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  1. 1974 Richard Gardner's 'The Hard Road to World Order' (1974) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Richard Gardner's article The Hard Road to World Order appeared in Foreign Affairs in 1974, arguing sovereignty should be eroded piece by piece rather than by frontal assault. ●●
  2. 1974 Brzezinski defines 'New World Order' to Veja ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 1974 Brzezinski was interviewed by the Brazilian newspaper Veja and asked to define the New World Order, calling for the international system to be changed into a global one. ●●
  3. 1974 First 'Fast Track' trade legislation passed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Congress passed the first Fast Track (Trade Promotion Authority) legislation in 1974, one year after the Trilateral Commission's founding. It let the President negotiate trade deals with limited congressional review. ●●
  4. 1974 Trilateral Commission report Crisis of Democracy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites the 1974 Trilateral Commission report Crisis of Democracy, quoting its call for a program to lower the job expectations of college graduates. He uses it as evidence that elites planned to manage educated discontent. ●●
  5. 1974 Turkey invades Cyprus ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the Greek junta's coup against Archbishop Makarios, Turkish forces landed and split Cyprus in two. Two NATO armies fought with American weapons. ●●
  6. 1974 Richard Nixon resigns the presidency ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nixon resigned after admitting he had ordered the CIA to obstruct the Watergate investigation. It was the final blow of the scandal. ●●
  7. 1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He dominated Grenada for most of the next quarter century, led it to independence in 1974 (though it remained part of the British Commonwealth), and b (1974) ●●
  8. 1974 Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Watergate scandal forced President Nixon to resign in August 1974, severely damaging American credibility and government trust during critical geopolitical tensions. ●●
  9. 1974 Kissinger memo details Project AZORIAN cover story ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A May 1974 memo to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained the cover story for Project AZORIAN, the CIA submarine recovery operation using the Hughes Glomar Explorer. ●●
  10. 1974 World Population Conference convenes in Bucharest ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Cadbury had anticipated, the first time population control proponents managed to assemble political leaders from almost every country—the 1974 World Population Conference in Bucha- rest—the proc... ●●
  11. 1974 Villot orders bishops to prepare for Bucharest conference ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The secretary of state, Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot, ordered the national episcopal conferences to begin preparing for the World Population Conference in 1974, ensuring that the Church view was repr... ●●
  12. 1974 Congressional Budget Office established ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was established in 1974 to provide Congress with greater technocratic support in drawing up budgets, but in the end the making of an American budget is a highly decentralized and nonstrategic process in com ●●
  13. 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped by the SLA ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Levenda asserts that on February 4, 1974, publishing heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and subjected to brainwashing. ●●
  14. 1974 SLA shootout with Los Angeles police ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Levenda describes the May 17, 1974 SWAT team attack on an SLA house that resulted in deaths including Donald DeFreeze, the group's leader, but Patty Hearst escaped. ●●
  15. 1974 MITS decides to build a computer on the Intel 8080 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After studying the Intel 8080's instruction set, Ed Roberts concluded MITS could build an affordable do-it-yourself computer kit. ●●
  16. 1974 Gates and Allen see the Altair on Popular Electronics ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Paul Allen bought the January 1975 issue in December 1974 and rushed it to Bill Gates, launching their eight-week coding sprint. ●●
  17. 1974 Steve Jobs takes a job at Atari ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After returning from a pilgrimage to India, Jobs went to work for Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn at Atari. ●●
  18. 30 May 1975 Founding of the European Space Agency 0 cit. no story Ten European states merge the earlier ESRO and ELDO organizations into the European Space Agency, headquartered in Paris, pooling Europe's civilian space programs. diplomacy / exploration / science ●●●
  19. 11 November 1975 Independence of Angola 0 cit. no story Angola becomes independent from Portugal after a long armed liberation struggle, and immediately slides into civil war. politics / war ●●●
