1970s

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

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Events and Trends

• Oil crisis
• Iran hostage situation
• Watergate break-in, cover-up, and scandal.
• Richard Nixon resignation
• end of Vietnam war
• fear of Nuclear war
• high inflation
• high unemployment
• Unix created along with C programming language
• Home computer revolution
• Pocket calculators makes the Slide Rule obsolete.
• Disco music, ABBA and Punk rock
• An age of superstars and idols in sports and music, following the glorious space programs of the 1960s.

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Notable Individuals

World leaders:

• Richard Nixon
• Spiro Agnew
• Gerald Ford
• Nelson Rockefeller
• James Earl Carter
• Walter Mondale
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Anwar Sadat
• Menachem Begin
• Mao Zedong

Sports figures:

• Joe Namath
• Willie Mayes
• Kareem Abdul Jabbar
• Terry Bradshaw
• Larry Bird

Entertainers:

• ABBA
• Alan Alda
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive
• David Bowie
• Jimmy Buffet
• The Carpenters
• David Cassidy
• Sean Cassidy
• Alice Cooper
• Gary Coleman
• Richard Dreyfuss
• Gloria Gaynor
• Andy Griffith
• Mark Hammill
• Ron Howard
• Elton John
• Olivia Newton John
• Billy Joel
• KISS
• Led Zeppelin
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Barry Manilow
• Bob Newhart
• Jack Nicholson
• Carrol O'Connor
• Sex Pistols
• James Taylor
• Marlo Thomas
• Cheryl Tiegs
• John Travolta
• Mary Tyler Moore
• J.J. Walker
• Johnny Whitaker