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 1978?

Cost of living in 1978

• Average Cost of new house $54,800.00
• Average Income per year $17,000.00
• Average Monthly Rent $260.00
• Cost of a gallon of Gas 63 cents
• Gallon of Petrol 0.79
• 1LB of Bacon$1.20
• Dozen Eggs 48 Cents
• Radio Shack Tandy TRS80 Computer $399.00
• 8 Track Player $169.00
• Land O Lakes Butter Lb $1.33
• New York Strip Steaks Lb $2.39
• Ladies Corduroy Overalls $22.00
• Star Wars Family Pajamas $6.49 - $11.99

Events in 1978

• Egypt and Israel sign the Camp David Accords in an effort to secure peace between the two nations.
• NASA unveils the first group of women astronauts during January. The group included Shannon Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn Sullivan, Judith Resnik, Anna Fisher, and Sally Ride.
• The Double Eagle II balloon, piloted by Larry Newman, Ben Abruzzo, and Maxie Anderson, became the first balloon to complete a transatlantic flight.
• Japanese explorer Naomi Uemura became the first person to reach the North Pole in a solo expedition.
• The world’s first human conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), Louise Brown, was born in the United Kingdom.
• The first Garfield comic strip debuts in U.S. newspapers.
• Dominica Gains Independence From Great Britain.
• The United States Senate ratifies the second of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
• The country of Spain restored its democracy and ended forty years of a dictatorship under Francisco Franco.
• US Teachers strike extend summer holidays for thousands of students.
• After nearly 30 years The Volkswagen Beetle stops production having manufactured 20 million cars.
• The US Dollar plunges to record low against many European currencies.
• The Japanese car Imports account for half the US import market following the energy crisis and increase in fuel prices that fuels demand for economy cars.
• The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland.
• Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays that are thought to damage earth's protective ozone layer.
• Rhodesia's prime minister Ian Smith and three black leaders agree on the transfer to black majority rule.
• The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz runs aground March 16th on the coast of Brittany. causing an ecological disaster with A slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long covered about 200 miles (320 km) of Brittany coastline.
• Serial killer David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," is sentenced on June 12th to 25 years to life in prison.
• The US stops production of the Neutron Bomb ( Kills People but leaves buildings and infrastructure standing ).
• Indira Ghandi faces fraud charges in India.
• India faces it's longest and worst monsoon season in modern times leaving 2 million homeless.
• Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov assasinated by Bulgarian Secret Police using poisoned umbrella tip.
• Earthquake strikes Tabas, Iran and surrounding villages killing nearly 20,.
• Roman Polanski flees to France in February 1978, hours before he was to be formally sentenced for rape and other charges against a child.
• Guyana - People's Temple Jonestown. There was a death toll of over 900 people, more than 300 of them were children. Jones was also found dead of a gunshot wound.
• Israel attacks on southern Lebanon following bus hijacking in Tel Aviv.
• A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Due to poor Cold War Relations United States bans sale of latest computer technology to Soviet Union.
• Pope Paul VI dies at age of 80. John Paul I Becomes Pope from August 26th , 1978 and dies just 33 days later on September 28, 1978. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II
• 98% of all American homes have a television

Inventions in 1978

• Illinois Bell Company introduces first ever Cellular Mobile Phone System
• Space Invaders Launches Craze for Computer Video Games
• The first computer bulletin board system BBS is created
• First Test Tube Baby is born on July 25th in England a girl Louise Brown, from in vitro fertilization