| 1970 | Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile. |
| 1971 | Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. |
| 1972 | Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games. |
| 1972 | The Price Is Right premieres on CBS.
It currently is the longest running game show on American television. |
| 1975 | The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed. |
| 1977 | The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco. |
| 1985 | The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon. |
| 1989 | In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place. |
| 1998 | Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University. |
| 2001 | Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu
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