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Top Headlines of 1970 Chicago 7 Are Acquitted of Conspiracy To Riot - 5 Found Guilty of Lesser Charges. South Whites Storm Bus to Prevent Integration National Guard Opens Fire Killing Four Students at Kent State University Nixon Asks Vote for 18 Year Olds 747 With 379 Aboard Hijacked to Cuba Soviet Cosmonauts Set New Record of 17 Days in Space Nation Celebrates Earth Day Stocks Rise 32.04 in Record Day Penn Central Asks for Bankruptcy Reorganization New York Abortion Law Takes Effect, Most Liberal in USA Sterling Hall Bombing, University of Wisconsin, Madison 200,000 Are Killed in East Pakistan Cyclone Tidal Wave Guitarist Jimi Hendrix Dies Singer Janis Joplin Dies Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Goes into Affect Senate Curbs Defacto School Segregation Biafra Surrenders After 32-Month Fight for Independence from Nigeria Rhodesia Severs Last Tie with British Crown and Declares Itself a Racially Segregated Republic U.S. Troops Invade Cambodia A Palestinian Revolt Erupts in Jordan. Forces Loyal to King Hussein Suppress the Revolt and Expel the PLO from the Country Earthquake Kills More Than 50,000 in Peru Egyptian President Nasser Dies and is Replaced by Anwar el-Sadat Tonga and Fiji Gain Independence from Britian 1970 Economy/Prices President: Richard M. Nixon Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew Population: 205,052,174 Life Expectancy: 70.8 Years Dow-Jones High: 842 Low: 669 Federal Spending: $195.65 Billion Federal Debt: $380.9 Billion Inflation: 6.5% Consumer Price Index: 38.8 Unemployment: 3.5% Cost of a New Home: $26,600.00 Median Household Income: $8,734.00 Cost of a First-Class Stamp: 6 cents Cost of a Gallon of Regular Gas: 36 cents Cost of a Dozen Eggs: 62 cents Cost of a Gallon of Milk: $1.15 |