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 1975?

Events in 1975

• After OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%. Oil Prices around the world spike up
• The British Conservative Party chooses it's first women leader, Margaret Thatcher
• The Battle of Ban Me Thuot takes place during the Vietnam War, as North Vietnam begins its final push to end the war and capture the South. The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
• The US Carries out Vietnam "Operation Babylift" bringing Vietnamese orphans to the US
• 1975, electronics manufacturer Sony released their Betamax video cassette recording system for sale in Japan. The system originally retailed for several thousand dollars and not long after the release other companies began selling their own systems using a different format, the VHS (Video Home System). Sony’s Betamax was somewhat popular throughout the late 1970’s but by the mid-1980’s VHS had won the so-called “Videotape Format War.”
• One of the very first blockbuster films, Jaws, is released during June
• Spanish Dictator Franco Dies.
• An IRA hit squad takes refuge and hostages at Balcombe Street in central London. The IRA bombs London Hilton Hotel In Park Lane. The IRA murders Ross McWhirter the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records.
• Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is found in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery in September of 1975. She had been kidnapped in Berkeley, California on February 4, 1974 and in April of 1974 she sent letters to the media stating that she was joining the leftist group SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army) of her own free will. Later that month, a surveillance camera took a photo of her participating in an armed robbery of a San Francisco bank, making her a wanted criminal by the FBI.
• NASA launches the first joint United States and Soviet Union space flight.
• The Suez Canal reopens for the first time since the Six-Day War
• Suriname Gains Independence From Netherlands
• "The Green March" with 350,000 unarmed Moroccans cross the border into the Spanish controlled area of Western Sahara demanding the return of Moroccan Sahara Desert
• The First ever strike by Doctors in the US causes hospitals to reduce services
• The first oil pipeline to serve Forties oilfield starts pumping North Sea Oil
• Cod War breaks out between Britain and Iceland when Iceland extends it's fishing rights to 200 miles
• New York City avoids bankruptcy when President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion loan
• US Pulls out of Cambodia
• Beginning of 15 years of civil war between Maronite Christians and Muslim militias in Lebanon
• Indira Gandhi India Prime Minister is found guilty of electoral corruption
• Angola Gains Independence From Portuga
• Jimmy Hoffa ex teamsters boss disappears never to be seen again
• NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
• US Apollo and Soviet Soyuz 9 spacecraft link up in space and Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts shake hands
• Work on the Alaskan Oil Line begins
• Mozambique Gains Independence From Portugal

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )

• Motorolla obtains patent for the first portable mobile phone
• The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) and Microsoft becomes a registered trademark
• BIC launches first disposable Razor
• The Microcomputer Altair 8800 is released
• Sony introduces Betamax videotapes and Matsushita / JVC introduce VHS
• Tuvalu Gains Independence From Great Britain
• Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, invented by Seymour Cray
• Personal Computer USA Microsoft
• The Digital Camera Steven Sasson and Kodak Company
• Laser Printer USA