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
• Average House Price 7,374

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 1972?

Cost of living in 1972

• Average Cost of new house $27,550.00
• Average Income per year $11,800.00
• Average Monthly Rent $165.00
• Cost of a gallon of Gas 55 cents
• Roxanne Ladies Swimsuit $30.00
• Kodak Pocket
• $28.00
• Wrangler Jeans $12.00
• ladies Timex WatchFrom $30.00
• --Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling

Events specifically in the year 1972

• 11 Israel Athletes murdered by Arab Gunman at Munich Olympics on September 6th.
• Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee the start of the Watergate Scandal.
• The United States and Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and an interim treaty after the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT I) take place during May.
• NASA launches the Landsat 1 Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) on July 23rd and The OAO-3 Copernicus Satellite is launched.
• NASA’s Space Shuttle Program is officially launched during January
• The XI Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan were held from February 3rd to the 13th of 1972
• NASA launched the Pioneer 10 spacecraft on March 3rd 1972. The mission of Pioneer 10 was to become the first spacecraft to become the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and the first to visit Jupiter.
• The British government declares a state of emergency over 47 day miners' strike
• Earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of Bingol, Turkey - more than 1000 dead, 10.000 made homeless
• Three gunmen open fire at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more
• Earthquake in the town of Ghir, in southern Iraq leaves over 5,000 dead
• Hurricane Agnes on June 13th ( Category 1 hurricane ) wrecks havoc on the state of Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and Virginia causing the death of 117 , In the worst hit state of Pennsylvania 48 people die due to the hurricane.
• 16 survivors from plane crash survive and are rescued after practicing cannibalism.
• Last US ground troops withdrawn from Vietnam .
• Earthquake in Nicaragua kills 5,000-10,000 in the capital Managua.
• The last major epidemic of smallpox in Europe breaks out in Yugoslavia.
• Bloody Friday 22 bombs explode in Belfast Ireland and 9 people are killed with a further 130 seriously injured and Bloody Sunday14 unarmed Catholic protesters are gunned down by the British Army on bloody Sunday
• The Equal Rights Amendment which provided for the legal equality of the sexes passed by the U.S. Senate on 22nd March
• CND ( Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ) organises a series of demonstrations against nuclear arms
• The worlds leaders agree to banning biological warfare
• Antiwar demonstrations draw 100,000 demonstrators in US cities
• Palestinian hijackers hijack a Lufthansa jet
• Martial Law Declared in the Philippines
• Ceylon becomes a republic and changes its name to Sri Lanka
• The Largest Diamond The Star of Sierra leone is unearthed it is 969.8 carats
• Governor George Wallace is shot three times on May 15th in an attempted assasination attempt by Arthur Bremer which leaves him paralyzed.
• Bangladesh Gains Independence From Pakistan and Cameroon Gains Independence From France and Britain.
• The Winter Olympic Games are held in Sapporo, Japan
• HBO launched in US as the first subscription cable service
• Richard Nixon orders the start for the space shuttle program
• Apollo 16 lands on the moon where the Lunar Rover is tested by astronauts John W Young and Charles M Duke
• Apollo 17 lands on the moon and the last men to walk on the moon are Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan
• Digital Watches are introduced
• First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced (price $395).
• The Volkswagen Beetle becomes the most popular car ever sold with in excess of 15 million sold.
• Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of PONG, the first game to achieve commercial success
• Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use ) are Artificial Heart USA by Willem J Koiff and Optical Fiber USA