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World Event:Women's Rights
Women felt that they should have more equal rights. fought for equal pay, job opportunites, and the right to abortion and contrecptions. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Beatles Break Up
Beatles officially broke up in April 1970. Paul McCartney was the first to departure but later on said that John Lennon was the first one who wanted to leave. -
World Event:Earth Day
First Earth Day ever. Many laws were added to conserve air, water, and animals. -
World Event:Kent State shooting
Four students killed, nine injured by National Guardsmen shootings. Students were at a demonstration protesting incursion in Cambodia. National Guardsmen also used tear gas. -
World Events:Pentagon Papers
Huge leak of top-secret government documents. Papers were widley distributed. Publication discredtied the Vietnam War and the policies of the Nixon adminisrtation -
World Event:Voting age lowered
The 26th Amendment was added to the constitution in July and lowered the age from 21 to 18. More citizens could now vote. -
Science and Technology: Floppy DIsk invented
Alan Snugart invented the Floppy Disk at IBM laboratories in 1971. The Floppy Disk was first designed to load microcodes into IBM's Merlin IBM3330, but was later used to store information and software. It was used in a drive similar to today's CD/DVD drives. -
Science and Technology: Intel releasees 4004 chip
The Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation requested Intel to design twelve computer chips to be used in Nippons new Buisem 141-PF printing calculator. Intel designed a series of four chips for Nippon, the 4004 series. One of the chips could be programmed to work in different devices. This allowed Intel to sell the 4004 to other companies making other devices. -
Science and Technology: Nixon announces U.S. Space Shutlle Program
On January 5, 1972 president Richard Nixon announced the developement of the NASA Space shuttle Program. Nixon signed a bill authorizing NASA with $5.5 million ro build a new space-flight vehicle. The shuttle was designeed to act more like an airplane than a single-ues rocket. -
Fashion and Entertainment: The Godfather
Directed by Francis Ford and ranked 2nd on AFI's all time top 100 movies was one of the greatest films in the 70's and ever. -
Sports & Music: Baseball
The "Oakland A's " were the best team in 1972, 1973, and 1774. They were hard to beat but fun to watch. Their mascot was a mule and they wore green and yellow uniforms. Many players grew mustaches to keep their colorful image. -
World Event:Watergate Scandel
Followwed a break in t Democratic partys headquarters. Many members of Nixon's addminisration were arrested and led to Nixon's impeachment. -
Sports & Music: Sporting Changes
The first baseball players to go on strike. Hank Aaron breaks legandary Babe Ruth's record. aaron's 755 home runs in 1974 stood for thirty more years. basketball had two major changes #1 ESPN #2 the three-point line was added. The NFL extended regular season to sixteen games. -
Sports & Music: The Munich Massacre
It took place in Munich, Germany a little after four am. It was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games. Two Israeli Olympic team members were killed and nine others were taken hostage. It ended by a huge gunfight. -
World Event:Opening up of China
Nixon signed a trade agreement with China. Also made an agreement with Russia to limit the number of nuclear missiles each nation stockpiled. -
Science and Technology: Pong created
The first video game, Pong, was created November 29, 1972. It was a simple dark screen with a paddle and ball, the only directions being, "Avoid missing ball for high score". pong was made of only three circuits and cost $98.95; It was the beginning of the video game revolution. -
Science and Technology: Last Apollo moon landing
at seven fifty-five on December 7, 1972, Eugene E. Lernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Harrison H. Schmitt launched and piloted the last Apollo moon landing. This was the first mission with a trained geologist. The astronauts landed on the moon on December eleventh and were the last men on the moon so far, with a mission duration of seventy-four hours, fifty-nine minutes, and forty seconds. -
Sports & Music: Horse Racing
In 1973 Secretariet won the "Triple Crown". To win a racehorse has to win three races in one year the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness,and Belmont Stakes. secretariet was the first racehorse to win in twenty-five years and broke the record at Belmont. Secretariet earned his reputation as one of the greatest racehorses of all-time. -
Science and technology: Sky Lab launched
On May 14, 1973 the first American space station, Sky Lab, was launched. The station was launched by a modified Saturn V rocket and orbited Earth for six years. After being launched the station slowly fell out of orbit, eventually burning up in the atmosphere and falling to earth. -
Science and Technology: Ethernet Cable invented
Robert Metcalfe created the Ethernet Cable in Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center on May 22, 1973. Ethernet was a system used to directly connect computers and machines within a buisness, allowing for a fast working LAN (Local Area Conection). -
World Event:World Trade Center bulit
The world trade center was once the tallest buliding and home to almost 500 busniess. The Tower was destroyed on September 9, 2011 by terrorists. -
Sports & Music: The Battle of the Sexes
