We see the rise of Apple, Microsoft. We see the end of the Vietnam Civil War which some Vietnamese called the American War. Apollo 13 didn't land on the moon in 1970. Disney World opened in 1971. Intel released the 4004, the first microprocessor. PONG was one of the first video games ever and it premiered in 1972. The US Supreme Court decided to violate state rights via Roe v. Wade in 1973, the case was not merely about abortion but about the relation between state power and tyrannical federal powers as expressed in the 9th and 10th amendments. Nixon resigned in 1974 during the Watergate thing. Sony introduces the Betamax video tape system in 1975. Saturday Night Live (SNL) premiered in 1975. NASA introduces the first space shuttle, the Enterprise in 1976. Control of the Panama Canal is returned to Panama from the United States and Star Wars premiered in 1977. Garfield started eating and sleeping a whole lot in 1978. Sony introduced The Walkman (a portable music player) in 1979.

1970

January 26 - Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.

February 1 – The American Football League and National Football League officially merge under the NFL's name, with its 26 teams realigned into the American Football Conference and National Football Conference.

July 1 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is subordinated to the Public Health Service.

September 29 - The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.

October 2 - Pink Floyd releases Atom Heart Mother. It becomes their first number one album.

November 3 - Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.

December 23 - The North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.

December 29 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs into law the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

December 31 – Paul McCartney sues in Britain to dissolve The Beatles's legal partnership.

1971

In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPANET e-mail between host computers. ARPANET was an earlier version of the Internet. Think of it like a demo, a beta. ARPANET came out of ARPA which started in 1958 in response to Sputnik and space related stuff they had was transferred to NASA in 1960. ARPA was involved in Transit or NavSat in 1959 which later became the Global Positioning System (GPS). ARPA became DARPA in 1972. Life Log, AKA Facebook, was developed by DARPA. Other websites and other things may have connections to DARPA and such. ARPANET was probably the first version of what eventually become the Internet in the 1990s. So, this email thing was 20 years before the '90s. ARPANET started in the 1960s by RAND Corporation which started back in 1948 by people from the U.S. War Department, etc. The inspiration to create RAND goes back to a conversation back in 1945 which just so happens to be the same year World War II ended. RAND means research and development. Part of the reason they started it was a desire not to lose scientists around the world. They were worring about mobility. The War Department was created by George Washington in 1789. Also, IBM started in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), two years before the beginning of the not federal Federal Reserve. people started making things which would serve as the beginning stages of the development of calculators, computing devices, and computers, back in the 1880s. Some or all of the punch cards they had at work came from IBM. One of the guys was Thomas J. Watson Sr. who brought to IBM some of the stuff he learned from his previous job at the National Cash Register (NCR) which started in 1879. In 1912, NCR (IBM) was found guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. Out of the business of selling cash registers came computers. IBM helped Hitler and the Nazi Germany find, count, and kill Jews during World War II. One of the beginning stages of ARPANET was in 1965 via Donald Davies of National Physical Laboratory (NPL) which was founded in 1900 which derived from the The King's Observatory or Kew Observatory which was built in 1769 in Richmond, London. It was built to assist in King George III's observation of the transit of Venus. Responsibility for the facility was transferred to the Royal Society in 1871. The Royal Society was founded in 1660 which may have stem from the Invisible College which may go back as far as 1624 and may relate to the Salomon's House. Electro-mechanical telegraphy was developed in the 1830s and 1840s. Before printers and fax machines, there were teleprinters or TTY. In 1835 Samuel Morse devised a recording telegraph, and Morse code was born. The ability to communicate online is like an advance electronic network of telegraphs. ComLogNet dates back to 1958, developed by IBM, RCA, Western Union; it later became the AUTODIN. In 1982, a follow-on project, AUTODIN II, was terminated in favor of using ARPANET technology for the Defense Data Network (including a military subnet known as MILNET). The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) which stems back to 1774 as war started and more so as a military defense force in 1789, and DoD was officially created in 1947 alongside of the formation of the CIA, NSC, the Air Force, etc. ARPA came out of the DoD in 1958. I say that to say it looks like the origin of the Internet and computers in general stem from a variety of people, groups, companies, subjects, topics, and different fields of study and other things including science, astrology, physics, the mechanic inter-workings of cash registers of the 1800s, calculators, time cards.

July 5 – Right to vote: The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.

July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, a day after landing on the Moon.

August 18 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.

August 19–22 – A right-wing coup ignites a rebellion in Bolivia. Miners and students join troops to support president Juan José Torres, but eventually Hugo Banzer takes over.

October 1 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.