  20. 5 July 1975 Independence of Cape Verde 0 cit. no story Cape Verde becomes independent from Portugal after the Carnation Revolution ended Portuguese colonial rule. politics ●●
  21. 6 July 1975 Independence of the Comoros 0 cit. no story The Comoros declares independence from France following a referendum; the island of Mayotte remained French. politics ●●
  22. 25 June 1975 Independence of Mozambique 0 cit. no story Mozambique becomes independent from Portugal after a ten-year liberation war led by FRELIMO. politics / war ●●●
  23. 16 September 1975 Independence of Papua New Guinea 0 cit. no story Papua New Guinea becomes independent from Australian administration. politics ●●
  24. 12 July 1975 Independence of Sao Tome and Principe 0 cit. no story Sao Tome and Principe becomes independent from Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. politics ●●
  25. 25 November 1975 Independence of Suriname 0 cit. no story Suriname becomes independent from the Netherlands. politics ●●
  26. 13 April 1975 to 13 October 1990 Lebanese Civil War 0 cit. no story Lebanon's sectarian factions, Palestinian forces, Syria, and Israel fight a fifteen-year multi-sided war. Around 150,000 die and Beirut becomes a byword for urban warfare. politics / religion / war ●●●
  27. 11 November 1975 to 4 April 2002 Angolan Civil War 0 cit. no story The MPLA government, backed by Cuba and the USSR, fights UNITA, backed by South Africa and the United States, for 27 years. The Cold War proxy conflict kills around 800,000 people. politics / war ●●●
  28. October 1975 to 6 September 1991 Western Sahara War 0 cit. no story The Polisario Front fights Morocco and initially Mauritania over the former Spanish Sahara. A 1991 ceasefire leaves Morocco controlling most of the territory, with the promised referendum never held. war ●●
  29. 1975 Senator Frank Church warns of total tyranny ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1975 Senator Frank Church, chairing a Senate panel on US intelligence agencies, warned that surveillance technology could enable total tyranny under a dictator. Wood cites the warning as prophetic of today's surveillance state. ●●
  30. 1975 Franco's long rule and death ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book notes Franco held power from 1939 until his death in 1975, killing tens of thousands of opponents. It says his funeral drew Network figures including US vice president Nelson Rockefeller. ●●
  31. 1975 Ford warns the CIA could be destroyed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At a White House luncheon for New York Times editors, President Ford said the reputations of every president since Truman could be ruined if the CIA's deepest secrets spilled, including assassinations. He was trying to keep the agency's past buried. ●●
  32. 1975 Colby warns America is losing Vietnam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CIA director Bill Colby told the White House that South Vietnam was about to collapse. Kissinger refused to negotiate a peaceful end to the war. ●●
  33. 1975 Fall of Saigon ai_extracted 1 cit. no story North Vietnamese rockets and artillery hit Saigon's airport as the city fell. The CIA station chief Tom Polgar scrambled to evacuate Americans and Vietnamese allies before the capital was overrun. ●●
  34. 1975 Helsinki accords signed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Ford and Soviet leader Brezhnev signed an agreement in Helsinki endorsing the free movement of people and ideas. Dissidents in the Soviet bloc took it seriously even as Ford and Kissinger saw it as window dressing. ●●
  35. 1975 United Brands bribery scandal and Eli Black's suicide ai_extracted 1 cit. no story United Brands president Eli Black jumped from the 44th floor of the Pan Am building after the SEC discovered his company had bribed Honduran General López Arellano with $1.25 million. The scandal exposed the corrupting influence of American fruit companies on Central American politics. ●●
  36. 1975 Mayday deregulates Wall Street commissions ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If Main Street hoped that Black Monday would throw a cautionary fear into Wall Street, it was dead wrong. It only prodded the Street into more assertive, reckless behavior. Securities firms had already lost many safe, reliable businesses. ●●
  37. 1975 Congress cuts off aid to South Vietnam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Congress cut off all military and economic aid to South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in February 1975, sealing their fate as communist forces conquered them. ●●
  38. 1975 Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini murdered ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pasolini was killed in an apparent ritual murder in 1975. ●●
  39. 1975 Ford signs the Helsinki Final Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Ford was accused of a historic sellout for attending the Conference and for signing the main document, the so-called Final Act, in 1975. ●●
