Years 1970-1979

Events and photos of Years 1970-1979 ( View the year: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 )

1970

Egyptian President Nasser dies and is replaced by Anwar el-Sadat

1970

The Beatles break up. By the end of the year, each member had released a solo album

1970

Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both die drug-related deaths at age 27

1970 May 1

US troops invade Cambodia

1970 May 31

Earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Peru

1970

Turkey, 1.086 deads - magnitudo 7,4

1970

China, Tonghai, Yunnan - 10.000 deads - magnitudo 7,7

31 May 1970

Peru, Chimbote- 66.000 deads (7,9 Richter)

1970

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Luis F. Leloir, per la scoperta dei nucleotidi zuccherini ed il loro ruolo nella biosintesi dei carboidrati

1970

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Julius Axelrod, Ulf Von Euler, Bernard Katz

1970

Nobel Prizes Peace: Norman Borlaug

1970

Nobel Prizes Economy: Paul A Samuelson

1970

Nobel Prizes Literature: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

1970

Nobel Prizes Physics: Hannes Alfvén, Louis Neel

1970

Baseball World Series: Baltimore Orioles (AL) 4-1 Cincinnati Reds (NL)

1970

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: Brazil d. Italy (4-1) in Mexico

1970

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Feyenoord (Netherlands)

1970

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Rod Laver d. J. Newcombe (6-4 5-7 6-4 6-4)

1970

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: New York d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-3)

1970

Football IV Super Bowl: Kansas City d. Minnesota Vikings (23-7)

1970

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Ann Jones d. B.J.King (3-6 6-3 6-2)

1971

Intel introduces the microprocessor

1971

Mariner IX, orbitting Mars, takes revealing pictures of the planet's surface

1971 April 14

Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China

1971 April 6

Mao Zedong invites the US ping-pong team to visit Beijing

1971 January 25

A military junta led by Major General Idi Amin siezes power in Uganda

1971 October 27

President Mobutu renames the Democratic Republic of Congo, establishing Zaire

1971

USA, Valle di San Fernando California - 65 deads - magnitudo 6,6

1971

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Gerhard Herzberg, per il suo contributo alla conoscenza della struttura elettronica e la geometria delle molecole, specificamente per i radicali liberi

1971

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Earl W. Jr. Sutherland

1971

Nobel Prizes Peace: Willy Brandt

1971

Nobel Prizes Economy: Simon Kuznets

1971

Nobel Prizes Physics: Dennis Gabor

1971

Nobel Prizes Literature: Pablo Neruda

1971

Tennis Wimbledon Men: John Newcombe d. S. Smith (6-3 5-7 2-6 6-4 6-4)

1971

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Evonne Goolagong d. M.Court (6-4 6-1)

1971

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Milwaukee Bucks d. Baltimore Bullets (4-0)

1971

Baseball World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates (NL) 4-3 Baltimore Orioles (AL)

1971

Football V Super Bowl: Baltimore d. Dallas Cowboys (16-13)

1971

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AFC Ajax (Netherlands)

17 February 1972

President Nixon makes unprecedented eight-day visit to Communist China and meets with Mao Zedong

1972

The antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) is developed by Bryan B. Malloy (Scotland) and Klaus K. Schmiegel (US)

1972

Electronic mail is introduced. Queen Elizabeth will send her first email in 1976

1972

The compact disk is developed by RCA (US)

1972

CAT (Computerized Axial Tomography) scanning is developed in England

1972

Apollo XVII, the last manned moon landing to date, returns to Earth with 250 pounds of lunar samples

24 March 1972

UK takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland in bid for peace

29 June 1972

US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is unconstitutional

5 September 1972

Eleven Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invades Olympic Village; five guerrillas and one policeman are also killed

10 April 1972

Iran, Teheran 5.000 deads (7 Richter)

23 December 1972

Nicaragua, Managua 10.000 deads (6,2 Richter)

1972

Nobel Prizes Economy: Kenneth J. Arrow, John R. Hicks

1972

Nobel Prizes Peace: not assigned

1972

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter

1972

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Christian B. Anfinsen, per il suo lavoro sulla ribonucleasi, specificamente per le interconnessioni esistenti tra la sequenza di aminoacidi e le conformazioni aventi attivitÓ biologiche)

