U.S. Bicentennial (1976)
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July, the government and people of the United States celebrated in 1976...
Vietnam War
French Indochina was captured by the Japanese during WWII. After 1945 the French tried unsuccessfully to restore their rule in Vietnam, and in 1954...
Watergate
At 2.30 am on 17 June 1972, during the lead-up to the 1972 American presidential elections, five intruders broke into the Democratic National Committee's...
Wollongong Mutilation Slaying (1966)
On 29 January 1966, a 57-year-old cleaner was brutally slain as she worked alone in the Piccadilly Arcade in Wollongong, NSW (Australia).
The mutilation of Wilhelmina...
Woodstock
It remains the defining assembly of rock music - an unprecedented gathering of at least 300,000 young, long-haired, raggedy clad Americans "going up the...
Y2K Bug
In addition to debating whether 2000 or 2001 would mark the "real" beginning of the new millennium, the Western World pondered the effect the...
