T/TAS 40th Anniversary  - History-Making Headlines from The 70's

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1970
Aswan High Dam Completed
Beatles Break Up
Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
Kent State Shootings

1971
London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency
VCRs Introduced

1972
M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers
Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
Pocket Calculators Introduced
Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
Watergate Scandal Begins

1973
Roe vs Wade Legalizes Abortion in the U.S.
Paul Getty Kidnapped
Sears Tower Built
U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
U.S. Vice President Resigns

1974
Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed
Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
Terracotta Army Discovered in China
U.S. President Nixon Resigns

1975
Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
Cambodian Genocide Begins
Civil War in Lebanon
Microsoft Founded
Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia

1976
First Ebola Virus Outbreaks Strike Sudan and Zaire
Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens
North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000

1977
Elvis Found Dead
Miniseries Roots Airs
South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death
Star Wars Movie Released

1978
First Test-Tube Baby Born
John Paul II Becomes Pope
Jonestown Massacre

1979
Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran
Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
Mother Teresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
Sony Introduces the Walkman

(Source: http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/1970timeline.htm)

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