Tonight my church is sponsoring a 70's ball. We are going to have costumes, music and trivia but I need a little help with the trivia. Could you guys post some obscure 70's facts that would be appropriate for such an event? BTW today is my 16th wedding anniversary, which is almost 70's trivia!
1970 - January-February January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 - Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders. January 15 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya January 16 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. February 11 - John Lennon pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland. February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit. February 18 - The Chicago Eight are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. February 26 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation March-April March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic. March 5 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. March 18 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia March 23 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director March 31 - Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit) April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States starting on January 1, 1971. April 11 - Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched April 17 - Apollo 13 returns safely to earth April 22 - First Earth Day celebrated April 29 - U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong May-August May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia. May 6 - Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use in Northern Ireland. May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean. May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. May 31 - Avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in destroys the town of Yungay, Peru June 4 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom. June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. July 21 - - Aswan High Dam in Egypt completed. August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet. September September 5 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins - The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (operation ends in October 1971). September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced September 13 - First running of the New York City Marathon September 20 - End of term for Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III as the 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. September 21 - Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, Sultan of Kedah becomes the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. October October 5 - the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap James Cross and murder Pierre Laporte, provoking Quebec's October Crisis October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion." October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. October 10 - Fiji becomes independent. October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. October 12 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas. October 13 - Canada and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations. October 15 - 35 construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below. October 17 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War. November November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam. November 5 - Vietnam War: United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50 ; 431 were reported wounded that week, however). November 9 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 to not hear a case by the state of Massachusetts asking to allow the state the ability to enforce its law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. November 10 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia. November 12 - The Oregon Highway Division (now known as the Oregon Department of Transportation) is given the task of removing a rotting beached Grey whale, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident November 13 - A 100-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)s, killing an estimated 500,000 people (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster). November 14 - fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, claims the lives of the entire Marshall University football team. November 17 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre. November 17 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. November 18 - US President Richard Nixon asks the United States Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million was for military assistance in order to help prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam). November 21 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid). November 25 - In Japan, world-famous author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima commits ritual suicide after failing to sway public opinion toward his right-wing political beliefs. December December 2 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations. December 3 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
Boy. That's a lot of help. 1972: Fatty was born. 70's music is always a hit. Shrinky Dinks Stretch Armstrong The Manson Family Fat Albert Hong Kong Phooey Globetrotters Bruce Jenner "Chico and the Man" "The Walton's" Leif Garrett "Eight is Enough" "Grease" I'll come up with more....
What? I just gave a list of things that happened in 1970, use them in trivia if you like, ignore them if you don't. Geez...
Thanks Pun, for real... Fatty Fat's sense of humor takes a little getting use to, but I've met him and...well and... ...HE'S A FATTY FAT b*stard!
for real....FFB is actually kinda like TJ....likes to act all abrasive online, but not a bad guy in person.. congrats on 16 AB....
That's not the FFB I met! Just kidding. I pull my hair out reading his posts sometimes (which I'm guessing is the point), but I remember I really enjoy having a beer or seven with him. We need to do that again, btw. Congrats AB!
Great about the anniversary, AB! Another 10 years, and you can match my wife and I. Hey, most of the 70's were great, at least what I remember of it. Number 1, that's when I met my wife. Number 2, we finally got out of Nam. Number 3, Nixon resigned... oh, and the music through the first half of the decade was fabulous! Did I mention that I had an incredible time? That was when I was in my 20's. I'll stop now.
