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1979 – The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs, America's most catastrophic nuclear power plant accident in its history. 1979 – The Iran hostage crisis begins. In the aftermath, a second energy crisis develops, tripling the price of oil and sending U. S. gasoline prices over $1 per gallon for the first time.
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
September 4 – The New Price is Right, a revival of the 1956-65 NBC and ABC game show of the same name premieres on CBS, along with Gambit and The Joker's Wild, overhauling the network's daytime schedule. September 12 – Maude, the first in a series of spin-offs from All in the Family, premieres on CBS. Bea Arthur stars as the title character.
Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C., for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event. American Top 40, a nationally syndicated radio program featuring a countdown of the Top 40 hits of the past week according to the Billboard Hot 100, premieres. Hosted by Casey Kasem, the show is a major success.
Andrea Bocelli opens Save Mart Center Arena. For a brief moment in 2003, the Save Mart Center looked like it could become a hub for Fresno’s cultural institutions.
In this trivia, you’ll be challenged to remember which iconic events, products, and figures came before the others. Whether it’s fast food chains, pop stars or game-changing inventions, your ...
Neil Diamond released three multi-platinum live albums in the ‘70s, but the most famous one is Hot August Night, perhaps in part because of Diamond’s hilariously strange pose on the album cover.
The urban crisis of the 1960s continued to escalate in the 1970s, with major episodes of riots in many cities every summer. The postwar suburbanization boom had left America's inner cities neglected, as middle-class whites gradually moved out. Rundown housing was increasingly filled by an underclass, with high unemployment rates and high crime ...