Aug 31 | Gainsville 8 (veterans)
acquitted |
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| Sept | Chile coup overthrows Salvador
Allende; Sept 11 Allende killed John Lennon to Los Angeles with May Pang & Spector sessions Sept 20 Jim Croce (30) dies in a plane crash [Michael's + Art Center xx] [Vicki & Dave] |
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| Oct | Oil talks fail & various
OPEC countries cut off oil deliveries to other countries, including U.S.,
causing shortages (to March 1974) Retrial of Chicago 7 on contempt charges; of 159 charges, only 13 upheld - ?all released? |
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| Oct 10 | Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice
President |
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| Oct 20 | "Saturday Night Massacre":
Nixon fires special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Attorney General Elliot Richardson
& Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resign. |
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| Oct 23 | Eight impeachment resolutions
introduced in the US House of Representatives |
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| Nov 3 | Froines & Weiner of
Chicago Seven acquitted of contempt charges |
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| Nov 7 | Congress finally (after
nine attempts) passes War Powers legislation, over Nixon's veto - limits
President's power to commit armed forces to hostilities abroad without Congressional
approval |
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| Nov 10 | Stock Market drops 24.4 points |
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| Nov 16 | Nixon signs bill to build Alaska
pipeline |
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| Nov 19 | Stock Market drops 28.67 points |
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| Nov 21 | Inexplicable 18 1/2 minute
gap discovered in Nixon's subpoened tape |
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| Nov 26 | Stock Market drops 29.05 points,
to lowest in 11 years (since May 28, 1962 JFK confrontation with steel industry) |
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| Nov 30 | OPEC quadruples oil prices (?was 2 dollars/barrel) ?so 8 dollars/barrel? |
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| Dec 4 | Dellinger, Rubin, & Hoffman
of Chicago Seven, and their attorney William Kunstler, found guilty of contempt
charges levied at them by Judge Hoffman, but given no further sentence. Davis, Hayden, and attorney Leonard Weinglass acquitted of contempt charges. |
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| Dec 31 | 6-month oil embargo starts, recession |
| 1974 | Inflation speeds up but ?unemployment
starts = Great Stagflation of 1973-1975 (U.S.) Worldwide Stagflation of 1974-76 Senate Watergate hearings First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed Pinochet rule starts "Boldt" decision, Washington state: Warm Springs, Yakima, Umatilla & Nez Perce tribes entitled to take up to half salmon & steelhead runs from the Columbia River based on 1855 treaty First "Witkars" (white cars for free use within the city) put into use in Amsterdam Abbie Hoffman (facing cocaine charge) goes underground Joanne Little accused of murder of killing jailer (in self-defense against rape) (acquitted Aug 15, 1975) ?Portugal coup ends W. Europe's oldest dictatorship Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy" Gas shortages get worse through March 19 Dalkon shield sales end Briarpatch Network, informal organization of small businesses practicing openness, honesty, service, and sharing, founded -- see earlier date? Briarpatch Network starts, grows to 450 members, dedicated to running small businesses with openness, honesty, service and sharing Nairopa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, founded Comet Kahoutek ca 1974 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and followers set up International University in Fairfield, Iowa to teach Transcendental Meditation telephone message machines SoHo |
1974
MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Only Rock & Roll *Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark & Miles of Aisles Lennon: Walls & Bridges Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Blvd (August) Elton John: Bennie and the Jets Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama David Essex: Rock On *Queen (Heavy Metal) *Gentle Giant *Electric Light Orchestra *Germany: Tangerine Dream *Toots & The Maytals: first Maria Muldaur Dylan: Planet Waves & Blood on the Tracks [which was first?] 1974-75 Rolling Thunder Revue tour (+ Dylan & Ginsburg visit Kerouac's grave) Reggae TV: (Kojak), Coneheads on Saturday Night Live Garrison Keillor? starts Prairie Home Companion Chinatown (Roman Polanski with Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway) (Monty Python & the Holy Grail) Lenny (w Dustin Hoffman) Equus Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities Werner Herzog: The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (not to US) Tanner: Le Retour d'Afrique The Conversation (Coppola) is this the master plot one? no (Godfather, Part II) (The Sting) Robert Pirsig: Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Repair Carlos Castaneda: Tales of Power The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuin The Power Broker - Robert Caro Spiritual Community Guide A Pilgrim's Guide to Planet Earth The Connection Native Funk & Flash - Jacopetti How to Grow More Vegetables . . . - J Jeavons The Gardener's Catalogue Country Furniture Gary Snyder - Turtle Island Rolling Thunder - Doug Boyd New Age Journal founded by East West Journal editor Robert Hargrove, advertising director Eric Utne, and other staff CoEvolution Quarterly (first) (spring) All the President's Men (the book) Fear of Flying Streaking (yes) Answering machines Digital watches People Magazine started (Feb) Isle of Calif mural behind SaMo post office (LA Fine Arts Squad) Farallones Institute founded |
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| Jan 30 | Bob Dylan at Madison Square
Garden - starts first tour in 8 years |
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| Feb 4 | Patty Hearst, 19, kidnapped
by the SLA |
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| Mar | Pentagon requests additional
$474 million for Saigon military aid; Congress (House) denies funding request
for the first time since the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution |
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| Apr 1 | Jane Fonda arrives in Vietnam
on second visit |
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| Apr 15 | Patty Hearst & 8 others
rob San Francisco bank |
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| May | Mohawks establish Ganienkah
settlement in Adirondack Mountains Park, New York |
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| June | Ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov
defects from the USSR Nature publishes Sherwood Rowlands of U.C. Irvine's pioneer research on depletion of the ozone layer [June- July: with W to Stanford, Chuck & Donna, Candy & Dave, Jeb & Carol, Berkeley: Connie - + Guatemala - July: CP xx] |
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| July 30 |
Watergate: House Judiciary
Committee adopts three articles of impeachment. Supreme Court upholds subpoena on Nixon tapes. Nixon turns them over July 30 & Aug 5. |
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| Aug | Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics founded in Boulder, Colorado, by Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman |
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| Aug 5 | Watergate: Tape transcripts
indicate Nixon impeded the investigation |
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| Aug 8 & 9 |
Nixon resigns, Ford sworn
in ______________________________________ Note from email feedback on this timeline: I remember being at a concert on Aug 8 of Crosby, Stills, and Nash & Young when I first heard the news from stage ( I believe it was Stephen Stills who announced it). There was an American Flag in the crowd on a short pole that was waving wildly right after the announcement. I will never forget that moment. Show was held at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City NJ. _______________________________________ Note from me: Two years went by while the US paid attention to nothing other than a (badly needed) clean-up of its political system!!!! In 2005 we are reaping the rewards of not paying attention to what was happening in the rest of the world! We could have been spending our energy on changing over from smokestack industries, the global marketplace, trade deficit, dealing with global warming and getting ourselves off of oil! Ok, end of soapbox. |
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On to The Seventies: Keep on Keepin' On 1974-1976 |
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