The 1970s
The 1970s, known as the Me Decade, is a historical period in modern times, including the years from 1970 until 1979. Part of the 20th century, they follow the 1960s and precede the 1980s.
Timeline[]
1970[]
Captain Willard goes up the river to look for Col. Kurtz in Cambodia. [10]
Four Atlanta businessmen encounter troublesome locals on a canoe trip through the Georgia wilderness.
The Hanso Foundation launches the DHARMA Initiative.
May 1: U.S. invasion of Cambodia
May 4: Four dead at Kent State, Ohio.
September 18: Death of Jimi Hendrix (b. 1942)
Simon Morley transported back to New York City, 1882.
December 31: Surviving Beatles break up
1971[]
February 2: Idi Amin becomes president for life of Uganda; deposed in 1979, but keeps living until 2003.
March 21-23: Hunter S. Thompson and his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, find fear and loathing in Las Vegas.
July 3: Singer Jim Morrison fakes his own death in Paris, retires to Africa. His empty grave nevertheless becomes a top tourist attraction.
Detective John Shaft battles the Mob in Harlem.
October: The first est seminar is held--San Francisco.
November 24: D.B. Cooper leaps from a 727 with a parachute and $200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again.
December 31: Capsizing of the S.S. Poseidon.
1972[]
January 2: Killer clown John Wayne Gacy (1942-1994) begins burying boys in his basement.
Col. Steve Austin, astronaut, is rebuilt better, stronger, faster by the Office of Scientific Intelligence.
February 21: Nixon goes to China.
June 17: Nixon aides break into Democratic Party offices at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigate. Deep Throat.
July: Jane Fonda goes to North Vietnam.
Youngblood Priest, aka Superfly, tries to quit the cocaine business.
Reporter Carl Kolchak investigates the Night Stalker case--Las Vegas
1973[]
October 6-25: Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
Terrorist The Jackal tries to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle of France.
Energy Crisis sparked by Arab oil embargo
September 11: CIA overthrows President Salvador Allende of Chile
Cornelius and Zira, intelligent chimpanzees from the future, land near Southern California.
1974[]
Cannibal hicks attack teenage tourists in Texas; chainsaws are used by a particularly disturbed hick known as Leatherface.
George Smiley uncovers a mole in British intelligence
February 4: Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. By April 15, she was robbing a bank with them.
May 8: Triffids have their day.
July 29: Mama Cass dies while eating a ham sandwich.
August 9: Nixon resigns.
September 8: Daredevil Evel Knievel (b. 1938) fails to jump the Snake River Canyon.
1975[]
April 4: Bill Gates founds Microsoft--Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 30: The U.S. evacuates the Saigon embassy.
April 17: Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, declare Year Zero in Kampuchea.
May 1: Elizabeth Clare Prophet forms the Church Universal and Triumphant--Santa Barbara, California
May 12: Khmer Rouge forces capture the U.S.S. Mayaguez; a rescue mission three days later will cost 38 American lives.
Serial killer Hannibal Lecter caught by the FBI, committed to an asylum.
June 26: Two FBI agents and one Native American activist are killed in a shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
July 30: Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa (b. 1913) disappears outside of Detroit.
September 18: Hostage-turned-militant Patty Hearst is captured by authorities--San Francisco
October 11: George Carlin hosts the first Saturday Night Live.
September 30: Jack Torrance begins his job as the winter caretaker at Colorado's Overlook Hotel, bringing his wife Wendy and son Danny.
November 10: The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald--Lake Superior
November 20: Francisco Franco dies.
December 2: REDRUM at the Overlook Hotel.
December 19: A young family moves into a house in Amityville, N.Y. and flees strange happenings 19 days later.
1976[]
Jamie Sommers becomes the Bionic Woman.
Taxi driver Travis Bickle cleans the trash off the sidewalk.
UBS anchor Howard Beale declares he's mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
Unknown fighter Rocky Balboa gets a shot at heavyweight champion Apollo Creed.
July 4: U.S. celebrates Bicentennial.
July 29: Son of Sam begins a series of murders in New York City that end in 1977.
November 2: Jimmy Carter elected president.
1977[]
A UFO mother ship appears near Devil's Tower, Wyoming.
August 16: Elvis Presley (b. 1935) fakes death, goes into not-very-successful hiding.
1978[]
Mr. Roarke, assisted by Tattoo, establishes Fantasy Island in the Pacific Ocean
October 12: Sid Vicious stabs Nancy Spungen to death at the Chelsea Hotel--New York City.
October 31: Michael Meyers returns home for Halloween
November 18: Followers of Jim Jones drink the Kool-Aid in the Jonestown Massacre.
1979[]
February 7: Nazi scientist Josef Mengele (b. 1911) dies in Brazil.
March 28: Three Mile Island melts down--Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
June: Jerry Falwell founds Moral Majority--Lynchburg, Virginia.
Jason Voorhees (1946-1958) emerges from Crystal Lake to begin a reign of terror.
November 4: Iranian students, inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini, take 52 hostages at the U.S. embassy.
External Link[]
Wikipedia: 1970s