|
|
Former Beatle Paul McCartney hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with My Love in 1973; his song was displace from #1 by Give Me Love by former Beatle George Harrison!
TV series Sanford and Son, with the title characters co-owners of a junkyard, debuted in 1972
Singer Jim Croce died in a plane crash in Louisiana in 1973
Michael Jackson's album Ben hit #5 on the U.S. album chart in 1972
George Foreman won the world heavyweight championship in a fight with Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica in 1973
Dean Martin introduced "celebrity roasts" on his variety series in 1973
Soul Train, with host Don Cornelius, debuted nationally (after a local run in Chicago) in 1971
Woody Allen played a revolutionary leader in San Marcos in the movie Bananas, which debuted in 1971
Grand Funk Railroad hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song We're An American Band in 1973
The Bahamas gained independence from Great Britain in 1973
Bobby Brady became a hallway safety monitor at school and reported on infractions of friends and siblings in an episode of The Brady Bunch aired in 1973
Dolly Parton hit #1 on the U.S. country music chart with I Will Always Love You in 1974
The Ed Sullivan Show aired for the last time on a Sunday in 1971
Goldie Hawn won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Cactus Flower in 1970
Chico and the Man debuted on TV with "The Man" owning an auto repair show; it happened in 1974
The Flip Wilson Show, featuring Flip Wilson's alter-ego Geraldine, finished #2 in the Nielsen ratings for the second straight year in 1972
Ronald McDonald House, a not-for-profit organization providing housing for families of seriously ill children being treated at hospitals, was founded in 1974
A woman calling herself Sacheen Littlefeather accepted the Best Actor Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando for his role in The Godfather in 1973
Jim "Catfish" Hunter, a pitcher with the Oakland Athletics, posted 25 wins and won the AL Cy Young Award in 1974
Gene Hackman won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as a narcotic detective in the movie The French Connection in 1972
Pioneer 10 took the first close-up color photographs of Jupiter in 1973
Race car driver Jackie Stewart was named Sports Illustrated "Sportsman of the Year" after winning his 27th career Grand Prix victory in 1973
Watership Down, a book Richard Adams about a group of rabbits who establish a new home away from humans, was published in 1974
Art Garfunkel co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the movie Carnal Knowledge, debuting on the silver screen in 1971
Maude Findlay, cousin of Edith Bunker and later to play the title role in TV sitcom Maude, first appeared in an episode of All in the Family in 1971
Roberta Flack won a Grammy for the song Killing Me Softly With His Song in 1974
In the movie American Graffiti, every AM radio in the film is tuned into the voice of famous Dee-jay Wolfman Jack; it happened in 1973
Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, won NBA Rookie of the Year award in 1971
Surgeon Henry Heimlich first described a maneuver for saving the lives of choking victims in 1974
U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned from office for income tax evasion in 1973
Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James played the title roles in TV detective story McMillan and Wife, which debuted in 1971
North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the treated that ended the Vietnam War in 1973
The final episode of I Dream of Jeannie was aired in 1970
After her death from a heroin overdose, Janis Joplin's version of the song Me and Bobby McGee hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart in 1970
Gloria Steinem helped launch Ms., which first appeared as an insert in New York magazine, in 1971
Actors Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight and Ronny Cox embarked on a canoe trip in the movie Deliverance, released in 1972
Bachman Turner Overdrive had its first #1 hit on the U.S. pop chart with the song You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet in 1974
Spike, the older brother of Snoopy, first appeared in the Peanuts comic strip in 1975
Hogan's Heroes, about the madcap antics of a group of POWs interned at Stalag 17 during World War II, went off the air in 1971
China gave the two panda bears, named Hsing Hsing and Ling Ling, to the Smithsonian National Zoo to commemorate a visit to China by Richard Nixon in 1971
Ironside, an NBC TV police drama starring Raymond Burr as a wheelchair-bound detective, was cancelled in 1975
Oregon became the first American state to decriminalize the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana in 1973
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, featuring characters Josie, Melody and Valerie, premiered on TV in 1970
The Rolling Stones released Hot Rocks, a double album which highlighted their most popular singles from 1964 to 1971, in 1972
David Bowie premiered the androgynous persona Ziggy Stardust at a concert in 1972
Charles Berlitz published the book The Bermuda Triangle, about an area bound by Bermuda, Miami and Puerto Rico, in 1974
George Harrison became the first former member of The Beatles to have a #1 solo album with the release of All Things Must Pass in 1971
Catcher Johnny Bench became, at 22 years of age, the youngest player ever to win the National League MVP award in 1970