1972

Nobel Prizes Physics: John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, J. Robert Schrieffer

1972

Nobel Prizes Literature: Heinrich Böll

1972

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Stanford Moore, William H. Stein, per il loro contributo alla comprensione della connessione esistente tra una struttura chimica e l'attivitÓ catalitica della molecola ribonucleica

1972

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Stan Smith d. I. Nastase (4-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 7-5)

1972

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Billie Jean King d. E.Goolagong (6-3 6-3)

1972

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XI: Sapporo, Japan

1972

Baseball World Series: Oakland Athletics (AL) 4-3 Cincinnati Reds (NL)

1972

Football VI Super Bowl: Dallas Cowboys d. Miami Dolphins (24-3)

1972

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers d. New York (4-1)

1972

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XX: Munich (Germany)

1972

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AFC Ajax (Netherlands)

1973

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and in 1983 it becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet

1973

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hikes oil prices tremendously in retaliation for Western countries' involvement in Yom Kippur War

1973

Nixon, on national TV, accepts responsibility, but not blame, for Watergate

1973

At the 1972 Academy Awards, Sacheen Littlefeather stands in for Marlon Brando and refuses his Best Actor Oscar for his role in The Godfather, to protest the USA government's treatment of Native Americans

1973 August 15

US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia

1973 January 1

UK, Ireland, and Denmark enter European Economic Community

1973 January 28

A ceasefire is signed, ending involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War

1973 May 14

Skylab, the first American space station, is launched

1973 October 6

Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur, holiest day in their calendar. Egypt and Israel sign US-sponsored cease-fire accord (November 11)

1973 September 11

Chile's Marxist president, Salvadore Allende, is overthrown; Gen. Augusto Pinochet takes power

1973

Nobel Prizes Physics: Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson

1973

Nobel Prizes Economy: Wassily Leontief

1973

Nobel Prizes Peace: Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho

1973

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen

1973

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson, per il loro lavoro pionieristico, effettuato indipendentemente l'uno dall'altro, nel campo della chimica metallorganica, sui composti a sandwich

1973

Nobel Prizes Literature: Patrick White

1973

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: New York d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-1)

1973

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AFC Ajax (Netherlands)

1973

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Billie Jean King d. C.Evert (6-0 7-5)

1973

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Jan Kodes d. A. Metreveli (6-1 9-8 6-3)

1973

Baseball World Series: Oakland Athletics (AL) 4-3 New York Mets (NL)

1973

Football VII Super Bowl: Miami Dolphins d. Washington Redskins(14-7)

12 September 1974

Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed. A collective military dictatorship assumes power

18 May 1974

India successfully tests an atomic device, becoming the world's sixth nuclear power

1974

People magazine debuts, with Mia Farrow gracing the cover

1974

Premier Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects and joins the American Ballet Theatre

1974

Nixon and Brezhnev meet in Moscow to discuss arms limitation agreements

1974 March 18

OPEC ends the oil embargo begun in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War

25 April 1974

Leftist revolution ends almost 50 years of dictatorial rule in Portugal

5 February 1974

Patricia Hearst, 19 year old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army

8 August 1974

Richard M. Nixon announces he will resign the next day, the first President to do so

9 August 1974

Vice President Gerald R. Ford of Michigan is sworn in as 38th President of the US

1969-1974

Richard Nixon (January 09, 1913 -April 22, 1994). 37° President , Repubblican

1974-1977

Gerald Ford (July 14, 1913 -December 26, 2006). 38° President , Repubblican

1974

China, 20.000 deads

1974

Pakistan, 9 Cities - 5.200 deads - magnitudo 6,3

1974

Nobel Prizes Economy: Friedrich von Hayek, Gunnar Myrdal

1974

Nobel Prizes Physics: Antony Hewish, Martin Ryle

1974

Nobel Prizes Literature: Johnson e Martinson

1974

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Albert Claude, Christian De Duve, George E. Palade

1974

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Paul J. Flory

1974

Nobel Prizes Peace: Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato

1974

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Chris Evert d. O. Morozova (6-0 6-4)

1974

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: FC Bayern Munich (West Germany)

1974

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Milwaukee Bucks (4-3)

1974

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Jimmy Connors d. K. Rosewall (6-1 6-1 6-4)

