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For advertising information, call (858) 537-2280 • [email protected] September 1, 2014 THE MILITARY PRESS 21
Diana Ross• “I’ll Be There,” Jackson 5• “Get Ready,” Rare Earth• “Let It Be,” Beatles• “Band of Gold,” Freda Payne
TV shows• All My Children• The Partridge Family• Mary Tyler Moore• The Odd Couple• McCloud• Nanny and the Professor• NFL Monday Night Football• Flip
BORN THIS YEAR: Kelly Ripa, talk show host.Above left: Matt Damon, actor; Tina Fey, comedian
and actress; Vince Vaughn, actor;Uma Thurman, actress
• Jimi Hendrix dies of barbiturate overdose in London
• Janis Joplin dies in a cheap
motel from a heroin overdose
• The first New York Marathon is run
Movies• M•A•S•H• Patton• Woodstock• Hello, Dolly!• Catch-22• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Music• “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Simon
and Garfunkel• “(They Long To Be) Close to You,” Car-
penters• “American Woman / No Sugar To-
night,” Guess Who• “Raindrops Keep Falling on My
Head,” B.J. Thomas• “War,” Edwin Starr• “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,”
• Income per year ....... $9,400• Minimum wage ........... $1.60• New house ............ $23,450• Monthly rent ................. $140• New car .................... $2,500• Gallon of gas .................. 36¢• Dozen eggs .................... 62¢• Gallon of milk ............... $1.15• Loaf of bread ..................... 25• First-class stamp .............. 6¢• Movie ticket ................. $1.30
AVERAGE COSTOF LIVING
Born this year• Mariah Carey,
singer• Queen Latifah,
actress• Melissa McCarthy,
actress• Sarah Silverman,
comedian• Heather Graham,
actress• Phil Mickelson,
golfer• Mark Foster,
Olympian• UmaThurman,
actress• Leah Remini, TV
actress
970remember when...
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1970 PlymouthRoadrunnerConvertibleKent State Shootings
1970 Datsun240Z
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Richard Nixon37th President of the United States
Served from Jan. 20, 1969 to Aug. 9, 1974
World events• Cyclone in Bangladesh kills
500,000• Earthquake in Peru kills 67,000• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
goes into effect after ratifi-cation by 43 nations
• Paul McCartney an-nounces the Beatles
have disbanded• Apollo 13
mission to moon aban-doned
• Japan becomes the
world’s “fourth space power,”
after the Soviet Union (1957), the U.S. (1958), and
France (1965)• Presi- dent Abdel Nasser of
Egypt dies; 5 million turn out to honor him
• The Liberian registered tanker Pacific Glory spills up to 100,000 gallons of crude oil into the English Channel, creating a huge oil slick and environ-mental disaster
• South Australia suf-fers its worst number of fires, killing at least 75 and injuring 800
• U.S. invades Cam-bodia
• Cholera epidemic in Istanbul
• World’s population reaches 3.63 billion
• Japan has 1,083 people per sq. mile
• Aswan High Dam in Egypt is com-pleted
• Brazil wins third World Cup with Pele as
the captain
U.S. news• First Earth Day cel-
ebrated• Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) begins op-
eration• U.S. increases
import duty taxes to pro-tect American jobs
• U.S. population reaches 205 million; 85 people per sq. mile
• Hurricane Celia makes landfall near Corpus Christi, Tex-
as, leaving 15 dead• Voting age lowered to 18 from 21
• California be-comes first state
to adopt “no
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fault” divorce• Chicago Seven
defendants found guilty of intent to incite a riot in 1968
• Dow Jones drops to 631• National Guard fire on and kill
four protestors at Kent State
Technology• The daisy-wheel printer in-
vented• The floppy disk in-
vented
Popular culture• Isle of Wight Fes-
tival — 600,000 attend largest rock festival of
all time. Lineup includes Jimi Hendrix, The Who,
The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan
Baez, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Jethro Tull
Spiro Agnew39th Vice President of the United StatesServed from Jan. 20, 1969 toOct. 10, 1973 (resigned)
1955Cadillac
1970Porsche
“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.” — Richard Nixon
Kent State Shootings