October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966).

November 3 – The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published. Linux and Ubuntu derived from Unix which originated from AT&T and the Bell Labs.

December 30 – The first McDonald's in Australia opens in Yagoona, Sydney.

1972

January 16 - Super Bowl VI: the Dallas Cowboys win their first National Football League championship, defeating the Miami Dolphins 24–3 in New Orleans.

January 24 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam; he had spent 28 years in the jungle, having failed to surrender after World War II.

February 18 – The California Supreme Court voids the state's death penalty, commuting all death sentences to life in prison.

February 21 – February 28 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.

March 15 – The Godfather has its premiere at the Loew's State Theatre in New York City.

May 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the mining of Haiphong Harbor in Vietnam.

May 26 - Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.

June 17 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

July 21 - Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee police for public obscenity, for reciting his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" at Summerfest.

July 23 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.

November 29 - Atari, Inc. kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.

December 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This is currently the last manned mission to the Moon.

1973

January 14 - Elvis Presley's concert in Hawaii is the first worldwide telecast by an entertainer that is watched by more people than watched the Apollo moon landings.

January 22 - Roe v. Wade: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion.

February 13 – The United States dollar is devalued by 10%. This is ten years after JFK was trying to free the dollar. Government murdered JFK and then lied about it and called people who talked about it conspiracy theorists.

March 27 – At the 45th Academy Awards, The Godfather wins best picture.[4]

March 29 – The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam.

April 1 - Value Added Tax (VAT) is introduced in the United Kingdom.

April 4 – The World Trade Center complex in New York City is officially dedicated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

April 10 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan introduced its new constitution, its supreme law.

May 27 – Soviet copyright law begins to recognize foreign copyrights.

June 1 – The Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.

June 29 – Tanquetazo: failed coup attempt in Chile led by Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Souper against the government of Socialist president Salvador Allende.

June 27 – Coup d'état in Uruguay: pressed by the military, President Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament; a 12-year-long civic-military dictatorship begins.

July 1 – The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is founded.

November 16 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 (Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an 84-day mission.

November 17 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

November 27 – The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.

December 6 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; he is sworn in the same day.

December 15 – Gay rights: The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II. That was a bad idea.

December 16 – O. J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills became the first running back to rush for 2,000 yards in a pro football season.

1974

February 8 – After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.

May 30 - NASA's ATS-6 satellite is launched.

August 9 - Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th President of the United States upon Nixon's resignation.

August 14 - Turkey invades Cyprus for the second time, occupying 37% of the island's territory.

September 8 - TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea 18 minutes after takeoff from Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people.

September 20 – The Kootenai War is declared, and 10-cent tolls are charged on U.S. Highway 95.

November 13 – McDonald's opens its first UK restaurant in Woolwich, South East London.

November 24 – A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.

December 17 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations. This adds to my concern regarding aggressive and excessive centralized tyranny, subjective abuse, weaponized control, bias, double-standard enforcement, manipulation, etc, regarding copyrights, patents, trademarks, intellectual property, and the list goes on and on and on and on my friend, many different things regarding stuff, products, services, idea, actual, tangible, intangible, things regarding fair use, things regarding publishers, platforms, digital electricity, brain waves which are electrical waves as well, the Internet, books, printing presses, the likeness of people, plagiarism, copy and paste, public domain, other domains, copyleft, the history going back at least to the 1500s or even farther over 500 years regarding laws and kings and such. On top of that is the UN which is connected to the Copyright Debate. I can talk all day about the UN. I can already talk all day about Copyright. This marks a union of the two. The UN and Copyright uniting like a marriage of tyranny. The theory of Copyright is good. The problem comes in how it is abused and a number of things. Just like Communism, Copyright is good. Communism is good. But Communism cannot work. It cannot work globally. Communism might work to some extent inside a local and organic family, a household, a group of ten people or less. I'm not sure how many people and the exact limits Communism has. Copyright has limits too. But it takes a long time to explain that to normal people who are taught to wear masks, to trust Fauci, the CDC, Covid Vaccines which are killing people, and Copyright Laws too. The same people who told you to wear masks also told you to follow Copyright Laws. And laws are laws. You follow laws. But to what extent and where do you draw the line? If the law says run around and murder babies and everyone right now, do you do it? You should have a moral compass aligned to eternal principles over temporary subjective persuasion and feelings.

1975

January 6 - Game show Wheel of Fortune premieres on NBC.

January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.

November 6 – The Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

November 14 – Madrid Accords: Spain abandons Western Sahara.

November 20 - Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

November 29 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).

