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Entertainment of the 70’s-Whole Decade
-TV show Freaks and Geeks was on twice a week and was said to be the most popular TV show among teens in 1976. Cartoons were very popular during this time period. Mr. Men was a Saturday morning cartoon and a loved book series. School House Rock was also considered another Saturday morning cartoon. However it was very educational. Pink Panther made its debut in the 70’s, first as a cartoon and then made as a movie. -
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Fashion of the 70’s-Whole Decade
-Flared jeans were in style, but by 1975 the bell bottom pants became extremely popular. Most men wore leisure suits. However, both men and women wore jump suits and tank tops. Usually girls wore tube or crop tops. Women loved platform shoes for dancing of course! -
First Earth Day-1970
First Earth Day-1970-Earth Day occurs on April 22 every year. Founder Gaylord Nelson, a US Senator from Wisconsin came up with this idea due to the massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California, in 1969. He then forced environmental protection and built a national staff to help promote events. As a result, on April 22, 20 million Americans became involved and demonstrated helping in retaining a healthy environment. -
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Bell Bottoms Pants: Flared jeans were in style, but by 1975 the bell bottom pants became extremely popular. -
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Leisure Suits: Most men wore leisure suits. Jump suits and tanks tops were also popular during this time. Both men and women wore those. -
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1970s energy crisis
Production of oil during this time had dried up very quickly. With the loss of oil gas prices shot up through the roof. Products made using petrolum based products also shot up in price and became very scarce. -
Kent State Shooting
Kent, Ohio
involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis
Some of the students shot there were protesting Nixon's Cambodian Campaign, and others who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance -
The first Gay Pride March
The first Gay Pride March was on the last saturday(27th) in June, 1970. It took place in Chicago from Washington Square park to the Water tower at the intersection of Michigan and Chicago Ave's. -
1970's entertainment pic
School House Rock: Cartoons were very popular during this time period. School House Rock was on every Saturday morning and was a huge hit. It was very educational for the little ones. -
1970's entertainment pic
Pink Panther: Made it's debut in the 70's. First was a cartoon for many years, but made into a movie. -
Mayday Anti War March
May 1st- May 3rd, 1971
The purpose of this campaign was to shut down the U.S. federal government for at least one day. On May 1, around 25,000 members of the Mayday Tribe moved into Washington to block their designated targets. However, the government was already prepared for their move. Combined force of 10,000 police, National Guard, and federal troops with around 4,000 troops available on reserve were ready to act. They got the order to be “firm” and to arrest every demonstrator on sight. -
Watergate Scandal
Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. -
Munich Massacre (1972 olympics massacre)
First Olympics held in Germany since the Nazis hosted the 1936 games. On the 4th day of the games a Palestinian terrorist organization, Black September, took 9 members of the Israeli team hostage demanding for prisoners to be released in Israel and Germany. The terroist were killed but they killed their hostages and 1 officer -
Roe vs. Wade
Roe vs. Wade was the trial in 1972-73 that decided weather or not abortion would be legal. January 22, 1973 it was decided to be legal in the first trimester of pregnancy or before viability. -
Thrilla in Manila
3rd and final famous boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
Ranked as one of the greatest fights in the 20th century and is the climax to the bitter rivalry between Ali and Joe.
October 1, 1975 in Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines.
At the conclusion of the 14th round, which was a terrible round for Frazier, fearing that Joe might lose his vision in his one sighted eye (his right), Futch stopped the fight over Frazier's objections. -
3 Mile Island
In 1979 at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the # 2 reactor. The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed. Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents. There were no injuries or adverse health effects from the Three Mile Island accident.