1974

Baseball World Series: Oakland Athletics (AL) 4-1 Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)

1974

Football VIII Super Bowl: Miami Dolphins d. Minnesota Vikings (24-7)

1974

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: W. Germany d. Holland (2-1) in West Germany

15 July 1975

Apollo spacecraft and Soyuz spacecraft take off for US-Soviet link-up in space

15 May 1975

American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by US Navy and Marines, 38 of whom are killed

1975

Home videotape systems (VCRs) are developed in Japan by Sony (Betamax) and Matsushita (VHS)

1975

The Altair home computer kit allows consumers to build and program their own personal computers

1975 April

Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia

22 September 1975

President Ford escapes second assassination attempt in 17 days

30 April 1975

The city of Saigon is surrendered and remaining Americans are evacuated, ending the Vietnam War

5 September 1975

President Ford escapes assassination attempt in Sacramento, Calif.

04 February 1975

China, Anshan - 7,3

06 September 1975

Turkey, Lice - 6,8 - 2.300 deads - magnitudo 6,8

1975

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: John Warcup Cornforth

1975

Nobel Prizes Economy: Leonid Vitalevic Kantorovic, Tjalling C. Koopmans

1975

Nobel Prizes Physics: Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Mottelson, James Rainwater

1975

Nobel Prizes Literature: Eugenio Montale

1975

Nobel Prizes Peace: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

1975

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin

1975

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Vladimir Prelog, per le sue ricerche sulla stereochimica delle molecole organiche e delle loro reazioni

1975

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Arthur Ashe d. J. Connors (6-1 6-1 5-7 6-4)

1975

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Billie Jean King d. E. Cawley (6-0 6-1)

1975

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Golden St. d. Washington Bullets (4-0)

1975

Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds (NL) 4-3 Boston Red Sox (AL)

1975

Football XIX Super Bowl: Pittsburgh Steelers d. Minnesota Vikings (16-6)

1975

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: FC Bayern Munich (West Germany)

1976

Richard Leakey discovers a 1.5 million year old Homo erectus skull in Kenya

1976

Viking I lands on Mars

1976

Air France and British Airways begin the first regularly scheduled commercial supersonic transport (SST) flights

2 April 1976

Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot becomes prime minister (and virtual dictator) of Cambodia after Prince Sihanouk steps down

2 November 1976

Jimmy Carter elected US President

3 July 1976

US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment

4 July 1976

Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers of Air France plane; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers killed in raid

6 May 1976

Earthquake Friuli

04 February 1976

Guatemala, Città del Guatemala 23.000 deads - magnitudo 7,5

06 May 1976

Italy, Friuli 1.000 deads, magnitudo 6.5

1976

Filippines, Mindanao - 8.000 deads - magnitudo 7,8

1976

Nuova Guinea, Irian Jaya - 443 deads - magnitudo 7,1

24 November 1976

Turkey, Van 5.000 deads, magnitudo 7.8

28 July 1976

China, Tangshan, un bilancio terrificante: 250.000 deads secondo le autorità, oltre 500.000 secondo altre fonti, a Tangshan - magnitudo 8,2

1976

Nobel Prizes Economy: Milton Friedman

1976

Nobel Prizes Peace: Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams

1976

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek

1976

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: William N. Lipscomb, per i suoi studi sulla struttura dei borani, chiarendone la natura dei legami chimici

1976

Nobel Prizes Physics: Burton Richter, Samuel C. C. Ting

1976

Nobel Prizes Literature: Saul Bellow

1976

Football XX Super Bowl: Pittsburgh Steelers d. Dallas Cowboys (21-17)

1976

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: FC Bayern Munich (West Germany)

1976

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Chris Evert d. E. Cawley (6-3 4-6 8-6)

1976

Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds (NL) 4-0 New York Yankees (AL)

1976

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XII: Innsbruck, Austria

1976

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Phoenix (4-2)

1976

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XXI: Montreal (Canada)

1976

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Bjorn Borg d. I. Nastase (6-4 6-2 9-7)

1977

Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, is signed by 15 countries, including US and USSR (September 21

1977

Star Wars hits theaters,for the first time,and will go on to be the second highest-grossing film of all time

1977

Deng Xiaoping, purged Chinese leader, restored to power as Gang of Four is expelled from Communist Party (July 22)