December 25 - The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) is shown on British television for the first time, on BBC One.

1976

In 1976, the first laser printer is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800). Also, California's sodomy law is repealed. The term memetics is first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.

In 1976, Diffie–Hellman key exchange cryptography is proposed. This makes me wonder how this may compare to Bitcoin which was launched in 2009, cryptography, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, decentralization, keys, wallets, money exchanges, etc. I don't know if this would be a precursor to some of these things.

March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain until 1999, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. That record is broken by The Ten Commandments in 1996, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973 and is still (as of 2020) telecast by that network.

March 22 – Star Wars begins filming in Tunisia.

April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

April 13 - The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

May 11 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act.

July 2 – North Vietnam dissolves the Provisional Government of South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

July 30 - Bruce Jenner (who now pretends to be Caitlyn Jenner) wins the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He is a man. He pretends to be a woman now. I would rather be murdered than to lie and say a man is a woman. He is not.

August 14 - Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.

September 1 - September 3 – Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-up color photos of the planet's surface.

September 13 – The Muppet Show is broadcast for the first time on ITV which is legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1932).[1] ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK.

September 28 – American singer Stevie Wonder releases his hit album Songs in the Key of Life.

October 25 – Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys, is pardoned. I'm not sure why he was pardoned. If he was guilty of raping women, then why pardon him? If he is innocent of the accusation, then that would be understandable.

November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.

December 3 - Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica.

December 8 - The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Río. Also, that same day, Hotel California by the Eagles is released.

December 10 - The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques. Sounds like an indirect reference to weather weapons and such.

1977

January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.

January 17 - Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah (the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the U.S.).

March 26 – Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson.

April 5 – Beginning of demonstrations in 10 cities across the U.S., the longest being the 3.5 week sit-in the San Francisco Federal Building to persuade President Jimmy Carter to implement the first Federal civil rights law for people with disabilities, Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, without reinstituting the "separate but equal" doctrine.

April 9 – Spain legalizes the Communist Party of Spain, which had been outlawed since 1939.

April 30 - The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

May 25 – George Lucas's Star Wars opens in cinemas and becomes the highest-grossing film of its time.

June 5 - The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109–107 to win the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals four games to two. Bill Walton is selected as the MVP of the series.

June 10 - The first Apple II series computers go on sale.

June 30 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces the cancellation of the B-1 Bomber program (it is later revived by the Reagan Administration).

August 3 - United States Senate hearings on Project MK-Ultra are held.

August 3 - The Tandy Corporation TRS-80 Model I computer is announced at a press conference.

August 9 – Hulk Hogan debuts as The Super Destroyer for Championship Wrestling from Florida when he is defeated by Don Serrano at John Carroll Catholic High School's gym in Fort Pierce, Florida

August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

August 15 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the Wow! signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.

August 16 - Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll", dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans line the streets of Memphis for his funeral, which occurred on August 18. Some think he faked his death or something. I would say he probably died or his body double died. Some theories suggest one of his body doubles was there that day and died. Some of this might be similar to Michael Jackson is Still Alive theories. I would imagine there is a higher probability that Elvis faked his death than MJ. Well, unless if a Michael body double died. If the real Mike was there that day he was announced dead, it would be so much harder for him to somehow escape while the whole world was watching the ambulance slowly come to his house to take away his dead body. I remember watching that day in 2009 when MJ died. I'm not familiar with the details around the death of Elvis. But I would say the same thing that if the real Elvis was in his house the day he was announced dead, then it would be very hard for him to slip out while the world was watching. Not impossible but very hard. There would be the question of if doctors and nurses and others fingerprinted and ID the alleged bodies of JFK, Elvis, Michael Jackson, etc. The information regarding these details relating to dental records, the exact measurements of their bodies, specific body parts, weight, height, width, blood tests, DNA tests, etc. You would need to consult forensic experts like Dexter Morgan to do a full-body audit of the bodies at question. Sometimes, bodies are replaced with other bodies. Sometimes, dead bodies can be stolen, lost, misplaced, taken away, hidden away, etc. Sometimes, they get rid of the evidence of the exact details. Sometimes, they burn up dead bodies or other things. So, it is really hard to prove or disprove whether or not somebody faked their death or not faked their death. I would imagine all three of these people for example, JFK, Elvis, and Michael Jackson, are all probably dead by now. If MJ faked his death, I would imagine he would have came back by now to do a world tour and confront the new world order, the globalists, like Trump tried to do or tries to do. That doesn't mean MJ is dead right now. But I do believe MJ is probably dead now. I can't prove when they died. Well, JFK died right on camera. But Elvis and MJ did not. I'm not going to say JFK had no body doubles but I will say it looked like the real JFK was the one who was shot multiple times that one day.

