This page contains a timeline of major events related to the Lost Generation between 1970 and 1979, with U.S. and world events to provide context.
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1970
September 25 – Erich Maria Remarque dies in Locarno, Switzerland
September 28 – John Dos Passos dies in Baltimore, Maryland
September 29 – Gilbert Seldes dies
1972
June 12 – Edmund Wilson dies in Talcottville, New York
November 1 – Ezra Pound dies in Venice, Italy
1973
February 8 – Robert Coates dies
March 29 – Last of American forces leave Vietnam
October 19 – Margaret Anderson dies in Le Cannet, France
November 22 – Ramon Guthrie dies from an overdose of phenobarbital
1974
August 8 – President Nixon resigns
August 9 – Gerald Ford sworn in as 38th U.S. President
1975
October 10 –Sara Murphy dies in Arlington, Virginia
December 7 – Thornton Wilder dies in Hamden, Connecticut
1977
January 20 – Jimmy Carter sworn in as 39th U.S. President
1978
March 13 – Matthew Josephson dies in Santa Cruz, California
November 7 – Janet Flanner dies in New York, New York
1979
November 4 – Iranians seize the American Embassy in Tehran, hold 52 people hostage
See also: 1870s-80s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s
