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Beatles Break-up
The Beatles didn’t break up because of one incident, but multiple reasons over a long period of time. The events included the cessation of touring, the passing of their manager, and also conflicts both legally and financially. George Harrison and Ringo Starr both left the group in between the years of 1968-1968. They soon realized that they wouldn’t again work together. On April 10, 1970 Paul McCartney gave news of the break-up to the press along with his newly released album, McCartney -
Kent State Shootings
On May fourth there were people protesting against the American Invasion. Richard Nixon sent the National Guard to lay down the law. The Kent State shootings or May 4 Massacre affected the entire nation. The shooting took place on school grounds by the Ohio National guard. The Guardsmen shot over 60 rounds killing four and wounding nine students. Some of which weren’t protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia. -
EPA is created
In the 1970’s there was no real law or act that said you couldn’t dump into bodies of water or shoot toxic waste in to the air. All of this finally ended when the EPA was created on December 2 of 1970. The EPA was created to consolidate federal monitoring, researching, and setting standards to ensure protection over the environment. EPA is basically meant to clean up the environment and keep it healthy for the American People. -
Attica Prison Riot
On August 21, 1971 the riot in Attica Correctional Facility of New York took place because the prisoners didn’t get better living conditions like they asked. 2,200 inmates rebelled and took control over the prison shortly after the death of George Jackson (a fellow inmate),and also took 33 staff members captive. Four days later, Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered police men to regain control and did. Later, when the incident was done and over with, more than 39 people were killed, including cor -
Disney World
Disney World Opens on October 1, 1971 Disney Land was opened for the first time. It was a major revenue for the State of Florida. It made millions of dollars very quickly. It attracted people from all over the entire world. Disney World’s land was bought in secret because Disney Land was such a big hit. -
D. B. Cooper
D. B. Cooper was and still is an unknown aircraft hijacker in the airspace from Portland to Seattle on November, 24. D. B stole $200,000 in cash and jumped out of the plane with his parachute to his unclear fate. After a time of man hunting, D. B. was never caught nor identified. This case(which is still in FBI archives) is the only air piracy American Aviation to be unsolved. -
Munich Massacre
On September 5, 1972 during the summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in Western Germany, the Palestinian group Black September took the Israeli Olympic team hostage and eventually killed. After the incident began, the Palestinians demanded 234 prisoners held in Israeli jails to be released. Black Septembers name for the operation was “Ikrit and Biram”. There had been 11 athletes and coaches killed, along with a West German police officer. Israeli special forces and Intelligence tracked down those -
Pong
Pong was one of the first ever arcade video games with two dimensional graphics. It also became one of the first mainstream popular games. The original manufacturer was Atari Incorporated, assigned by Atari Co-founder…Allan Alcorn was to design a game in which he created Pong. The game Pong eventually, but surely, started the video game industry or era. -
Last man on the moon
At 12:33 Eastern time on December 7, 1972 Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt were launched to the moon on Apollo 17, being the last and most recent manned mission moon landing. While there, they collected samples and deployed scientific instruments. The Apollo 17 crew returned to earth 12 long days later, on December 19. -
Getty's kidnapping
On July 10 of 1973 at 3:00am,Getty III was kidnapped. A ransom note was found, demanding $17 million in exchange for Getty’s life. Four months later, an envelope containing a single hair and human ear was sent to the daily news paper along with a threat of the boy coming back in pieces. Very luckily, Getty Sr. got his Grandson back for around $2.9 million after negotiation. Getty III was found with an ear missing but still alive in Southern Italy on December 15th. -
Sears/Willis Tower
In 1973, in Chicago, Illinois, at 1,451 feet and 108 stories stood the recently built Willis Tower (or Sears Tower), becoming the largest building in the world. And it stayed the tallest for just short of 25 years. It is currently the tallest building in the U.S. and the 7th tallest in the world. It attracts more than one million to its observation deck every year The Sears tower lost its naming right in 2003, On July 16, 2009 it was officially renamed the Willis Tower, -
