Music N' More: 1970s Pop Culture

History

-June 29, 1972: Supreme Court rules death penalty is unconstitutional
-Jan. 18, 1977: scientists identify bacteria known to cause mysterious Legionnaire's Disease
-May 28, 1977: Worst disaster EVER! One of the most deadly nightclub fires EVER!!! The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Newport, Ky, burned to the ground on this night, killing 163 people, 2 more dying from their injuries and injuring over 200.

-Roe v. Wade: court ruling overturns state laws prohibiting 1st and 2nd trimester abortions

-The Beatles release their Let It Be album, which will be the last studio album they release together before they break up

-British director Stanley Kubrick releases A Clockwork Orange
-Charles Manson found guilty of the murder of Sharon Tate and her unborn child
-Rioting for better reforms results in a bloodbath, leaving 10 guards and 32 prisoners dead in Attica State Prison in Buffalo, N.Y. after other guards seized control
-Roots appears on TV and is the most watched show in history
-David Berkowitz, aka The Son of Sam, recieves life in prison for 6 murders
-Sex Pistols front man Sid Vicious dies at 22 from heroin overdose
-Anti Apartheid activist Steven Biko is found dead after an apparent beating in a South African jail cell

Steven Biko

-Elvis is found dead
-Margaret Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minsister in England(Great Britain, either one)

She looks like a nice lady. Margaret Thatcher

-Sony Walkman is introduced
-The Tv series Roots appears
-3 Mile Island incident. 3 Mile Island in New Jersey has a meltdown
-Jonestown Massacre: Jim Jones and followers commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide laced juice in Guyana
-Kent State Shooting: 4 students were gunned down by Nat'l Guard at Kent State University in Ohio after protesting Vietnam.
-American Top 40, hosted by DJ Casey Kasem, becomes first national radio show with a countdown of songs
-Watergate scandal: 5 men break into the Watergate office
-New York blackout lasts for 25 hours, resulting in mass looting and other crimes
-Nov. 27, 1978: Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first openly gay politician, is assassinated by Dan White

Harvey Milk

Movies

-Ned Kelly

-Man with the Golden Gun
-The Godfather
-The Godfather
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-A Clockwork Orange
-The Rocky Horror Picture Show
-American Grafitti
-The French Connection
-M*A*S*H
-The Deer Hunter
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-Serpico

-Nashville
-Dirty Harry
-Carrie
-Fiddler on the Roof
-The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
-Monty Python's Life of Brian
-Klute
-Tommy
-Cabaret
-The Poseidon Adventure
-The Towering Inferno
-Dog Day Afternoon
-Saturday Night Fever

Music

-Earth, Wind and Fire