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1970 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... American politician and the first female mayor in Missouri history (b. 1887) November
June 22 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970, a measure lowering the voting age to 18. June 23 – Kelly's Heroes is released in the US. June 24 – The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. June 28 U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia. First pride parade in history ...
The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "' 70s") was the decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals [ 1 ] that ...
Here's what 40 celebrities who have been household names for 50+ years look like today versus in the 1970s—from iconic performers, like Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross, to acting legends, like ...
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
1970s mortgage rate trends The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage started the decade at about 7.5 percent in 1971 (the earliest year for which data is available), according to Freddie Mac.
May 31, 1970: Earthquake in Peru kills more than 65,000 people, buries 16,000 people alive in Yungay (pictured above) May 24, 1970: Soviet Union begins digging a hole 12 kilometers into the Earth May 4, 1970: Four college students killed, nine wounded, by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The following events occurred in May 1970:
Cinema in the 1970s was marked by experimentation. The Post's Ann Hornaday revisits the decade through the lens of "Love Story," a surprise No. 1 film, 50 years later.