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 1979?

Average 1979 Cost of Living

• Average Income per year $17,500.00
• Average Monthly Rent $280.00
• Cost of a gallon of Gas 86 cents
• Average House Price 13,650
• Gallon of Petrol 0.79
• Average Cost of new house $58,100.00

Events of 1979

• Michael Jackson releases his breakthrough album "Off the Wall" on August 10th.
• ESPN launches on cable television.
• The Soviet Union and the United States sign the SALT II Treaty.
• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile and takes over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration and Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
• Iran's government becomes Islamic Republic when the Shah of Persia is forced to leave.
• The Dictator Idi Amin is deposed in Uganda
• The experimental space station, Skylab, crashed back to Earth during July. Skylab was launched by the United States in May of 1973 and was NASA’s first space station.
• Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings.
• A mob attack destroys the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.
• The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
• 13 Tornadoes ripped through Texas and Oklahoma.
• The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power on June 1st and the countries name is changed to Zimbabwe,
• Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him in Iraq.
• Due to crisis in Iran Oil Prices Increase around the world and the public begin panic buying making things worse.
• During the "Death to the Klan March" organised by communist supporters in Greensboro, North Carolina white supremists open fire killing five marchers .
• Eleven fans are killed and dozens are injured at a WHO Concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Three Mile island Nuclear Accident after fire at reactor in Pennsylvania US.
• 3000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages. 63 Americans are taken hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran.
• 400 Armed Sunni Islamic Muslims, seize the Grand Mosque in Mecca taking pilgrims present for the annual hajj hostage. The crisis ends after two weeks and more than 250 dead.
• The Times news paper is not published for nearly a year due to an industrial dispute.
• Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin sign the first peace treaty between an Arab nation and the Jewish state.
• A Canadian Pacific freight train carrying dangerous chemicals is derailed causing an explosion and releasing toxic fumes causing mass evacuation in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
• Lord Mountbatten and three others assassinated by the I.R.A. on August 27th . He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
• Eighteen British soldiers are murdered at Warrenpoint, South Down.
• 23 people die in Nice, France, when the coastal town is hit by a tsunami.
• The Sandinista National Liberation Front overthrow the regime in the central American republic of Nicaragua.
• China institutes the one child per family rule to help control it's exploding population.
• The worlds first anthrax epidemic begins in Ekaterinburg, Russia following a biological weapons plant accident.
• "American Airlines Flight 191" crashed and exploded in a field near O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
• The price of oil reaches a new record of $24 per barrel.
• The British Conservative MP Airey Neave is killed by a car bomb.
• Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed.
• USSR Invades Afghanistan.
• Margaret Thatcher elected on May 3rd as the Prime minister in UK.
• Severe Atlantic Storm hits Fastnet International Yacht Race and a number of boats and crew are lost.
• Following the Burgess, Mclean, Philby and Sir Anthony Blunt Spy Scandal he is stripped of his knighthood.
• The European Space Agency launches Ariane 1.

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

• Snowboard USA by Daniel E Chadwick
• First Commercial Cellular Network NTT
• The Sony Walkman Introduced Sony
• VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program.
• Sony introduces the Sony Walkman costing $200.00