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1973
Energy Crisis begins
1976
Bicentennial
1979
Three Mile Island nuclear accident
1979 -1981
Iranian Hostage Crisis
1981
AIDS first identified in U.S.
1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1991
Persian Gulf War
1992
L.A. riots
1998
Clinton impeached
An interactive, expanded timeline for the period after 1876 can be found in Program 26.
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