Some Connected Events 1968-1974
What we consider are missing at end.
1968
January 17 – Lyndon B. Johnson calls for the non-conversion of the U.S. dollar.
March 18 – Gold standard: The Congress of the United States repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency.
April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterward.
April 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
April 20 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood Speech.
May 14 – The Beatles announce the creation of Apple Records in a New York press conference.
June 5 – U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day.
July 1 – The Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
July 17 – Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état.
August 5–8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U.S. President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President.
September 7 – 150 women (members of New York Radical Women) arrive in Atlantic City, New Jersey toprotest against the Miss America Pageant, as exploitative of women. Led by activist and author Robin Morgan, it is one of the first large demonstrations of Second Wave Feminism as Women's Liberationbegins to gather much media attention.
October 5 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland, marking the beginning ofThe Troubles.
November 5 – U.S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats theDemocratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidateGeorge C. Wallace.
January 1 – Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World.
January 1 – People's Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry, Northern Ireland in support of civil rights.
January 20 – Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds Lyndon Baines Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America.
January 24 – Martial law is declared in Madrid, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested.
January 27 – Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.
January 27 – Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.
February 4 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
March 17 – Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.
April 20 – British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
April 28 – Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before.
June 24 – The United Kingdom and Rhodesia sever diplomatic ties.
June 28 – The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S
August 21 – Australian Michael Dennis Rohan sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.
September 1 – A coup in Libya ousts King Idris, and brings Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
September 22–25 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem.
October 9–12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial.
December 4 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
1970
March 1 – Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a racially segregated republic
May 1 – Demonstrations against the trial of the New Haven Nine, Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000. President Richard Nixon orders U.S. forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking nationwide riots and leading to the Kent State Shootings.
May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.
May 6 – Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRAin Northern Ireland.
June 18 – United Kingdom general election, 1970: the Conservative Party wins and Edward Heathbecomes Prime Minister.
September 1 – An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.
September 6 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.
September 7 – Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
September 15 – King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
September 20 – Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border.
September 29 – The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.
October 13 – Canada and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
October 16 – October Crisis: The Canadian government declares a state of emergency and outlaws the Quebec Liberation Front.
November 3 – Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.Salvador Allende becomes president of Chile.
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in 5 years (24 soldiers die that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however).
November 13 – Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following a military coup.
November 19 – European Economic Community prime ministers meet in Munich.
December 2 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
December 7 – The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies.
1971
January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices. February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Persian Gulf countries.
February 4 – In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised.
February 7 – Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton-specific ones.
February 11–12 – Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in Amman.
February 15 – Decimalisation Day: – The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency(see also decimalisation).
February 27 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform abortus provocatus.
April 1 – The United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership.
April 17 – Libya, Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a confederation.
April 20 – Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
May 2 – J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (b. 1895)
May 5 – The US dollar floods the European currency markets and threatens especially the Deutsche Mark; the central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading.
June 10 – The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China.
June 13 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [1].
July 5 – Right to vote: The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
July 9 – The United Kingdom increases its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000.
July 16 – Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco makes Prince Juan Carlos his successor.
August 9 – Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison; 20 people die in the riots that follow.
August 15 – The number of British troops in Northern Ireland is raised to 12,500.
August 15 – President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
August 18 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
October 25 – The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (or Taiwan).
October 28 – The British House of Commons votes 356-244 in favour of joining the European Economic Community.
October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966).
October 30 – Rev. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party is founded in Northern Ireland.
.October 31 – A bomb explodes at the top of the Post Office Tower in London.
December 2 – Six Persian Gulf sheikdoms found the United Arab Emirates
December 18 – The U.S. dollar is devalued for the second time in history.
1972
February 2 – The German militant group Movement 2 June announces its support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
February 2 – Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. The British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.
February 9 – The British government declares a state of emergency over a miners' strike.
February 21–28 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.
March 24 – The British government announces the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the introduction of 'Direct Rule' ofNorthern Ireland, after the Unionist government refuses to cede security powers.
May 16 – The first financial derivatives exchange, the International Monetary Market (IMM), opens on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
May 26 – The Watergate first break-in, the "Ameritas dinner", fails.
June – Iraq nationalizes the Iraq Petroleum Company.
June 17 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
September 5–6 – Munich Massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after 8 members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; 5 guerillas and 1 policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.
