For 24 hours, protestors barricade buses in Denver, Colorado to dramatize the need for greater accessibility to public transportation for the handicapped.

<p>The 1970s was an era when the women's rights, gay rights and environmental movements gained momentum. The Vietnam War came to a close, the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, the United States ended direct involvement in the Vietnam War and President Jimmy Carter grappled with an energy crisis, inflation and the Iran Hostage Crisis.</p>


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The 1970s was a decade marked by the Watergate scandal, the growing women's rights, gay rights and environmental movements, and 1970s fashion and music.

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As the Vietnam War expanded into Cambodia, anti-war rallies flared at home; at Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen killed four unarmed student protesters, shocking the nation. Americans held their breath as NASA scrambled to bring Apollo 13 astronauts home safely after their aborted moon mission. Some 20 million people celebrated the first Earth Day, rock icons Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix both died of drug overdoses at age 27, and the Beatles called it quits.

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1974 was a year of firsts. Richard Nixon, enmeshed in the Watergate scandal, became the first American president to resign from office. Hank Aaron became the first baseball player to top Babe Ruth’s career home run record. Scientists in Ethiopia found the first skeleton of a 3-million-year-old human ancestor that walked upright, while archaeologists in China unearthed an army of more than 8,000 lifesize terracotta warriors. In America, disco fever raged, and Archie Bunker broke TV sitcom ground with his blunt and bigoted take on hot-button social issues. 

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Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market

“People” magazine launches

The Amityville murders

Ben & Jerry’s opens its first ice cream shop

Joseph Searles III becomes first Black member of the New York Stock Exchange

“The Way We Were” becomes Barbra Streisand’s first No. 1 hit

Bob Marley headlines One Love Peace Concert

Koko the Gorilla is born at the San Francisco Zoo

Delta Flight 723 crashes in fog at Boston Logan

Greenpeace is born

Over 2,000 protesters occupy the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant construction site

“Gang of 19” activists occupy Denver intersection to protest inaccessibility on the city’s bus system