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Apollo 13 Huge Setback
Apollo 13 was hit by a small space rock as it was leaving the atmosphere and suffered a ruptured airtank. This incident almost sealed the fate of the three astronauts on board the air craft, but they were able to pull through and found another way to filter the air. -
My Lai Massacre Ruling
Murdered 347-504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam. Most were women, children, babies, and elderly people. Many of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, and some of the bodies were found mutilated. The people who did this were found guilty by the court and sentenced to prison time. -
The Beatles Break-Up
Numerous causes for the break-up, including the cessation of touring in 1966, and the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, in 1967, meaning the Beatles were personally involved in financial and legal conflicts. -
Earth Day
United States Senator Gaylord Nelson created a day or even in some places a whole week focused on doing activities to assist the environment and do things for the Earth.
This started in the United States and is now spread throughout the entire world, to help the Earth and preserve what we have for as long as we can. -
Kent State Massacre
A large demonstration was held at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. The National Guard was called in to assist in getting the rioting calmed down. In the end the guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others. No one really knows the exact reason as to why the shots were fired, but there are many ideas ranging from an order was given, to the demonstrators were firing the first shots. -
Creation of the Twin Towers
Minoru Yamasaki, Using a tube-frame structural design they created twin 110 story towers. The construction was $400 million. The North Tower was completed on in December 1972 and the South Tower finished in July 1973.
The area offered 13.4 million square feet of office space. to the Manhattan area. -
Floppy Disc
Who-American information technology company IBM
What-A portable data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible magnetic storage medium sealed in a square or rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles.
When-From the mid-1970s well into the 2000s -
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
In response to the student activism against the Vietnam War and to partially overrule the Supreme Court’s decision in Oregon v. Mitchell, it brught the voting age down to 18. -
Aswan High Dam
A large and improved dam, that provided electricity for the entire country and the city of Aswa, Egypt. Increase economic production by further regulating the annual river flooding, providing storage of water for agriculture, and to generate hydroelectricity in Egypt. -
United States Enviromental Protection Agency
President Nixon founded the USEPA, An agency of the federal government of the United States charge with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. To help preserve what our country is today and keep the Earth as beautiful as it is. -
End of the Gold Standard
Richard Nixon lead the U.S. to end the practice of basing currency off of the amount of gold which they had.They had to move the gold in and out of Fort Knox when the currency changed at all. -
The Pentagon Papers
Released papers that showed the people of the U.S. were being lied to by the government. It showed the people that the government was lying to them. This made the people distrust the government and showed everyone that you need to watch everyone closely, because everyone is capable of scamming you. -
London Bridge
Robert P. McCulloch and others who were making a planned community decided to make themselves popular by buying the London Bridge and transporting it to Lake Havasu City, Arizona. -
Micro-Processor
The miniaturization is making the running system of a computer smaller, more portable, and have many, many more uses. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Said that the busing of kids to different schools to make up racial equality was legal to make up racial equality in the public school systems. -
Banned Cigarette Ads
The American public realized that the cigarette ads were encouraging children to pick up the bad habit of smoking, because when they saw the ads they thought smoking was something that “cool” people did. -
Attica Prison Riot
In response to the death of prisoner George Jackson, a black radical activist prisoner who was shot to death by corrections officers. Approx. 2,200 prisoners rioted and seized control of the prison taking 33 staff hostage. The state negotiated with the prisoners for the next four days and agreed to 28 of the prisoners’ demands. Under order of the governor, state police took back control of the prison. When all was over, 39 people were dead including 10 correction officers and civilian employees. -
Disney World Opens
After seven years of planning, the grand opening was held on Friday October 1, 1971. With the name, “The Magic Kingdom”, this was the only theme park on Disney property at this time. It featured Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Tomorrowland, a Main Street USA, and about 5,500 Cast Members. -
China Joins the UN
China joined the United Nations torepresent themselves, since the Republic of China was moved to Taiwan. -
D.B. Cooper
An unidentified man hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, USA. He extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to the Earth. Despite an exhaustive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpertrator has never been located or positively identified. -
M*A*S*H
A television series adapted from the 1970 feature film. The series was a medical drama/black comedy that was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television. It followed a team of doctors and support staff stationed in the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. -
Mark Andrew Spitz
Won seven gold metals in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, and achievement only surpassed by Michael Phelps who won eight golds in the 2008 Olympics. -
Sears Tower Built
The Sears Tower (now known as Willis Tower), is a 108-story building in Chicago, Illinois, and was the tallest building the tallest building in the world at the time of construction. -
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
Was kidnapped from her apartment and the SLA demanded that the government give every needy Californian $70 worth of food. Hearst’s father donated $6 million to the poor in the Bay Area but the SLA refused to release Patty, because the food was of “poor quality”. On April 3, 1974 Patty Hearst released that she had joined the SLA and was now a member of the group. -
UPC Barcodes come to US
Gave stores an easier way to keep track of product and how much inventory they may have of one thing or the other. It also helped keep track of prices on certain items. -
U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
The Paris Peace Accords are signed by the U.S., North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Under the terms, the U.S. agrees to immediately halt all military activities and withdraw all remaining military personnel within 60 days. The North Vietnamese agree to an immediate cease-fire and the release of all American POWs within 60 days. -
Abortion Legalized in the US
The Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that during the first trimester a woman has the right to decide what happens to her body. This landmark decision rested on the “right to privacy” which was introduced in 1965. -
War Powers Act
A U.S. federal law intended to restrict the power of the President to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. -
Paul Getty Kidnapped
John Paul Getty was kidnapped in the Pazza Farnese in Rome. A ransom note was received, demanding $17 million in exchange for his safe return. -
Endangered Speicies Act
Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a “consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." -
Girls Allowed to play in Little League
