1970's By Lisaott Apr 8, 1970 Anwar Sadat elected in Egypt Apr 8, 1970 Gas explosion at a subway construction site Period: Apr 8, 1970 to May 25, 1979 1970's Apr 17, 1970 Apollo XIII explosion Apr 22, 1970 Telephone booth stuffing became popular activity Oct 24, 1970 Salvador Allende elected in Chile Nov 9, 1970 Charles de Gaulle dies Feb 10, 1971 Mark Spitz won seven Olympic gold medals at the Munich Olympic Games Apr 21, 1971 Calley convicted of My Lai massacre Apr 21, 1971 "Papa Doc" Dulavier of Haiti dies May 17, 1971 Louis Armstrong dies Jun 29, 1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 command module loses pressure Jan 28, 1972 Skateboard invented Feb 4, 1972 Russian probe lands on Venus Feb 26, 1972 Dam collapse in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, 250 people killed Mar 26, 1972 US astronauts explore moon May 2, 1972 John Edgar Hoover Dies Nov 7, 1972 President Nixon is Reelected Jan 22, 1973 Lyndon B. Johnson dies Jan 22, 1973 Supreme Court overturns abortion laws Apr 30, 1973 Nixon accused of Watergate cover-up May 14, 1973 Skylab repaired in space Feb 12, 1974 Alexander Solzhenitsyn exiled from USSR Apr 3, 1974 Patty Hearst joins in bank raid Apr 8, 1974 Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home-run record Jun 1, 1974 Cyclohexane vapor cloud explosion at a caprolactam plant, 28 people killed Mar 29, 1975 Chinese clay army discovered. Jun 18, 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated. Jul 10, 1975 Chemical plant explosion which released Dioxin, Italy Aug 1, 1975 Human rights pact signed in Helsinki, Finland Nov 20, 1975 General Franco dies Jul 9, 1976 Chemical plant disasters in Italy Sep 9, 1976 Chairman Mao dies Sep 9, 1976 Viking probe finds no life on Mars Oct 4, 1976 Barbara Walters becomes most highly paid woman on TV May 25, 1977 STAR WARS out on the big screen. It thrills audiences Jul 13, 1977 Electrical blackout in New York City Aug 16, 1977 Elvis Presley Dies Oct 12, 1978 Liquified propylene truck explosion 200 people killed.Spain. Oct 30, 1978 Muhammad Ali regains heavyweight boxing title. May 4, 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman prime minister May 25, 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crash 273 people killed BACK to TOP
