10 Interesting Facts - Late 70s?

Question

What are 10 interesting facts about the late 70s?

Answer 1

Discomania
John Travolta
Star Wars
Polyester
Platform shoes
Bee Gees
VCDs and Apple ii
Iranian Revolution and Hostages
Space Shuttle and Voyager
Farrah Fawcett Majors

Answer 2

1) The first child ever born on the continent of Antarctica was born in 1978. 2)The Bee Gees receive the Grammy for Best Album of 1978 for Saturday Night Fever and also win the Best Pop Group award. The group, featuring brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, had dominated the charts in late 1977 and 1978 with three consecutive No. 1 hits from the Saturday Night Fever album. 3) 1978 : A funky smell leads to the capture of a killer Smelling something strange emanating from John Wayne Gacy's property, police officers obtain a warrant to check out the crawl space beneath his Des Plaines, Illinois, house. By the time they finished digging, authorities had discovered 27 bodies buried beneath the house and two more under his lawn. 4)1978 Coca-Cola signs a deal to have exclusive selling rights in China, while Pepsi-Cola has a similar arrangement in the U.S.S.R.. 5)1978 The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in London to mom Lesley Brown. 6)1979 Sony introduces the Walkman radio. 7) 1977 Rock pioneer Elvis Presley dies in Memphis. Charlie Chaplin passes away at age 88 and Bing Crosby at 83. That's all I got...have fun.

Answer 3

In April, 1975 in dramatic fashion, US marines airlifted the last Americans from the US embassy in Saigon, signalling the end of US involvement in Vietnam and the beginning of a unified
communist controlled Vietnam.

Nadia Comaneci of Romania won 3 gold medals at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. She scored 7 perfect 10's in the competition in an unheard of display of perfection in women's gymnastics.

In 1978 the Ayatollah Khomeini deposed the Shah of Iran and began a fundementalist Muslim revolution in Iran which sent that country back into the dark ages.

In 1976 the Eagles released their fifth album Hotel California
"On a dark desert highway, cool breeze in my hair, sweet smell
of colitas, rising up through the air..."

Answer 4

1. I got married 71
2. I got divorced in 74
3. I moved into my first apartment in 75
4. I went back to school in 75
5. I got a job
6. I made the Dean List 75-77
7. I got accepted to Grad School 76
8. I grauduated in 77
9. I drove to DC 77
10. I met my second husband in 78
A LOT OF STUFF

Asked me about the 80's now those where the years

Answer 5

Pick a few

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%27s

Answer 6

Herpes was "the scary" STD