  40. 1975 Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ss legislated an end to the bombing in August 1973, U.S. government participation in the ongoing slaughter continued until the Khmer Rouge victory in April 1975.21 Phase II: From April 1975 through 1978 Cambodia was subjected to the murderous rule o ●●
  41. 1975 China adopts leftist Cultural Revolution constitution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The gradual implementation of “social transformation” noted in this document was then rejected in favor of a more leftist constitution drafted during the Cultural Revolution in 1975 that openly called for the dictatorship of the party over the state. ●●
  42. 1975 Daoud dismisses Soviet-trained Afghan officers ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 1975, prodded by Iran which was conditioning its aid on such policies, Daoud dismissed 40 Soviet-trained mi ●●
  43. 1975 Homebrew Computer Club holds its first meeting ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hobbyists gathered in Gordon French's Menlo Park garage for the first Homebrew Computer Club meeting. ●●
  44. 1975 Altair 8800 unveiled in Popular Electronics ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The January 1975 issue named the machine the first real personal computer for home consumers. ●●
  45. 1975 Gates and Allen finish Altair BASIC ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After eight weeks of coding, the pair squeezed their BASIC interpreter down to 3.2K in time to fly it to MITS. ●●
  46. 1975 Altair BASIC runs for the first time ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Allen loaded the BASIC interpreter into a MITS Altair, and it correctly computed a test command. ●●
  47. 1975 Wozniak builds the first Apple I prototype ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Wozniak got a keyboard and monitor working together with a microprocessor for the first time, at 10 p.m. on June 29, 1975. ●●
  48. 29 June 1976 Independence of Seychelles 0 cit. no story Seychelles becomes an independent republic within the Commonwealth. politics ●●
  49. 1976 Wood argues the Executive Branch was 'hijacked' in 1976 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Wood asserts that the U.S. Executive Branch was hijacked in 1976 by Trilateral Commission members with the election of Carter and Mondale, and that their dominance continued afterward. ●●
  50. 1976 Carla Hills chairs U.S. delegation to Habitat I ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1976 Trilateral Commission member Carla A. Hills chaired the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I), whose report urged implementing the New International Economic Order. ●●
  51. 1976 Election of Jimmy Carter ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jimmy Carter was elected US president in 1976. Wood asserts that Trilateral Commission technocrats used his election to take control of the Executive Branch and have dominated administrations since. ●●
  52. 1976 Francis Schaeffer warns of coming authoritarianism ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1976 theologian Francis Schaeffer wrote that authoritarian government from the right or left leads to the same result, an elite forcing form on society. Wood cites it as foreseeing a global totalitarian government. ●●
  53. 1976 Carroll Quigley's 1976 Oscar Iden Lectures ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites Carroll Quigley's return to Georgetown in 1976 to deliver the Oscar Iden Lecture Series, quoting his warnings about the commercialization of communities and the power of credit and corporations. Gatto aligns Quigley's views with his own. ●●
  54. 1976 FM 30-31B document surfaces in the European press ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book says excerpts of the disputed FM 30-31B document appeared in the Spanish press in 1976 after Franco's fall and in Italy in 1978. It presents the document as describing false flag operations by the secret armies. ●●
  55. 1976 George H. W. Bush becomes CIA director ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bush took over as director of central intelligence in early 1976 and quickly grew fond of the agency. He boosted morale but accomplished little in his short tenure. ●●
  56. 1976 CIA covert action in Angola ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the fall of Saigon, the CIA shipped cash and weapons to anticommunist guerrillas in Angola. Congress publicly banned the covert support and killed the operation while it was underway. ●●
  57. 1976 Bush approves Team B ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bush let a group of hawkish outside analysts write their own estimate of Soviet military power. Team B dramatically overstated Soviet strength, and after the Cold War every one of its findings proved wrong. ●●
  58. 1976 Car bombing kills Orlando Letelier in Washington ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pinochet's intelligence chief Manuel Contreras orchestrated the assassination of former ambassador Orlando Letelier and an American aide. They died by car bomb near the White House. ●●
