You think 2024 has been packed with a ceaseless and exhausting stream of consequential events? So did Americans in 1940, 1968 and 1973.
  • pwnicholson
    18•2 months ago

    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
    • Flying Squid
      1•1 month ago

      Nixon goes to China and US opens official office in Beijing

      There’s an opera about that. I don’t even like opera (I went because a friend did the costumes) and I really enjoyed it.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_in_China

      Edit: Discovered a French opera company did a production that was televised and put on YouTube. It won’t be as good as seeing it live because it’s a real visual spectacle, but I recommend it regardless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G72JjpMEdKs