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Boeing 747 makes its first commercial passenger trip to London. More Information for the completion of the first Boeing 747 Flight. The world's first jumbo-jet, the Boeing 747, has its first commercial flight on January 22nd of 1970. The plane was operated by Pan-Am and the flight traveled from New York to London carrying 332 passengers and 18 crew...
The Luna 17 Mission is launched by the USSR, carrying the first successful remote-controlled robotic lunar rover, Lunokhod 1, to the moon. More Information and Timeline for Luna 17 and Lunokhod. The Soviet Union launches the Luna 17 mission on November 10, 1970. The Luna 17 spacecraft carried a controllable robotic rover named Lunokhod 1 which woul...
The Aswan High Dam is completed during July of 1970. Located across the Nile river in Egypt, the dam cost about one billion dollars and took eleven years of construction to build. The dam measured at nearly 350 feet tall, over 12,500 feet long, and produced massive amounts of hydroelectric power, up to ten billion kilowatt hours every year. While b...
US Invades Cambodia More Information and Timeline for the US Invasion of Cambodia 1. In February of 1969 President Nixon and his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, discuss plans for bombing the North Vietnamese supply routes that went through Cambodia. 2. In March of 1969, Nixon launches the secretive campaign called "Operation Menu" in wh...
The USSR launches the Venera 7 spacecraft. More Information for Venera 7. The Soviet Union launched the Venera 7 spacecraft during August of 1970. The Venera 7 spacecraft's mission was to land on the planet of Venus and gather data from the surface. The probe successfully approached Venus during December of that year. As it made its descent towards...
Chicago Seven defendants found guilty of intent to incite a riot in 1968 ( later overturned by Court of Appeal ) More Information and Timeline for the Chicago Seven 1. In 1967, the Democratic Party choose to hold the 1968 National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. 2. In 1968, Anti-war groups ask the city for permits to protest near the Democratic Na...
December 7, 1970: West Pakistan's Bhutto loses control of government to East Pakistan's Mujibur in Pakistan election. December 15, 1970: Venera 7 lands on Venus. December 21, 1970: President Nixon and Elvis Presley have famous meeting. The following events occurred in December 1970 :
December 6, 1973 – Gerald R. Ford becomes the first person to be appointed vice president under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. 1973 – Watergate scandal: President Nixon fires two attorneys general, and their appointed acting attorney general replacement fires the Watergate Special Prosecutor over disposition of the secret tapes.
17th December » Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens. 23rd December » The List of tenants in One World Trade Center North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City New York, New York is topped out at convert 1368 ft m, making it the tallest building in the world.
November 21, 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there. December 7, 1970 – The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
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 ...
