1972 Annual History Facts Politics: Bloody Sunday: On January 30, British troops shot unarmed protesters in Northern Ireland, killing 13 civilians. Rock band U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday memorialized the event. The Top Song was The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack The Big Movies included The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure, and […]
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1972 Books & Bestsellers 1972 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 2. August, 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth 4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 5. The Word by Irving Wallace 6. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk 7. Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell 8. Two from Galilee by Marjorie Holmes 9. My
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1971 Annual History Facts Politics: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits the government from denying the right of United States citizens’ right to vote on account of age. The Top Song was Joy To The World by Three Dog Night The Big Movies included Billy Jack, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Last
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1971 Books & Bestsellers 1971 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Wheels by Arthur Hailey 2. The Exorcist by William P. Blatty 3. The Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone 4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 5. The Betsy by Harold Robbins 6. Message from Malaga by Helen MacInnes 7. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk 8. The Drifters by James A. Michener 9. The
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1970 Annual History Facts Television Highlight: While she was the highest-paid woman on television, with 42% of the viewing audience, Debbie Reynolds quit her show because NBC was running cigarette commercials during its airtime. The Top Song was Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkle The Big Movies included Love Story, Airport and M*A*S*H
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1970 Books & Bestsellers 1970 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Love Story by Erich Segal 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles 3. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway 4. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart 5. Great Lion of God by Taylor Caldwell 6. QB VII by Leon Uris 7. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight by Jimmy Breslin 8. The Secret Woman by Victoria
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1969 Annual History Facts A Senate hearing was convened to determine whether to cut funding to PBS. Then, unknown children’s show host Fred Rogers spoke for six minutes and ended with a song. The senator told him “Looks like you just earned the $20 million.” A few years later, when Burger King ran a commercial
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1969 Books & Bestsellers 1969 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth 2. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 3. The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann 4. The Inheritors by Harold Robbins 5. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 6. The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace 7. Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe 8. The Promise by Chaim Potok 9. The Pretenders by Gwen Davis 10. The House
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1968 Annual History Facts Politics: Violence erupted between Vietnam War protesters and police at Democratic National Convention in Chicago The Top Song was Hey Jude by The Beatles The Big Movies included Funny Girl, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Love Bug Minimum Wage in 1968: $1.60 per hour A Borg-Warner Eight-track stereo: $99.88 McDonald’s
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1968 Books & Bestsellers 1968 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Airport by Arthur Hailey 2. Couples by John Updike 3. The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes 4. A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carré 5. Testimony of Two Men by Taylor Caldwell 6. Preserve and Protect by Allen Drury 7. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 8. Vanished by Fletcher Knebel 9. Christy by Catherine Marshall 10. The Tower of
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