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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.
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 lack of time to build a new spaceship to boost it up.
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1979 Robert Mapplethorpe: New York City, United States [68] [s 3] Peace Treaty: 26 March 1979 Yaakov Saar Washington, D.C., United States The triple handshake in the peace treaty signing between Israel and Egypt on the White House lawn [s 2] See article Molotov Man: 16 July 1979 [69] Susan Meiselas: Estelí, Nicaragua [70] [s 3] Firing Squad in ...
Skylab's impending demise in 1979 was an international media event, [150] with T-shirts and hats with bullseyes [9] and "Skylab Repellent" with a money-back guarantee, [151] wagering on the time and place of re-entry, and nightly news reports.
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 ...
In 1979, Atari's Asteroids would prove to be incredibly popular. 1979: US Programming language Ada introduced by Jean Ichbiah and team at Honeywell for the US Department of Defense. 1 Jun 1979: US Introduction of the Intel 8088, compatible with the 8086 with an 8-bit data bus – but this makes it cheaper to implement in computers.
Category: 1970s events. ... 1979 events by month (19 C) A. 1970s archaeological discoveries (10 C, 10 P) C. 1970s conflicts (33 C, 30 P) 1970s controversies (14 C, 4 P)