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February 7 – Pluto enters a 20-year period inside the orbit of Neptune for the first time in 230 years. March 7 – The largest magnetar ( soft gamma repeater ) event is recorded. July 11 – America's first space station, Skylab , is deliberately allowed to burn up on atmospheric entry over the Indian Ocean due to its decaying orbit and the ...
The 1970s was also the beginning of the video game era. Atari established itself as the dominant force in home video gaming, first with its home version of the arcade game Pong and later in the decade with the Atari 2600 console (originally called the "VCS", or Video Computer System). By 1979, the scene was set for the Golden Age of Arcade Games.
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August 31 – Solar eclipse of August 31, 1970: An annular solar eclipse is visible in Oceania, and is the 14th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 144. September 20 – Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples, landing back on Earth September 24.
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The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "' 70s") was a decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals [ 1 ] that ...
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1979 in television - 43 million viewers watch Elvis on ABC. All-sports cable channel ESPN is launched. The Pinwheel Channel changes its name to Nickelodeon. [8] A technician's strike forces ITV off air for eleven weeks (except in the Channel Islands) while BBC2 launches the first computer generated ident in the world.