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| 1968 |
| | | The first civil rights march in northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with batons and water cannon | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated president | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Stonewall riots in New York prompt a US campaign for Gay and Lesbian rights | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Mary Jo Kopechne drowns when US senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off the road on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts | |
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| c. 1971 |
| | | Hip-hop originates as a dance style in New York among young African Americans | |
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| 1972 |
| | | British paratroops open fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing thirteen, in what becomes known as Bloody Sunday | |
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| 1972 |
| | | An Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress but fails when not ratified in sufficient states | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Alabama becomes a major scandal after a whistle-blower reveals the details | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Roe v. Wade establishes in US law that prohibiting abortion violates a woman's right to privacy | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Cyclone Tracy devastates the Australian city of Darwin on Christmas Day, destroying 80% of the domestic buildings | |
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