True Stories and Fascinating Facts: The 1970s: A Fun Facts Book

By Jonny Katz

★ The 1970s was a decade of turmoil, a decade of invention and a decade of change. Find out more about these fascinating times right here, in this book. ★

 

The True Stories in This Book Cover Interesting People and Events in:

 

Popular Culture

Sports

Science

Medicine

Technology

and the News.

 

During the decade, we saw a U.S. president resign to escape impeachment and the U.S. National Guard fire on students at Kent State University. We saw changes toward more socially conscious television entertainment. While increasing awareness of problems caused by pollution led to the establishment of The Environmental Protection Agency. NASA continued to explore space. And video game addiction was upon us with the PONG game console.

 

This book is full of interesting bits of information and stories about this fascinating time period. Some of the facts and names will be familiar to you; others may take you by surprise.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Meridith Berk
• Release date: Dec 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215404089

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True Stories and Fascinating Facts

About the 1970s

A Fun Facts Book

Jonny Katz

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2022

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Remembering the 1970s

In the News

The White House Plumbers

The Environmental Protection Agency

Created with a Sense of Purpose

Two Amendments. Two Different Stories

Nixon and Johnny Cash

Houston, We’ve Had a Problem Here.

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Science, Medicine, and Technology

Wrigley’s Gum and the Bar Code Era

When Talking Was Enough

A Machine to See Inside the Body

Say Goodbye to the Café Coronary

The First Bite of Apple

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Sports

Baseball and the Beginning of Free Agency

Bringing Perfection to the 1976 Olympics

Big Red Sets Fastest Time For Triple Crown

Mark Spitz Breaks Records

More Iconic Sports Moments that Defined the Decade

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Popular Culture

Agnetha, Bjorn, Benni, and Anni-Frid Dominate the Pop Charts

Tune Up Your Staring Eyes

The Beginning of Subscription Television

There’s Money to Be Made in Fitness

Star Wars Franchise Begins (or Shall We Say Middles?)

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This And That: Some Random Facts About the 1970s

1970s Inventions

Memorable Television Shows

1970s Television Trivia Challenge

Can You Name these 1970s Celebrities?

Fast Facts by Year (1970-1979)

Bits of News

Celebrity Births

Celebrity Deaths

Academy Awards

Fiction Bestsellers

Tony Awards

End Note

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Introduction

The 1970s was a decade of turmoil, a decade of invention and a decade of change.

The seventies saw a change in television from simple family sitcoms to shows with more socially conscious content like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, M*A*S*H, and The Jeffersons.

During the decade, we saw a U.S. president resign to escape impeachment and the U.S. National Guard fire on students at Kent State University.

Increasing awareness of problems caused by pollution led to the establishment of The Environmental Protection Agency. NASA continued to explore space. And video game addiction was upon us with the PONG game console.

This book is full of interesting bits of information and stories about this fascinating time period. Some of the facts and names will be familiar to you; others may take you by surprise.

I hope you enjoy reading through this book and sharing the bits and pieces with friends.

Remembering the 1970s

In the News

The White House Plumbers, Deep Throat, The Saturday Night Massacre, and The Watergate Seven

The political scandal that brought down the White House and a U.S. President in the 1970s gave birth to some wonderfully colorful terms that will forever remain a part of the nation’s consciousness.

Here are a few of the highlights of events that gripped the nation during the first half of the 1970s.

A covert White House special investigations unit is set up in July, 1971 "to stop or respond to leaks of classified information." The unit is aptly named The Plumbers. This division was supposed to be staffed by crack operatives; instead, they turned out to be a bunch of criminal bunglers and their activities began a chain of events that would bring down Nixon’s presidency.

August 21st, 1971, presidential aides start Nixon’s Enemies List with the goal: "to use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies".

In September, as a response to the leak of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, the "White House Plumbers, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy break into the offices of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist looking for any confidential documents that might discredit The Leaker". This was the Plumbers first major operation.

In May 1972, Gordon Liddy’s team of White House Plumbers, now working for The Committee to Re-Elect the President or (CREEP), break into the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Building Complex for the first time, planting surveillance bugs in telephones.

A few weeks later, the Plumbers are arrested on a return visit where they intended to plant more surveillance devices and burglarize the same offices.

Days later, in the Oval Office, H.R. Haldeman recommends to President Nixon that he order the shutdown of the investigation. Nixon agrees. The conversation is taped.

Although reporters