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The 1970's by: Didi Galvan
The 1970's main events -
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The 1970's by: Didi Galvan
the important events of the 1970's -
Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
can store important files onto portable discs -
18 year olds given the vote
Vietnam war caused 18 year olds to vote -
First Earth Day
beginning of the environment movement -
World Trade Center is completed
first dedicated building to world trade -
Bar codes introduced in the UK on retail products
made business faster and more efficient in stores -
Kent State Shootings
showed that the government was freaking out during the Vietnam war -
US Soldiers found guilty of murder in My Lei Massacre
enforced the Genève convention -
Apollo 13 mission suffers huge setback
the oxygen tank got hit by a meteorite and exploded on the apollo 13 mission -
EPA is created
federal agency enforces the law of nature -
Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
1.drew attention to palistyain2.showed weakness to public air line systems -
Aswan High Dam Completed
first dam made for electricity in Egypt -
Beatles Break Up
caused the nation to become very sad and depressed because they were a big deal -
Cigarette ads are banned on TV
prevents kids from getting ideas of smoking -
South Vietnam and US invade Laos
In an attempt to shut down the Ho Chi Minh trail, the North Vietnam supply route. It wasn't successful -
The Pentagon Papers Released
showed that Nixon was lying to the public(power can be abused) -
Amtrak created
In April of 1971, the government created Amtrak to rescue America's long-distance passenger trains. Ridership had been decreasing since the late 1950s because of competition from the jet airplanes and the growing interstates. -
Disney World Opens
On Friday October 1, 1971, after seven years of planning, about 10,000 visitors converged near Orlando, Florida, to witness the grand opening of Walt Disney World. The Magic Kingdom (the only theme park at the time on Disney property) featured Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Tomorrowland, a Main Street USA, and about 5,500 Cast Members. The price of admission was $4.95! -
Swann v. Charlotte
Mecklenburg Board of Ed- busing to create racial equality -
VCRs Introduced
now you are able to bring home the movies you you love and watch them at home -
End of Gold Standard for US Currency
•made our money FIAT MONEY (has value because government says so). -
London Bridge Brought to the U.S
brought millions of Europeans to Arizona -
Mr. Elliott graduates from high school
Mr. Elliot graduates from high school in 1971 -
First Benefit Concert organized for Bangladesh by George Harrison
George Harrison organized the first benefit concert, which would be the model for many more benefit concerts (especially in the 80s) -
Direct dial between New York and London
first time you did not need a operator for a long distance call -
Attica State Prison Riots
The 1200 inmates took the 30 guards and other employees prison in an attempt for reforms. It ended in bloodbath four days later with 28 inmates and 9 guards killed, all by police gunfire when they took the prison back. -
China joins the UN
now we can talk and work out differences with different countries -
D. B. Cooper
On Thanksgiving Eve, November 24, 1971, a man who called himself, "Dan Cooper" skyjacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305 from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. Later known as "D.B. Cooper," he demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes with a claim he had a bomb in his briefcase. Cooper jumped with the money to be never seen or heard of again. -
The microprocessor is introduced
made computers tiny -
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) introduced
A disability pension is a form of pension given to those people who are permanently or temporarily unable to work due to a disability -
Nixon visits China
Officially opening talks between the two countries, which had been bitter opponents during the 60s. -
Nixon visits Soviet Union
Richard Nixon becomes the first US president to visit the Soviet Union and begins talks on arms control, penning the SALT I treaties, which restricted the development of nuclear arms and helped ease US-Soviet relations. -
Supreme Court rules against death penalty
Ruling 5-4, it determined the death penalty as it was administered, was cruel and unusual punishment. -
Pocket Calculators Introduced
The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first scientific pocket calculator -
George Wallace shot while campaigning
While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, he was shot and permanently paralyzed. He was well known for physically barring black students from entering the University of Alabama in 1963. -
Watergate Scandal Begins
The act that felled the President two years later, was committed in June of 1972 by five men, among them ex-FBI man G. Gordon Lady and ex-CIA man E. Howard Hunt. -
KKK riots in NYC
The KKK rioted in Central Park and 3 people died in the riot/protest -
Title IX signed into law by Nixon
On July 1, 1972, Richard Nixon signed into law Title IX of the Education Amendments. Few people noticed at the time, but eventually it became the single greatest force for full participation of females in education, both academics and sports. -
First successful video game (Pong) launched
pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. -
Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds plus a silver and a bronze, five Pan American golds, 31 US Amateur Athletic Union titles and eight US National Collegiate Athletic Association titles -
Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
The PLO group Black September in revenge for the 1970 defeat of Palestinian guerrillas, broke into the Olympic Village and killed two coaches and took nine hostages. It later ended in the death of the hostages and the commandos as they tried to leave the country. -
M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers
MASH is a 1970 American satirical dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on the novel A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker -
The Wars Act passed
This was passed because Nixon authorized the invasion of Cambodia, Laos and later Hanoi and Haiphong. It requires that the president account for action within 30 days and taking troops into foreign wars. -
HBO launched
Dolan presented his "Green Channel" idea to Time Life management, and though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time Life to back him. Soon afterwards, on November 8, 1972, "The Green Channel" became "Home Box Office" -
Last man in the moon
Eugene Cretan Last man to walk on the moon. He was on Apollo 17 on December 1972. -
Abortion Legalized in U.S.