Kool-Aid Man first burst through a wall in a Kool-Aid TV commercial in 1975
Somerset became the first soap opera spin off when it was spun off from Another World in 1970
After two decades of U.S. occupation, Japan resumed administrative authority over Okinawa in 1972
The Miami Dolphins became the first NFL team to have two 1000 yard rushers with both Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris hitting the mark in 1972
Three Dog Night hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song Joy to the World in 1971
Ron Bloomberg was the first to bat as a designated hitter in an American League baseball game in 1973
Jethro Tull's album Thick as a Brick topped the U.S. album chart in 1972
Guest star Sammy Davis Jr. kissed Archie Bunker in an episode of All in the Family in 1972
Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorced after six years of marriage in 1973
Suzanne Somers waved provocatively at Richard Dreyfuss in American Graffiti, which premiered in 1973
Tony Orlando and Dawn hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree in 1973
Mike Farrell joined the cast of M*A*S*H and played Captain B.J. Hunnicut in 1975
Joe Morgan's single in the top of the 9th inning clinched game 7 of the World Series for the Cincinnati Reds in 1975
Ringo Star released the song It Doesn't Come Easy in 1971
The prisoners beat the prison guards in a football game in The Longest Yard, released to the silver screen in 1974
Phyllis George, a former Miss America, became the first woman female NFL sportscaster in 1975
While on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York, Kathy Silva wed Sylvester Stewart of Sly and The Family Stone in 1974
While on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York, Kathy Silva wed Sylvester Stewart of Sly and The Family Stone in 1974
Featuring characters Mushmouth and Dumb Donald, cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids debuted on TV in 1972
The Guess Who hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with American Woman, containing funky lyrics "Coloured lights can hypnotize, sparkle someone else's eyes", in 1970
Elton John hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song Crocodile Rock in 1973
Gordie, Mark and Marty Howe all lead the Houston Aeros to a second World Hockey Association Championship in 1975
Queen hit #1 on the U.K. pop chart with the song Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975
The University of Southern California won its fifth consecutive NCAA World Series in Omaha Nebraska in 1974
Dick Clark launched the American Music Awards show in 1974
ABC cancelled Room 222, a series named for a high school classroom, in 1974
Bette Midler released her album The Divine Miss M, containing the song Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, in 1972
Tammy Wynette won a Grammy for the album Stand By Your Man in 1970
Gordon Lightfoot hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with Sundown and #10 with Carefree Highway in 1974
Bjorn Borg, and 18-year-old native of Sweden, became the youngest men's French Open winner ever in 1974
Col. Harland Sanders resigned from the board of directors of the company he founded, Kentucky Fried Chicken, in 1970
The movie The Sting, featuring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, debuted in 1973
Simon and Garfunkel hit #4 on the U.S. pop chart with Cecilia in 1970
Nacho cheese-flavoured Doritos were introduced into the United States by Frito Lay in 1972
The Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman took place in Zaire in 1974
Actor George C. Scott, calling Hollywood award ceremonies a "meat parade", refused to accept the Best Actor Oscar in 1971
Actor Jamie Farr debuted the role of Maxwell Klinger, a character who wore women's clothing in hopes of getting a discharge from the army, on M*A*S*H in 1972
Billy Jean King won her first and only French Open in 1972
Actress Meredith Baxter married Bridget Loves Bernie co-star David Birney in 1974
Alice Cooper released the song School's Out in 1972
The Detroit Pistons made Bob Lanier their #1 pick in the NBA draft in 1970
Featuring giant water tanks being blown up to extinguish a fire in a building, movie Towering Inferno debuted in 1974
Jane Fonda married fellow antiwar protester Tom Hayden in 1973
TV show Starsky and Hutch, featuring characters Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, debuted in 1975
American Express introduced its "Do you know me?" advertisements featuring celebrities in 1975
Actor James Garner portrayed detective Jim Rockford on the Rockford Files, which debuted on TV in 1974
Sly & The Family Stone hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song Family Affair in 1971
Welcome Back Kotter, featuring a group of "sweathogs" in a remedial education class, debuted on TV in 1975
Comedian Ruth Buzzi played an old women who beat people with her purse for the last time on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in in 1973
Reveille, the long traditional morning bugle call, was discontinued by U.S. General William Westmoreland in 1970
Actress Glenda Jackson won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Women in Love in 1971
On the Mary Tyler Moore show, character Ted Baxter was asked to do commercials for a vegetable slicer and a sausage company in 1972
The lines "Conjunction Junction, what's your function" debuted on TV's Schoolhouse Rock for the first time in 1973
Singer Carole King won Album of the Year for Tapestry and Record of the Year for It's Too Late in 1972
Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles, breakfast cereals based on The Flintstones, came to market in 1971
Former basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain was hired to coach the San Diego Conquistadors in the ABA in 1973
Serpico, starring Al Pacino as former NYPD officer and corruption-slayer Frank Serpico, premiered in 1973
The Land Shark, a role played by comedian Chevy Chase, first aired on Saturday Night Live in 1975
Bob Hope's Christmas Special in Da Nang Vietnam scored a 46 Nielsen rating to become the highest-rated TV program in history in 1970
Featuring the line "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer", The Godfather: Part II premiered in 1974
Ivan Koloff, a professional wrestler allegedly from Russian, beat Bruno Sammartino for the world heavyweight wrestling title in 1971
The television hit Happy Days made its debut in 1974
Lee Elder became the first African-American golfer to qualify for The Masters by winning the Monsanto Open in 1974
Steven Spielberg directed the first Columbo TV movie, Murder By The Book, in 1971
The Keep America Beautiful campaign, featuring a Native American canoeing in a polluted lake, first took to the television airwaves in 1971
In the opening credits of the debut episode of The Odd Couple, Felix picked up a cigar with the end of his umbrella; it happened in 1970
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre made its debut in movie theatres in 1974
Steve Winwood, Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi re-formed the group Traffic and released the successful album John Barleycorn Must Die in 1970
Dave Cowens, a 6'9" Boston Celtics center, won the All-Star game MVP and the NBA league MVP award in 1973
Phyllis, a spin-off of the Mary Tyler Moore show, debuted with actress Cloris Leachman in the title role in 1975
The Jackson 5 hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song I'll Be There in 1970
Sporting a brown and yellow can, and to compete with Dr. Pepper, Coca-Cola launched Mr. Pibb in 1972
Diane Crump became the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby in 1970
U.S. President Richard Nixon signed a law recognizing Father's Day as the third Sunday in June in 1972
Joe Frazier became the first boxer to beat Muhammad Ali in a heavyweight title fight in 1971
Television network ABC debuted the series S.W.A.T., which stands for Special Weapons and Tactics, in 1975
Stevie Wonder, with the Jackson 5 as back-up singers, hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song You Haven't Done Nothin' in 1974
An unprecedented international ping-pong match between the United States and China, dubbed "ping-pong diplomacy", occurred in 1971
The sound of a ringing telephone started the opening theme song of the first episode of The Bob Newhart Show in 1972
Television show Sonny and Cher ended its original run in 1974
The Rolling Stones topped the U.S. album chart with Sticky Fingers in 1971
Muhammad Ali saw his conviction for draft dodging overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971
Marsha won an impromptu driving contest against Greg in a parking lot in an episode of The Brady Bunch that aired in 1972
The Temptations hit #1 with the song Papa Was a Rolling Stone in 1972
Television series Swiss Family Robinson, based on an 1812 book by Johann Wyss, debuted in 1975
The Godfather, featuring the line "Leave the gun; take the cannoli", premiered in 1972
Featuring the lyrics "I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus", the Allman Brothers released the song Ramblin' Man in 1973
The Rolling Stones released a concert album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! In 1971
Television show All in the Family first hit #1 in the Nielsen ratings in 1971
Television show Kojak, featuring actors Telly Savalas and Dan Frazer, debuted in 1973
Actor David Hasselhoff debuted as Dr. Snapper Foster on CBS soap opera The Young and The Restless in 1975
Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustin Hoffman, became the only X-rated movie to win the Best Picture Oscar in 1970
Television show The Six Million Dollar Man debuted with actor Lee Majors playing Steve Austin in 1974
Running back Anthony Davis scored six touchdowns in a game against Notre Dame while playing for the University of Southern California in 1972
Featuring the line "You've gotta ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?", the movie Dirty Harry premiered in 1971
America hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song A Horse With No Name in 1972
Taiwan was both expelled from the United Nations and winner of the Little League World Series championship of baseball in 1971
David Bowie hit #15 on the U.S. pop chart with the song Space Oddity, containing lyrics "Ground control to Major Tom", in 1973
Pitcher Bob Gibson recorded his only no hitter, an 11-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, while playing for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1971
Viewers of the television show Baretta were first introduced to Fred the cockatoo in 1975
A free concert held by singer Stevie Wonder at the Washington Monument drew 125,000 fans in 1975
Golfer Johnny Miller shot a record 63 in the final round to win the U.S. Open in 1973
Left winger Johnny Bucyk and right winger Ken Hodge combined for 81 regular-season goals for the Boston Bruins in 1974
