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The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "'70s") was a decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979.

In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals^[1] that followed the end of the postwar economic boom.^[2] On a global scale, it was characterized by frequent coups, domestic conflicts and civil wars, and various political upheavals and armed conflicts which arose from or were related to decolonization, and the global struggle between NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Many regions had periods of high-intensity conflict, notably Southeast Asia, the Mideast, and Africa.

In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 election resulted in the victory of its Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister. Industrialized countries experienced an economic recession due to an oil crisis caused by oil embargoes by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. The crisis saw the first instance of stagflation which began a political and economic trend of the replacement of Keynesian economic theory with neoliberal economic theory, with the first neoliberal government coming to power with the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The 1970s was also an era of great technological and scientific advances; since the appearance of the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in 1971, the decade was characterised by a profound transformation of computing units – by then rudimentary, spacious machines – into the realm of portability and home accessibility.

On the other hand, there were also great advances in fields such as physics, which saw the consolidation of quantum field theory at the end of the decade, mainly thanks to the confirmation of the existence of quarks and the detection of the first gauge bosons in addition to the photon, the Z boson and the gluon, part of what was christened in 1975 as the Standard Model.

In Asia, the People's Republic of China's international relations changed significantly following its recognition by the United Nations, the death of Mao Zedong and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a large boom in this period, overtaking the economy of West Germany to become the second-largest in the world.^[3] The United States withdrew its military forces from the Vietnam War. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, which led to the Soviet–Afghan War.

The 1970s saw an initial increase in violence in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria declared war on Israel, but in the late 1970s, the situation in the Middle East was fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. Political tensions in Iran exploded with the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty and established an Islamic republic under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini.

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In tennis, "Battle of the Sexes" describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case. The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets. The match was viewed by an estimated fifty million people in the United States and ninety million worldwide. King's win is considered a milestone in public acceptance of women's tennis.

Two other matches commonly referred to as a "battle of the sexes" include one held four months earlier in 1973 between Riggs and Margaret Court over the best of three sets, and one in 1992 between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova over the best of three sets, with hybrid rules favoring the female player dubbed "The Battle of Champions". These matches were won by Riggs and Connors, respectively. (Full article...)

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... that more than 30,000 cars were being towed annually by the 1970s to accommodate snow removal efforts in Montreal?
... that a Nebraska public radio station operated from a 1916-built Carnegie library in the 1970s and 1980s?
... that during the 1970s, future Indonesian president Habibie would go to a specific noodle shop every lunchtime?
... that during the 1960s and 1970s, American artist Robert Bauer painted figures that were a mixture of 20th-century avant-garde funk and 17th-century Dutch realism?
... that the art of Irma Blank, of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?
... that Zdzisław Najmrodzki, a thief in 1970s–1980s Poland, escaped from law-enforcement authorities and prisons on 29 occasions?

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Preston at the White House in 1974

William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. Preston was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, backing Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, the Everly Brothers, Reverend James Cleveland, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He gained attention as a solo artist with hit singles "That's the Way God Planned It", the Grammy-winning "Outa-Space", "Will It Go Round in Circles", "Space Race", "Nothing from Nothing", and "With You I'm Born Again". Additionally, Preston co-wrote "You Are So Beautiful", which became a #5 hit for Joe Cocker.

Preston is the only musician to be given a credit on a Beatles recording, which was done at the band's request; the group's 1969 single "Get Back" was credited as "The Beatles with Billy Preston". He continued to record and perform with George Harrison after the Beatles' breakup, along with other artists such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones on many of the group's albums and tours during the 1970s. Preston was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence Award category in 2021. (Full article...)

