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1974 was a year of firsts. Richard Nixon, enmeshed in the Watergate scandal, became the first American president to resign from office. Hank Aaron became the first baseball player to top Babe Ruth’s career home run record. Scientists in Ethiopia found the first skeleton of a 3-million-year-old human ancestor that walked upright, while archaeologists in China unearthed an army of more than 8,000 lifesize terracotta warriors. In America, disco fever raged, and Archie Bunker broke TV sitcom ground with his blunt and bigoted take on hot-button social issues.
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Serial Murderer Theodore “Ted” Bundy walks forward and waves to TV camera as his indictment for the January murders of Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman is read at the Leon County Jail. (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
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SAN FRANCISCO - SEPTEMBER 19: Heiress Patty Hearst poses for a San Mateo Sheriff mugshot after her arrest for bank robbery on September 19, 1975 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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ITHACA, NY – CIRCA 1974: A general view of a Nike Waffle trainer running shoe on a rock circa 1974 at a gorge in Ithaca, NY. (Photo by Amy Abramson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Soviet dissident Alexandre Soljenitsyn greets his sons Ignat Soljenitsyn,18 months and Yermolai Soljenitsyn, (3 years) as they arrive in Zurich. 29 March 1974. (Photo by James Andanson/Sygma via Getty Images)
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, - APRIL 8, 1974: Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's long-standing record of 714 lifetime home runs. Even now, as Hank Aaron goes on establishing an even higher total, there is probably a Little Leaguer out there somewhere who will, in the future, rewrite the record book again. (Photo by Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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The House Judiciary Committee begins its debate on the possible impeachment of President Nixon in Washington on July 24th, 1974. (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
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President Richard Nixon with the Watergate tapes, 1974.
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Philippe Petit crossing the Twin Towers on a tightrope.
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Gerald R. Ford, Head and Shoulder Portrait speaking to Press shortly after becoming U.S. President upon Richard Nixon's Resignation, Washington, D.C., USA, photographer Thomas J. O'Halloran, Warren K. Leffler, August 9, 1974. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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