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1970 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances 
1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings.
1971 "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1973 Soap opera "The Young and the Restless" premieres
1973 Susan Shaw, is inaugural woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange.
1973 George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80
1974 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President.
1975 "Tommy" premieres in London.
1975 Ottawa raises minimum wage for federal employees from $2.20 to $2.60 per hour
1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68
1976 American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M.
1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album.
1976 Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
1977 In this year, Elvis Costello releases his inaugural record "Less Than Zero"
1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
1979 Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63.
1980 Bombay gets its inaugural rock concert in 10 years (The Police).
1980 Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32.
1981 Police and Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 Soyuz T-4 lands
1981 The British Social Democratic Party is founded by the 'Gang of Four'
1981 Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77
1982 Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory" in the UK
1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1982 Agathe "Henriette" de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91.
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75.
1985 In this year, In Ottawa Ontario Brian Mulroney 1939- announces that his government is ending the National Energy Program, Alberta starts singing "Happy Days are Here Again".
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