10 Interesting Facts - Late 70s?

Question

What are 10 interesting facts about the late 70s?

Answer 1

You should have asked for one fact then taken one from ten different answers. Nobody has time to write out ten facts.
Here's a fact.
Sushi was a big fad in the late 70's. I know cause I lived it.
The bi-centennial was in 76.
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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

1. It was the sexual revolution & AIDS was not around to worry about.
2. "Muskrat Love" should NEVER have been recorded by America, let alone re-recorded by Captain and Tenielle!
3. In the 70's, The Amityville Horror *was* a true story.
4. Clogs were great
5. Saturday Night Fever was one of the coolest movies of the late 70's.
6. Saturday Night Live featuring the Not Ready For Primetime Players was breakthrough television and was seriously funny!!

Can't think of anymore....! LOL! But I loved living through it!
*boogie down, baby*

Answer 4

1. Iranian hostage crisis, 1979-1981
2. The whole disco thing
3. John Travolta's first career: Welcome Back, Kotter, then Saturday Night Fever
4. Punk rock, 1976-1979
5. Muhammed Ali's come-back
6. Apocalypse Now, 1979, lead to a resurgence of interest in/radio airplay for The Doors, and the first memorable Vietnam War movie
7. Saturday Night Live (1975-present)
8. Animal House, the original "rude teen comedy," 1978
9. John Lennon's murder, 12/8/1980
10. The AMC Pacer!

Answer 5

Bell bottoms
Platform shoes
Ayatollah Khomeini overthrows the Shah of Iran & set up an Islamic government
Russia Invades Afghanistan
Saturday Night Fever craze

Answer 6

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 7

1. Last moon mission
2. Disco/death of Bruce Lee
3. leisure suits
4. Women's Liberation movement
5. Iranian hostage crisis
6. gas shortages
7. Nixon resigns/Watergate
8. More malls built, consumerism goes into larger quantities (end of blue laws)
9. death of drive-in movies/more cineplexes
10. GI Joe with Kung-Fu grip


(I am in my late 30's, heading into 40 next summer so this is just what I remember. After that look stuff up in encyclopedia's and old books/magazines.)

Answer 8

Jimmy Carter was President of the USA, Walter Mondale was VP.

Reggie Jackson hit three home runs on three consecutive pitches during one game of the 1977 World Series.

There's two....

Answer 9

Disco was cool.
Wait, thats not interesting, but its a fact.

Answer 10

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

I don't know much but you could check it out on the web.