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Hamburegr Helper Invented
Hamburger helper is known for their pasta and seasoning mixture. This was introduced in 1970 by General Mills. General Mills wanted this to help housewives make a tasty meal in minutes using ground beef. This product was made during a meat shortage. -
Break-up of Beatles
The break- up of the Beatles was a tragic event. They were one of the most popular and influential groups ever. The break-up was a continuous transition. Some of the reasons were the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. Another reason is that each member were having different artistic visions. -
Apollo 13 mission suffers huge setback
The Apollo 13 was the third mission to the moon. The oxygen stores were worn-out and the command module was not good enough to use. The oxygen tank exploded so the crew went into the lunar module and shut off many sources to conserve power. They only used the moon’s gravity to come back to earth. They thankfully regained radio contact and splashed into the Atlantic Ocean on April 17, 1970. -
Bar codes introduced in the UK
Many years before 1970, the idea of bar codes was spoken about. In 1970, the Logicon Inc. finally developed UGPIC, known as Universal Grocery Products Identification Code. Monarch marking was the first to produce “barcode equipment” for retail trade. The inventor of U.P.C, or Uniform Product Code was George J. Laurer. The bar code was supposed to help make it an easier way to purchase items. Each bar code has a unique code for each item. -
Medical Imaging
Medical imaging included Ultrasonography (Ultrasound), Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Ultrasound uses sonar technology to find body organs and check for problems, cat scans make three-dimensional pictures, and MRI scanners make pictures by using magnetic fields and radio waves. All three of them help find problems without surgery. -
Cigarette ads banned on TV
Cigarette advertising was banned on TV in 1971. The advertisements that included tobacco was also not able to advertise till 1986. All the advertising was usually done on billboards, radios, TV, or on magazines which do include an audience under the age of 21. Colleges, schools, and sport events did not allow tobacco or cigarette commercials -
Silicon chips
Invented by Intel engineers to make computers smaller. They also mads computers faster and more powerful. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Ed
The Swann vs. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education was a case in 1971. This was said to desegregate public schools, it did not always have to reflect the district’s racial composition. It also said that all white or all black schools but be in the influence to not result in segregation policies. The most significant part of the case was the “ruling affirmed the role of federal district courts in overseeing operations of local school districts.” -
VCR's introduced
The VCR, or known as the Video Cassette Recording, was invented in 1971. The first VCR ever made was the Sony-VO 1600. This was affordable and portable. The VCR was targeted for the educational and domestic users. After some time the VCR was improved, and soon the DVD replaced the VCR in 1995. -
Disney World Opens
Disney World finally opened on October 1st 1971. They spent 7 years in the process. In the morning of the first day of Disney World people were driving around fiercely to be the first arrivals. The first day Disney World opened, about 10,000 people came to the grand opening. -
Pioneer 10
The purpose of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was to fly to jupiter to collect data. It wieghed 570 pounds, made images by measuring levels of light, and was the first spacecraft to fly through the asteriod belt. -
KKK riots in NYC
KKK is also known as the Klu Klux Klan. This was a racist group who killed many. They were described as a hate group. On May 9, 1972 KKK held draft riots in NYC. This was concealed anti-black Irish gang violence. This killed thousands of people and caused million dollars of damage. -
Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
During the year of 1972, The Munich Massacre held events in Munich, Bavaria, and West Germany. The Israeli Olympic team was hostage by a Palestinian group, Black September. The Palestinians killed The Israeli Olympic Team, Israeli athletes, coaches, and a West German police officer. Finally after the massacre the five members of the eight of Black September were killed. The other three were captured. -
Quaker Oates granola invented
Granola was invented by James Caleb Jackson, who was a New York doctor. This was created to be healthy breakfast. This was the first cold breakfast made in the world on 1972. No one has ever thought of this, Jackson was the first. He changed how he saw in eating breakfast, and made Granola. Once this became a hit, Dr. John Kellogg made a similar product with the same name. -
Last man on moon
On December 18, 1972 the Apollo 17 was the final mission to the moon. The astronauts did not step on the moon till four hours after landing. They had several tasks to do, but the first was to offload the Lunar Roving Vehicle and other equipment. While they were doing that a fender was accidentally broken off when Gene Cernan hit against it. This resulted with his hammer being caught under the fender which broke off the rear extension. Eugene Cernan was the last man to set foot on the moon. -
Ethernet
The ethernet is frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks. It turns pesonal computers into communication tools by linkung them together. -
Sears Tower Built
