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
• Watergate? break-in, cover-up, and scandal.
• 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.

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Notable Individuals

World leaders:

• Richard Nixon
• [Spiro Agnew]?
• Gerald Ford
• [Nelson Rockefeller]?
• [James Earl Carter]?
• [Walter Mondale]?
• [Leonid Brezhnev]?
• [Anwar Sadat]?
• Menachem Begin
• Mao Zedong

Sports figures:

• [Joe Namath]?
• [Willie Mayes]?
• [Kareem Abdul Jabbar]?
• [Terry Bradshaw]?
• [Larry Bird]?

Entertainers:

• Alan Alda
• [Bachman-Turner Overdrive]?
• David Bowie
• [Jimmy Buffet]?
• [The Carpenters]?
• [David Cassidy]?
• [Sean Cassidy]?
• [Alice Cooper]?
• Gary Coleman
• [Richard Dreyfuss]?
• Gloria Gaynor
• [Andy Griffith]?
• [Mark Hammill]?
• [Ron Howard]?
• Elton John
• [Olivia Newton John]?
• [Billy Joel]?
• KISS
• Led Zeppelin
• [Gordon Lightfoot]?
• [Barry Manilow]?
• [Bob Newhart]?
• [Jack Nicholson]?
• [Carrol O'Conner]?
• [James Taylor]?
• [Marlo Thomas]?
• [Cheryl Tiegs]?
• [John Travolta]?
• [Mary Tyler Moore]?
• [J.J. Walker]?
• [Johnny Whitaker]?