This overturned state laws prohibiting first and second trimester abortions. -
U.S. Vice President Resigns
He plead no content to charges of tax evasion. -
UPC Barcodes come to US
easier to keep track of innovatory -
The War Powers Act
It prevents the president from commitment of US forces abroad for more than 60 days without Congressional approval -
U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
In 1972, North Vietnam finally realized that the war was a stalemate. The two sides met and arranged a cease fire. In January of 1973 the Paris Accords went into effect. The US agreed to withdraw all its troops from Vietnam in 60 days. Congress had stopped funding the war effort. -
Paul Getty Kidnapped
J. Paul Getty III, an oil-fortune heir known as the "golden hippie" whose kidnapping in Italy at 16 made international headlines and whose captors severed his ear when his family didn't initially pay his ransom, has died. He was 54. -
Sears Tower Built
1,454 feet tall, the world's largest building at the time constructed -
OPEC doubles price of oil
• Thus beginning the gas crisis of the 70s, it was only the first step in rising prices. Oil went from $1.50 a barrel to $11.56 a barrel over the course of a few months. This was in retaliation for the support of Isreal. Most of the shortages in the US however were caused by the gas companies who used this as an excuse to raise prices. -
Endangered Species Act
In 1973 Congress passed the Endangered Species Act, replacing the former Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 and broadening its scope by more clearly defining endangered and threatened species, making plants and all invertebrates eligible for protection, changing certain prohibitions, requiring the involvement of federal agencies to help in conservation efforts and calling for government funding to assist the established program. -
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was a terrorist group which ordered the wealthy Hearst family to distribute $2 million in free food to the area's poor. After the demands were met, they got a picture of their daughter with a machine gun that stated she was staying on to fight with the group. When she was caught a year later, it was argued that she had been brainwashed. She was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prision (later commuted by President Carter). -
National speed limit 55
No more speeding and now you can get pulled over for speeding. this was also used to keep the oil use down because of the oil crises of 73 -
Freedom of Information Act passed over Ford’s veto
people allowed to know what is going on in the government. -
U.S. President Nixon Resigns
Once the articles of impeachment had been drawn up, Nixon was required to release more tapes, which clearly tied him to the Watergate coverup. On August 8th, he resigned. -
Gerald Ford pardons Nixon
Ford released Proclamation 4311 on September 8, 1974 which gave Nixon a complete pardon for any criminal acts committed before his resignation. -
Girls allowed to play in Little League Baseball
A ruling by Sylvia Pressler, hearing examiner for the New Jersey Civil Rights Division on Nov. 7, 1973, was later upheld in the Superior Court, leading to Little League Baseball's admittance of girls into its programs. -
Saigon falls to communism
America suspended it's aid two years after removing it's military forces. In April, US official ordered the remaining 1000 US citizens to evacuate to the embasssy in Saigon. This lead to the now famous image of citizens climbing the ladder to helicoptors to be airlifted out of the city. -
Microsoft Founded
Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. -
• Computerized Supermarket checkouts begin to appear
made income come in faster by people being able to buy their stuff faster -
Catalytic convertors introduced on cars
A catalytic converter (colloquially, "cat" or "catcon") is a device used to reduce the array of emissions from an internal combustion engine. -
Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
American tennis player Arthur Ashe has become the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles' championship. -
Jimmy Hoffa disappears:
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. -
President Ford assassination attempts (2)
Lynette "Squaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson follower, pointed a gun at Ford, though no shots were fired. This was followed by Sara Jane Moore 17 days later to shoot the president in a crowd. -
Francisco Franco dies
Paving the way for democratic reforms under his heir, Juan Carlos over the next two years. -
Legionnaire’s disease strikes 182, kills 29
The first appearance of the flu like disease struck at an American Legion convention in Philadelphi -
