Decades: 1970

1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

2. Jaws (1975)

3. The Exorcist (1977)

4. Grease (1978)

5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

1970
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Bridge Over Troubled Water
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Bridge Over Troubled Water
SONG OF THE YEAR
Bridge Over Troubled Water
BEST NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Carpenters
 

1971
RECORD OF THE YEAR
It's Too Late
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Tapestry
SONG OF THE YEAR
You've Got A Friend
BEST NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Carly Simon
 

1972
RECORD OF THE YEAR
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The Concert For Bangla Desh
SONG OF THE YEAR
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
BEST NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
America

1973
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Killing Me Softly With His Song
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Innervisions
SONG OF THE YEAR
Killing Me Softly With His Song
BEST NEW ARTIST
Bette Midler
 

1974
RECORD OF THE YEAR
I Honestly Love You
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Fulfillingness' First Finale
SONG OF THE YEAR
The Way We Were
BEST NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Marvin Hamlisch
 

1975
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Love Will Keep Us Together
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Still Crazy After All These Years
SONG OF THE YEAR
Send In The Clowns
BEST NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Natalie Cole
 

1976
RECORD OF THE YEAR
This Masquerade
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Songs In The Key Of Life
SONG OF THE YEAR
I Write The Songs
BEST NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Starland Vocal Band
 

1977
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Hotel California
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Rumours
SONG OF THE YEAR
Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
SONG OF THE YEAR
You Light Up My Life
BEST NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Debby Boone
 

1978
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Just The Way You Are
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Saturday Night Fever - Soundtrack
SONG OF THE YEAR
Just The Way You Are
BEST NEW ARTIST
A Taste Of Honey
 

1979
RECORD OF THE YEAR
What A Fool Believes
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
52nd Street
SONG OF THE YEAR
What A Fool Believes
BEST NEW ARTIST
Rickie Lee Jones
 

37th President Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (1969-1973)

Vice President Gerald Ford (1973-1974)

38th President Gerald Ford (1974-1977)

Vice President Nelson Rockefeller 

39th President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

Vice President Walter F. Mondale

Apollo 13 

Apollo 13 was to be the third lunar landing attempt, but the mission was aborted after rupture of service module oxygen tank. Still, it was classified as a "successful failure" because of the experience gained in rescuing the crew. 

...oxygen tank No. 2 blew up, causing the No. 1 tank to also fail. The command module's normal supply of electricity, light and water was lost, and they were about 200,000 miles from Earth.

The message came in the form of a sharp bang and vibration at 9:08 p.m. April 13. Swigert saw a warning light that accompanied the bang and said, "Houston, we've had a problem here." (Continue reading from National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Kent State Shootings

In May 1970, students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. When the Guardsmen shot and killed four students on May 4, the Kent State Shootings became the focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. (Continue reading from Ohio History Central)

Walt Disney World Opens

On October 1, 1971, the Walt Disney World Resort officially opened, including Magic Kingdom Park, Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Disney’s Polynesian Resort and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. And on that day in 1971, William Windsor, Jr., was our record-breaking first guest. (Continue reading from Disney Parks Blog)

The park cost an estimated $400 million to build and now attracts around 25 million visitors annually. When Disney World opened in 1971, the price for admission was $3.50. A single-day ticket now is $105 for anyone over 10 years old. (Continue reading from CNN)

Gay Liberation Day

Gay rights activists Foster Gunnison and Craig Rodwell lead a gay rights march in New York on June 28, 1970, then known as Gay Liberation Day. The march was held on the first anniversary of the police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. The raid led to demonstrations and protests by the gay community. The Stonewall riots helped bring together the gay community in New York, and by 1971 gay rights groups had formed in almost all of the major cities in America. (Continue reading from CNN)

Munich Massacre

On September 5, 1972, the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, were in the throes of a hostage crisis. Two Israeli athletes had been killed and nine taken hostage by members of Black September, a Palestinian terrorist movement demanding the release of political prisoners by the Israeli government. Hours later, all nine hostages, five terrorists and one police officer were dead. (Continue reading from CNN)

The Exorcist Movie

"The Exorcist," based off the best-selling novel by William Peter Blatty about a demonically possessed 12-year-old girl, was released in December 1973. It went on to become one of the most popular films of all time. It was the first horror film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, and Blatty won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. (Continue reading from CNN)

Oil Embargo

By 1973, OPEC had demanded that foreign oil corporations increase prices and cede greater shares of revenue to their local subsidiaries. In April, the Nixon administration announced a new energy strategy to boost domestic production to reduce U.S. vulnerability to oil imports and ease the strain of nationwide fuel shortages. That vulnerability would become overtly clear in the fall of that year.

The price of oil per barrel first doubled, then quadrupled, imposing skyrocketing costs on consumers and structural challenges to the stability of whole national economies. Since the embargo coincided with a devaluation of the dollar, a global recession seemed imminent. (Continue reading from Office of the Historian)

Nixon Resignation

U.S. President Richard Nixon gestures in the doorway of a helicopter on August 9, 1974, after leaving the White House following his resignation over the Watergate scandal. Nixon's resignation marked the end to one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history, which began in 1972 after a break-in at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate complex. Five men were arrested for the burglary, and the FBI and Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were able to trace them back to Nixon and the White House. (Continue reading from CNN)

The Rumble in the Jungle

Muhammad Ali watches heavyweight champion George Foreman fall to the canvas during their title bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, in October 1974. Ali's upset victory over the undefeated Foreman won him back the titles he was stripped of in 1967 for refusing induction into the U.S. Army. (Continue reading from CNN)

Ted Bundy

As one of the most infamous serial-killer cases in American history, the saga of Ted Bundy in the 1970s arguably changed the way society thinks about serial killers and the horrors of sexual violence and murder. (Continue reading from Insider)

American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century, known to have killed at least 36 women in the 1970s. He was executed in the electric chair in 1989. (Continue reading from Biography.com)