U.S. History by Year, 1960-1979

Based on the clues, guess these American related things that happened in each year.

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Year	Hint	Answer
1979	A U.S. embassy in this country is taken hostage, also indirectly fueling the oil crisis	Iran
1978	This "charismatic" serial killer is caught and arrested in Florida	Ted Bundy
1977	George Lucas releases the first of these influential science fiction movies	Star Wars
1976	Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found this computer company in a Los Altos garage	Apple
1975	This Steven Spielberg movie makes people terrified of swimming in the ocean	Jaws
1974	Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency due to his involvement in this scandal	Watergate Scandal
1973	This Chicago skyscraper becomes the tallest in the world for 25 years	Sears Tower
1972	This company releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game	Atari
1971	This cult leader is found guilty for the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders	Charles Manson
1970	4 students protesting the U.S. incursion into Cambodia are killed at this Ohio university	Kent State
1969	Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to set foot on this place	The Moon
1968	This civil rights leader is assassinated in a Memphis motel	Martin Luther King Jr.
1967	This team wins the first Super Bowl, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs	Green Bay Packers
1966	This band releases their critically acclaimed album, Pet Sounds	The Beach Boys
1965	Construction on this St. Louis, Missouri landmark is completed	Gateway Arch
1964	The British Invasion starts when this band visits the U.S.	The Beatles
1963	John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in this city	Dallas
1962	A nuclear war almost starts with the USSR over a stand-off of missiles on this island	Cuba
1961	The U.S. begins to send military personal to fight communists in this country's civil war	Vietnam
1960	Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union while flying this spy plane	U-2

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