September 25 – Norwegian EC referendum, 1972: Norway rejects membership in the European Economic Community.
October 2 – Denmark joins the European Community; the Faroe Islands stay out.
October 29 – The Black September group hijacks a Lufthansa Boeing 727 over Turkey, demanding the release of 3 comrades still held for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games.
November 30 – Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland.
December 26 – Former United States President Harry S. Truman dies in Kansas City, Missouri.
December 28 – The bones of Martin Bormann are identified in Berlin.
The United Kingdom begin to train Special Air Service for anti-terrorist duties.
1973
January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter theEuropean Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixonannounces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
January 22 – Roe v. Wade: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion.
January 27 – U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
February 13 – The United States Dollar is devalued by 10%.
April 10 – Israeli commandos raid Beirut, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement. The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saib Salam, a Sunni Muslim.
une 28 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists inNorthern Ireland for the first time.
July 1 – The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is founded.
August 5 – Black September members open fire at the Athens airport; 3 are killed, 55 injured.
September 18 – The two German Republics, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and theGerman Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations.
September 22 – Henry Kissinger, United States National Security Advisor, starts his term as United States Secretary of State.
October 6 – Yom Kippur War: The fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrianforces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.
October 17 – The Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which support Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.
October 26 – The Yom Kippur War ends.
November 7 – The Congress of the United States overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
November 11 – Egypt and Israel sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord.
December 23 – OPEC doubles the price of crude oil.Confirmation needed
December 31 – In the United Kingdom, due to coal shortages caused by industrial action, the Three-Day Week electricity consumption reduction measure comes into force.
1974
February 28 – The United Kingdom general election results in an almost dead-heat. Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister again, despite his Labour Party having received fewer votes than the Conservative Party.
March 18 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a 5-month oil embargo against the United States,Europe and Japan.
April 1 – The Local Government Act 1972 comes into effect in England and Wales, creating 6 newmetropolitan counties and comprehensively redrawing the administrative map.
April 10 – In Israel, Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister.
May 15 – Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab rebels attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchidren.
May 17 – Thirty-three people die and over 300 are wounded in the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in the Republic of Ireland. Members of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force are behind the blast, allegedly in collusion with members of the British intelligence service.
June 17 – A bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London, damaging Westminster Hall. TheProvisional Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for planting the bomb.
July 17 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the White Tower at the Tower of London, killing 1 person and injuring 41. Another bomb explodes outside a government building in South London.
July 20 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after the coup d'etat by EOKA B.
August 8 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effectiveAugust 9).
October 10 – The second United Kingdom general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Labour, still led by Harold Wilson.
November 22 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
December 9 – The Paris summit, reuniting the European communities' heads of state and government, commences.
December 31 – Restrictions on holding private gold within the United States, implemented by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, are removed
What we consider are missing or important.
1970 Irony of Democracy-Elite not masses Govern USA. W C Skousen- Naked Capitalist.
U Thank of the UN -World Citizenship.
Introduction of concept of Family Reduction.
1971 Nixon confirms view of Keynsian Economics.
Rules for Radicals published by Saul Alinsky-
Clinton's Thesis in the 1960's
(Friedrich Engels Teachings in 1884)
OECD -One World Order-and Roots of War.
Declaration of World Citizenship -World Law.
Arnold Toynbee...World to become United Politically.
Physchology of Influence.
1972 Lindisfarne created
World without Borders L.A.Times.
1973 Tri- Lateral Commission Formed and First Director Brzezenski.
Nixon takes USA off Gold Standard.
UK joins the EEC. V A T as a result introduced into UK.
Yom Kippur war is excuse for Oil Increase and Oil value underpins dollar.
Formation of the Petro dollar.
Oil Increase of prices used by EEC as excuse to open Immigration into EU.
European Arab Dialogue.-E.A.D.
Opening of China which will lead to Globalization
No grading but reports in Education introduced.
Technocrats above Middle Class
David Rockefeller favourably inclined towards CHINA; not withstanding
the alledged murder of 7.3 million.
1974 Richard Gardner- Hard Road to World Order.
note special relationship with Javier Solana- and Clintons in 1992-5
David Rockefeller wrote in his book, Memoirs, One World, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
David Rockefeller wrote in his book, Memoirs, that,
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions.
Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--
one world, if you will.
If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
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