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• Harold M. Agnew becomes Directory of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

• Los Alamos teachers’ base salary increased to $7,500.

• Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) achieves full energy beam.
• “Water Boiler” nuclear reactor decommissioned.

• Los Alamos–designed sensors on Vela satellites detect cosmic gamma-ray bursts.
• Los Alamos begins research and development programs in response to Energy Crisis.
• Horse stables permanently assigned to North Mesa.

Cray-1

• First radioisotope for medical research shipped from LAMPF.
• Insensitive high explosives developed for use in nuclear weapons.
• Los Alamos acquires first vector supercomputer from Cray Research.

• Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) begins oversight of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
• First laser separation of isotopes.
• Technology Transfer Office established.
• Los Alamos airport opens to private airplanes.

• A portion of the Laboratory site is designated a national environmental research park.
• Renovation of Fuller Lodge begins.

• Weapons Neutron Facility (WNR) operational.
• La Mesa Fire ravages Frijoles Canyon.
• Department of Energy (DOE) begins oversight of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

• Plutonium Processing Facility (TA-55) operational.
• First class of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors trained at Los Alamos.

• Donald M. Kerr becomes Directory of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

• Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty enters into force.
• First Earth Day celebration.
• Environmental Protection Agency established.
• Choh Hao Li synthesizes human growth hormone.
• Howard Temin and David Baltimore discover reverse transcriptase in viruses.
• The large reflecting telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona is completed.
• Student protestors shot at Kent State University.

• Mariner 9 orbits Mars and returns pictures.
• The first microprocessor is introduced by Intel.
• East Pakistan becomes the new country of Bangladesh.

President Nixon

• Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT I interim agreement and antiballistic missile treaty in Moscow.
• Fermilab begins operation of their large accelerator.
• The first human-created object to leave the solar system, Pioneer 10, is launched.
• Underground nuclear test at Amichika Island, Alaska.
• President Nixon visits China.

• Last US combat troops leave Vietnam.
• France conducts extensive nuclear tests at Muroroa Atol.
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) embargo imposed.
• Energy Crisis.
• Scientists at Bell Labs develop a tunable, continuous-wave laser.
• A CERN team discover neutral currents in neutrino reactions.
• Signing of Vietnam cease-fire.
• Salvador Allende is killed in a coup in Chile.
• Watergate burglary investigated by Congress.

President Ford

• OPEC embargo ends.
• India explodes 15-kiloton nuclear device.
• Threshold Test Ban Treaty signed limits US and USSR underground tests to 150 kilotons.
•President Nixon resigns.
•Gerald Rudolph Ford becomes President.
• Charles Kowal discovers Leda, the 13th moon of Jupiter.
• The first pictures from the surface of Venus are received by Russian probes Venera 9 and Venera 10.
• Ford pardons Nixon.

• Monoclonal antibodies production is achieved by Cesar Milstein.
• Khmer Rouge seize control of Cambodia.
• U.S. withdraws from Vietnam.

• Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty signed by US and USSR.
• Genentech is established becoming the first genetic engineering company.
• Free First Condorde supersonic jet service between U.S. and Europe.
• Mao Zedong dies.
China's "Gang of Four" arrested.
• Free elections held in Spain.

President Carter

• James Earl Carter, Jr. becomes President of the United States.
• Andreas R. Gruentzig invents balloon angioplasty.
• The Apple II personal computer is introduced.
• The last recorded case of smallpox found in the wild occurs in Somalia.

• Islanders are removed from Bikini Atoll after it is discovered that Cesium 137 is being taken up by plants entering the diet.
• Wolfgang Pauli succeeds in measuring the lifetime of a neutron.
• A Russian underground neutrino telescope is completed.
• Pope Paul II of Poland ascends to papacy.
• Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro murdered by Red Brigade terrorists.

• Accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station.
• Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II Treaty in Vienna.
• US satellite records a double ?ash in South Atlantic; South African or Israeli nuclear weapon test postulated.
• Anthrax epidemic claims 64 lives in Sverdlovsk, USSR.
• Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
• Egypt and Israel sign a peace treaty.
• Iran hostage crisis.
• Ayatollah Khomeini leads a fundamentalist revolution in Iran.
• U.S. experiences 18% inflation.