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As the Vietnam War expanded into Cambodia, anti-war rallies flared at home; at Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen killed four unarmed student protesters, shocking the nation. Americans held their breath as NASA scrambled to bring Apollo 13 astronauts home safely after their aborted moon mission. Some 20 million people celebrated the first Earth Day, rock icons Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix both died of drug overdoses at age 27, and the Beatles called it quits.
NEW YORK - CIRCA 1966: Motown recording star Tammi Terrell poses for a portrait circa1966 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
The Apollo 13 lunar landing mission crew from left to right: Commander, James A. Lovell, Jr., Command Module pilot, John L. Swigert Jr. and Lunar Module pilot, Fred W. Haise, Jr.
Flight controllers man the control room of the NASA Mission Control Center in Houston as the Apollo 13 reenters earth's atmosphere for splashdown and recovery. (Photo by F. Carter Smith/Sygma via Getty Images)
View, from behind, of Ohio National Guardsmen in gas masks and with rifles as they advance up Blanket Hill to back Kent State University students during an antiwar demonstration on the university's campus, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970. The protests, initially over the US invasion of Cambodia, resulted in the deaths of four protesters (and the injuries of nine others) after the National Guard opened fire on students. (Photo by Howard Ruffner/Getty Images)
Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Lou Reed Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix performing his final concert at the Open Air Love + Peace Festival in Fehmarn, Germany, on September 6, 1970. Twelve days later, he died by asphyxiation after an accidental overdose.
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