The 70's

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  • First Earth Day

    First Earth Day
    Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the City of Saint Francis, patron saint of ecology. Earth Day was first observed in San Francisco and other cities on March 21, 1970, the first day of Spring.

  • VCRs introduced

    VCRs introduced
    The videocassette recorder (or VCR, also known as the video recorder), is a type of electro-mechanical device that uses removable videocassettes that contain magnetic tape for recording analog audio and analog video from broadcast television so that the images and sound can be played back at a more convenient time. This facility afforded by a VCR machine is commonly referred to as television program Timeshifting. Most domestic VCRs are equipped with a television broadcast receiver (tuner) for TV

  • HBO

    HBO
    HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network, owned by Time Warner, under the operating subsidiary Home Box Office Inc. As of January 2012[update], HBO's programming reaches 29 million subscribers in the United States,[1] making it the second largest premium network in the United States (Encore's programming reaches 33.2 million subscribers as of March 2012[update]).[2] In addition to its U.S. subscriber base, HBO also broadcasts in at least 151 countries worldwide.

  • European Economic Community

    European Economic Community
    Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, the EU.

  • India

    India
    India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.Indian Army conducted the first nuclear weapon explosion by the country.

  • Francisco Franco death

    Francisco Franco death
    as a Spanish general, dictator and the leader of the Nationalist military rebellion in the Spanish Civil War, and totalitarian head of state of Spain, from October 1936 (as a unified nation from 1939 onwards) until his death in November 1975. He came to power while recognizing the principles of the far-right Falange movement, although this was for propaganda

  • The Viking 2

    The Viking 2
    NASA's Viking 2 was a joint orbiter-lander mission that saw the second U.S. landing on Mars on Sept. 3, 1976. Viking 2's lander touched the Red Planet just weeks after its sibling, Viking 1.

  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter was elected as the 39th President in the Untied States of the America

  • Egypt's president Anwar Sadat

    Egypt's president Anwar Sadat
    Egypt's president Anwar Sadat and Israeli premier Menachem Begin sign a "Framework for Peace" after meeting for 13 days with Jimmy Carter at Camp David. Later they win the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania
    At Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, a nuclear power plant comes close to melting down and releases some radiation into the atmosphere.