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And we all know why that’s the case:
If your standard for slow news is the first year of WWII maybe you should get a new measuring stick
Or what has been called one of the most historic and tumultuous years of a century (1968)… Yeah.
Now I gotta look up 1973. Never heard it mentioned in this context…
Answer:
- Roe vs Wade
- Vietnam War officially ended, US pulls out of Cambodia
- OPEC oil embargo started
- Wounded Knee occupation
- Major flooding of the Mississippi River
- New tallest building in the world (Sears Tower)
- Nixon goes to China and US opens official office in Beijing
- Battle of the Sexes tennis match
- Secretariat wins first triple crown in 25 years, smashing records
- “The Miller Test” for obscenity is established by the US Supreme Court
- Two notable commercial airline crashes with fatalities (both in Boston, interestingly)
- Egypt and Israel sign peace accord
- Much of the Watergate scandal played out in 73, though Nixon didn’t resign until August of '74
And… it’s jinxed.
The Conversation does know the year is only half-over, right?
If that’s their standard then we’re already in one heck of a year.
