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Apollo 13
The Apollow 13 space craft had an accident, an oxygen tank had exploded on board. This was supposed to be the third space craft that was supposed to land on the moon. -
The Very First Earth Day
Earth Day was founded on April 22, 1970 by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson. This was important because peoples started caring more about the earth and what caused polution and what was good for the earth. People were even more concerned by this time. -
Gay Rights Movement
Craig Rodwell was the man who led the gay rights march, this was known as the Gay Liberation Day. This was to help the gay community together. -
Nixon goes to China
Presidont Nixon was the first president to go to China. He went to China because they wanted to build a relationship with both countries. -
Nixon Resigns
After seriving as president for a couple of years many people were making a scandal of what he was doing and because of his mutiple abuses. -
Microsoft is Founded
Bill Gates founded Microsoft who got influenced from hearing of microcomputers.
He saw a future after he had heard of this
This ended up being one of the world's largest personal computr sowftware -
VCR
VCR were a big competition the first one was released in 1975 Sony's Betamax, later on they started improving. This was something great that had happened because after a long time one could jst watch a movie right in their home with out it being such a hassel. -
Star Wars
20th century Fox releases this film and changes the whole way movies are being seen now because this movie was a big project for the director.The movie was a great hit as well. -
Test Tube Baby
The world's test tube baby was born in Great Britain. This had made a great impact in hstory because technology was getting even more advanced. This was a great for couple who were unfertile. -
Energy Crisis
Gas prices went up because there was damaged control over the oil, econom was going down dramatically because of this intrest rates went up over 20% gas was running out everywhere