1977

The neutron bomb is developed

1977

Elvis Presley dies at Graceland, his Memphis, Tennessee home. He was 42

1977

First woman Episcopal priest ordained (January 1

1974-1977

Gerald Ford (July 14, 1913 -December 26, 2006). 38° President , Repubblican

1977-1981

Jimmy Carter (October 01, 1924). 39° President , Democratic

1977

Indonesia, 200 deads - magnitudo 8

1977

Romania, Bucarest e altre zone - 1.541 deads - magnitudo 7,5

1977

Argentina, 100 deads - magnitudo 8,2

1977

Nobel Prizes Economy: James E Meade, Bertil Ohlin

1977

Nobel Prizes Peace: Amnesty International

1977

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow

1977

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Ilya Prigogine, per il suo contributo alla termodinamica di non equilibrio, specificamente per lo sviluppo della teoria dissipativa delle strutture

1977

Nobel Prizes Physics: Philip W. Anderson, Nevill F. Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck

1977

Nobel Prizes Literature: Vicente Aleixandre

1977

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-2 Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)

1977

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Liverpool (England)

1977

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Bjorn Borg d. J. Connors (3-6 6-2 6-1 5-7 6-4)

1977

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Portland Trail Blazers d. Philadelphia 76ers (4-2)

1977

Football XXI Super Bowl: Oakland d. Minnesota Vikings (32-14)

1977

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Virginia Wade d. B. Stove (4-6 6-3 6-1)

16 March 1978

US Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty ; votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000 (April 18)

16 October 1978

succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II

17 September 1978

'Framework for Peace' in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Jimmy Carter

18 November 1978

Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana

1978

A fusion reaction in a reactor at Princeton reaches 60 million degrees Fahrenheit for 1/20 of a second

1978

Sony introduces the Walkman, the first portable stereo

28 September 1978

new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office

6 August 1978

Pope Paul VI, dead at 80, mourned

9 May 1978

Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain

1978

Iran, Tabas 25.000 deads - magnitudo 7,7

1978

Japan, Sendai - 21 deads - magnitudo 7,5

1978

Nobel Prizes Physics: Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno A. Penzias, Robert W. Wilson$

1978

Nobel Prizes Economy: Herbert A. Simon

1978

Nobel Prizes Peace: Menachem Begin, Mohamed Anwar El Sadat

1978

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith

1978

Nobel Prizes Literature: Isaac Bashevis Singer

1978

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Peter D. Mitchell, per la sua formulazione della teoria chemiosmotica

1978

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Liverpool (England)

1978

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Washington Bullets d. Seattle (4-3)

1978

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert (2-6 6-4 7-5)

1978

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Bjorn Borg d. J. Connors (6-2 6-2 6-3)

1978

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-2 Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)

1978

Football XXII Super Bowl: Dallas Cowboys d. Denver Broncos (27-10)

1978

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: Argentina d. Holland (3-1) in Argentina

14 June 1979

Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement

16 January 1979

Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil; revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (February 1 et seq.)

27 December 1979

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests

28 March 1979

An overheated reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania threatens to melt down. It does not, but 144,000 residents of nearby Middletown are evacuated

3 May 1979

Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister

4 November 1979

Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages

7 January 1979

Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime

1979

Colombia,Ecuador, - 800 deads - magnitudo 7,9

1979

Indonesia, 100 deads - magnitudo 8,1

1979

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Alan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield

1979

Nobel Prizes Peace: Madre Teresa di Calcutta

1979

Nobel Prizes Economy: Arthur Lewis, Theodore W. Schultz

1979

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig, per lo sviluppo dell'uso del boranio e dei composti contenenti fosforo, in importanti reagenti di sintesi organica

1979

Nobel Prizes Physics: Sheldon L. Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg

1979

Nobel Prizes Literature: Odysseus Elytis

1979

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Bjorn Borg d. R. Tanner (6-7 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-4)

1979

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (6-4 6-4)

1979

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Seattle d. Washington Bullets (4-1)

1979

Baseball World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates (NL) 4-3 Baltimore Orioles (AL)

1979

Football XXIII Super Bowl: Pittsburgh Steelers d. Dallas Cowboys (35-31)

1979

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Nottingham Forest (England)