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

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.
• Milk $1.18 a gallon
• Eggs 53 cents a dozen

Toys of the 70s

What was popular in the 70s fashion?

Fashion in the 70s Overview

What happened specifically in the year 1976?

Cost of Living in 1976

• Average Cost of new house $43,400.00
• Average Income per year $16,000.00
• Average Monthly Rent $220.00
• Cost of a gallon of Gas 59 cents
• Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling
• Average House Price 12,704
• Gallon of Petrol 0.76

Events in 1976

• The Apple Computer Company was established by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak during April of 1976. Jobs and Wozniak created their company with the intention of developing small, easy to use computers that could be used at home or in offices, what would later become known as the personal computer.”
• Isabel Peron is deposed as the President of Argentina by a military coup.
• The CN tower in Toronto, Canada is completed and is the the tallest free standing structure in the world.
• The first commercial Concorde flights take off during January of 1976 as regular passenger service began.
• The popular film “Rocky” is released in the United States during December of 1976. It was written by Sylvester Stallone, who also starred in the title role.
• NASA unveiled the first space shuttle, the Enterprise.
• NASA launched the LAGEOS-1 (Laser Geodynamic Satellite)
• Iceland and the United Kingdom come to an agreement over fishing rights in the North Atlantic during June of 1976, ending a series of conflicts known as the “Cod Wars.”
• Hua Guofeng becomes the Chairman of the Communist party in China after Mao Zedong dies.
• Fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci wins 5 total medals in gymnastics at the Montreal Olympics. She became the first female gymnast to be award a perfect ten score for her uneven bar routine and went on to garner a total of seven perfect scores throughout the rest of the games. Comaneci also went on to win medals at the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow.
• Landing Vehicles from the US Spacecraft Viking I and Viking II set down safely on Mars. Landing Vehicles from the US Spacecraft Viking I and Viking II set down safely on Mars
• Eccentric American billionaire Howard Hughes who had been a recluse for 20 years dies at the age of 70
• Earthquake in Tabgshan China on July 28th kills 655,000
• Earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale strikes in North Eastern Italy
• Tidal Wave in Philippines kills 5,000
• The First Commercial Concorde Flights take off
• First Legionnaires Disease affects 4,000 delegates in Pennsylvania on July 23rd from a chapter of the American Legion
• Soweto riots in South Africa mark the beginning of the end of apartheid
• In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun on July 29th and begins a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
• The United States celebrates 200th birthday of independence from British Rule
• Three Gunmen abduct a school bus with 26 children and the driver near Chowchilla, Calif ( all children and driver are saved after they dig a tunnel out of the quarry they were buried in. )
• Rioting breaks out at the Notting Hill Carnival, London, England
• The $2.00 bill Issued
• Two passenger jets collide over Zagreb, Yugoslavia due to air traffic controller errors
• The world’s first recorded Ebola virus epidemic begins in Sudan on June 27th
• Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda, where Israeli commandos storm the plane freeing the hostages
• A Hijacked Sabena Boeing is stormed by Israeli soldiers releasing 100 hostages
• Seychelles Gains Independence From Great Britain
• Princess Margaret Announces Separation from Lord Snowdon ( Antony Armstrong-Jones )
• Hurricane Belle Hits US East Coast
• 32 Black African Nations Boycott Montreal Olympics in protest to continued sporting links between New Zealand and South Africa
• In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
• Fidel Castro becomes The President of Cuba

Invdentions in 1976

• First laser printer introduced by IBM - the IBM 3800
• Matsushita introduces the VHS home video cassette recorder to compete with Sony's Beta max system.
• An American Panel warns that CFC's Chloro-fluorocarbons used in Aerosol Cans damage the Ozone layer