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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 ...
1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak, the second-largest series of tornadoes in history (at 148), hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province; 315 people are killed and more than 5,000 are injured. 1974 – Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth 's home run record by hitting his 715th career home run.
May 9 – In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon makes an impromptu visit to the Lincoln Memorial to meet with protestors. May 10 – The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr scores a goal 40 seconds into overtime for a 4–3 victory which completes a four-game sweep ...
The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "' 70s") was a 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 ...
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1970s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Amidst the bell bottoms, funky prints, and free-spirited natures of the 1970s, a crop of baby names saw their height of fame. Today, these girl and boy names are seen as “classic ...
1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M. Howard: 1908 1976 United States: founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership: Winifred C. Stanley: 1909 1996 United States: First member of Congress to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination in pay on the basis of sex: Pauli Murray: 1910 1985 United States
None of the top 10 1970s baby girl names overlapped with the top 10 list of names 50 years prior. In fact, there are only two baby girl names that made the top 25 baby girl names in both the 1920s ...