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1970 Major News Events in History. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded. Boeing 747 makes its first commercial passenger trip to London. The Aswan High Dam is completed during July of 1970. US Invades Cambodia.
April 10 – Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles are breaking up. April 11 – Apollo program: Apollo 13 ( Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon. April 13 – An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in 4 days.
1970 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.
- The Conservative Backlash. Many Americans, particularly working class and middle class whites, responded to the turbulence of the late 1960s–the urban riots, the antiwar protests, the alienating counterculture–by embracing a new kind of conservative populism.
- The Environmental Movement. In some ways, though, 1960s liberalism continued to flourish. For example, the crusade to protect the environment from all sorts of assaults–toxic industrial waste in places like Love Canal, New York; dangerous meltdowns at nuclear power plants such as the one at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania; highways through city neighborhoods–really took off during the 1970s.
- Fighting for Women’s Rights. During the 1970s, many groups of Americans continued to fight for expanded social and political rights. In 1972, after years of campaigning by feminists, Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution, which reads: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
- The Antiwar Movement. Even though very few people continued to support the war in Indochina, President Nixon feared that a retreat would make the United States look weak.
Although the Vietnam War effectively ended with the Fall of Saigon, other conflicts arose, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The United States faced political turmoil as President Richard Nixon resigned amid the Watergate scandal, and in Chile Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government.
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