1970
January
01 - In Australia, Bob Hawke becomes ACTU president.
01 - The age of majority in Britain is reduced from 21 to 18.
01 - Jimi...
1971
January
02 - 66 Football fans are killed when a barrier collapses at Ibrox Park in Glasgow following a match between old firm rivals Celtic...
1972
January
01 - French singer Maurice Chevalier dies (b. 1888) in Paris. He is 83.
03 - An IRA bomb injures 55 women and children when...
1973
January
01 - Britain, Denmark and Ireland join the Common Market.
01 - Baseball star Roberto Clemente is killed in a light plane crash off Puerto...
1974
January
01 - Golda Meir wins Israeli election.
01 - 38 Italians die when an Italia Airlines Fokker Friendship crashes near Turin. There are four survivors.
02...
1975
January
01 - The Watergate criminal trial ends. Aides of former President Nixon (John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, Robert Mardian and John D. Ehrlichman)...
1976
January
02 - 22 die as hurricane winds rock Britain.
05 - The Khmer Rouge drafts a new constitution in Cambodia, renaming it Democratic Kampuchea.
05 - Former Beatles road...
1977
January
01 - Groucho Marx dies in Los Angeles.
02 - Legendary jazz pianist and composer Erroll Garner dies.
06 - "Charter 77" launched in Czechoslovakia calling...
1978
January
01 - An Air India Jumbo explodes killing 213.
03 - Indira Gandhi expelled from India's Congress Party.
05 - The Sex Pistols make their US...
1979
January
01 - USA and China establish diplomatic relations.
04 - Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in Kent State...
70s Speak
ADIDAS
Brand-name graffiti appearing primarily on running shoes, including a pair that glows in the dark.
AGEISM
Discrimination against the elderly for being old.
AIR SUPPORT
"It's not bombing...
Cost of Living in Australia in 1977
Average Weekly Wage (male): $149.93
Average Weekly Wage (female): $138.71
3-seater sofa and 2 x leather-look armchairs: $259.00
Chrome and Glass Coffee Table (Square): $29.00
62cm...