  59. 1976 Jamaica uncovers plot to overthrow government ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In June 1976, Jamaican security forces announced the uncover- ing of a plot to overthrow the government involving leadin ●●
  60. 1976 Bob Houston killed after leaving Peoples Temple ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bob Houston, son of press photographer Robert Houston, is found dead on railroad tracks after resigning from Peoples Temple and facing beatings from Jim Jones ●●
  61. 1976 Jim Jones moves Temple funds to overseas banks ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jim Jones begins expatriating Temple funds to Panama and Switzerland, using Deborah Layton as administrator and courier for these transfers ●●
  62. 1976 Taxi Driver released in theaters ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Taxi Driver is released to critical acclaim, featuring protagonist Travis Bickle who develops plans to assassinate an important political figure ●●
  63. 1976 Gates writes his Open Letter to Hobbyists ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Angered by widespread copying of Altair BASIC, Gates published a letter denouncing software piracy. ●●
  64. 27 June 1977 Independence of Djibouti 0 cit. no story The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas becomes the independent Republic of Djibouti. politics ●●
  65. 13 July 1977 to 15 March 1978 Ogaden War 0 cit. no story Somalia invades Ethiopia's Somali-inhabited Ogaden region. Massive Soviet and Cuban support lets Ethiopia repel the invasion, realigning Cold War patronage in the Horn of Africa. war ●●●
  66. 30 May 1977 to 4 October 1992 Mozambican Civil War 0 cit. no story The FRELIMO government fights the RENAMO insurgency backed by Rhodesia and South Africa. War and famine kill around a million people before the 1992 peace accord. politics / war ●●●
  67. 1977 Time names Carter 'Man of the Year' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 7, 1977 Time Magazine named President Carter Man of the Year. Wood notes the article omitted Carter's Trilateral Commission ties and that editor-in-chief Hedley Donovan was a Trilateral member. ●●
  68. 1977 Trilateral Commission plenary in Tokyo ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Trilateral Commission held its annual plenary meeting in Tokyo in January 1977. Carter and Brzezinski sent letters praising the pursuit of a 'more just and equitable world order'. ●●
  69. 1977 Carter orders CIA to pressure South Africa ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At a National Security Council meeting, President Carter directed the CIA to find ways to bring economic and political pressure on apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia. It marked a shift in Cold War policy toward human rights. ●●
  70. 1977 Carter's 'island of stability' toast ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At a state dinner in Tehran, President Carter toasted the Shah's Iran as an island of stability in a sea of turmoil. The CIA had confirmed that rosy view for fifteen years, missing the coming revolution. ●●
  71. 1977 Unconditional surrender becomes official Allied policy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story We had so much trouble getting those two French generals together that I thought to myself that this was as difficult as arranging the meeting of Grant and Lee—and then suddenly the Press Conference was on, and Winston and I had had no time to prepare for it, and the thought popped into my mind that they had called Grant “Old Unconditional Surrender,” and the next thing I knew I had said it.1977 Churchill immediately concurred—“Any divergence between us, even by omission, would on such an occasion and at such a time have been damaging or even dangerous to our war effort”—and unconditional surrender became official Allied policy. ●●
  72. 1977 The Spy Who Loved Me released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, featuring the Liparus swallowing a submarine, was released in 1977. ●●
  73. 1977 USAID commissions Westinghouse contraception surveys ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1977 USAID commissioned Westinghouse to conduct additional surveys designed to determine how convenient contraception would have to be before people would start using it. ●●
  74. 1977 Apple II goes on sale ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Apple's fully integrated personal computer went on sale for $1,298 and sold 100,000 units within three years. ●●
  75. 27 April 1978 to 28 April 1978 Saur Revolution wikidata 0 cit. no story April 1978 coup in Afghanistan ●●●
  76. 3 November 1978 Independence of Dominica 0 cit. no story Dominica becomes an independent republic within the Commonwealth, ending British colonial rule. politics ●●
  77. 7 July 1978 Independence of Solomon Islands 0 cit. no story Solomon Islands becomes independent from Britain. politics ●●
  78. 1 October 1978 Independence of Tuvalu 0 cit. no story The Ellice Islands become the independent nation of Tuvalu. politics ●●