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Image 1Microvision (1979) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 2Intellivision (1979) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 3Punk pioneer Lene Lovich in 1979, with her trademark long plaited hair. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 4A young woman wearing a wrap dress. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 5Isabel Perón becomes the first woman President of Argentina in 1974 and the first woman non-monarch head of state in the Western hemisphere. (from 1970s)
Image 6Pong arcade machine (1972) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 7Siouxsie Sioux of the English punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 8British girls in 1975 in flared jeans (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 9Pink Floyd, 1973 (from 1970s in music)
Image 10Concorde landing at Farnborough in September 1974 (from 1970s)
Image 11Typical mid to late 1970s Ted gear, as worn by Shakin' Stevens. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 12John Denver, 1975 (from 1970s in music)
Image 13Magnavox Odyssey (1972) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 14Kansas (from 1970s in music)
Image 15Swedish model Efva Attling in a "midi" dress, with Lars Jacob, Kings Road, London, 1971. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 16Honda Civic sold well throughout the decade. (from 1970s)
Image 17The British band The Bee Gees were one of the biggest musical acts of the 1970s leading the disco phenomenon (from 1970s in music)
Image 18Galaxian (1979) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 19King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (from 1970s)
Image 20Asteroids (1979) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 21A West German school girl with Schultüte in 1970, with a 'hippyish' outfit on. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 22Pong (1972) (from 1970s)
Image 23Aldo Moro (from 1970s)
Image 24Color TV-Game (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 25The Bee Gees, in 1968 (from 1970s in music)
Image 26David Bowie in the early 1970s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 27Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat shake hands, Camp David, 1978 (from 1970s)
Image 28The early 1970s' fashions were a continuation of the hippie look from the late 1960s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 29Led Zeppelin, 1977 (from 1970s in music)
Image 30By the early 1970s, miniskirts had reached an all-time popularity. This young English woman is wearing a fringed suede miniskirt, 1971. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 31Iranian prince Reza Pahlavi wearing Peacock Revolution-inspired velvet Nehru jacket and geometric print scarf, 1973. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 32The Swedish band ABBA was one of the most commercially successful European bands of the 1970s (from 1970s in music)
Image 33Two punks from the late 1970s (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 34British singer Rod Stewart, 1976. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 35The CN Tower was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure. (from 1970s)
Image 36Jose Jose (from 1970s in music)
Image 37Debbie Harry of Blondie in 1977. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 38Willie Nelson became one of the most popular country music artists during the 1970s. (from 1970s in music)
Image 39Apple II (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 40Actress Camille Keaton in 1972. Throughout most of the decade, women preferred light, natural-looking make-up for the daytime. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 41El Tri Band founder Alex Lora, on stage with the band in 2006 (from 1970s in music)
Image 42In 1971 hotpants and bell-bottomed trousers were popular fashion trends (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 43Death Race (1976) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 44Bruce Lee fostered the popularity of martial arts cinema (from 1970s)
Image 45English girl in the mid-1970s wearing a wide-sleeved shirt, belted at the waist. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 461973 Volvo P1800 sportwagon. (from 1970s)
Image 47Home Pong console (museum recreation) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 48Mao Zedong wearing gray Zhongshan suit, 1972. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 49Egyptian military vehicles crossing the Suez Canal on October 7, 1973, during the Yom Kippur War. (from 1970s)
Image 50Silk scarves were popular fashion accessories for women in the 1970s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 51TRS-80 (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 52Pink Floyd performing The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973, the highest-selling album of the decade and one of the highest-selling of all time. (from 1970s)
Image 53Viking 1, the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars, takes this picture of the landing site in Chryse Planitia (1978) (from 1970s)
Image 54Footballer George Best wore long hair in 1976. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 55Los Angeles high school students, 1973. The tousled, blond surfer hair was popular for young men in southern California. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 56The 1970 Bhola cyclone, considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster, kills an estimated 500,000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan during November 1970. (from 1970s)
Image 57Microvision (1979) is the very first handheld game console that used interchangeable cartridges. (from 1970s)
Image 58Aerosmith had seven studio albums chart on the Billboard 200 in the 1970s. Their success in the decade, particularly of their albums Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976), helped inspire future rock artists such as Slash and Kurt Cobain (from 1970s in music)
Image 59Charlie Rich (from 1970s in music)
Image 60Example of glam rock costume worn by Roy Wood and Wizzard, early 1970s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 61A wrap dress Diane von Fürstenberg designed in the 1970s (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 62Mid-70s Western-inspired outifts worn by country music group Asleep at the Wheel. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 63Frisbee player Ken Westerfield wearing draw string bell bottoms in the 1970s (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 64Commodore PET (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 65Singer Rod Stewart performing in 1976. He was one of the major British soft rock artists of the 1970s (from 1970s in music)
Image 66Paul Anka in 1961 (from 1970s in music)
Image 67Two women in 1979 wear the trendy tube tops, while the woman on the far left is wearing a rayon strapless dress (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 68Park Chung Hee (from 1970s)
