1970s
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Decades:
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1970s -
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Years:
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979\n----\n
Events and trends
Computers, technology
\n* Pocket calculators make the slide rule obsolete.\n* Home computer revolution starts\n* Unix created along with C programming language\n* Microsoft is founded (1975)
Science
\n* Viking missions to Mars\n* Voyager spacecraft explore the outer solar system\n* Theory of quantum chromodynamics postulated to describe the strong interaction, one of the four fundamental forces of nature
War, peace and politics
\n* fear of Nuclear war\n* The United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark join Common Market in 1973. \n* Watergate break-in, cover-up, and scandal, leading to U.S president Richard Nixon's resignation\n* Widespread strikess and industrial unrest in the United Kingdom throughout decade. \n* Margaret Thatcher elected Britain's first female prime minister.\n* Democracy established in Spain after death of dictator Francisco Franco who ruled for 40 years.\n* Democracy established in Portugal after dictatorship overthrown in military coup.\n* US backed coup in Chile topples government of Salvador Allende. Is replaced by Augusto Pinochet. \n* Elected government in Pakistan replaced by Martial Law.\n* Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia results in 2.5 million deaths.\n* USSR begins disastrous military campaign in Afghanistan. \n* Iranian revolution and hostage situation\n* end of Vietnam War\n* Indonesia invades East Timor and follows it with a long occupation.\n* Raise of environmental awareness and green movements, peace movement and women's liberation in Europe and the USA
Economics
\n* high inflation\n* high unemployment\n* OPEC oil embargo
Culture
\n* Disco, Punk rock, Gothic rock music\n* Star Wars\n* An age of superstars and idols in sports, music, literature and film.\n* Jamaican reggae music begins to gain an international audience, while dub music influences African Americans in New York City, leading to the development of hip hop
Others
\n* Indonesian Archaeological Service and UNESCO restore Borobodur
World leaders
\n* Prime Minister of New Zealand: - 1960-1972\nHis Excellency, The Right Honourable, Sir Keith Holyoake\n* Prime Minister of New Zealand: - 1972-1972\nHis Excellency, The Right Honourable, John Ross Marshall\n* Prime Minister of New Zealand: - 1972-1974\nHis Excellency, The Right Honourable, Norman Eric Kirk\n* Prime Minister of New Zealand: - 1974-1975\nHis Excellency, The Right Honourable, Wallace Rowling\n* Prime Minister of New Zealand: - 1975-1984\nHis Excellency, The Right Honourable, Sir Robert Muldoon\n* Gough Whitlam (Australia)\n* Pierre Trudeau (Canada)\n* Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China)\n* Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China)\n* President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan)\n* President C. K. Yen (Republic of China on Taiwan)\n* President Anwar Sadat (Egypt)\n* President Georges Pompidou (France)\n* President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (France)\n* Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (India)\n* President Suharto (Indonesia)\n* President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (Iraq)\n* Prime Minister Golda Meir (Israel)\n* Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)\n* Prime Minister Menachem Begin (Israel)\n* Emperor Hirohito (Japan)\n* Pope Paul VI\n* Pope John Paul I\n* Pope John Paul II\n* Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark (Northern Ireland) \n* Prime Minister Brian Faulkner (Northern Ireland) \n* President Erskine Hamilton Childers (Ireland)\n* President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (Ireland)\n* President Patrick Hillery (Ireland)\n* Taoiseach Jack Lynch (Republic of Ireland)\n* Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave (Republic of Ireland)\n* Taoiseach Charles Haughey (Republic of Ireland)\n* Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Pakistan)\n* Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore)\n* Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet Union)\n* Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)\n* Prime Minister Edward Heath (United Kingdom)\n* Prime Minister Harold Wilson (United Kingdom)\n* Prime Minister James Callaghan (United Kingdom)\n* President Richard Nixon (United States)\n* President Gerald Ford (United States)\n* President Jimmy Carter (United States)\n* Chancellor Willy Brandt (West Germany)\n* Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (West Germany)\n* President Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)