September 11 – Atari, Inc. releases its Video Computer System in North America.

September 13 – Soap debuts on ABC and launches the career of Billy Crystal.

September 29 - The modern Food Stamp Program begins when the Food Stamp Act of 1977 is enacted.

October 1 – Energy Research and Development Administration combined with the Federal Energy Administration to form United States Department of Energy.

October 7 - The Soviet Union adopts its third Constitution. The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.

October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members.

October 14 – Anita Bryant is hit with pies by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa.

October 26 - The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science, allegedly speaking. I may disagree with some of that on several levels. People die from vaccines. They've paid billions of dollars to silence the families of patients who died from vaccines for over forty years. It is insane. Smallpox may be a problem. There are cures. There are things we can do to fight diseases and Covid, Delta, Omicron, etc. But too often, they're behind weaponizing and creating diseases and problems. They come back with alleged cures to the problems they created in the first place.

November 1 – 2060 Chiron, first of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.

November 22 - The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol.

November 30 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations.

December 6 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.

1978

In 1978, The Space Invaders arcade video game is released by Taito.

March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.

March 3 - Ethiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of Cuban soldiers, against Somalian troops in the Ogaden.

July 3 – The Amazon Co-operation Treaty (ACT) is signed.

August 12 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is concluded.

September – The African National Congress attempts to kill about 500 of its own cadres by poisoning their food because an infiltrated enemy agent cannot be identified.[29]

September 5 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.

October 13 – The Soviet Union launches a major Russification campaign throughout all union republics.

October 14 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law which allows homebrewing of beer in the United States.

October 16 – Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605. He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523).

December 16 - Train 87 from Nanjing to Xining collides with train 368 from Xi'an to Xuzhou near Yangzhuang railway station in China, killing 106, injuring 218.

December 22 - Argentina begins Operation Soberanía against Chile, but Argentinian forces quickly withdraw.

1979

The One-child policy is introduced in China – it contributes to Missing women of China. It was loosened in 2013 and again more so around 2022 where the President was telling Chinese to have at least three children per family I believe which is something globalists and others are against. The Chinese government is trying to take over the world. I don't think Russia is trying to take over the world. But some globalists and other groups are trying to take over the world. China is not necessarily working lock-step with globalists, etc. Same thing regarding different globalist factions who pretend to work with each other but are stabbing each other in the back and everything. It is a big mess. Some of them do believe in Agenda 2030, in the Great Reset, in Depopulation which is in active opposition to encouraging people to have more than one child per kid. Globalists love abortion, etc.

January 7 – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border, ending large-scale fighting.

February 7 - Iranian Revolution: Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.

February 17 – The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.

February 18 - The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.

March 4 - The U.S. Voyager 1 spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.

March 19 - C-SPAN, an American television channel focusing on government and public affairs, is launched.

March 22 – The NHL votes to approve its merger with the WHA, effective in the fall.

March 26 - Michigan State University, led by Earvin "Magic" Johnson, defeats Larry Bird-led Indiana State 75–64 in the NCAA tournament championship game at Salt Lake City.

April 1 - Dale Earnhardt Sr wins his first career NASCAR race at the 1979 Southeastern 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. He would go on to win 76 races and 7 championships during his career. Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.

April 2 - In Japan, the channel of TV Asahi premieres Doraemon.

May 1 – Greenland is granted limited autonomy from Denmark, with its own Parliament sitting in Nuuk.

June 1 - The Seattle SuperSonics win the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.

June 2 - Los Angeles' city council passes the city's first homosexual rights bill signed without fanfare by mayor Tom Bradley.

June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.

June 22 – The Muppet Movie is released.

August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his breakthrough album Off the Wall. It sells 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7× platinum album.

September 1 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).

September 13 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).

October 6 – Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy.

October 14 – National March for gay rights takes place in Washington, D.C., involving tens of thousands of people.

October 26 - The eradication of the smallpox virus is announced by the World Health Organization, making smallpox the first of only two human diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other). I will add, allegedly and there is probably more to the story than just that.

December 6 – The world premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

December 24 - The Soviet Union covertly launches its invasion of Afghanistan - 3 days later, PDPA general secretary Hafizullah Amin is executed in Operation Storm-333 and Babrak Karmal replaces him, beginning the war. This is the day before Christmas Day. I believe the Soviet Union eventually fail at their attempts of invading the wild men of the caves of that land. They eventually retreat either that year or perhaps years later.