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Beatles 1969-1970
The Beatles, one of the most popular and influential musical groups in history split up. John Lennon told the members of the Beatles that he will leave the group, this happend in 1969, it was officily announced on 10 April 1970 when Paul McCartney announced that he is quitting. -
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Hot Pants
Welcomed with open arms too in the decade that followed, in 1970 Women’s Wear Daily said that hot pants were only hot pants if they didn’t leave anything to the imagination. -
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Red Army Faction
The Red Army Faction in its early stages commonly known as Baader-Meinhof Group, was a West German terrorist organization. -
First Earthday
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year. -
Warsaw Kneefall
The event took place on December 7, 1970 in what was then the Communist People's Republic of Poland during a visit to a monument to the Nazi-era Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After laying down a wreath, Brandt,the german chancellor, very surprisingly, and to all appearances spontaneously, knelt. He remained silently in that position for a short time, surrounded by a large group of press photographers. -
26th amendment allowing 18 year olds to vote
On March 23, 1971 a proposal to extend the right to vote to citizens eighteen years of age and older was adopted by both Houses of Congress and sent to the States for ratification. That proposal became part of the Constitution on July 1, 1971. The ratification time span for this amendment, three months and eight days,[1] (March 23–July 1, 1971), is shortest for any U.S. Constitutional Amendment to date. -
London Bridge brought to the Us
The london bridge was sinking into the Thames river and was not able to keep up with traffic so they moved it to Arizona. -
Munich Massacre
Arab terrorists with ties to Yasser Arafat murdered the 1972 Israeli Olympic team. Although terrorists had struck before, they had never committed mass murder. This signaled the birth of terrorism. -
Nixon resigns / Watergate scandal
After two years of public debate over the Watergate scandals, President Nixon bowed to pressures from the public and leaders of his party to become the first President in American history to resign.
The Nixon administration's attempted to cover-up its involvement, June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. -
Microsoft
Paul Allen and Bill Gates create and sell their first product.
They deceloped a BASIC computer language.
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The end of the Vietnam War
Operation Frequent Wind was the evacuation by helicopter of American civilians from Saigon, South Vietnam, on 29–30 April 1975 during the last days of the Vietnam War. -
Helsinki Accords
Thirty-five nations including the United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement guaranteeing human rights and fundamental freedoms. Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev signed the accord without a second thought. However, the agreement inspired Eastern Europeans. They began to agitate for freedom and independence. Solidarity in Poland is the best example. -
Star wars movie released
Though Fox released Star Wars in only 42 theaters, it primed its target audience of science-fiction fans with a massive publicity campaign. By the end of its first week, the film had made $3 million, and by the end of the summer it would rake in some $100 million. -
Elvis found dead
Elvis Aaron Presley, an american singer, musician and actor regarded as on of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, often referred to as the "king of rock and roll", or simply the king. Elvis presley was found dead from an overdose of a reported fourtneen drugs in his system. ten in significant quality. -
John Paul II becomes 2nd pope
Pope Saint John Paul II born Karol Józef Wojtyła 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005), also known as Saint John Paul the Great was the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church from 16 October 1978 to his death in 2005. He was the second longest-serving pope in modern history and, as a Pole,