In 1973 Bobby Riggs challenged King to a tennis match. The winner got one hundred thousand dollars. At the Houston Astro Dome in Texas September 20,1973 before the game King gave Riggs a live pig. She crushed Riggs in three straight sets. -
Science and Technology: First Black Box invented
In the fifties, David Warren began work on the first Black Box recording device. Although the concept was created in the fifties, the first Black Box was not operational until the seventies. The Black Box was an inflight data recording system which was designed for airplanes. It was built to be nearly indestructable and is now used and required in all airplanes. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Little House on the Prarie
T.V. series about a family who lives in the American West prarie. The series was written by Ande Lamb. These shows were based off of the the books series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. -
Sports & Music: Soccor Leagues
The United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA) and the American Youth Soccer Organization. In 1978 500,000+ kids play in AYSA. Girls were not allowed on many boys' sports teams until recently. After the beginning of youth soccer girls played along with boys. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Abc, Cbs, and Nbc agree on "Family Hour"
These programs were getting complaints of there shows being to advanced for younger kids. Fixing that problem they played more appropriate shows before 7 p.m. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Mood Rings
The mood ring was invented by Joshua Reynolds, was a ring with a stone that changed colors according to your mood. The color actually changes because of the tempature of the twisting crystals in the stone. -
Sports & Music: Music
It created a trend of relaxing music and dance music.It was a happier era than the 60s. disco would be the definition of the 70s. Progressive rock was a popular genre; Pink Floyd was great at progressive rock. Punk rock emerged in an upbeat harder style. The greatest rock bands of all time #1 The Beatle #2 The Ramones. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Jaws
Starring Roy Schneider is a movie about a big great white shark. On the opening day the movie earned $7,061,513 and was played on 409 screens. -
Sports & Music: Basketball
Between 1963 and 1975 UCLA took ten national championships. In 1971 rules changed to make Women's game about the same as Men's. The first national college basketball tournament for women began in 1971. Five years later the olympics added six-team women's basketball event. In 1978 Women's Pro Basketball league began. Eight teams were established to compete professionally. -
Sports & Music: Football
The Stealers were the best professional football team. They were the American Football Confrence champions four times during the 1970s. They won the Super Bowl in 1995, 1996, 1979, and 1980 no other teams have ever won four Super Bowls. Joe Greene was the leader of the Stealers' "steel curtain" defensive line. Their head coach was Chuck Noll. The American Football League merged with the National Football League in 1970 and brought many new young players to the NFL. -
Science and Technology: First Apple computer produced
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak designed and produced the first Apple computer, the Apple I, in 1976. they built the computer out of Jobs's garage, selling it for $666.66. Jobs and Wozniak built about 200 computers. Each computer came working out of the box except for a few missing peices: Monitor, power supply, keyboard, and casing. -
World Evenrs:Bicentennial
Huge event elebrating America's 200 year aniversary, declaring it's freedom from Britian. Celebrations lasted for months. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Rocky
Movie starring Sylvester Stallone is about a young fighter who gets his chance to go big time. This movie is ranked 80th on the AFI's top 100 quotes. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Annie Hall
Movie directed by the great Woody Allen who was also the writer and a main star in the movie. This movie earned $38,251,425 in the U.S in 1977. -
Sports & Music: Disco Craze
It started in New York City's black,gay, and Latin nightclubs. Disco craze spread nation wide due to the movie Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta. Lyrics had to do with love and the exitement of disco dancing and avoided politics and hardship topics that were popular in the 1960s The height of the disco craze was in 1978 36 million Americans danced the night away to the disco beat. There were 20,000 clubs all around the country and disco influenced music later on. -
World Events:Jonestown Kiling
Jim Jones, leader of Peoples Temple, and 912 others drank a cyanide laced koolaid drink in a mass suicide. Peoples Temple was a extremly reilgous cult. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Star Wars Movie
American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The film totaled at 4.49 billion dollars and started the space movie trend. -
science and Technology: MRI invented
The MRI was invented in 1977 by Dr. Raymond V. Damadian. He discovered that animal tissue responds to magenetic waves by sending out signals. Damadian found that cancerous tissue had a different response from non-cancerous tissue and used the device to study and detect cancer. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Elvis Dies
Elvis Presley dies in Graceland, Tennesee because of heart problems. They say this happend because of an overdose on prescription drugs.
