1970's

By danielridolfi

  • Invention of Floppy Disks

  • Breakup of The Beatles

  • Introduction of Barcodes

  • Collapse of the Westgate Bridge

    35 people dead.

  • Invention of the Cellular Phone Battery

  • The country United Arab Emirates was created

  • Introduction of Daylight Savings

    Introduced to NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT.

  • The Soviet Union and NASA send probes to Mars

  • Changeover from Farenheit to Celsius for temperature measurement

  • Terrorist Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich

  • Introduction of Pocket Calculators

  • E-mail was introduced

  • The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam

  • Vietnam War ends

  • The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18

  • The Sydney Opera House is opened

  • Cyclone Tracy destroys Darwin

    Cyclone Tracy destroys the city in the early hours of Christmas Day, killing 65 people.

  • First colour broadcast ABC TV

  • Microsoft founded

  • First artificial gene created in a test tube

  • Cigarette and Tobacco advertising banned on Radio and TV

  • 'Advance Australia Fair' becomes Australia's official national anthem

  • Elvis Presley dies

  • The release of Star Wars movie

  • The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney

  • First test tube baby was born using in vitro fertilization

  • Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain

  • Sony Introduces the Walkman

  • Australian women win the right to maternity leave