1970s

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s - 2010s? - 2020s?

1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

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Events in the 1970s

• [oil crisis]?
• Iran hostage situation
• Richard Nixon resignation
• end of [Vietnam war]?
• fear of Nuclear war
• high inflation
• high unemployment
• Unix created along with C programming language
• Home computer revolution
• Pocket calculators makes the Slide Rule obsolete.
• Disco music, ABBA and Punk rock
• An age of superstars? and idols in sports and music, following the glorious space programs of the 1960s.