1970
- Aswan High Dam Completed
- Beatles Break Up
- Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
- Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
- Kent State Shootings
1971
- London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
- United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency
- VCRs Introduced
1972
- M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers
- Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
- Pocket Calculators Introduced
- Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
- Watergate Scandal Begins
1973
- Abortion Legalized in U.S.
- Paul Getty Kidnapped
- Sears Tower Built
- U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
- U.S. Vice President Resigns
1974
- Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed
- Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects
- Patty Hearst Kidnapped
- Terracotta Army Discovered in China
- U.S. President Nixon Resigns
1975
- Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
- Civil War in Lebanon
- Microsoft Founded
- Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia
1976
- Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens
- North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000
1977
- Elvis Found Dead
- Miniseries Roots Airs
- South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death
- Star Wars Movie Released
1978
- First Test-Tube Baby Born
- John Paul II Becomes Pope
- Jonestown Massacre
1979
- Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran
- Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
- Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
- Sony Introduces the Walkman