  79. 25 December 1978 to 26 September 1989 Cambodian-Vietnamese War 0 cit. no story Vietnam invades Cambodia and overthrows the Khmer Rouge, ending the genocide, then fights a decade-long occupation war. Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 opens the way to a UN-brokered peace. war ●●●
  80. c. 1978 to c. April 1990 Nicaraguan Revolution and Contra War 0 cit. no story The Sandinistas overthrow the Somoza dictatorship in 1979, then fight US-backed Contra rebels through the 1980s. The wars kill tens of thousands and end with the Sandinistas' electoral defeat in 1990. politics / war ●●●
  81. 1978 Wood and Sutton publish Trilaterals Over Washington ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1978 Wood co-authored Trilaterals Over Washington with Antony C. Sutton. The books examined the Trilateral Commission, co-founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. ●●
  82. 1978 Tanzania's third five-year plan targets rural legibility ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The third five-year plan of 1978 explicitly aimed to make rural areas legible to the state by resettling peasants in villages where able-bodied workers and available acreage could be identified and controlled for state development programs. ●●
  83. 1978 Siegmund Warburg receives Order of the Sacred Treasure ai_extracted 2 cit. no story In 1978, he went to Japan to receive the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. The honor, awarded in the prime... ●●
  84. 1978 Vietnam ousts Pol Pot from power ai_extracted 1 cit. no story We noted in chapter 7 that, after the Vietnamese had ousted Pol Pot in December 1978, although the United States and its allies had denounced Pol Pot as “another Hitler” committing “genocide,” they qu ●●
  85. 1978 Ekman and Friesen publish Facial Action Coding System ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen published the Facial Action Coding System breaking down facial muscle movements. ●●
  86. 1978 China reintroduces civil service examinations ai_extracted 1 cit. no story China reintroduced a merit-based civil service examination system after the 1978 reforms. ●●
  87. 1978 Bali reaches 60 percent contraceptive use ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In February 1978, a triumphant cable arrived from Jakarta with the subject line “They Said It Couldn’t Be Done.” It reported that in Bali some 60 percent of eligible couples had started to use mode... ●●
  88. 1978 John D. Rockefeller III dies in car accident ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rockefeller might have provided leadership, but he died in a car accident near his family estate in 1978. ●●
  89. 1978 PDP coup overthrows Mohammad Daoud in Afghanistan ai_extracted 2 cit. no story On 27 April 1978, a coup staged by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud ●●
  90. 1978 CIA issues non-denial to Rep. Ryan on MK-ULTRA ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA issues a response to Congressman Ryan's inquiry about DeFreeze and MK-ULTRA experiments, using a carefully worded 'non-denial denial' that misspells DeFreeze's name ●●
  91. 1978 Congressman Leo Ryan assassinated in Guyana ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Congressman Leo Ryan is killed at Port Kaituma airstrip in Guyana, one month after receiving the CIA's response about DeFreeze and MK-ULTRA ●●
  92. 1978 Moscone and Harvey Milk assassinated in San Francisco ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On November 27, 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk are shot dead by Dan White, days after the Jonestown massacre ●●
  93. 1978 Microsoft moves from Albuquerque to Seattle ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the end of 1978 Gates and Allen relocated their company back to the Seattle area. ●●
  94. 1978 Christensen and Suess create the first computer BBS ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Snowed in by a Chicago blizzard, two Homebrew-style hobbyists built what became known as Usenet. ●●
  95. 1978 William von Meister launches The Source ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Von Meister combined his interests in phones and computers to create an early consumer online service called The Source. ●●
  96. 1 April 1979 Proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Iran 0 cit. no story After the revolution that toppled the shah, a referendum establishes the Islamic Republic, the current form of the ancient Iranian state. politics / religion ●●●●
  97. 12 July 1979 Independence of Kiribati 0 cit. no story The Gilbert Islands become the independent Republic of Kiribati. politics ●●
  98. 22 February 1979 Independence of Saint Lucia 0 cit. no story Saint Lucia becomes an independent state within the Commonwealth. politics ●●
  99. 27 October 1979 Independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 cit. no story Saint Vincent and the Grenadines becomes independent from Britain. politics ●●
  100. 17 February 1979 to 16 March 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War 1 cit. no story China invades northern Vietnam to punish it for toppling the Khmer Rouge, then withdraws after a month of heavy fighting. Border clashes continue for another decade. war ●●●