Richard Nixon is president of the United States.

A federal jury finds the “Chicago 7” innocent of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention

The lunar spacecraft Apollo 13 splashes down in the Pacific after near catastrophe

The first Earth Day is marked by millions of Americans participating in anti-pollution demonstrations

At Kent State University, National Guardsmen fire into a crowd killing four student antiwar demonstrators

A powerful earthquake claims 50,000 lives in Peru

18 year olds are given the right to vote in federal elections

Tidal wave driven by cyclone from Bay of Bengal hits East Pakistan, killing hundreds of thousands

An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland

Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Andre Agassi, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lopez, and Matt Damon are born

Baltimore Orioles win the World Series

Kansas City Chiefs win Superbowl IV

Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup

Tearjerker Love Story is the top grossing film

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is published

TOP RECORDS 1970

Sugar Sugar by the Archies
I Can’t Get Next to You by the Temptations
Suspicious Minds by Elvis
Wedding Bell Blues by the Fifth Dimension
Come Together/Something by the Beatles
Na Na Hey Hey by Steam
Leaving On a Jet Plane by Peter, Paul & Mary
Someday We’ll Be Together by the Supremes
Raindrops by B.J. Thomas
I want you Back by the Jackson Five
Venus by Shocking Blue
Thank You (Falletin Me Be Myself) by Sly & the Family Stone
Bridg Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
Let It Be by the Beatles
ABC by the Jackson Five
American Woman/No Sugar Tonight by the Guess Who
Everything is Beautiful by Ray Stevens
Long and Winding Road by the Beatles