Image 69British rock band Queen (pictured here in 1977) was considered to be one of the most influential bands of the '70s (as well as the '80s), along with American rock band Eagles and others (from 1970s)
Image 70Singer Billy Preston in 1974 wearing an Afro hairstyle. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 71In the 1970s, women's hair was usually worn long with a centre parting (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 72Pakistan Army Genarel A. A. K. Niazi signing surrender agreement before Sh. Jagjit Singh Aurora of Indian Army after getting defeated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against East Pakistan, which eventually liberated as Bangladesh later. (from 1970s)
Image 73The Vietnam War (1955–1975) (from 1970s)
Image 74Elton John was one of the most commercially successful solo pop acts of the 1970s (from 1970s in music)
Image 75The world map of military alliances in 1970s: Western allies (blue), Non-aligned countries (green) and Soviet allies (red) (from 1970s)
Image 76VT100 (1978) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 77Susana Giménez wearing hotpants, 1977 (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 78Anti-war protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 1971. (from 1970s)
Image 79An artist impression of an American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docking, a propaganda portrait for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project mission (from 1970s)
Image 80United States President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna, Austria (from 1970s)
Image 81Fashion models in Leipzig, GDR, 1972. One of the girls is modelling a "maxi" dress. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 82The Eagles (from 1970s in music)
Image 83American casual attire, 1974. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 84Voyager 1 passing by Jupiter's Great Red Spot February 25, 1979 (from 1970s)
Image 85Nixon displays the V-for-victory sign as he departs the White House after resigning (from 1970s)
Image 86Woman in miniskirt, 1970 (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 87America's first space station Skylab in orbit February 8, 1974 (from 1970s)
Image 88British rock band Killing Floor, 1971. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 89Line at a gas station in Maryland, June 15, 1979. (from 1970s)
Image 90Bob Marley, 1980 (from 1970s in music)
Image 91Haile Selassie was overthrown from power in Ethiopia, ending one of the longest-lasting monarchies in world history. (from 1970s)
Image 92African American couple, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, July 1975 (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 93Singer Barry Manilow wears his hair longish in the soft, layered style favoured by men in the 1970s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 94Hank Williams (from 1970s in music)
Image 95Apollo 17 Astronaut Gene Cernan becomes the last man on the Moon, December 13, 1972 (from 1970s)
Image 96American First Lady Pat Nixon wears a shirt with the wide collar that was popular until the final years of the decade. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 97Couple prom in late 1970s men wear Powder Tuxedo women wear Sleeve dress. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 98Queen, 1977 (from 1970s in music)
Image 99Nixon and Zhou toast, 1972 (from 1970s)
Image 100Ramones's lead guitarist Johnny Ramone performing in Toronto, 1977 (from 1970s in music)
Image 101Linda Ronstadt in 1976 (from 1970s in music)
Image 102Steve McQueen with sideburns, 1972. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 103A Women's Liberation march in Washington, D.C., 1970 (from 1970s)
Image 104Girl in 1973 with a "flicked" hairstyle. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 105Rigo Tovar (from 1970s in music)
Image 106Clockwise from top left: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office following the Watergate scandal in 1974; The United States was still involved in the Vietnam War in the early decade. The New York Times leaked information regarding the nation's involvement in the war. Political pressure led to America's withdrawal from the war in 1973, and the Fall of Saigon in 1975 leading to evacuations of South Vietnamese that same year; the 1973 oil crisis causes a financial crisis throughout the developed world; both the leaders of Israel and Egypt shake hands after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978; in 1971, the Pakistan Armed Forces commits the 1971 Bangladesh genocide to curb independence movements in East Pakistan, killing 300,000 to 3,000,000 people; this consequently leads to the Bangladesh Liberation War; the 1970 Bhola cyclone kills an estimated 500,000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan in November 1970, and became the deadliest natural disaster in 40 years; the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ousts Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who is later replaced by an Islamic theocracy led by Ayatollah Khomeini; the popularity of the disco music genre and subculture peaks during the mid-to-late 1970s.
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Image 107AC/DC, August 1979 (from 1970s in music)
Image 1081976 flyer advertising the racing game Fonz. (from 1970s in video games)
Image 109Debby Boone song "You Light Up My Life" had the most weeks at number one (from 1970s in music)
Image 1101979 Iranian Revolution (from 1970s)
Image 111Loretta Lynn (from 1970s in music)
Image 112Idi Amin (from 1970s)
Image 113Salah Zulfikar and Zubaida Tharwat in The Other Man (1973) (from 1970s)
Image 114Henry Mancini (from 1970s in music)
Image 115British rock band Led Zeppelin was one of the most popular and influential bands of the 1970s. The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal. (from 1970s)
Image 116Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson from Sanford and Son (from 1970s)
Image 117Margaret Thatcher shortly before becoming the United Kingdom's first woman Prime Minister in 1979. Thatcher's political and economic agenda began the first government committed to neoliberalism. (from 1970s)
Image 1181970 Dodge Challenger Trans Am, an example of a muscle car in the earlier part of the decade. (from 1970s)
Image 119Three Los Angeles Chicanos in 1974. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 120Polistil VG2 Pong clone (1978), made in Italy (from 1970s in video games)
Image 121Swedish model Ulla Jones dressed in a lurex halter top and matching flared trousers (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 122Alan Bennett in 1973, wearing a wide necktie (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 123 Fairchild Channel F (1976) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 124Flared jeans and trousers were popular with both sexes as can be seen at this East German disco party in 1977. In the socialist part of Germany (until 1990), the government regarded western influences on cultural life of their population very critical, but factually tolerated them in many fields. (from 1970s in fashion)

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