West Point admits women
West Point military academy started accepting women. -
Apple Computer launched
Apple is one of the largest companies in the world and the most valuable technology company in the world, having surpassed Microsoft. Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977 -
Karen Ann Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan had been in a coma for over a year before her parents won the right to remove the life support equipment keeping her alive. It took 9 years for her to die afterwards. -
Betamax VCR’s released
Betamax is a home videocassette tape recording format developed by Sony, released on May 10, 1975. The cassettes contain 1/2-inch wide videotape in a design similar to the earlier, professional 3/4-inch U-matic format. -
• Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens:
Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the first gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. -
North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnam briefly came under the nominal rule of a Provisional Revolutionary Government while under military occupation by North Vietnam. On 2 July 1976, North and South were merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. -
Entebbe Air Raid
Israeli commandos stormed hijacked Air France plane in Uganda's Entebbe Airport, releasing 103 hostages held by a pro-Palestinian terrorist group -
Mao Tse-tung dies
The communist leader of China died in 1976 after over 25 years of rule. -
Alaskan Pipeline completed
Made it easier to transport oil through Alaska -
President Carter pardons Vietnam Draft Dodgers
President Jimmy Carter officially pardons all those who avoided the draft during the Vietnam war. -
Miniseries Roots Airs:
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work The Saga of an American Family . -
Neutron bomb funding began
The Neutron bomb was an atomic weapon designed to spread radiation to kill people and leave buildings intact -
Red Dye #2 is banned
It was found to cause cancer, so it's use was discontinued, but led to a red dye scare. -
Star Wars Movie Released
the beggining of a whole new movie series -
New York City blackout
July 13th saw a 25 hour blackout in the city, resulting in widespread looting. -
first black Miss Universe
On July 16th, Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad & Tobago becomes the first black woman in the pageant's 26-year history to win the coveted crown -
Elvis Found Dead
Elvis Presley died August 16, 1977 from a heart attack in Memphis, Tennessee, USA at the age of 42 years old . this caused many people to cecome sad. -
• Atlantic City permits gambling:
made the cith a "hot spot" -
Test tube baby
Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born on July 25, 1978, in Bristol, England. Four years later, Elizabeth Carr became America's first test-tube baby. -
Love Canal in New York declared federal disaster
On Aug. 2, 1978, the State of New York declared an emergency at Love Canal and ordered children's school to close. Five days later President Carter declared Love Canal a federal disaster area and provided funding to evacuate the 239 families living closest to the canal. -
Camp David accords for Middle East Peace
Egypt, Israel and the US met in the presidential retreat in Maryland to hammer out a peace agreement between the two leaders. -
John Paul II Becomes Pope
Pope John Paul ii, formerly known as Karol Jozef Wojtyla, became Pope on October 17, 1978. He was Pope for twenty seven long years. -
Jonestown Massacre
The suicide and murder of 900 people who drank cyanide in fruit-flavored drink, the leader shot himself. -
Ayatollah Khomeini
Avatollah gains power in Iran -
Three Mile Island
In March a series of mechanical and human errors caused a near meltdown of the reactor at one of the plants in Three Mile Island Pennsylvania near Harrisburg. -
Sony Introduces the Walkman
first portable audio set -
Margaret Thatcher
The Conservatives had taken over the Parliment, and Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to hold the highest office in a European country. -
Jerry Falwell begins Moral Majority
The Moral Majority was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying -
ESPN
ESPN started as an alternative to standard television news broadcasts and the information found in "Sports" sections of newspapers. -
Greensboro
A group of Klu Klux Klan members and American Nazi party members attacked a group of Communist Worker's Party members who were gathered for a demonstration that was speaking out against the klan. -
Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
Fifty-two US citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20
