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

Events specifically in the year 1974

• IRA begins bombing campaign on mainland Britainand bombs The Tower of London on July 17th and the Houses of parliament and pubs in Birmingham
• Following impeachment hearings started on May 9th Richard Nixon becomes the first US president forced to resign after the Watergate Scandal on August 9th. President Gerald Ford gives unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon
• On October 30th, 1974 the much hyped boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali for Ali to regain his heavyweight title takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
• On September 20th the sixty-seven members of the Native American Kootenai tribe, headed by Amy Trice, declares war on the United States government as a final effort to gain attention to the tribe's loss of land and subsequent troubles.
• Stephen King, a 26-year-old author, published his debut novel “Carrie,” during April of 1974. “Carrie” was actually the fourth novel that King had written but the first to be published, helping to launch his prolific career.
• The Soviet Union launches the Salyut-4 space station on December 26th 1974.
• West Germany wins the FIFA World Cup in July. The soccer tournament began during the previous month and was hosted by West Germany.
• A major US Bank Franklin National Bank is declared insolven.
• 55 MPH Speed Limit imposed to preserve gas usage US wide
• Sears Tower in Chicago becomes the worlds tallest building.
• President Ford announces an amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders.
• The Global Recession Deepens, Gasoline shortages and price increases throughout the world help to cause problems in most of the western worlds economies, and Governments and people around the world spend more time debating the use of Nuclear Energy to combat problems with Oil Prices and Supply.
• Smallpox Epidemic in India causes the deaths of between 10,000 and 20,000 people.
• Henry Kissenger convinces Syria and Israel agree to a ceasefire on the Golan Heights on June 5th.
• Turkey Invades Northern Cyprus.
• Patricia Hearst Kidnappers Demand $70 of food be given to every needy Californian.
• India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon on May 18th becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• Famine caused by drought threatens millions in Africa.
• Following a crippling strike, Northern Ireland's first power-sharing assembly collapses.
• Work begins on the 800 mile long Alaska Oil pipeline.
• Bloodless Military coup led by General Antoniio de Spinola, in Portugal.
• Isabel Peron, Juan Peron's third wife, becomes President of Argentina after the death of her husband on July 1st. She became the first woman president in the world.
• West Germany Wins 1974 World Cup in West Germany.
• Skylab returns to Earth.

Inventions and Discoveries in 1974

• MRI Scanner( Magnetic Resonance Imaging } developed USA
• Paleontologist Donald Johanson discovers a 3.2 million year old hominid skeleton in Ethiopia. Lucy an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old is discovered in Africa.
• The first use of UPC or Universal product Code BAR CODE UPC scanner installed in Marshes Supermarket in Troy Ohio ( check 1952 for first bar code use not UPC ) or the standard used today