The Sears Tower is a 108 story building in Chicago, Illinois. It used to be the tallest building in the world when it was first build and for 25 years. When it was being built, 350,000 employees were planning and creating the skyscraper. It took three years to build the Sears Tower. It opened on May 3, 1973. In 1996, the Petroonas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, carried the new record of the tallest building, only 29 feet taller than the Sears Tower. -
Floppy Disk invented
The floppy disk was made in 1973 by IBM. This product was an alternative to buying hardrives, which were expensive back then. The IBM announced their first media as “Type 1 Diskette. There were many different sizes and kinds of floppy disks. There was usually a variety of floppy disks. Some of these kinds of disks were 8-inch floppy disks, 5 ¼ inch disks, and the “Twiggy disk”. -
Wars Power Act
This law was passed on November 7, 1973. The act was based on to restrict the president’s power to use the military by requiring the executive branch to talk with the Congress before. The reason this act was passed is because the congress never agreed to have war with Korea or Vietnam. United States had war with Korea after Truman sent them without permission. This also was made because of the incident in Korea. -
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act was approved on December 28, 1973. This repealed the original Endangered Species Conservation Act. A few things the act did was it did not allow unauthorized taking or possession, provided land for a specific list of animals, and makes programs in each state for endangered species. If you violate the act there are penalties -
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California. She was 19 when this date occurred. She was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The SLA demanded Patty’s family to get every Californian $70 for food. It was a total of $400 million. Once Patty’s father has done what was asked, the SLA still refused to release Patty. On April 3, 1974, it was announced that Patty joined the SLA and was renamed as “Tania" She was soon arrested in September of 1975. -
Post-it Notes Invented
Arthur Fry invented the famous post-it-notes. A scientist, named Spencer Silver, created reusable adhesive in 1968. This was used in the post-it-notes later on. Arthur Fry wanted to make a bookmark and used the adhesive on the top of the paper. This soon was used as post-it-notes today. -
Freedome of Information Act
Freedom Information Act was “a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States Government.” This act was passed on July 4, 1966 by President Johnson -
Girls playing in Little League baseball
On August 25, 1974, Sylvia Pressler created Little League Softball for girls. Right after this was created, 30,000 girls joined. This was also towards the women’s rights movement. This program was made three years after the Equal Rights Amendment was passed as well. Today 360,00 girls play softball for school or out of school events. -
Liposuction
Liposuction is when excess fatty tissue is suctioned from beneath the skin. It was invented by Dr. Giorgia Fischer, a gynecologist in Rome, Italy, and was first performed by a French plastic surgeon named Dr. Illonz. -
Catalytic converters invented
Catalytic converters were invented by Eugene Houdry in 1975. This reduced engine pollutants. The EPA limit how much pollution comes out of each car. They made a filter to put less carbon dioxide in the air to prevent gas in air. This was mostly made for the environment. -
Push-through tab on can invented
Stay tabs” was invented by Daniel F Cudzik in 1975. This product was meant to prevent injuries like cuts from removable tabs. The lid has a “scored region” and a pull-tab that open the hole by putting pressing onto the “scored region -
Microsoft Founded
Microsoft was introduced in 1975 after the introduction of the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Altair, which is the “first computer”. Bill Gates and Paul Allen worked together to make the first PC, called BASIC. Microsoft was built onto every computer device Bill Gates designed. If you look on your computer now, Microsoft is still on it today. -
Jimmy Hoffa Disappears
James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa (born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975, declared legally dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader and author. Hoffa was involved with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, as an organizer from 1932 to 1975. He served as the union's General President from 1958 to 1971. -
Fransico Franco dies
Francisco Franco was a Spanish dictator. He was ill for five weeks and finally died on November 20,1975. He died at the age of 82. The cause of his death was a heart failure that was aggravated by peritonitis. When people all over the country heard the new they put flags all around. His body rests at the El Pardo Palace. -
Legionnaires Disease
The Legionnaires Disease started in 1976 at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. The Legionnaires disease spread fast. People who were outside near the hotel caught the disease. The disease killed 29 people out of the 182 people who caught the disease. This gives you headaches, muscle pain, bloody coughs, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, loss of appetite, and mental changes like confusion. -
Pop Rocks Invented
On April 1, 1976 the first Apple Computer Company was formed. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first originated the group. Apple began its first product which was a single circuit board used in a computer -
Betamax VCR's Released
