Jul 29 - 11 Memorable Images from the 1970s

big events and images that paint a visual picture of what the 1970s was about.




1. May, 1970



Neil Young of CSNY summed the Kent State tragedy up when he sang

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.


2. September, 1972



During the “Munich Massacre,” 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually k!lled by the Palestinian group Black September.

3. April, 1973



The World Trade Center complex opened on April 4, 1973. The twin towers were the tallest structures in the world until the Sears Tower was built in Chicago later that year.


4. May, 1972


Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercially available video game console was released on May 24, 1972. The gaming world would never be the same again.


5. August, 1974



After the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigns.


6. May, 1977



Produced with a budget of (only!) $11 million and released, the original Star Wars film earned $460 million in the United States and $337 million overseas, surpassing Jaws as the highest-grossing film of all time.

7. May, 1979



When American Airlines Flight 191 crashed after taking off from O’Hare, all 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were k!lled, along with two people on the ground. Until 9/11, it was the deadliest air disaster in U.S. history.

8. December, 1977

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Saturday Night Fever epitomized the height of the disco craze and the night-club fashions of the times

9. March, 1979

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Three Mile Island was the worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history as the partial meltdown released small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.

10. June, 1979

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During the Oil Crisis over the summer of ‘79, cars with a license plate ending in an odd number were only allowed to buy gasoline on odd-numbered days, while even-numbered plate-holders could only purchase gasoline on even-numbered days.


11. December, 1978

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More than 10% of the Iranian people marched in anti-shah demonstrations on December 10 and 11, 1978.


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How is Munich not number 1 ??

Because they were jews.

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another Jew, making sorry jewish quotes [pic]

They should do an 80s one too

Reagan's shooting.
Black Monday
Michael Jackson Moonwalks
Lennon's Shooting
Iran Contra
Michael Jordan's free throw line dunkk



Almost knocked out, but there are more I know of.

Because it didn't say TOP 11. It just said memorable images, meaning no particular order of significance [pic]

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The law finally touches "Mr. Untouchable"

His friends claimed he was just a wealthy real estate investor who was harassed by overzealous, even jealous white authorities. Police contended he was the biggest heroin dealer in New York City, maybe in the country. To blacks in his old Harlem neighborhood, Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, 45, was a legend of defiance and success. What he had he flaunted, and he had a great deal: 300 custom-tailored suits, a string of glamourous women and powerful friends in show business and politics. He drove two Citroën-Maseratis and four Mercedes. Ghetto kids, said a black police detective, "think...

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good read [pic] didnt know about the oil crisis [pic]

yeah me neither^^^