The Decades: 1970
Current Events
Kent State, National Guard kills 4 (1970)
Apollo 13 launched (1970)
L. Daunis catches 65lb lake trout in Great Bear Lake (1970)
Cigarette ads banned from US TV (1971)
Hank Aaron hits 600th home run (1971)
War rages in Vietnam (1972)
Cabaret, film, Liza Minelli (1972)
All in the Family, leading TV show (1972)
Team Canada beats USSR (1972)
Watergate breakin (1972)
Muhammed Ali beats George Foreman (1974)
US Skylab in space (1974)
Gas shortages (1974)
Streaking a fad in US (1974)
President Nixon pardoned (1974)
Amnesty for draft dodgers (1974)
Final evacuation of US from Vietnam (1975)
US and Russians meet in space (1975)
Star Wars, first film (1976)
North & South Vietnam reunite (1976)
US Airforce Academy admits first women (1976)
Race riots in South Africa (1976)
Summer Olympics in Montreal (1976)
Queen Elizabeth 25 years on the throne (1977)
"Test tube baby" born in England (1978)
Air India 747 crash kills 213 from Canada (1978)
Record breaking gains on NYSE (1978)
Literature
Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway (1970 posth)
The Winds of War, Herman Wouk (1971)
Watership Down, Richard Adams (1972)
Jaws, Peter Benchley (1974)
Tinker, Tailer Soldier, Spy, John Le Carre (1974)
All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward (1974)
Roots, Alex Haley (1976)
1876, novel, Gore Vidal (1976)
Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut (1976)
The Thornbirds, Colleen McCullough (197
7) Gutenberg Bible sells for $2 000 000 (1978)
War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk (1978)
The Human Factor, Graham Greene (1978)