TOTAL US DEAD 13,020

 TOTAL RI DEAD 52

 1969     Oh! Calcutta causes a stir on Broadway with its nudity.  . .   . . Easy Rider, starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, opens.  . .  . .     Woodstock becomes the musical experience of the generation.    .  .  . . The New York Mets become the first expansion team to win the pennant and the World Series. . . 

 1969     Senator Edward Kennedy drives off of a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in an accident that kills Mary Jo Kopechne.   . .  . .   Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the surface of the Moon.    . .  . . Charles Manson and his cult kill actress Sharon Tate and four others.. .  . . The Newport Bridge opens . . 

 1969  New policy of "Vietnamization" of the war is announced to shift burden to South Vietnam . .  . .  Nixon secretly bombs Cambodia to destroy supply routes  . .  . .  Ho Chi Minh dies    . .  . . Massive antiwar demonstration in Washington  . .  . .  High-water mark of 543,400 US troops in Vietnam . . 

 TOTAL US DEAD 6,155

 TOTAL RI DEAD 24

 1970    Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix   both die of drug overdoses.  . .   . .    Monday Night Football premieres.     . .  . .     The movie M*A*S*H, about another war in Asia, opens.    .  .  . .    The first Earth Day is celebrated.    . . 

 1970     National Guardsmen kill four students  at Kent State University.    . .  . .   Apollo 13 lands safely after a potentially disastrous explosion in space.    . . 

 1970  Henry Kissinger begins secret peace talks in Paris . .  . .  US launches ground operations in Cambodia  . .  . .  Withdrawals of US troops brings level down to 280,000   . . 

 TOTAL US DEAD 3,095

 TOTAL RI DEAD 9

 1971    Billie Jean King is first female athlete to earn $1 million in a year.     . .   . .    Disney World opens in Orlando.     . .  . .     All in the Family debuts.   . .  . .    Jesus Christ, Superstar opens on Broadway.     . . 

 1971     The Weather Underground claims responsibility for a bomb that explodes in the Senate wing of the Capitol.    . .  . . The Supreme Court rules that busing is the way to achieve racial integration in public schools. . .  . . May Day antiwar protest leads to more than 7,000 arrests in Washington D.C. . .  . . First RI personal income tax signed into law  . . 

 1971  Calley found guilty in My Lai massacre . .  . .  Pentagon Papers published in New York Times, other newspapers  . .  . .  Air war continues to provide cover for American retreat   . . 

 TOTAL US DEAD 755

 TOTAL RI DEAD 2

 1972    Burt Reynolds poses naked in Cosmopolitan     . .   . .    Don McLean's American Pie  is the most talked about hit song.     . .  . .     The Godfather opens in theaters.   . .  . . Ms. magazine debuts . .  . .    Mark Spitz wins seven Olympic gold medals in Munich.    . . 

 1972     President Nixon is first US president to visit China  . .  . . Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex are broken into.    . .  . .    The Dow Jones Average tops 1,000 for the first time.    . .  . .  Providence Civic Center opens . . 

 1972  Kissinger, North Vietnam hammer out peace draft, but South rejects it . .  . .  Hundreds of antiwar protesters arrested in US  . .  . .  US conducts "Christmas bombings" of Hanoi and Haiphong   . . 

 TOTAL US DEAD 65

 TOTAL RI DEAD 0

 1973    Secretariat wins the Triple Crown of horse racing.    . .   . . The Sting is in the theaters and its soundtrack revives ragtime music.  . .  . .  Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a bestseller.. .  . . Roberta Flack wins the Grammy for Killing Me Softly with His Song.. . 

 1973  Abortion is legalized nationwide with the passage of Roe vs. Wade . .  . . Televised Senate hearings into Watergate dominate the news. . .  . .     Spiro Agnew   resigns as Vice President, Gerald Ford replaces him. . . 

 1973  "Peace with honor" ceasefire signed in Paris . .  . .  Last American troops leave Vietnam  . .  . .  Kissinger, Le Duc Tho win Nobel Peace Prize   . .