1970s The World:

Cost of Living in 1970's

• Average Cost of new house $23,450.00
• Average Income per year $9,400.00
• Average Monthly Rent $140.00
• Cost of a gallon of Gas 36 cents
• Shaefer Pen $9.95
• United States postage Stamp 6 cents
• Sports Illustrated 15 cents
• Mans Westclox Watch $18.00
• AMC Gremlin $1879
• Milk $1.18 a gallon
• Eggs 53 cents a dozen

World Events in 1970’s

• 1970 Music continues to make significant impact with the largest ever rock festival held on the Isle of Wight with 600,000 people attending, including some of the biggest name in music including Jimi Hendrix and The Who. This is also the year The Concord makes it's first its first supersonic flight. Another significant change is the age of voting is now lowered to 18 in the US.
• The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
• Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded
• Apollo 13 mission to moon Accident.
• Boeing 747 makes its first commercial passenger trip to London.
• The Luna 17 Mission is launched by the USSR, carrying the first successful remote-controlled robotic lunar rover, Lunokhod 1, to the moon.
• US Invades Cambodia
• The USSR launches the Venera 7 spacecraft.
• Chicago Seven defendants found guilty of intent to incite a riot in 1968 ( later overturned by Court of Appeal )
• Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
• Earthquake in Peru kills 67,000
• Japan becomes the worlds "fourth space power", after the Soviet Union (1957), the United States (1958), and France (1965
• First Earth Day celebrated
• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) begins operation
• President Abdel Nasser of Egypt dies and 5 million turn out to honour him
• The Liberian registered tanker Pacific Glory spills up to 100,000 gallons of crude oil on October 25th into the English Channel creating a huge oil slick and an environmental disaster
• 100,000 people demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War
• Cholera epidemic in Istanbul.
• The Worlds Population reaches 3.63 billion
• The US Population reaches 205 million [In 2021, population in USA is 332 million.]
• Hurricane Celia makes landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas leaving 15 dead and nearly $400 million in damages,
• The US lowers the voting age to 18 from 21 when President Nixon Signs the bill into law on June 22nd
• California becomes the first US State to adopt "No Fault" Divorce law.
• Controlled Substance Act passed part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.
• National Guards fire on and kill 4 protesters on May 4th at Kent State University

Culture in the 1970's

• The Isle of Wight Festival takes place . 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Jethro Tull.
• Jimi Hendrix dies of barbiturate overdose in London
• Janis Joplin dies in a cheap motel from a heroin overdose
• The first New York marathon is run in New York
• Simon and Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The Title Track won the Grammy for song of the year.

Films in the 1970's

• M*A*S*H,
• Patton
• Woodstock
• Hello, Dolly!
• Catch-22
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Popular Music and songs

• The Beatles with -- " Let it Be " released on May 8th
• The Jackson 5 with -- " ABC and I want you back "
• Edwin Starr with -- " War "

What came out in the 70s?

• 10 Things You Didn′t Realize Were Invented in the 1970s.
• Floppy disk, 1971.
• Email, 1971, 1978.
• Mobile phone, 1973.
• Universal Product Code (UPC), 1974.
• Post-It Note, 1974.
• Rubik's Cube, 1974.
• Push-through can tops, 1975.

Toys of the 70s

What was popular in the 70s fashion?

Fashion in the 70s Overview

What happened specifically in the year 1971?

• January-March 1971: In Operation Lam Son 719, ARVN troops, with U.S. support, invade Laos in an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They are forced to retreat and suffer heavy losses. ... January 27, 1973: President Nixon signs the Paris Peace Accords, ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
• the year that marked the start of the digital age when the Microprocessor was invented. We also saw the use of more and more of the transistor technology in use in things like hand held calculators which although are still very expensive over time will drop in price and increase in function to where we are today.
• The Voting Age in the United States is lowered to 18 yrs old when the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified
• Border battles between India and Pakistan erupt into full-scale war when India invades East Pakistan ( Now Bangladesh ) in support of the independence movement
• The Walt Disney World Theme Park is opened.
• Qatar becomes independent from Great Britain.
• NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to the Moon was launched on January 31st. This was the third successful manned mission to the Moon and the crew consisted of Commander Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa (Command Module Pilot), and Edgar Mitchell (Lunar Module Pilot). There were some issues with docking the modules, that were overcome after several attempts. Once they arrived on the Moon, Shepard became the fifth person to walk on the Moon and the first to try golfing on the surface after he attached a golf club head onto a lunar tool and attempted a few swings. The crew made it safely back to Earth on February 9th after nine days and brought back over 90 pounds of lunar rocks and samples to be examined.
• The Soviet Union launches the first space station, Salyut 1, into low Earth orbit April 19th. Three Soviet cosmonauts die during Soyuz 11 accident on June 30th
• Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet in November.
• The New York Times begins to publish sections of the Pentagon Papers starting on June 13th showing the US Government had been lying to the American People.
• The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was created on December 2nd when it established independence from the United Kingdom after nearly 80 years of British rule.
• China is admitted to the United Nations UN.
• A new stock market index called the Nasdaq debuts.
• Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California and Peru Earthquake results in the destruction of the town of Chungar, Peru, and the death of most of the towns people.
• IRA Bomb Post Office Tower in London.
• Prison riot and prisoners take hostages at Attica Prison in New York, resulting in the death of 10 hostages and 29 inmates.
• Amtrak created to provide US inter city passenger train services.
• Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.
• Tsunami in the Bay of Bengal in Orissa State in India kills 10,000.
• The US table tennis team visits to the People's Republic of China (PRC) known as "Ping Pong Diplomacy" on April 10th.
• Greenpeace formally comes into existence.
• Federal Express is started by Fred Smith.
• Cigarette Advertising Ended on Television in USA.
• In an attempt to control inflation President Richard M. Nixon implements 90 day freeze on wages and prices, he also removed the gold/silver backing from the US Dollar.
• Problems in Northern Ireland continue as rioting increases as part of the IRA campaign to end British Government Rule.
• Charles Manson and three of his followers receive the death penalty.
• The First Internet Chat rooms appear.
• The First Cat Scanner Produced by EMI.