Sports figures
\n* Henry Aaron\n* Muhammad Ali (U.S. boxer)\n* Rick Barry\n* Franz Beckenbauer (West German soccer player)\n* Wilfred Benitez\n* George Best (Northern Irish soccer player)\n* Larry Bird\n* Bjorn Borg (Swedish tennis player)\n* Terry Bradshaw\n* Rod Carew\n* Nadia Comaneci (Romanian gymnast)\n* Jimmy Connors (U.S. tennis player)\n* Roberto Duran (Panamanian boxer)\n* Gareth Edwards (Welsh rugby player)\n* Julius Erving\n* George Foreman (U.S. boxer)\n* Joe Frazier (U.S. boxer)\n* Wilfredo Gómez\n* Bobby Hull\n* Kareem Abdul Jabbar (U.S. basketball player)\n* Reggie Jackson\n* Barry John (Welsh rugby player)\n* Billie Jean King (U.S. tennis player)\n* Olga Korbut (Russian gymnast)\n* Guy Lafleur\n* Niki Lauda (Austrian racing driver)\n* Clive Lloyd (Guyanan cricketerer)\n* Pete Maravich\n* Willie Mays (U.S. baseball player)\n* Eddie Merckx (Belgian cyclist)\n* Carlos Monzon\n* Gerd Müller (West German soccer player)\n* Joe Namath (U.S. American football player)\n* Jack Nicklaus (U.S. golfer)\n* Jim Palmer\n* Pelé (Brazilian soccer player)\n* Richard Petty\n* Pete Rose\n* Secretariat\n* Barry Sheene (English motorcycle racer)\n* O.J. Simpson (U.S. American football player)\n* Mark Spitz (U.S. swimmer)\n* Roger Staubach\n* Bill Walton
Entertainers
\n* Alan Alda\n* David Cassidy\n* Gary Coleman\n* Richard Dreyfuss\n* Harrison Ford\n* Redd Foxx\n* Louis de Funes\n* Serge Gainsbourg\n* Mel Gibson\n* Mark Hamill\n* Ron Howard\n* Jack Lemmon\n* Steve Martin\n* Robert De Niro\n* Bob Newhart\n* Jack Nicholson\n* The Not Ready for Prime-Time Players \n* Carroll O'Connor\n* Al Pacino\n* Robert Redford\n* Sony\n* Barbra Streisand\n* John Travolta\n* Mary Tyler Moore\n* Johnny Whitaker\n* Henry Winkler
Music
\n* ABBA \n* Aerosmith\n* Allman Brothers Band\n* Bachman-Turner Overdrive \n* Black Sabbath \n* Blue Öyster Cult \n* David Bowie\n* Jackson Browne \n* Budgie \n* Jimmy Buffett\n* Carpenters\n* Johnny Cash\n* Cher\n* Chicago\n* Eric Clapton \n* The Clash \n* Alice Cooper \n* Elvis Costello \n* Crass \n* The Damned \n* Deep Purple \n* Neil Diamond\n* The Eagles \n* Electric Light Orchestra \n* Fleetwood Mac \n* Gloria Gaynor\n* Genesis\n* Gary Glitter\n* Grateful Dead\n* Merle Haggard\n* Waylon Jennings\n* Billy Joel \n* Elton John \n* Journey \n* Kiss\n* DJ Kool Herc\n* Led Zeppelin \n* John Lennon \n* Loretta Lynn\n* Lynyrd Skynyrd\n* Barry Manilow\n* Bob Marley & the Wailers\n* Steve Miller Band \n* Motörhead\n* Willie Nelson\n* P Funk (Parliament/Funkadelic)\n* Queen \n* Rainbow \n* Rush \n* Sex Pistols\n* Styx \n* Donna Summer\n* James Taylor\n* T. Rex \n* Triumph\n* UFO\n* Van Halen \n* War\n* Neil Young
See also: List of rock and roll albums in the 1970s
Writers
\n* Chinua Achebe\n* Ai\n* Edward Albee\n* Kingsley Amis\n* Mulk Raj Anand\n* J. G. Ballard\n* Saul Bellow\n* Anthony Burgess\n* A. S. Byatt\n* Amy Clampitt\n* Anita Desai\n* E. L. Doctrow\n* Margaret Drabble\n* Janet Frame\n* John Gardner\n* Zulfikar Ghose\n* William Golding\n* Thom Gunn\n* Alamgir Hashmi\n* Seamus Heaney\n* Ted Hughes\n* Philip Larkin\n* Robert Lowell\n* Norman Mailer\n* Kamala Markandaya\n* Arthur Miller\n* Iris Murdoch\n* R. K. Narayan\n* Harold Pinter\n* Thomas Pynchon\n* Salman Rushdie\n* Anne Sexton\n* Louis Simpson\n* Wole Soyinka\n* William Stafford\n* Anne Stevenson\n* Tom Stoppard\n* Mark Strand\n* John Tranter\n* Kurt Vonnegut\n* Gore Vidal\n* Alice Walker\n* Judith Wright
Film
\n* Woody Allen\n* Peggy Ashcroft\n* Alan Bates\n* Ingmar Bergman\n* Ingrid Bergman\n* Jean-Paul Belmondo\n* Humphrey Bogart\n* Kenneth Branagh\n* Richard Burton\n* Claudia Cardinale\n* Sean Connery\n* Francis Ford Coppola\n* Marlene Dietrich\n* Greta Garbo\n* Ava Gardner\n* John Gielgud\n* Gene Hackman\n* Rex Harrison\n* Audrey Hepburn\n* Katharine Hepburn\n* Dustin Hoffman\n* William Holden\n* Rock Hudson\n* Diane Keaton\n* David Niven\n* Peter O'Toole\n* Laurence Olivier\n* Gregory Peck\n* Anthony Quinn\n* Robert Redford\n* Vanessa Redgrave\n* Diana Rigg\n* George C. Scott\n* Meryl Streep\n* Elizabeth Taylor\n* Liv Ullmann\n* Peter Ustinov\n* John Wayne\n* Norman Wisdom\n* Franco Zeffirelli
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