1970's Timeline

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1970

Aswan High Dam Completed
Beatles Break Up
Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
Kent State Shooting
Introduction of bar codes.
Completion of World Trade Centre
The FDA approved Lithium to treat manic-depressives.
Earthquake in Peru Kills 72,200 people.
China became the fifth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
American soldiers blamed for murdering entire town of Vietnamese civilians.
The daisy-wheel printer invented.

1971
The Soviet Union and NASA sent probes to Mars.
Bangladesh was created from East Pakistan.
China joined the United Nations.
The US and South Vietnam invaded Laos.
Introduction of CAT scanning 
Invention of cellular phone battery.
Opening of Disney World.
Nasdaq was introduced.
United Arab Emirates was created.
London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency
VCRs Introduced
The dot-matrix printer invented.
The food processor invented.
The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.

1972
M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers
Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
Pocket Calculators Introduced
Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
Watergate
Nixon went to China on a landmark visit.
Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled all asians.
E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson.
Eugene Cernan became the last man to walk on the moon.
Bobby Fishcher beat Boris Spassky in chess.
Pong first video game invented by Nolan Bushnell.
Hacky Sack invented

1973
Abortion Legalized in U.S.
Getty Kidnapped
Sears Tower Built
U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
U.S. Vice President Resigns
Sydney opera house.
Sears Tower in Chicago was completed.
The end of the Vietnam war.
gas crisis
The Bahamas become independent.
Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.
Gene splicing invented.
The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
Bic invents the disposable lighter.

1974
Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
Terracotta Army Discovered in China
U.S. President Nixon Resigns
Stephen Hawking proposed new Black Hole theory which ran counter to Einstein’s theory.
India conducts its first nuclear test.
Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada.
US president Gerald Ford pardoned ex-president Nixon.
The post-it notes invented
liposuction invented.

1975
Microsoft was founded.
Disposable razors
Lyme disease was first discovered.
The first home computer the Altair was launched.
The first joint US-USSR space mission.
Attempt to assassinate president Gerald Ford.
Catalytic converters are introduced
Pol Pot became the dictator of Cambodia.
Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
Civil War in Lebanon
The push-through tabs on drink cans

1976
First artificial gene created
Viking Probe lands on Mars
Raid on Entebbe Airport
Mao Tse-tung dies
Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Tens
Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000
North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

1977
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was first used
Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad & Tobago became the first black woman in history to win the Miss Universe crown.
Elvis Presley dies.
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat acknowledges Israel's right to exist.
The Alaskan pipeline was completed.
Star Wars movie.
The Nuclear-Proliferation Pact was signed
Two 747's collide at airport in Tenerife, killing nearly 600 people.
ROOTS on tv
South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death

1978
First test tube baby was born
John Paul II became the Pope.
Ultrasound was first used.
The Camp David Accords were signed
In the Jonestown massacre
The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented

1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister.
In Iran Ayatollah Khomeini became tleader.
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
nuclear accident at Three Mile island in US.
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
ESPN began broadcasting
Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
Sony Introduces the Walkman
Cell phones invented.
Scott Olson invents roller blades.