Music continues to make significant impact with the largest ever rock festival held on the Isle of Wight with 600,000 people attending, including some of the biggest name in music including Jimi Hendrix and The Who.
This is also the year The Concord makes its first its first supersonic flight.
The age of voting is now lowered to 18 in the US.
Concorde first supersonic flight
Jumbo Jet goes into service
Isle of Wight Festival
Chicago Seven found guilty
Aswan High Dam completed
US and the UK lowers the voting age to 18
100,000 demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War
First Earth Day
Beatles disband
Population:
- Wake County: 230,834
- NC: 5,084,000
- USA: 205,100,000
National Debt:
- $370,918,706,949 (1970)
- $18,152,809,942,589 (2015)
Value of a Dollar: $1 in 1970 is $6.22 in 2015
Cost Of Living 1970:
- Yearly Inflation Rate USA: 5.84%
- Average Cost of new house: $23,450
- Average Monthly Rent: $140
- Average Yearly Wages: $9,400
- Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average: 838
- Schaefer Pen: $9.95
- US postage stamp: $.06
- Sports Illustrated: $.15
- Men’s Westclox Watch: $18
- AMC Gremlin: $1,879
- Hamburger at McDonalds: $.18
- Ticket to Disneyland: Adult admission and 13 Adventure tickets: $5.25
Ounce of Gold Price:
- The cost of a Ounce of Gold was $35.94
- The inflation-adjusted price of a Ounce of Gold was $221.85
Cost of a movie ticket: $1.55
Inflation-adjusted price of a movie ticket: $9.57
The cost of a movie ticket in 2015: $7.92
Top 5 Movies:
- Love Story
- Airport
- MASH
- Patton
- Woodstock
- Best Picture: Patton
- Best Actor: George C. Scott – Patton
- Best Actress: Glenda Jackson – Women In Love
- Best Supporting Actor: John Mills – Ryan’s Daughter
- Best Supporting Actress: Helen Hayes – Airport
- Marcus Welby, M.D. – ABC – 17,789,600
- The Flip Wilson Show – NBC – 16,767,900
- Here’s Lucy – CBS – 15,686,100
- Ironside – NBC – 15,445,700
- Gunsmoke – CBS – 15,325,500
- ABC Movie of the Week – ABC – 15,085,100
- Hawaii Five-O – CBS – 15,025,000
- Medical Center -CBS – 14,724,500
- Bonanza – NBC – 14,363,900
- The F.B.I. – ABC – 13,823,000
- Archies – Sugar, Sugar
- Fifth Dimension – Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In
- Temptations – I Can’t Get Next To You
- Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women
- Sly and The Family Stone – Everyday People
- Tommy Roe – Dizzy
- Sly and The Family Stone – Hot Fun In The Summertime
- Tom Jones -I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
- Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup
- Tommy James and The Shondells – Crimson And Clover
- Three Dog Night – One
- Tommy James and The Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion
- Cowsills – Hair
- Marvin Gaye – Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
- Henry Mancini and His Orch. – Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet
- Youngbloods – Get Together
- Friends Of Distinction – Grazin’ In The Grass
- Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary
- Jr. Walker and The All Stars – What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
- Baby, Baby – David Houston
- A Week In A Country Jail – Tom T. Hall
- It’s Just A Matter Of Time – Sonny James
- The Fightin’ Side Of Me – Merle Haggard
- Tennessee Bird Walk – Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
- Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone – Charley Pride
- My Woman, My Woman, My Wife – Marty Robbins
- The Pool Shark – Dave Dudley
- My Love – Sonny James
- Hello Darlin’ – Conway Twitty
- He Loves Me All The Way – Tammy Wynette
- Wonder Could I Live There Anymore – Charlie Pride
- Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On – Sonny James
- All For The Love OF Sunshine – Hank Williams Jr. w/ The Mike Curb Congregation
- For The Good Times – Ray Price
- There Must Be More To Love Than This – Jerry Lee Lewis
- Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash
- Run, Woman, Run – Tammy Wynette
- I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me – Charley Pride
- Fifteen Years Ago – Conway Twitty
ACC Football Champ: Wake Forest
ACC Basketball Champs: NC State (NCSU 42 – South Carolina 39 Double Overtime Game)
World Series Winner: Baltimore Orioles over the Cincinnati Reds – 4 games to 1
Heavyweight Boxing Champ: Joe Frazier (Universal)
Super Bowl IV: Kansas City Chiefs 23 (Kansas City Chiefs 23 – Minnesota Vikings 7)
NASCAR Season Winner: Bobby Isaac
Masters Winner: Billy Casper – 279 (-9) (Winners share $25,000)
Wimbledon Winners:
- Men’s Singles: Australia John Newcombe defeated Australia Ken Rosewall, 5–7, 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1
- Women’s Singles: Australia Margaret Court defeated United States Billie Jean King, 14–12, 11–9
- Men’s Doubles: Australia John Newcombe / Australia Tony Roche defeated Australia Ken Rosewall / Australia Fred Stolle, 10–8, 6–3, 6–1
- Women’s Doubles: United States Rosemary Casals / United States Billie Jean King defeated France Françoise Dürr / United Kingdom Virginia Wade, 6–2, 6–3
- Mixed Doubles: United States Rosemary Casals / Romania Ilie Năstase defeated Soviet Union Olga Morozova / Soviet Union Alex Metreveli, 6–3, 4–6, 9–7