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1970 – Singer Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1970 – The Environmental Protection Agency is created. 1970 – The Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, is signed into law. 1971 – Singer Jim Morrison dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1971 – President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard ...
BGEN Anna Mae Hays, circa 1970. June 6 – A D-Day celebration is held in Washington, D.C., on the 26th anniversary of the event. June 11 – The United States gets its first female generals: Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington. June 21 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, the largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
1970 Dodge Challenger Trans Am, an example of a muscle car in the earlier part of the decade. The 1970s was an era of fuel price increases, rising insurance rates, safety concerns, and emissions controls. The 1973 oil crisis caused a move towards smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles. Attempts were made to produce electric cars, but they were ...
1970 ( MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.
The birth of modern computing was in the 1970s. The world's first general microprocessor, the Intel 4004, came out in November 1971. The C programming language was developed early in the decade and the Unix operating system was rewritten into it in 1973. With "large-scale integration" possible for integrated circuits (microchips) rudimentary ...
May 1970 Firebombing 0 0 Fresno, California: In reaction to the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, Kent State shootings, and Jackson State killings, a Fresno State College computer center is destroyed by a firebomb. While reaction to these three events was massive, most were peaceful. [23] Left-wing student radicals 70 August 24, 1970 Bombing 1 3
Reagan Era. The history of the United States from 1964 to 1980 includes the climax and end of the Civil Rights Movement; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.
The 1970s were a low point in the city's modern history, and one of the lowest moments came when the New York Daily News reported the President's refusal to bail out the nation's largest city; he later relented. The opening of the mammoth World Trade Center complex in 1972, however, was one of the few high points of the city's history at that time.