1970's Timeline

1970's

Period: Jan 1, 1970 to Dec 31, 1979

First Earth Day

Mar 21, 1970

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
The first Earth Day was in Saint Francis, San Francisco. This day was observed in San Francisco and many other cities.

Beatles Break up

Apr 10, 1970

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles%27_breakup
The Beatles break-up didnt just happen in one day, it was a seris of events that had cause the wonferful band to break-up. An example of an event is the death of their manager Brian Epstein.

EPA Creation

Dec 2, 1970

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency
The EPA was created to make laws about the enviroment. EPA was proposed by President Richard Nixon and began on december 2 of 1970.

VCRs Introduced

Jan 1, 1971

http://www.rewindmuseum.com/umatic.htm
Sony was the first company that had made a video cassette recorder. They called it VP 1100.

Disney World Opens

Oct 1, 1971

http://thisdayindisneyhistory.homestead.com/DisneyWorldGrandOpening.html
Disney World opened on October 1 of 1971. The reason that the opening was in October because they were hoping that it would be small. They did not have the offcial opening till October 25 of 1971

London Bridge Comes to U.S

Oct 10, 1971

http://www.talewins.com/worldtravel/londonbridge.htm
London bridge was taken to the U.S pieces at a time. The entire bridge had arrived here in 1971.

Nixon visit to China

Feb 21, 1972

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Nixon_visit_to_China
Nixon visted the People's Republic of China. Nixon was the first U.S president that had visited the PCR. With that voyage it had ended 25 years of seperation between both sides.

First successful video game(pong) launched

Apr 3, 1972

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-games/16/183
Pong is one of the first arcade games ever made. It was a electronic version of the sport tennis.

HBO Launched

Nov 8, 1972

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO
HBO was launched on november 8 of 1972. Charles Dolan was the one that had created the channel

Paul Getty Kidnapped

Jul 10, 1973

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Getty_III
Getty had been kidnapped in england on july 10 of 1973. He was taken from Piazza Farnese in Rome.A ransom note for 17 million dollars for his safe return.

U.S. Vice President Resigns

Oct 10, 1973

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew
Late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the United States Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000, while holding office. He resigned and Nixon had replaced him.

Endangered Species act

Dec 28, 1973

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act
On December 28 of 1973 Nixon signed the Endangered Species act. It was designed to protect species were coming to scarce numbers.

National speed limit 55

Jan 1, 1974

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law
The maxium national speed was put at 55 because of an oil crisis that the United States was having in 1973.

Girls little leauge

Jan 1, 1974

http://www.momsteam.com/sports/baseball/general/landmark-decision-allowed-girls-to-play-little-league
Little League Softball for girls was created, and the baseball rules and regulations were made non-gender specific. In 1974, nearly 30,000 girls signed up for the softball program. One in 57 Little Leaguers that year was a girl.

Patty Hearst Kiddniapped

Feb 4, 1974

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_hearst
19-year-old Patty Hearst was kidnapped from the Berkeley, California apartment she shared with her fiancé Steven Weed by a left-wing urban guerrilla group called the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Microsoft founded

May 9, 1975

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2000/sept00/09-0525bookff75.aspx
Microsoft was formed soon after the introduction of the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair, the first "personal computer"

Jimmy Hoffa

Jul 30, 1975

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa
Hoffa was last seen in late July 1975, outside the Machus Red Fox, a suburban Detroit restaurant.Hoffa disappeared at, or sometime after, 2:45 pm on July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, an affluent suburb of Detroit. According to what he had told others, he believed he was to meet there with two Mafia leaders.

Francisco Franco dies

Nov 20, 1975

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco
On 30 October 1975, he fell into a coma and was put on life support. Franco died just after midnight on 20 November 1975, at the age of 82, just two weeks before his 83rd birthday

Red dye #2 banned

Feb 2, 1976

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_(dye)
Testing by the FDA found no undeniable proof of a health hazard, but did find a statistically significant increase in the incidence of malignant tumors in female rats given a high dosage of the dye. The FDA banned FD&C Red No. 2 in 1976.

Apple computer launched

Apr 1, 1976

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer
Apple was established by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. The computer was a person kit, they were hand built by Wozniak.

Entebbe Air raid

Jul 4, 1976

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_entebbe.php
Airbus Flight 137, which was hijacked by the members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and German terrorists. The plane which had 248 passengers.

Star wars released

May 25, 1977

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars
Star Wars was an epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977.

New York City Blackout

Jul 13, 1977

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977
The New York city black out lasted for one day. It had effected most of New York City. The only areas that werent affected were in southern Queens, and neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which are part of the Long Island Lighting Company System.

Elvis Found dead

Aug 16, 1977

http://www.elvispresleynews.com/ElvisDeath.html
Elvis was found dead in his bathroom in Graceland in Memphis. The person that had found him was elivis's girlfriend Ginger Alden. She called Joe Eposite, Al Strada, and Dr. Nick to come over to try to revive him.

John Paul II Becomes Pope

Jan 1, 1978

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II
John Paul ii reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005.

First Teest Tube Baby

Jul 25, 1978

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/25/newsid_2499000/2499411.stm
Test tube baby has been announced in Manchester. The baby had weighed 5lb 12oz.

Jonestown Massacre

Nov 18, 1978

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
It became internationally notorious when 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana's capital.

Jerry Falwell begins Moral Majority

Jan 1, 1979

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Laymon_Falwell
Falwell founded the Moral Majority, which became one of the largest political lobby groups for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s.The Moral Majority was founded as being "pro-family", "pro-life", "pro-defense" and pro-Israel.

Sony introduces the Walkman

Jul 1, 1979

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman
Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette players.

ESPAN starts to broadcast

Sep 7, 1979

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN
ESPAN was founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan, it launched on September 7, 1979, under the direction of Chet Simmons, the network's President and CEO.