1970s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
Events and Trends
- Oil crisis
- Iran hostage situation
- Watergate break-in, cover-up, and scandal.
- Richard Nixon resignation
- end of Vietnam war
- fear of Nuclear war
- high inflation
- high unemployment
- Unix created along with C programming language
- Home computer revolution
- Pocket calculators makes the Slide Rule obsolete.
- Disco, Punk rock, Gothic rock music
- Star_Wars
- An age of superstars and idols in sports and music, following the glorious space programs of the 1960s.
- Microsoft is founded.
World leaders
- Richard Nixon
- Spiro Agnew
- Gerald Ford
- Nelson Rockefeller
- James Earl Carter
- Walter Mondale
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Anwar Sadat
- Menachem Begin
- Mao Zedong
Sports figures
Entertainers
- ABBA
- Alan Alda
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- David Bowie
- Jimmy Buffet
- The Carpenters
- David Cassidy
- Sean Cassidy
- Alice Cooper
- Gary Coleman
- Elvis Costello
- Neil Diamond
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Fleetwood Mac
- Gary Glitter
- Gloria Gaynor
- Andy Griffith
- Mark Hamill
- Ron Howard
- Elton John
- Olivia Newton-John
- Billy Joel
- Kiss
- Led Zeppelin
- Gordon Lightfoot
- Barry Manilow
- Steve Martin
- Bob Newhart
- Jack Nicholson
- The Not Ready for Prime-Time Players (the cast of Saturday Night Live)
- Carrol O'Connor
- Sex Pistols
- Barbra Streisand
- James Taylor
- Marlo Thomas
- Cheryl Tiegs
- John Travolta
- Mary Tyler Moore
- J.J. Walker
- Johnny Whitaker