Reversion of Okinawa
1972 · Event
US returns Okinawa to Japan after 27 years of military rule; American bases remain.
On these timelines: Japan, Master, USA
More from Japan
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Edo period (1603)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
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- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Hey Jude (The Beatles) (1968)