1970

News Highlights of 1970:

• President Nixon sends combat units into Cambodia.

• At Kent StateUniversity, National Guardsmen fire into a crowd protesting the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding eight.

• The Knapp Commission is formed to investigate claims of NYPD corruption started by Frank Serpico.

• The LGBT community marches from New York's Greenwich Village to Central Park demonstrating for gay rights.

• A parade of 10,000 women in New York celebrates the 50th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment.

• FBI agents arrest American Communist Angela Davis at a midtown Manhattan motel.

• Anwar Sadat is elected president of the United Arab Republic (Egypt).

• One million cans of tuna are recalled by the FDA because of mercury contamination.

• The film version of M*A*S*H is officially banned from U.S. military installations for "reducing the conventions and paraphernalia of war to total idiocy."