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Super bowl, 1970
Kansas City Chiefs
1970
Kansas City Chiefs Minnesota Vikings 23-7
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Beatles Break Up
Paul McCartney left the Beatles in 1970, after the previous manager of the Beatles died. McCartney wanted someone else to manage them, but the other Beatles member had decided on someone else. -
World Series
Baltimore Orioles
The Baltimore Orioles won the 1970 World Series with 4 games, over the Cincinnati Reds who won 1 game. Brooks Robinson was the MVP -
Aswan High Dam Completed
The Aswan High Dam is located in Aswan, Egypt. It was built in 1970. The dam was planned by a team of British engineers and was built by a team of Soviet engineers. The reason they built the dam is to control flood waters during a rainy season and release it during the drought season. -
Cigarette ads banned on TV
Americans began a new year free of cigarette advertisements broadcast on television today. "As of midnight Friday night, all TV and radio commercials for cigarettes are banned by federal law, since tobacco has been alleged hazardous to health and because of the apparent statistical relationship between smoking and high death rates from lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema," explained the Delta Democrat-Times on January 3, 1971. -
Superbowl
Baltimore Colts
1971
Baltimore Colts Dallas Cowboys 16-13
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World Series
Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1971 World Series with 4 games, over the Baltimore Orioles who won 3 games. Roberto Clemente was the MVP. -
Disney World Completed
Completed October 1st, 1971 -
London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
In 1962, London Bridge was falling down. Built in 1831, the bridge couldn't handle the ever-increasing flow of traffic across the Thames River. The British government decided to put the bridge up for sale, and Robert McCulloch, Founder of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and Chairman of McCulloch Oil Corporation, submitted the winning bid of $2,460,000.
The bridge was dismantled, and each stone was numbered. Everything was shipped 10,000 miles to Long Beach, California, and then trucked to Lake Havas -
Superbowl
Dallas Cowboys
1972
Dallas Cowboys Miami Dolphins 24-3
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The Munich Massacre
The Munich Massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games. Eight Palestinian terrorists killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team and then took nine others hostage. The situation was ended by a huge gunfight that left five of the terrorists and all of the nine hostages dead. Following the massacre, the Israeli government organized a retaliation against Black September, called Operation Wrath of God -
Last man on the moon
Everyone knows the name of the first man on the moon, but what about the last? Eugene Cernan left the final bootprint that may ever appear on the surface of our dusty satellite. Yet Cernan has been heralded for far more than this milestone. He is not only one of the most accomplished of the astronauts—he journeyed into space three times, on Gemini 9, Apollo 10, and Apollo 17—but one of the most eloquent in describing his otherworldly experiences. Below, join him as he lifts off, walks in space, -
World Series
Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics won the 1972 World Series with 4 games, over the Cincinnati Reds who won 3 games. Gene Tenace was the MVP. -
Sears Towers
At the time the Sears tower was constructed in 1974, it was the world's tallest building, eclipsing New York's twin-towered World Trade Center by 25 meter (83 ft). It would keep the title of tallest building in the world until the Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were constructed in 1997 -
U.S. Pulls out of vietnam
President Nixon had been elected on a promise to Vietnamize the war, meaning more fighting would be turned over to the South Vietnamese army, and to start bringing home American troops. When the President ordered US troops into Cambodia and ordered more bombings, the result was a tremendous uproar at home with more marches and demonstrations. Congress reacted to the antiwar feeling and repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which gave the President the authority to send troops and fight the war -
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
On February 4, 1974, Patricia Campbell Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by a terrorist group called the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).
The apartment was one she shared with her 26 year old fiancé Steven Weed. He was badly beaten by the group, which included Donald DeFreeze, Willy Wolfe, and Nancy Ling Perry. The couple were watching The Magician on TV around 9:00 p.m. when someone knocked at the front door.
