1970's

By Lisaott

  • Anwar Sadat elected in Egypt

  • Gas explosion at a subway construction site

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    1970's

  • Apollo XIII explosion

  • Telephone booth stuffing became popular activity

  • Salvador Allende elected in Chile

  • Charles de Gaulle dies

  • Mark Spitz won seven Olympic gold medals at the Munich Olympic Games

  • Calley convicted of My Lai massacre

  • "Papa Doc" Dulavier of Haiti dies

  • Louis Armstrong dies

  • Soviet Soyuz 11 command module loses pressure

  • Skateboard invented

  • Russian probe lands on Venus

  • Dam collapse in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, 250 people killed

  • US astronauts explore moon

  • John Edgar Hoover Dies

  • President Nixon is Reelected

  • Lyndon B. Johnson dies

  • Supreme Court overturns abortion laws

  • Nixon accused of Watergate cover-up

  • Skylab repaired in space

  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn exiled from USSR

  • Patty Hearst joins in bank raid

  • Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home-run record

  • Cyclohexane vapor cloud explosion at a caprolactam plant, 28 people killed

  • Chinese clay army discovered.

  • King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated.

  • Chemical plant explosion which released Dioxin, Italy

  • Human rights pact signed in Helsinki, Finland

  • General Franco dies

    General Franco dies

  • Chemical plant disasters in Italy

  • Chairman Mao dies

  • Viking probe finds no life on Mars

  • Barbara Walters becomes most highly paid woman on TV

  • STAR WARS out on the big screen. It thrills audiences

  • Electrical blackout in New York City

  • Elvis Presley Dies

  • Liquified propylene truck explosion 200 people killed.Spain.

  • Muhammad Ali regains heavyweight boxing title.

  • Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman prime minister

  • American Airlines DC-10 crash 273 people killed BACK to TOP