Major events that have happened since Mizzou last won a conference title...

in football. A brief pictorial history:

Title IX passes, greatly expanding women's access to sports.
The US pulls out of South Vietnam, uniting Vietnam under the North Vietnamese leadership.
Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion.
Watergate scandal forces President Nixon to resign.
Three Mile Island becomes the worst nuclear incident in US history.
AIDS is first recognized. Reagan administration ignores it as gay disease until 1985, setting back years of research and dooming thousands to an early death.
Challenger space shuttle explodes
The Berlin Wall falls, reuniting Germany.
The US invades Iraq kicking off the Gulf War.
NAFTA is created.
9/11
US invades Iraq a second time, toppling the Saddam regime.
Americans elect the first African-American as POTUS.