Betamax (sometimes called Beta) is a home videocassette tape recording format developed by Sony, released on May 10, 1975. The cassettes contain 1/2-inch (12.7mm)-wide videotape in a design similar to the earlier, professional 3/4-inch (19.05mm) U-matic format. The format is generally considered obsolete, though it is still used in specialist applications by a small minority of people. -
Entebbe Air Raid
On June 27, 1976, a plane left for Paris. The plane was hijacked by two terrorists. The terrorists landed the plane at Uganda. They let all the hostages except the Jews and Israelis free. Three of over hundreds of hostages were killed. -
Mao Tsetung dies
On September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao Tsetung died. He has been a leader of the Chinese people for 31 years. He died at the age of 82. He suffered the Parkinson’s disease. When statesmen had meetings to visit Mao, they only had a limit of 15 to 20 minutes. -
President Carter pardons Vietnam Draft Dodgers
Just a day after Jimmy Carter's inaguration, he followed through on a contentious campaign promise, granting a presidential pardon to those who had avoided the draft during the Vietnam war by either not registering or traveling abroad. The pardon meant the government was giving up forever the right to prosecute what the administration said were hundreds of thousands of draft-dodgers. -
Miniseries Roots Airs
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Roots received 36 Emmy Award nominations, winning nine; it also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings with the finale still standing as the third-highest rated U.S. television program ever. It was shot on a budget of $6 million. -
Sports bra invented
The sports bra was fist called “jockbra” because the original product was made of cut up jockstraps sewn together. This was invented in 1977 by Lisa Lindahl. It all started when her sister complained about exercising it an every-day bra. Over the years more designs has been made. -
Stars Wars Movie released
May 25, 1977 the Star Wars movie was released. This was the most popular and successful movies of all time. The special effects seen on the movie were not seen in most movies at that time. -
First Black Miss Universe
July 16, Janelle Commissoing was the first black women to win Miss Universe. She represented Trinidad and Tobago. There has been 25 years of Miss Universe and this was the first a black women one. This was a historical momen -
Ben and Jerry's Icrecream introduced
In 1978 Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened an ice cream parlor in Vermont. This is how they started off their journey. People like their flavors and how to was made by fresh Vermont milk and cream. -
Atlantic City permits gambling
On May 26, 1978 the first legal casino was opened in Atlanta. The casino used to be an army hospital for wounded soldiers. Thousands of people waited 2 hours till they could enter and gamble. -
First Test-Tube Baby Born
First Test-Tube Baby Born (1978): Since 1966, Dr. Patrick Steptoe, a gynecologist at Oldham General Hospital, and Dr. Robert Edwards, a physiologist at Cambridge University, had been actively working on finding an alternative solution for conception for women with blocked Fallopian tubes. However, even after they found a way to fertilize an egg outside a human body, they continued to have problems replacing the fertilized egg back into a uterus. -
Love Canal in New York declared federal disaster
On August 7, 1978, the Love Canal came to international attention. In 1952 an elementary school was built on top of the dump site. Under the ground was a unfinished canal filled with toxic waste. This spread in neighborhoods and gave diseases. -
Jonestown Massacre
The Jonestown Massacre was in 1978. Earlier a congressman came to see what was happening in Guyana, where the camp was, and helped escape some members. They were killed by the group members before arriving on the plane. Jones thought they had no hope so he made everyone drink a poison grape juice, leaving 918 dead of suicide. Jones shot himself. -
Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
On March 28, 1979 a nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island. This began with “a failure of a valve in a pump in the cooling system”. The valve was open which released cooling water. This caused the nuclear reactor to overheat. -
Cell Phones invented
The cell phone was invented on May 1, 1979. It was originally called cellular phones. The cell phone was invented by Charles A. Gladden and Martin H. Parelman. The first commercial of the automated cellular network was launched in Japan in 1979. -
ESPN starts broadcasting
ESPN was first broadcasted on September 7, 1979. This is a sport network that went for 24-hours. ESPN stands for Entertainment and Sports Programming. They broadcast football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and more. -
Iran Takes American Hostages
52 American hostages held at the US embassy in Tehran for more than 14 months have arrived in West Germany on their way home to the United States. A group of radical Iranian students stormed the American embassy in Tehran. They were all released after 444 days, twenty minutes after President Ronald Reagan was inaugurated
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China Joins the U.N.
China, in addition to having a Soviet power in the Security Council, also established itself a greater international reputaion, as one of the only major countries near it were the U.S.S.R., Japan, and the French Indochina. This would cause problems in communication, and having a U.N. seat could help set a new direction
