The first Starbucks was founded in Seattle in 1971. Intended to be the third moon landing, Apollo 13 aborted its mission in April 1970 after an explosion damaged its oxygen tank. Stretch Armstrong was originally marketed by Hasbro in 1976. The first animals to be genetically engineered were mice, in 1974.
More than 900 people died in a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, in November 1978 at the direction of cult leader Rev. Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel set a world record in 1971 by jumping over 19 cars. Management didn't think the product would sell so it was tabled for three years before marketing to the public. The Post-It Note was accidentally invented in 1974 by 3M engineers. Swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics and set seven World Records. Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1979 by the World Health Organization. Hers was the best-selling poster of all time. In 1978, Louise Brown, the first "test tube baby" (a child conceived through in vitro fertilization) was born.įarrah Fawcett-Majors appeared in a clingy, one-piece, red bathing suit in 1976 and made history. Richard Nixon resigned as President in August 1974 after the Watergate scandal. How many of these events do you recall (if you lived through the 1970s) or have you heard of (if you were born after the 1970s)? Additionally, love songs of the era dealt with more diverse love-related topics, including divorcing and (ahem) short-term relationships. There's an abundance of 1970s love songs, and many of them are emotionally rawer, more overtly sexual, and more narcissistic than love songs from earlier decades. the submittal of the Equal Rights Amendment to state legislatures for ratification.rising unemployment and inflation brought about by the oil crisis and.the Watergate scandal, impeachment, and resignation of Pres.They searched for identity, meaning, and self-fulfillment against a backdrop of significant events: In the 1970s, Americans of the "Me" generation came of age. Travel back in time to the 1970s, a time of transition when the "Me" generation came of age, to celebrate love with pop, rock, country, soul, and disco songs.Īdamkontor via Pixabay, Free Domain, modified by FlourishAnyway The "Me" Generation Falls in Love
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