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Position:Home>History> (LDS Especially Help Please)What Were Some Important U.S. Events in Spencer W. KQuestion:I just need to know some important events in the U.S. during the time Spencer W. Kimball was an apostle, or more preferredly, prophet. I wanna say 1973-1985 were the years he was prophet. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I just need to know some important events in the U.S. during the time Spencer W. Kimball was an apostle, or more preferredly, prophet. I wanna say 1973-1985 were the years he was prophet. 1973 - Vietnam Peace Treaty. Troops and POWs return home. - Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling over-turns state laws against abortion - The celebrated Senate Watergate hearings, who's highlight is Fred Thompson's discovery of Nixon's secret tapes. - Skylab, USA's first space station launched - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns in disgrace as part of a plea bargin - Congressman Gerald R. Ford of Michigan becomes the first person to be appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment to the constitution - In a single day, President Nixon fires three Attorneys General over disposition of the secret tapes and the actions of the Special Prosecuter. 1974 - The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach the President - Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate - Gerald R. Ford becomes President (by succession rather than election) - Nelson A Rockefeller of New York becomes the second person to be appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment to the constitution - Ford Pardons Nixon 1975 - Fall of Saigon 1976 - U.S. presidential election, 1976 1977 - Jimmy Carter becomes President 1978 - Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act - Camp David Accords (1978) 1979 - Three Mile Island nuclear accident - Iran hostage crisis begins 1980 - Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington kills 57 (see 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens) - U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - U.S. presidential election, 1980 - John Lennon Assassination 1981 - Ronald Reagan becomes President (Iran releases hostages) - Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley - Kemp-Roth Tax Cut 1983 - 241 U.S. Marines killed by suicide bomb in Lebanon - United States invades Grenada 1984 - Most of Eastern Bloc boycotts Summer Olympics in Los Angeles - U.S. presidential election, 1984 (Ronald Reagan is re-elected) |