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1970-1974 Years Worth Remembering

Explore the significant events and cultural shifts that shaped the early 1970s. From the Vietnam War to Watergate, this period was marked by social change, political turmoil, and an emphasis on individualism. Discover how these events influenced popular culture, literature, and education.

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1970-1974 Years Worth Remembering

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  1. 1970-1974Years Worth Remembering Ikuko M. Ichihashi

  2. 1970 • January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network. • March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. • April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States starting on January 1, 1971. • May 4- The Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia. (http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/05/04/kent.state.revisit/) • June 10 - President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18. • September 13 - First running of the New York City Marathon. • October 12 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before

  3. 1971 • -January 31 - Apollo program: US spaceflight Apollo 14, commanded by Alan Shepard, lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission • -February 9 - The 6.4 on the Richter ScaleSylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California. • -February 13 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. (http://www.oakton.edu/user/~wittman/) • -March 12 - The Allman Brothers Band played the first day of their legendary concert at the Fillmore East • -April 24 - Tsunami 85 m high rises over Ryukyu Islands in Japan. It throws a 750-ton -block of coral 2.5 km inland • -October 21 - Gas explosion in Clarkston, Glasgow kills 20 people.

  4. 1972 • January 5 - President of the United StatesRichard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program. • January 30 - Bloody Sunday - the British Army kills 13 unarmed Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Derry, Ireland. • -April 10 - The USA and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing an agreement to ban biological warfare. • -June 17 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee. (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/enc1/watergate_scandal) • -September 5-September 6 - Munich Massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are killed after eight members of the Arabterrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.

  5. 1973 • March 29 - The last United States soldiers leave Vietnam. • May 14 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. • July 1 - United States Drug Enforcement Administration founded. • November 1: Watergate scandal, acting Attorney General Robert Bork appointed Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor • December 6 - The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gf38.html)

  6. 1974 • January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. • April 8 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves broke Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home-run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. (http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/aaron_hank.htm) • May 4 - Expo '74World's Fair opens in Spokane, Washington, USA • October 5 - The Guildford Pub Bombings at The Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars kill 5 people, lead to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the Guildford Four the next year

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  8. 1975-1979:Years Worth Remembering Raina Bretan

  9. Background • The 60s were a time of change, a time of social, political and economical change. Historians of the day assumed this seemingly chaotic period would continue into the 70s. While the 60s were full of protests, demonstrations, and scandal pointing to the people’s desire to change their world, the 70s were more a time of finding and concentrating on one’s personal worth. Some things carried over from Kennedy’s assassination, an unpopular war, and Woodstock in the 60s, including a growing distrust of American government, more protests and pressure in the name of civil and women’s rights, and a growing interest in the individual. Each change and continuation from politics to pop culture were reflected in America’s dress, vocabulary, music, literature and entertainment.

  10. 1975: Events • Politics: • United Nations Declares 1975 the year of the Women. click here for more info! • South Vietnam Falls to Communist forces of North Vietnamclick here to learn more about the fall of Saigon and see pictures that documented this event • Popular Books: • Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow, The Eagle Has Landed, Jack Higgins, The Great Train Robbery, Michael Crichton, Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Sylvia Porter, Bring on the Empty Horses, David Niven • Each of the novels depicted and reflected the events occurring in popular culture • Effects on and of Education: • The anti-war, civil rights, and pro- women’s rights movement swept the nation, especially the schools. • Kent State Massacre – Ohio National Guardsmen killed four students for protesting click here for pictures or click here for information • Fashion: • Mood rings, Bell Bottoms and platform shoes were still popular, but 1975 brought around the look of natural romantics, earth mothers, and transgender looks (now it was okay to girls to dress more similarly to men) • Technology: • America was very involved in space exploration: Apollo 17, Apollo 18 click for more info • Atari produced first primitive video game and VCR recorder • The Test Tube Baby idea was born, enabling all women to have a chance at motherhood. see time magazine coverage

  11. 1976: Events • Politics: • America celebrates 200 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence • Popular Books:Sleeping Murder, Agatha Christie, 1876, Gore Vidal, Slapstick: or, Lonesome No More!, Kurt Vonnegut, A Stranger in the Mirror, Sidney Sheldon, The Grass ls Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck • Each of the novels depicted and reflected the events occurring in popular culture • Technology: click for more inventions • Wang Laboratories discover a way to use word processing on high-tech computer • Us Robotics is Founded

  12. 1977: Events • Politics: • Us Supreme Court hears case of “reverse discrimination” more on this case • Popular Books: • The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkie, Dreams Die First, Harold Robbins, Looking Out for #1, Robert Ringer, The Possible Dream: A Candid Look at Amway, Charles Paul Conn • Each of the novels depicted and reflected the events occurring in popular culture • Fashion: • Women continued to wear clothes that could be men’s clothes, ie: jackets, pants. • Technology: click for more inventions • Apple Computer releases Applesoft • Radio Shack (a division of Tandy Corp.) announces the TRS-80 microcomputer.

  13. 1978: Events • Politics: • American religious cult leader Jim Jones and 900 Peoples Temple followers die in mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.  click to learn more • Jimmy Carter inaugurated, succeeds Gerald Ford • Jimmy Carter pardons draft avoiders • Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington • Popular Books: • War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk, Scruples, Judith Krantz, Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett, Gnomes, Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet • Each of the novels depicted and reflected the events occurring in popular culture • Technology: • Atari announces the Atari 400 and 800 personal computers • Microsoft begins developing BASIC for the Intel 8086 processor

  14. 1979: Events • Politics: • Iranian militant students seize the U.S. embassy in Tehran capturing 66 hostages and setting off an intense standoff that lasted 444-days. click here for more on the Iranian hostage crisis • State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings. • NASA's first orbiting space station Skylab begins its return to Earth after being in orbit for almost 38 months after its launch date of May 14, 1973. • Popular Books: • Memories of Another Day, Harold Robbins, The Dead Zone, Stephen King, White House Years, Henry Kissinger • Each of the novels depicted and reflected the events occurring in popular culture • Effects on and of Education: • Women surpassed men in enrolling in college (due in great part to war) • Technology: • IBM introduces the IBM 3800 laser printer

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