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Abraham Zapruder, Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer and witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (b. 1905) September 3. Vince Lombardi, American football coach and National Football League executive (b. 1913) Alan Wilson, musician and composer (b. 1943) September 8 – Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven (b. 1896)
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
1970 Dodge Challenger Trans Am, an example of a muscle car in the earlier part of the decade. The 1970s was an era of fuel price increases, rising insurance rates, safety concerns, and emissions controls. The 1973 oil crisis caused a move towards smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles. Attempts were made to produce electric cars, but they were ...
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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 ...
The case remains one of the most litigated murder cases in American criminal history. [ 13 ] Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, William Colby , head of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) denied that the Phoenix Program was an assassination program, while acknowledging that "some illegal ...
Poster for the 1970 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico that year. The Break-up of the Beatles; Daily Mirror Article claiming Paul McCartney has left the Beatles after Q&A package, one month before the release of their final album Let It Be; April 10, 1970. Tu-144 becomes the first passenger airplane to break Mach 4; May 26, 1970.