United States 1975

Synopsis

In July 1975 some 55,000 members of Council 13 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) walked out on strike against the state of Pennsylvania. The strike lasted four days before the union and the state returned to the bargaining table. The union won a wage increase of 12 percent over three years for state workers. The strike was the first full-blown strike by a union against a state government and exemplified AFSCME's increased militancy after the 1960s.

Timeline

• 1955: African and Asian nations meet at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, inaugurating the "non-aligned" movement of Third World countries.
• 1965: Power failure paralyzes New York City and much of the northeastern United States on 9 November.
• 1969: Assisted by pilot Michael Collins, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon (20 July).
• 1972: On 5 September, Palestinian terrorists kill eleven Israeli...