The terrori -
President Nixon Resignes
Faced with widespread evidence of political espionage and other illegal activities on the part of his administration, President Nixon resigned in order to avoid facing impeachment. Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, immediately issued him a pardon for any crimes he may have committed as president. In addition to the governmental upheaval that resulted from the Watergate Affair, the scandal provoked widespread loss of confidence in public officials. What was the "Saturday Night Massacre"? -
Jimmy Hoffa disappears
One of the most famous American figures to inexplicably disappear was Jimmy Hoffa, the famed president of the Teamsters Union from 1957 until he went to prison in 1967. There was no question that Hoffa had a lot of enemies in his day and perhaps none so powerful as Robert F. Kennedy, the president’s brother and the attorney general from 1961 to 1964. Hoffa’s ties to organized crime landed him in prison but it would not be until those same gangsters turned against him would those ties lead to his -
President Ford assassination attempts (2)
President Gerald Ford came close to death two times during his presidency. He was the 38th President because of Richard Nixon’s resignation, the Watergate scandal. The first attack occurred on September 5, 1975. During the late morning, roughly 10a.m., Gerald Ford was walking toward the Senate Hotel. He was there to lecture the California Senators on increasing violent crime. As he neared the building, 150 yards away, President Ford was nearly killed. The President recalled, “I saw a hand coming -
Apple Computer launched
While the 26-year-old Wozniak was content with his computer hobbyist group, the 21-year-old Jobs had a greater vision for the future. After seeing a computer that Wozniak had designed for himself, Jobs began to think about the marketability of such products. He convinced Wozniak to leave his job at Hewlett Packard and together the two began working on constructing a personal computer. Jobs’ passion and Wozniak’s engineering talent would soon combine to become a revolutionizing force in the compu -
Mao Tse-Tung Dies
Peking, Sept. 9--Mao Tse-tung, the pre-eminent figure of the Chinese Communist revolution and the leader of his country since 1949, died today at the age of 82. His death, at 12:10 A.M. after a long illness, left uncertain the question of who was to succeed him. There is no designated heir, nor is there anyone among his subordinates who commands the awe and reverence with which he was regarded among the 800 million Chinese. -
Starwars released
Star Wars (1977), (aka Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope) is one of the most popular, profitable, entertaining, and successful science fiction/action - adventure/fantasy films of all time. The film, shot mostly on location in Tunisia, Guatemala and Death Valley (California), advanced special-effects technology to a degree unseen before, with computerized and digitally-timed special effects. It ultimately helped to resurrect the financial viability of the science-fiction genre, a category of film -
Elvis Dead
today, the King of Rock & Roll was found dead in the bathroom of his Graceland mansion by road manager Jerry Esposito. After an extensive autopsy, cause of death was attributed to “cardiac arrhythmia,” or a standard heart attack. By the late ‘70s, Elvis was in extremely poor health due to extensive prescription drug abuse. Touring almost constantly, he was known to be incoherent and even immobile on stage, a sad shade of his former self. Two days after his death, tens of thousands of people st -
Superbowl
XI 1977
Oakland Raiders Minnesota Vikings
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John Paul II- Pope
•Born: 18 May 1920
•Birthplace: Wadowice, Poland
•Died: 2 April 2005
•Best Known As: History's first Polish pope
Karol Wojtyla was elected pope on 16 October 1978, becoming the Catholic Church's first non-Italian pontiff in over 450 years. He took the name John Paul II as a nod to his predecessor, John Paul I, whose term lasted only one month. John Paul II became known particularly for his globetrotting ways; as pope he visited more than 100 countries worldwide. Read more: http://www.answ -
Jonestown Massacre
unusual series of events led to the deaths of more than 900 people in the middle of a South American jungle. Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing. -
Sony Introduces the Walkman
On June 21, 1979 the Walkman was announced to the public. Before the new player was available to the public, the press lampooned it. Some claimed that nobody would be interested in a tape player without a record function. Others pointed out that the most popular tape recorder of the time had sold less than 15,000 units, and Sony had produced 30,000. -
ESPN began broadcasting
ESPN began broadcasting in September 1979 with limited airtime during the week and 24-hour coverage on the weekends. The company had signed up 625 cable system affiliates, reaching more than one million of a total of 20 million households that had cable at that time. Its first televised event was a slow-pitch world series softball game