Actress Amanda Blake, who played Miss Kitty Russell, owner of the Long Branch Saloon, left television series Gunsmoke in 1974
Movie THX 1138, starring Robert Duvall and written and directed by George Lucas, debuted in 1971
Self-deprecating radio and television comedian Jack Benny, whose real name was Benjamin Kudelsky, died in 1974
The United Nations accepted both East Germany and West Germany into membership in 1973
Singer Carole King released the song So Far Away, with lyrics "It would be so fine to see your face at my door", in 1971
The Beatles hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song Let It Be in 1970
Marvin Gaye hit the U.S. Top 40 with the song Trouble Man in 1973
"Golden Bear" Jack Nicklaus won The Masters and the PGA Championship in 1875
U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. dollar was taken off the gold standard in 1971
Singer Gary Glitter hit the U.S. Top 40 with Rock and Roll Part 2 in 1972
Popular television show My Three Sons went off the air in 1972
The Waltons debuted on CBS in a Thursday night time slot in 1972
Charlie and Grandpa Joe stole fizzy lifting drinks in the newly-released movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971
Singer Roberta Flack won the Grammy award for Record of the Year with the album The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face in 1973
Big Bird become the first Sesame Street character to be featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1970
CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite published his first book, Eye on the World, in 1971
Containing the line "Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony", the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail debuted in 1975
Van Morrison hit #28 on the U.S. pop chart with a song about the boys doing the boogie-woogie, Wild Night, in 1974
Every resident of the town of Rock Ridge had the last name Johnson in the movie Blazing Saddles, released in 1974
New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner pleaded guilty to conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon in 1974
Actor Ryan O'Neal, a hot commodity in the aftermath of the movie Love Story, starred in the movie What's Up Doc? In 1972
Pet Rocks became a fad in 1975
The Partridge Family, featuring male lead singer David Cassidy, hits #1 on the U.S. pop chart with I Think I Love You in 1970
The Who hit the U.S. Top 40 with the highly political song Won't Get Fooled Again in 1971
Master Lock launched it's Tough Under Fire commercial, in which a lock withstood a rifle bullet, in 1974
The Harlem Globetrotters cartoon debuted on CBS in 1970
The leisure suit, by New York designer Jerry Rosengarten, first appeared in 1970
The last mission of crime-fighting group Impossible Missions Force was shown in Mission: Impossible in 1973
Morris the cat, the commercial mascot for 9-Lives cat food, was named Picture Animal Top Star by the American Humane Society in 1973
Igor Sikorsky, a developer of the helicopter, died in 1972
Chicago Blackhawks' goalie Tony Esposito won the Calder Trophy for Rookie of the Year in 1970
NBC cancelled the long-running television show Bonanza in 1973
The Odd Couple, based on a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, debuted on television in 1970
The American Football League and the National Football League merged in 1970
Dungeons and Dragons, a fantasy role playing game, was invented by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1973
Golfer Lee Trevino won Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year for winning the U.S. Open and the British Open in 1971
Carly Simon hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song You're So Vain, featuring Mick Jagger on backup vocals, in 1973
Featuring the line "This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham", the Woody Allen movie Bananas premiered in 1971
The movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest premiered in 1975
Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to face impeachment charges since Andrew Jackson (1868) in 1974
Gladys Knight and The Pips hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with Midnight Train to Georgia, originally called Midnight Plane to Houston, in 1973
Credence Clearwater Revival hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song Travelin' Band
Tina Turner played the Acid Queen in the newly-released movie Tommy in 1975
The San Diego Chicken made its debut as the mascot for baseball's San Diego Padres in1974
Sammy Davis Jr. hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with the song The Candy Man in 1972
Kraft Foods introduced Stove Top Stuffing in 1972
Johnny Olson's trademark invitation "Come on down" debuted on The Price is Right in 1972
Singer Jim Croce hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart with lyrics "Meaner than a junkyard dog" in Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown in 1973
The Atlanta Flames and the New York Islanders joined the NHL as expansion teams in 1972
Patsy Cline was the first female solo performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973
Roger Moore did not order a vodka martini "shaken but not stirred" in his debut Bond flick Live and Let Die in 1973
Frank Robinson became the first African-American manager in baseball history when he took the reigns of the Cleveland Indians in 1974
Dean Martin played a pilot in the newly-released movie Airport in 1970
Scientists first discovered oil wells beneath the North Sea in 1970.
|