Girls were formally allowed to play in the League and a Little League Softball program was created for both boys and girls. -
U.S. President Resigns
Nixon resigned from office after being held accountable for the Watergate scandal and corruption. -
Gerald Ford pardons Nixon
President Ford pardoned Nixon for his dealings with the Watergate Scandal. -
Microsoft Founded
Designs products that work with or as computers. They design software, mp3 devices, cellular devices, video game consoles, video games themselves, and a wide variety of many other technological items. -
Saigon Falls to Communism
The People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front
spread communism into Saigon. -
Arthur Ashe wins the Wimbledon
Was the first black to ever win the Wimbledon trophy in the tennis tournament. -
Jimmy Hoffa Disappears
Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor union leader and author who
disappeared from Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, a suburb of Detroit. -
President Ford Assassination Attempts
Both Lynette From and Sara Jane Moore attempted to murder the 38th President of the United States, Gerald, Ford, but failed due to bystander actions. -
Catalytic Convertors Introduced on Cars
Eugene Houdry created a device used to reduce the array of emissions from an internal combustion engine. -
Fransisco Franco Dies
The ruler of spain passes away due to old age and a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. -
Apple Computer Launched
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer, Inc. -
Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens
Nadia Comaneci is the first ever gymnast to score a perfect 10. -
Karen Ann Quinlan
When she was 21 she came home from a party and became unconcious, leading her family to take her to the hospital. While in the hospital the only thing keeping her alive was a ventalator and her family wanted to put her out of her misery and take her off the ventalator and let her be in peace. However. the hospital did not agree to this and would not allow it, so they went to court. This started the subject of letting someone die if they are only being kept alive by machines. -
Legionnaire’s Disease Strikes
A severe form of pneumonia caused by an infection for which the bacteria known as legionella are responsible. When the disease first struck it attacked a total of 182 people killing 29 of them. The death rate for this disease is 40% if acquired serving a hospital stay and 20% if acquired in a community setting. -
Entebbe Air Raid
A hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and supporters and flown to Entebbe, near Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Shortly after landing, all non-Jewish passengers were released. -
Mao Tse-tung Dies
Was the Chairman of the Communist Party of China. -
Red Dye #2 Banned
A chemical used to dye many foods, appliances, and clothing was found to cause cancer in high doses. -
President Carter Pardons Vietnam Draft Dodgers
President Jimmy Carter, in his first day in office, fulfilled a campaign promise by granting unconditional pardons to hundreds of thousands of men who had evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by fleeing the country or by failing to register. -
Roots Miniseries
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Roots received 36 Emmy Award nominations, winning nine; it also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings with the finale still standing as the third-highest rated U.S. television program ever. It was shot on a budget of $6 million. -
Alaskan Pipeline Completed
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), includes the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, 11 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems. It is commonly called the Alaska Pipeline, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, or Alyeska Pipeline, (or the Pipeline as referred to in Alaska), but those terms technically apply only to the 800 miles (1,287 km) of the pipeline with the diameter of 48 inches (122 cm) that conveys oil from P -
Star Wars Released
Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise conceived by George Lucas. -
First Black Miss Universe
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New York City Blackout
An electricity blackout that affected most of New York City from July 13, 1977 to July 14, 1977. The only neighborhoods in New York City that were not affected were in southern Queens, and neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which are part of the Long Island Lighting Company System.
Unlike other blackouts that affected the region, namely the Northeast Blackout of 1965 and the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the 1977 blackout was localized to New York City and the immediate surroundings. -
Elvis Presley Found Dead
Died from natural causes and the autopsy discovered an ineffective heart. -
John Paul II Becomes Pope
Was the first non-Italian Pope since Dutch Pope Adrian VI. -
Jonestown Massacre
A total of 909 Temple members died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in an event termed "revolutionary suicide" by Jones and some members on an audio tape of the event and in prior discussions. The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at a nearby Port Kaituma airstrip.United States. Four other Temple membe -
Love Canal in New York Declared Federal Disaster
Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, which became the subject of national and international attention, controversy, and eventual environmental notoriety following the discovery of 21,000 tons of toxic waste that had been buried beneath the neighborhood by Hooker Chemical. Love Canal officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Read Avenue. -
First Test Tube Baby Born
Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful "test-tube" baby was born in Great Britain. Though the technology that made her conception possible was heralded as a triumph in medicine and science, it also caused many to consider the possibilities of future ill-use. -
Camp David accords for Middle East Peace
The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations at Camp David. -
Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran
An Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution and a national referendum, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation—until his death. -
Jerry Falwell begins Moral Majority
an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979. -
Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (born 13 October 1925) is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990. -
Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
The accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2, was the most serious in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, even though it led to no deaths or injuries to plant workers or members of the nearby community. But it brought about sweeping changes involving emergency response planning, reactor operator training, human factors engineering, radiation protection, and many other areas of nuclear power plant operations. -
ESPN Starts Broadcasting
Founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen and Getty Oil executive Stuart Evey, the network's President and CEO (and later the United States Football League's first commissioner). -
The Greensboro Massacre
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. -
Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
Sixty-six Americans were taken captive when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, including three who were at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Six more Americans escaped and of the 66 who were taken hostage, 13 were released on November 19 and 20, 1979; one was released on July 11, 1980. -
Sony Introduces the Walkman
Sony began selling the popular Walkman, and in 1980 started legal talks with Pavel regarding a royalty fee. In 1986 Sony finally agreed to pay royalties to Pavel, but only for sales in Germany, and only for a few models, and refused to acknowledge him as the inventor of the device.