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed December 28, 1973, providing protection and conservation of nearly extinct or threatened…including the environments they live in. There are about 1,990 species protected or conserved by the ESA. About 1,385 species are in the U.S. or in its waters, the rest of them are known as “foreign species.” -
National Maximum Speed Law
The National Maximum Speed Law was created by Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act prohibiting speed over 55 mph. The NMSL was created due to oil price spikes and supply disruptions in the 73’ oil crisis. Having the limit at 55 mph would hopefully make gasoline consumption drop, and savings to increase from 0.5% to 1.0%. And because the law was completely ignored by all motorists, the law was repealed giving back the states authority to set the speed limit. -
Nixons Resignation
Aug. 8 of 1974, the 37th President Richard Nixon announced that he would be resigning due to being the perpetrator Watergate scandal. He was the first and only President in Republicans History to resign from the President’s office. -
Ford pardons Nixon
On September 8th, Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon(the 37th president) for the crimes he had or hadn’t committed or participated during his time still in office. -
The Fall of Saigon
On April 20, 1975 the capture of South Vietnams capital, taken by the People’s Army of Vietnam and also the NLA(National Liberation Front) became what is now known as The Fall of Saigon. This day also held a bookmark as the day that the Vietnam War had ended. -
Arthur Ashe takes Wimbledon
On July, 5 1975 Arthur Ashe(born in Africa) became the first ever black man to win the tennis championship Wimbledon, beating Jimmy Connors. Jimmy was the heavily favored opponent thought to crush Ashe, as he did his earlier opponents on his way to the Wimbledon title. -
President Fords failed assassination attempts
President Gerald Ford was nearly assassinated twice in the same three weeks. The first was September 5, 1975 by Lynette Fromme who pointed a Colt .45, she was about to fire when a secret service agent put his thumb behind the hammer preventing the shot from being taken. The second happened in San Francisco when Ford was walking out of the Francis Hotel, Mrs. Sara Moore took aim and shot, but not before ex- marine deflected the shot six inches above Ford. -
Karen Quinlan
Karen Quinlan was a 21 year old who decided to consume many drugs and much alcohol, she soon became unconscious and stopped breathing for more than 15 minutes. Soon, the paramedics arrived and barely kept her alive through a ventilator. Karen had fallen into a vegetative state, after several months of only breathing from a ventilator, Karen’s parents requested the hospital to put her to rest. The hospital refused, after the legal battles, the tribune ruled in her parents favor. -
Entebbe air raid
On June 27, Air France was hijacked by two members of the Liberation of Palestine and two more from the revolutionary cells. They had taken many hostages on the plane, and if the 40 Palestinians and 13 others weren’t released from jail by July 1 then the terrorist would take out the hostages. On July 3 and 4 Israeli Commandos sneak into the building killing all the hijackers and saving all the hostages. -
Legionnaires Disease
Legionnaires’ disease was first diagnosed and named in July of 1976, when pneumonia flooded through people at the American Legion convention. This disease is more severe and also has a higher rated fever and pneumonia. The bacteria’s origin is unknown in where it came from. -
Star Wars
Star wars was released on May 25, 1977.Star wars was a film about space and epic adventures created by director George Lucas..This film became a world wide hit and also had two sequels. -
NY Blackout
The Blackout of New York City lasted from July 13 to July 14, 1977.The only neighborhoods that were not fazed by the blackout would be the Rockaways, and Southern Queens. -
Elvis found dead
On Aug 16, 1977 Elvis Presley was found in the bathroom at Graceland dead. The coroner claimed the cause of death to be cardiac arrhythmia which means the heart wasn’t beating the way it would have normally. The reason for a heart to beat abnormally would most likely be an overdose of prescription drugs. -
John Paul II
In 1978 John Paul the second became the first in over a few hundred years to be a non-Italian. The pope went to ever 100 different countries to spread his message across the world. -
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