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July 1, 1971
18 years old given the right to vote -
Oct 1, 1971
Disney World Open. Opening in Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney opened his own amusement park. Before the opening of the Walt Disney World, about 300,000 people were estimated to be in the Magical Kingdom; when opened. Walt Disney had 2 hotels, 15 stories Contemporary Resort and a Polynesian Village Resort. -
Dec 7, 1972
Last man on the Moon. On December 7th, 1972, Apollo 17th was the eleventh final mission by man in the American Space Program. It launched at 12:33am EST. There were three crew members, Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. Apollo 17 was the only manned flight beyond Earth’s low orbit. -
Jan 22, 1973
Abortion legalized in US. On January 22nd, 1973, Roe, a pregnant woman, argued between her doctor, Wade, to get an abortion. She asked from an abortion in the early days of pregnancy to avoid have a child. So, she took this argument into court against the doctor. Later after the argument was settled, she had an abortion and the US made it legalized in the US to have abortions legally. -
Dec 27, 1973
On December 28th, 1973, President Nixon signed into law that animals close to extinction are now protected by the law. That means that any animal on the endangered list is now protected by the law. The most critical animals include, Mountain Gorilla, Leatherback Sea Turtle, Snow Leopard, Northern White Rhinoceros, Brown Spider Monkey, California Condor Red Wolf, Chinese Alligator, Giant Panda, Blue Whale, Tasmanian Devil, and the Bonobo. -
Apri; 4, 1974
On January 2nd, 1974, the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act was passed to prohibit any speed limit higher than 55mph. By the time the law was passed, 12 states already had 55 as the maximum speed limit, 9 states has 50, and 29 had lower that 50 mph. After 5 months, Senator Robert Dole proposed to have the mph to 60 mph; denied. -
July 13, 1977
Through July 13-14th, 1977, New York City had electricity black out, it effected most of New York City. The only neighborhoods in New York City that weren’t affected were in Southern Queens and neighborhoods of the Rockaways. The 1977 blackout resulted in disorder and arson. -
Aug 16, 1977
On August 16th, 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead in his upstairs house by his girlfriend. His cause of Death was from an irregular heart-beat. By the time Elvis got to the hospital, he was dead. -
Oct 16, 1978
On October 19th, 1978, “Pope John Paul (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523." -
Nov 3, 1979
"The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Five protest marchers were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. The protest was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers Party to organize mostly black industrial workers in the area."
