1970s facts for kids
Error: No valid link was found at the end of line 6.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Years: | 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 1970s was the decade that started on January 1 1970, and ended on December 31 1979.
Events
- Throughout the decade: decolonization continued: Angola, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Oman, the Bahamas, and many other countries gained independence.
- 1970, December 15 – spaceship Venera 7 lands on Venus
- 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- December 16 – Partition of Pakistan of East and West Pakistans into Bangladesh and Pakistan
- 1972, March 2 – Pioneer 10 is launched (sent into space). It becomes the first spaceship to fly near Jupiter and the asteroid belt.
- 1972 – Munich massacre
- 1973, April 6 – Pioneer 11 is launched. It becomes the first the first spaceship to fly near Saturn.
- 1974 – August 9 Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States due to the Watergate scandal.
- 1973 – 1973 Arab-Israeli War
- 1975 – end of the Vietnam War
- 1975 – communists take power in Cambodia
- 1976, July 20 – spaceship Viking 1 lands on Mars
- 1977, August 20 – Voyager 2 is launched. It becomes the first spaceship to fly near Uranus and Neptune.
- 1977, September 5 – Voyager 1 is launched. It is now the farthest spaceship from the Earth.
- 1977: The last cases of smallpox of the world.
- 1978 – year with three popes
- 1978, October 1 – Vietnam invades Cambodia
- 1979 – the World Health Organization says it has eliminated smallpox
People
- ABBA, Swedish band
- Sex Pistols, British punk band
- The Clash, British punk band
- The Ramones, American punk band
- Boney M, disco group
- John Travolta, American actor
- Edward Heath, Prime Minister of United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974
- Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of United Kingdom from 1974 to 1976
- James Callaghan, Prime Minister of United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979
- Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of United Kingdom beginning 1979
- Fidel Castro, Cuban leader
- Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile
- Willy Brandt, German chancellor until 1974
- Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union beginning in 1964
- Jimmy Carter, President of the United States beginning in 1977
- Cher, American singer
- Elizabeth II, British queen since 1952
- Gerald Ford, President of the United States until 1977
- Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel until 1977
- Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India until 1977
- Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel until 1974
- Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader
- Germaine Greer, Australian feminist
- Hirohito, emperor of Japan
- Pope John Paul I, pope only in the year 1978
- Pope John Paul II, pope 1978–2005
- Norman Lear, American TV producer
- Pete Maravich, United States basketball player
- Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain until 1975
- Deng Xiaoping, leader in China beginning in 1978
- Mao Zedong, leader in China until 1976
- Richard Nixon, President of the United States until 1974
- Pope Paul VI, pope until 1978
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran until 1979
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Juan Perón, President of Argentina until 1974
- Jorge Rafael Videla, dictator of Argentina beginning 1976
- Muammar al-Gaddafi, dictator Libyan
- Pelé, Brazilian football player
- Pol Pot, prime minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979
- Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt beginning in 1970
- Helmut Schmidt, German chancellor beginning in 1974
- Georges Pompidou, president of France from 1969 to 1974
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France beginning in 1974
- Gloria Steinem, American feminist
- Pierre Trudeau, Canadian prime minister until 1979
- Elvis Presley, American singer
Images for kids
-
The Vietnam War (1955–1975)
-
Haile Selassie was overthrown from power in Ethiopia, ending one of the longest-lasting monarchies in world history.
-
Nixon displays the V-for-victory sign as he departs the White House after resigning
-
United States President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna, Austria.
-
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat shake hands, Camp David, 1978
-
Line at a gas station in Maryland, June 15, 1979.
-
Concorde landing at Farnborough in September 1974
-
Isabel Martínez de Perón becomes the first woman President of Argentina in 1974 and the first woman non-monarch head of state in the Western hemisphere.
-
Anti-war protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. on April 24, 1971.
-
A Women's Liberation march in Washington, D.C., 1970
-
The British rock band Led Zeppelin was one of the most popular and influential bands of the 1970s. The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal.
-
Bruce Lee fostered the popularity of martial arts cinema
-
Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson from Sanford and Son
-
Pong (1972)
-
Microvision (1979) is the very first handheld game console that used interchangeable cartridges.
-
The CN Tower was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure.
-
Apollo 17 Astronaut Gene Cernan becomes the last man on the Moon, December 13, 1972
-
An artist impression of an American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docking, a propaganda portrait for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project mission
-
America's first space station Skylab in orbit February 8, 1974
-
Viking 1, the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars, takes this picture of the landing site in Chryse Planitia (1978)
-
Voyager 1 passing by Jupiter's Great Red Spot February 25, 1979
-
The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced.
-
8-inch floppy disk
-
A Philips N1500 video cassette recorder, with wooden cabinet.
-
Atari 2600, launched in 1977.
-
Sony Walkman, the original TPS-L2 model.
-
1970 Dodge Challenger Trans Am, example of muscle cars in the earlier part of the decade.
-
Honda Civic sold well throughout the decade.
-
1973 Volvo sportwagon.
-
Bell-bottomed pants were especially popular throughout the decade
-
The Farrah Fawcett hairstyle was considered particularly fashionable during the decade
-
Lava lamps were especially popular during the decade
-
Pink Floyd, 1973
-
Queen, 1977
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
